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Q&A with Roz DineenLiz Jensen and Natasha Walter

Roz Dineen — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 07:00:56 +0000

Briefly Very Beautiful, set in the near future in a country that is never named as Britain, involves some bold world-building choices. Which of these were the easiest to make, and which the hardest? Those choices were quite straightforward. I was drawing logical conclusions from existing conditions. If this, then this. If fire, then [...]

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Q&A with Sean RabinSally O'Reilly

Sean Rabin — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 08:18:53 +0000

Australian author Sean Rabin’s novel The Good Captain is an environmental thriller that warns against complacency about the climate crisis. Set in the mid 21st century during a time of plummeting fish stocks, it presents a disturbing picture of what the world might soon become. The story follows a group of radical environmentalists committed [...]

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Charlotte Du Cann Q&ASally OReilly

Charlotte Du Cann — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 07:00:32 +0000

Charlotte Du Cann speaks to Writer’s Rebel’s Sally OReilly about her new book, After Ithaca – Journeys in Deep Time. Described by head Rebel Librarian Matt Rose as “part memoir, part essay, part travelogue – that follows a real life journey of descent in a world on the tip of crisis”, Charlotte’s work pulls from [...]

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Q&A with Margaret AtwoodToby Litt

Margaret Atwood and Toby Litt — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 07:00:48 +0000

This interview took place on Thursday 24th March 2022. The wonderful Margaret Atwood was in London for an event at the Royal Festival Hall, promoting Burning Questions, her new book of essays and occasional pieces. She spoke with Toby Litt, editor of the Writers Rebel website. TL: Thank you for talking to us. [...]

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Q&A with Laura Jean McKayLaura Jean McKay

Laura Jean McKay — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 08:00:04 +0000

Laura Jean McKay is the author of The Animals in That Country, which in her home of Australia won the 2021 Victorian Prize for Literature and the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction. The novel then won the prestigious Arthur C Clarke Award Science Fiction Book of the Year. Here she discusses with Alex Lockwood [...]

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Q&A with Vanessa OnwuemeziVanessa Onwuemezi

Vanessa Onwuemezi — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 08:00:15 +0000

Your first collection of short stories, Dark Neighbourhood (Fitzcarraldo, 2021), is very much about the contemporary moment. Issues of displacement and accelerating change run throughout it. It’s a brilliantly unsettling book. What effect were you hoping the stories would have on their readers? I hope that the readers will be able to rest in the ambiguity [...]

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