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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So ... what I said in my own recent little hyperworld of Tablo where I was invisible to you all was ... I've been looking at Loopholes in between deadlines today. And it struck me that each time I dip into it a different story leaps up as my new favourite and/or whacks me freshly between the eyes with devastating sadness. Today's were 'Something you're not' and 'Burden'. So I guess I just want to say, 'Thanks Susan, for writing and thanks Bron and Spineless for publishing'. This is a book that will keep on giving, which makes it a very fine achievement I think ...

Marjorie is always so very kind! 'Burden' is an interesting one. Made for a bit of discussion if I remember – whether to include or not, right, Bron?

It's definitely an edgy subject ... was there something particular you deliberated about? (Sorry if I'm a bit slow this evening. Big day dominated by the screen!)

It was such a confronting scenario - the wife needing to share the burden of her husband's violence to women.

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