Paul J Laverty

Paul J. Laverty is a Scottish-Australian journalist, teacher and writer of film, TV and prose who is currently based in Central Victoria in Australia.

He wrote a biography of Grammy award-winning band Arcade Fire and another on Beck. His journalism has been published in The Age and The Sunday Times. He has produced plays, prose and screenplays, one of which, the semi-autobiographical Over the Sea to Skye, has been optioned by White Hot Productions (makers of The Dressmaker) and is being adapted for television. He has written several short stories (many of which have been published in journals such as Underground Writers, Tulpa and Better Read Than Dead), and was shortlisted for Overland’s 2018 Fair Australia Prize.

His novella, Man Overbored, was released in 2019, via RoadHouse Media.

He is also the host of 94.9 Main FM book show, The Quiet Carriage.

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