This week, Charlotte Wood returns to the pod to talk about the creative collaboration involved in the new stage adaptation of her novel The Weekend.
The convo includes:
- Joan London’s The Golden Age
- The adaptation of Charlotte’s novel The Weekend into a play for Belvoir St Theatre
- The beauty of the puppetry behind Finn the dog in the stage adaptation
- Creative collaboration
- How Charlotte learns from the creative work of theatre
- Charlotte’s forthcoming novel, Stone Yard Devotional
- Kate asks Charlotte to go back into Agony Aunt mode and asks for tips on managing the adrenaline of pre-publication vibes.
Sydneysiders can see The Weekend at Belvoir St Theatre from August 5 to September 3. Tickets and information here.
Our Featured Segment in this episode is brought to you by Hachette and Kate speaks to Wergaia and Wemba Wemba writer Susie Anderson about her debut poetry collection the body country.
Susie Anderson’s poetry and non-fiction writing about art, artists, memory, place and love has been published widely in print and online. In 2018, she was runner-up in the Overland Poetry Prize and awarded the Emerging Writer’s Fellowship at State Library Victoria; in 2019, she was awarded a Writer’s Victoria Neilma Sidney Grant and was a recipient of the Overland Writers Residency. In 2020, she edited the online journal, Tell Me Like You Mean It Volume 4, for Australian Poetry and Cordite Poetry Review. Anderson was the 2021 black&write fellowship winner.
Anderson grew up in Horsham, Victoria and is currently based on Boon Wurrung land.
Advice: Be persistent. Take a broad approach to the act of writing.
Debut book recommendation:
- Prep by Curtis Sittenfield
- Swallow the Air by Tara June Winch
Susie Anderson will be launching the body country in Naarm on Wed 2nd August at Readings Carlton. You can also see her at the Victorian Poetry Month Gala at The Wheeler Centre on August 17.
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