Listen "Backstory - 9 October 2019"
Episode Synopsis
Mel Cranenburgh chats to author Anna Krien. Anna's latest release, Act of Grace, is a meditation on inheritance: the damage that one generation passes on to the next, and the potential for transformation. Anna is also the author of the award-winning Night Games and Into the Woods, as well as two Quarterly Essays, Us and Them and The Long Goodbye.Sonja Dechian was recently announced as the overall winner of the 2019 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for her story ‘The Point-Blank Murder’. Sonja’s short story collection, An Astronaut’s Life, won the 2016 UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing and was shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award the same year. She joins Mel Cranenburgh to discuss the award and her writing process.
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