Your new novel ‘On the Java Ridge’ is your third work of fiction, after the award-winning ‘Quota’ and the best-selling ‘The Rules of Backyard Cricket’, which was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award in 2016. Your latest book follows the tourist-laden vessel Java Ridge as it encounters the asylum seeker boat Takalar off the […]
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‘The Girl From Munich’ is your debut historical fiction novel. It tells the story of Lotte who grew up indoctrinated, at school and through The League of German Girls, to give her all to the Third Reich. After World War II, when her wealth and privilege is stripped away and Germany falls to the Allied
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‘Parting words’ is your much-awaited second novel that asks: how well do we really know our parents? Your debut novel, ‘The Promise Seed’, was longlisted for the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award, and shortlisted for the 2016 People’s Choice category and the 2013 Emerging Queensland Author category in the Queensland Literary Awards. After working in
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Your novel ‘Hello, Goodbye’ was sparked by your aunt’s story of being single, pregnant and Catholic in the 1960s. Though not a retelling of your aunt’s experience, how much did the need to honour your aunt, and other women who had been through a similar experience, weigh on you as you wrote the novel? My
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‘Wish You Were Here’ is your memoir of a broken heart and a crazy dash across America in a red spotty dress and a shiny red sports car. After many impossible adventures it ends with you finding love. Was writing ‘Wish you were here‘ a cathartic experience? No, but the trip was! The writing was actually fun –
Sheridan Jobbins on her debut memoir ‘Wish You Were Here’ Read More »
Your first book ‘Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen’ went deep into the psyche of one of Australia’s most celebrated and, as it turns out, most troubled artists. The book won the Nib Award for Literature and you yourself have won multiple awards for your outstanding work as a journalist. Your new book
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Your first novel ‘Laurinda’ was a comment on friendships and the hierarchy amongst private school girls. The book won the Ethel Turner Prize for Young Adult’s Literature at the 2016 New South Wales Premier’s Literature Awards. Your new book for Black Inc.’s ‘Writers on Writers’ series explores the life and influence of Australia’s literary treasure,
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Each person has a particular insight and way of seeing the world, says Writeability tutor Andy Jackson, and all people – particularly non-disabled – need to listen carefully. Andy presented ‘Myths, Realities and Elephants’ to the Writeability Writers Group in Ballarat, Andy will visit the Bendigo group and spoke to us about some of the
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Writing is often loosely divided into fiction and non-fiction, but the reality is far more complicated. Karen Andrews discusses some of the key challenges ahead of her Writeability: Finding the Form workshop. Is the line between fiction and non-fiction as clear-cut as it seems? Oh, that is an excellent question that goes to the heart
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One of the most interesting areas of change in literature over the last fifty years has been in non-fiction. Creative non-fiction is a term that seeks to encompass its shifting boundaries. Much of the excitement in literature is happening at the intersection of fiction and non-fiction, so that what the writer invents, with the reader’s
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