The edits are finished for The Rest is Weight and I’m just about to get proofs and covers sorted out. Will post the cover here when it is ready. I am thrilled to be getting another book out so soon, partly because it’s helping me avoid suffering in the form of the second draft of [...]
Category Archives: podcasts
National Year of Reading
Friday, February 17, 2012
This is an edited version of my talk at Balaklava Library yesterday where I launched the National Year of Reading. It was a wonderful event and great to see so many book lovers in a small farming town in South Australia, engaged with reading and talking about books and writing. Fabulous to meet some aspiring [...]
octovember short story podcast: the taxi driver
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
With apologies for the pause between broadcasts, here’s a new fiction podcast for you. This story began on pure observation, sitting in a gay bar in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, back in 2008. It’s going to be in a collection of my stories which I am happy to announce will be published by [...]
May-June fiction podcast: The World Muscles In, part 3
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
“this is something: a map of the dark.” Here is the third, final and mooniest part of The World Muscles In. This odd little story was written for a sketchbook. It’s interesting for me to see how things translate from a handwritten, illustrated zine with all its enhanced imagery, to a naked, typed manuscript, and [...]
