Our Featured Book this week is Cut by Susan White and the segment is brought to you by Affirm Press.
Susan White is a doctor and a writer. As a clinical geneticist, Susan hunts for answers to undiagnosed genetic conditions in children. Her first novel for younger readers was Take the Shot, published in 2019. Her new novel and first for an adult audience is, Cut, which was shortlisted for the Kill Your Darlings’ Unpublished Manuscript Award in 2017. Her writing has been published in The Big Issue, The School magazine, Melbourne’s Child magazine and The Reader anthology from the Emerging Writers’ Festival.
Sue shares a mash up of Charlotte Wood’s and George Saunders; advice – Listen to your inner voice and follow the heat of the story.
Recommended debut book: Kathryn Hore’s THE STRANGER
Catch Sue at upcoming events: Robinson’s The Glen 22nd September in conversation with Filip Vukasin
Kate and Katherine catch up on their latest adventures
- Kate gives her MWF highlights including seeing Joelle Gergis, Jeff Sparrow, Tish King talking climate and Evelyn Araluen and Mykaela Saunders giving a masterclass (check out twitter thread here)
- Some climate advocacy groups mentioned: Our Island, Our Home, Seed Mob, trade unions
- Jacinta Parson’s brilliant launch of A Question of Age
- Where the Crawdads Sing Author Wanted in Questioning for Murder, article in The Atlantic
Reading
- Humanity’s Moment: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope by Joelle Gergis
- Dancing Barefoot by Alice Boyle
- This Is All Come Back Now: An Anthology of First Nations Speculative Fiction Ed. Mykaela Saunders
- Exiles by Jane Harper
- The Raven’s Song by Zana Fraillon and Bren Macdibble
- Making Stories: How Ten Australian Novels Were Written Ed. Kate Grenville and Sue Woolfe
- Still Life by Sarah Winman (who we spoke to for the Masters Series). Kate also recommends the audiobook A Year of Marvellous Ways)
- Everything Bad is Good For You by Steven Johnson
Listening
- Breaking Down Collapse
- The Philosopher’s Zone
- First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing. Kate mentions this episode with Lidia Yuknavitch
- How to Fail podcast, this interview with Vanessa Feltz
Coming Up
- Katherine in Toastmasters Monthly A Novel Approach to Speech Contests
- Kate chatting with Writing NSW for First Friday
- Kate is also heading off to her FIRST international festival – Verb Wellington
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