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This article is part of a series. Read the previous article here > I’ve just come back from doing an event at the Melbourne Writers' Festival called Writer in Residence. It’s an event I’ve been thinking about a lot, quite a tricky one to prepare for. The idea is to sit in the lobby of the arts centre and plug my laptop into a huge screen above me, which projects what...
This article is part of a series. Read the previous article here > There’s a fair bit of eating and drinking in my book. In an interview the other day, someone asked ‘that bit where Frank’s eating the chicken – he dips his mug into the stock - does he actually drink the chicken stock?’ This has alerted me to the fact that we all have different versions of...
This article is part of a series. Read the previous article here > A bookshop, Sydney Evie: Hello, I’m an author and I wrote that book (points at book) and I was wondering . . . Bookshop person: (nods encouragingly) Yes? Evie: I was wondering if you’d like me to . . . do anything. Bookshop person: Hmmm . . . It’s been a strange thing going into...
All this week I’ll be blogging from the Melbourne Writers' Festival. It’s the first time I’ve been to Melbourne, my first festival, (to speak about my first novel, AFTER THE FIRE, A STILL SMALL VOICE) and the first time my partner is seeing Australia. Forty years ago my mother brought my English father to Australia to meet her family; he was horrified when...
Evie Wyld is a young Australian bookseller, living in London. Her work has been published in Granta and in other literary magazines. She regularly visits Australia to see her family. AFTER THE FIRE, A STILL SMALL VOICE is her first novel.
