By now, I’m sure you’re all aware that the 2020 Sydney Writers’ Festival has been cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. As you can imagine, this is a devastating blow to Australia’s vibrant writing and reading landscape, as well as to the wider arts industry as a whole.
In honour of the Festival’s stellar lineup, we’re putting out a few posts compiling interviews and guest posts on our blog from some of the authors who would have been appearing, as well as reviews from our staff of their books. (We’ll also be reposting some of this content on our social media platforms.)
It’s a lesser substitute for what would have been a truly outstanding festival, but you can have a taste of what could have been and maybe derive some comfort from the words of these incredible authors.
Today’s post is a fiction roundup. Read on, enjoy and stay safe.
Top Stories & Fun Stuff
Tony Birch, The White Girl – 8 Books by Indigenous Authors for NAIDOC Week
Claire G. Coleman, The Old Lie – 8 Books by Indigenous Authors for NAIDOC Week
Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other – 2019 Booker Prize Winner & 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction longlistee
Tara June Winch, The Yield – 8 Books by Indigenous Authors for NAIDOC Week
Favel Parrett, There Was Still Love – 2020 Stella Prize shortlistee
J.P. Pomare, In the Clearing – Book Trivia!
Josephine Rowe, Here Until August – 2020 Stella Prize shortlistee
Charlotte Wood, The Weekend – 2020 Stella Prize shortlistee
Podcasts
Christos Tsiolkas
Tony Birch, The White Girl – listen here
Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe & All Our Shimmering Skies – listen here
Michelle de Kretser, The Life to Come – listen here
Chris Hammer, Silver – listen here
Sophie Hardcastle, Below Deck – listen here
Tom Keneally, The Dickens Boy – podcast incoming!
Melina Marchetta, The Place on Dalhousie Street – listen here
Matt Okine, Being Black ‘n Chicken & Chips – listen here
Favel Parrett, There Was Still Love – listen here
Elliot Perlman, Maybe the Horse Will Talk – listen here
Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl – listen here
Heather Rose, Bruny – listen here
Tracey Sorensen, The Lucky Galah – listen here
Christos Tsiolkas, Damascus – listen here
Charlotte Wood, The Weekend – listen here
Guest Blogs & Q&As
Trent Dalton – “Why I wrote Boy Swallows Universe“
Eimer McBride, author of Strange Hotel, answers our Ten Terrifying Questions.
Vivian Pham, debut author of The Coconut Children, answers some of our questions!
Tara June Winch, author of The Yield, answers our Ten Terrifying Questions!
Anna Krien, author of Act of Grace, answers some of our questions!
Reviews
Leigh Bardugo
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo – review here
All Our Shimmering Skies by Trent Dalton – review here
The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser- review here
Below Deck by Sophie Hardcastle – review here
The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay – review here
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett – review here
Maybe the Horse Will Talk by Elliot Perlman – review here
The Lucky Galah by Tracey Sorensen – review here
The Weekend by Charlotte Wood – review here
More posts featuring content with authors from the 2020 Sydney Writers’ Festival lineup are coming soon!
About the Contributor
Olivia Fricot
Olivia Fricot (she/her) is Booktopia's Senior Content Producer and editor of the Booktopian blog. She has too many plants and not enough bookshelves, and you can usually find her reading, baking, or talking to said plants. She is pro-Oxford comma.
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