Kate and Katherine catch up + Featured Book Banjawarn by Josh Kemp

Our featured book segment is Banjawarn by Josh Kemp, brought to you UWA Publishing.

Josh Kemp is an author of Australian gothic fiction. His debut novel, Banjawarn, was joint winner of the 2021 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. His short stories have been published by Kill Your Darlings, Overland, Seizure, Tincture and Breach. He’s previously been shortlisted for the Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award and longlisted for the Fogarty Literary Award. Currently completing his PhD at Edith Cowan University in Bunbury, he lives in the South West of WA.

Josh recommends:

The Whispering by Veronica Lando
Shadow in the Forest by Leigh Swinbourne

In our catch up:

Nigel Featherstone (author of My Heart is a Little Wild Thing) wrote about a great article about book events in the time of Covid for the ASA
Maggie Mackellar’s newsletter The Sit Spot
The Whippet newsletter (and our episode with creator, McKinley Valentine and Angus Hervey creator of the Future Crunch newsletter)
Psychologist and researcher Alison Manning invites all writers to participate in this survey on writing and procrastination
Listen back to our conversation with Alison Manning
Kate (a non-runner) is attempting to run 100km in the month of August for Fred’s Big Run to raise money to restore sight with the Fred Hollow’s Foundation. You can chip in and donate to her team The Hustle.