A creative writing PhD looks pretty good on paper. A research adventure into a topic you find fascinating, mentoring from expert supervisors, immersion in a creative community and in some cases a scholarship to go with it, all with the aim of adding something new to the literary landscape. But is it right for you? […]
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Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton have their ‘Treehouse’, Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff, the ‘Illuminae Files’. Heck, even father daughter writing duo Tom and Meg Keneally share ‘The Monsarrat’ series. There are so many famous creative collaborations in Australian publishing, and fine examples of how some of our best and most creative minds have melded
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Your debut novel, ‘Antidote to a Curse’, questions the relationship between storyteller and story, the writer and the subject. Has this intersection of narrative always been of interest to you? This interest has developed over time and is partly the result of coming from a migrant background. While growing up and even in my early
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Emily O’Grady has won the 2018 Vogel Literary Award for her captivating first novel ‘The Yellow House’. Each year, the prize of $20,000 and a publishing contract with Allen & Unwin, is awarded to the best unpublished manuscript by an Australian writer under 35. O’Grady’s novel follows ten-year-old Cub and her brothers after she discovers
Regional writing groups and organisations in Victoria are able to apply for grants of $880 to subsidise literary activities in their area, thanks to the support of the Grace Marion Wilson Trust. Applicants must be current regional members of Writers Victoria (in the non-profit organisation or regional writers’ group membership category), or Regional Ambassadors, and
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Writers Victoria intern Ellen O’Brien talks to Jay Kristoff about his new novel ‘LIFEL1K3’. Your latest book, ‘LIFEL1K3’, follows 17-year-old Eve as she tries to survive in an irradiated, post-apocalyptic wasteland. Your novels often feature chaos and carnage, including plagues, invasions and intergalactic wars. Where do you look for ideas and inspiration? Do you see
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Writers Victoria intern Ellen O’Brien talks to Jenny Ackland about her new novel ‘Little Gods’. ‘Little Gods’ is your second novel. It follows 12-year-old Olive Lovelock after she discovers that she had a baby sister whose death and existence had been hidden from her. As she investigates further, Olive has to navigate an adult world
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‘The Everlasting Sunday’ is your debut novel, released by UQP in March 2018. You’ve stated you have a “rotting pile of 15 manuscripts” under your bed from 20 years of writing. How important were those manuscripts in your development as a novelist? They were everything. I was stubbornly attached to an idea that I wanted
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‘Four Respectable Ladies Seek Part-time Husband’ is your twelfth book. You’ve published both fiction and non-fiction. Which do you find more pleasurable to write? I enjoy both. Each accesses a different part of your brain. Non-fiction requires meticulous research and processing of facts. Fiction requires you to dream a world into existence and make sense
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Writers Victoria intern Ellen O’Brien talks to Roger Averill about his new novel ‘Relatively Famous’. Your latest novel, ‘Relatively Famous’, follows Michael Madigan, the son of a brilliant Australian writer, after the publication of his father’s biography. Michael is forced to confront the intricacies of growing up in the shadow of a father whose artistic
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