From shining a light on family secrets to looking for a place to call home, the six writers nominated for Australia’s all-female literary award reveal their inspiration
The real lives of the Heide artists were so eventful I was afraid they would read as melodrama
Books are quite handy when you have a big dead bird on your hands and need to find a use for it
It is difficult to say where a story ends and the music of language begins – they need to work together
The more distance I have from the book, the less I know what it might be about
I set out to replicate what I would do at the microphone – to transcribe the sounds, accents and rhythms of speech
Australia’s baby boomers belong to an era of great change, a time of reclaiming and forging our own identity
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