Spineless Wonders

An independent Sydney-based publisher of short Australian stories from single stories to novellas as well as single-author collections and anthologies. Spineless Wonders hosts The Carmel Bird Award for short fiction and The joanne burns Microlit Award for microfiction and prose poems.

Author Q&A with Susan McCreery for Thurs. 8pm AEST - please leave your Qs here

We'll be chatting with the author of Loopholes, Susan McCreery, here on Thursday night. Loopholes is a collection of microfiction - many less than half a page in length - so it will be great chance to hone in on this short short form. Plus Loopholes has just been nominated for The Most Underrated Book Award which will be announced next week at The Wheeler Centre in Melbourne. So this will also be a good chance to chat with an emerging author about her writing journey and how she feels about the attention her book is receiving. I'm leaving a couple of questions below to kick off the evening's discussion. Feel free to leave your questions below too.

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One thing I loved about Loopholes was the way you managed to create stories with such depth and complexity in less than 250 words. They never feel cut short. That said, have any of your short pieces - or the characters or scenarios in them - ever developed into something longer?

Thank you, Mark! That's very kind. At this stage I haven't developed them into anything longer, but that's not to say I wouldn't consider it. Maybe when I take a break from this dastardly novel writing. It'd be interesting to see if they still speak to me or whether they've been well and truly put to bed.

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