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.
Susan, I thoroughly enjoyed your collection. So many of the pieces are handled with such skill: deft, subtle, surprising, chilling, original. I've long been a fan of your piece, "Hold-up", which is in Loopholes, but now I find I have added to my list! "Disturbance", "Rescued", "Lights", "Catch-up'. I agree with Mark, the individual pieces 'never feel cut short'. I like your habit of ending with an odd, slightly jarring comment, such as in "Rear Window" where you write "When would this heat break". Such an ordinary sort of thing to say, and yet you seem to be able to invest it with a good deal of spookiness! Well done. I was wondering whether you have a favourite in Loopholes?