
Lech Blaine
ABOUT
Lech Blaine
Lech Blaine is an award-winning writer from regional Queensland. His second book, Australian Gospel, was published in November 2024. He is also the author of the critically-acclaimed Car Crash: A Memoir. Car Crash which was shortlisted for the National Biography Award and two categories at the Queensland Literary Awards. In October 2022, Car Crash was published in North America and the United Kingdom by Greystone Books. Lech is also the author of two Quarterly Essays: Top Blokes and Bad Cop. He was an inaugural recipient of a Griffith Review Queensland Writers Fellowship. In 2017, he won the Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award. In 2019, he was awarded a Brisbane Lord Mayor’s Emerging Artist Fellowship. He was the 2023 Charles Perkins Centre writer in residence
PROGRAM SESSIONS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
The Manly Writers' Festival acknowledges and thanks the original storytellers on the lands on which our events take place, the Gameraygal people of the Eora Nation. We acknowledge and respect their continuing connection and culture, and we pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past and present, as well as emerging leaders.