How does it feel to live a double life as a musician and a writer?

Does reading and literature influence music?

What are the differences between music fans and literary fans?

Is the writing life more solitary than the music life and does that help to balance you out?

Elizabeth Flux will sit down with Adam Ouston and Justin Heazlewood to ask them about their double lives as writers and musicians. Both Adam and Justin are Tasmanian writers who perform music under different names.

Adam Ouston is a writer and performer. His writing has appeared in various literary and news publications. He received the 2014 Erica Bell Literary Award and the 2017 University of Tasmania prize as part of that year’s Premier’s Literary prizes. His novel The Fetish was published in 2018 as part of A Published Event's People's Library. As a musician, he performs under the name Costume.

Justin Heazlewood grew up in the regional town of Burnie, Tasmania. He has since lived in Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne and published three books: The Bedroom Philosopher Diaries (self-published, 2012), Funemployed (Affirm Press, 2014) and Get Up Mum (Affirm Press, 2018). Justin is also known as The Bedroom Philosopher and under this name he has released three albums including the ARIA-nominated 'Songs From The 86 Tram'.

Elizabeth Flux is a freelance writer and editor based in Melbourne. Her nonfiction work has been widely published and includes essays on film, pop culture, feminism and identity as well as interviews and feature articles. She was a Hot Desk Fellow at The Wheeler Centre, a judge for the 2019 Award for an Unpublished Manuscript for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, and an editor for Reading Victoria.

This is a FREE event as part of the ‘Weekend of Reading’ festival.