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Paul Anderson asks: ‘Top ten emerging authors? (I know, contentious)’

The audio version of When We Have Wings is coming! Available April 28, 2012.

Once again I'll be back at the beautiful Carrington Hotel in Katoomba, this time to discuss Speculating Futures and Bending Genres with Steven Amsterdam and Kim Westwood as part of the Sydney Writers…

“I think they’ve been quite bold in listing my book, especially as I’m the only debut writer on the list. I have no idea why a book with ideas and imagination should not also be recognised as…

It is thrilling to wake up to find myself on the shortlist for the $35,000 Barbara Jefferis Prize! It's even more exciting to find myself in the company of some of Australia's finest writers: Gail…

In which Sean the Bookonaut and I discuss the future of Australia, the Stella Prize and who I'd like to play Peri and Zeke in a movie of When We Have Wings and many other topics. Listen here.

Do women write differently than men? Do we judge writing by women differently? Why do these questions matter right now for readers and writers? Where: The Carrington Hotel Ballroom, 15-47 Katoomba…

This book got under my skin and awoke in me that rare experience in fiction where for a second, magic or the imagined becomes tantalisingly real. I caught my self day dreaming, watching clouds and…

From the back cover: Nora Porteous has spent most of her life waiting to escape. Fleeing from her small-town family and then from her stifling marriage to a mean-spirited husband, Nora arrives…

To me though, classifying Lanagan’s work as YA makes about as much sense as classifying Angela Carter, Italo Calvino, Jonathan Swift or Robert Louis Stevenson as YA writers. Just because some of her…