BONUS EPISODE: Pip Finkemeyer Sad Girl Novel (Willy Lit Fest LIVE recording)

This episode was recorded as part of Willy Lit Fest 2023 and features Katherine talking with Pip Finkemeyer about her INCREDIBLE debut Sad Girl Novel.

Pip Finkemeyer’s fiction has been listed for the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize, the Richell Prize for Emerging Writers, the Disquiet Literary Prize, and nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
She co-founded the Berlin-based zine Nothing To See Here, and completed a Masters in Publishing and Editing at RMIT. She lives in Naarm/Melbourne, and Sad Girl Novel is her first novel.

Katherine and Pip discuss:

• Sad girl novels — What are they? Why is it ‘girls’? Also: Is the malaise one feels in the face of struggles that seem small specific to white girls in their twenties or is it something more universal?
• Writing process
• The structure of the novel (based on a train line!) and the significance of circles
• Writing life
• How the book came to be published
• Turduckens (yes, turduckens)

Pip’s advice for writers is two-fold:

1. Create a little world where you’re completely deluded and everything you’re imagining in your mind you’re going to pull off on the page
2. No one’s going to spend as much time on your writing as you, so make sure you’re doing it in a way that brings you joy and worry about everyone else later.

Debut book recommendation: Sorry to Disrupt the Peace by Patrick Cottrell.