'Common Places' by Gillian Hagenus Brisbane Launch

Subversive, intimate and darkly imaginative, Common Places drags quiet streets into the light, revealing a gothic noir landscape where the familiar turns unsettling – reminding us that the most terrifying things are often the ones that feel closest to home.

Gillian Hagenus is one of the organisers of the Australian Short Story Festival and worked for three years as an editor at MidnightSun Publishing in Adelaide. She holds a Master of Philosophy in Creative Writing, and her work has been shortlisted and longlisted for a number of awards, including Boroondara, Djillong, Nielma Sidney and Peter Carey short story awards. She is the editor of the short story anthology, Strangely Enough (2023). Common Places won the Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer in 2025; it is her first collection of short fiction.

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