Every week I check in with one of Australia’s favourite authors to bring you their latest news, and this week I’m delighted to welcome Myfanwy Jones!
ABOUT MYFANWY: Myfanwy Jones is the author of Leap, shortlisted for the 2016 Miles Franklin Literary Award, and The Rainy Season, finalist for the 2009 Melbourne Prize for Literature’s Best Writing Award. She also co-wrote the bestselling Parlour Games for Modern Families, awarded the 2010 ABIA Book of the Year for Older Children. Her short stories and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including most recently Split: true stories of leaving, loss, and new beginnings. Myfanwy works as an editor and writing mentor, and lives beside a creek in Melbourne/Naarm.
So Myfanwy, tell us what you are…
READING: Preston graffiti; Ellen van Neerven’s verse; rereading Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
WATCHING: Blue Lights on SBS
LISTENING TO: Angel Olsen and Hildegaard Von Bingen
THINKING ABOUT: Fathers. Weather patterns. Food chains. (And their intersections.)
WORKING ON: A campground mystery ... (I think??) I’m right at the beginning, but the difficulty of interpreting sounds in the dark seems important. And there is an observant bowerbird, and glow worms.
MYFANWY’S LATEST BOOK: Tracking three generations of butchers beside Tinaroo Dam, on the Atherton Tablelands of Far North Queensland, Cool Water is a story about how men make men: how fathers produce sons, and sons turn into fathers. As the narrative moves between a present-day wedding beside the dam, and the explosive year in the 1950s that set the Herbert men’s course, the novel explores the joys and risks of human attachment, the layering of family myth through landscape, and the fluid nature of our stories, our selves and of time itself.
FIND OUT MORE AND FOLLOW MYFANWY:
Website: https://myfanwyajones.com/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/myfanwyjonesauthor
Instagram: @myfanwy_jones
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/myfanwy-jones-9561725b/
Thanks for checking in, Myfanwy!
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