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Author: Annabel Smith

Annabel Smith is the author of Whisky Charlie Foxtrot, and A New Map of the Universe, which was shortlisted for the WA Premier’s Book Awards. She has been writer-in-residence at Katherine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre and the Fellowship of Australian Writers (WA), had short fiction and commentary published in Westerly and Southerly and holds a PhD in Writing from Edith Cowan University. In 2012 she was selected by the Australia Council as one of 5 inaugural recipients of a Creative Australia Fellowship for Emerging Artists, for the creation of an interactive app to accompany her experimental speculative fiction The Ark, to be published in 2014. She is currently working on an epic quest with a sci-fi twist featuring a monkey, an evil priestess and the mother of all tsunamis.

Posted on March 8, 2012January 31, 2014 by Annabel Smith

Everyone is related to the world through something. I through words… before I stopped writing, words had become treacherous and untrustworthy to me….

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My Love/Hate Relationship with Australian Fiction (I)

My Love/Hate Relationship with Australian Fiction (I)

Posted on March 7, 2012December 16, 2014 by Annabel Smith

Last year I was invited by Westerly to write their annual fiction review. New Australian books would be delivered to me, absolutely pristine,…

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Posted on February 21, 2012January 31, 2014 by Annabel Smith

The life that produces writing can’t be written about. It is a life carried on without the knowledge even of the writer, below…

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The Perils of Applying for Writing Grants

The Perils of Applying for Writing Grants

Posted on February 20, 2012December 16, 2014 by Annabel Smith

It’s no secret that writing a book takes time. A lot of time. For me, around 5 years. Or that it pays badly….

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Posted on February 15, 2012 by Annabel Smith

Sheltered like an insect among the fallen bodies of ancestors, he huddled in the eye sockets of a mountainous skull and became part…

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Posted on February 14, 2012January 31, 2014 by Annabel Smith

The question any novel is trying to answer is, Is life worth living? That’s a major question, a huge question, but the best…

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Why Writers Need Marketing Plans

Why Writers Need Marketing Plans

Posted on February 9, 2012December 11, 2014 by Annabel Smith

At the moment I’m in the process of applying for a grant from the West Australian Department of Culture & the Arts (DCA),…

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Duties Other Than Writing

Duties Other Than Writing

Posted on November 29, 2011December 11, 2014 by Annabel Smith

My son’s teacher has a day each week reserved for DOTT – Duties Other Than Teaching. I imagine she gets busy with the…

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Remembering How to Write

Remembering How to Write

Posted on July 7, 2011December 11, 2014 by Annabel Smith

I wrote my first two novels in longhand, with old-fashioned pencils on scrap paper. But The Arkwas a book of digital communications. It…

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Not Sufficiently Enthusiastic

Not Sufficiently Enthusiastic

Posted on June 24, 2011February 24, 2015 by Annabel Smith

My first novel A New Map of the Universe was published by UWA Publishing. For a first novel, by an unknown author, with…

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