CANCELLED: In Conversation- Khin Myint and Robert Wood
Join Robert Wood in conversation with Khin Myint as they discuss the process of publication with reference to Khins’s newly launched book ‘Fragile Creatures’.
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Aug 20, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Centre for Stories
Join Khin Myint and Robert Wood to discuss the process of publication. With reference to Myint’s successful recent debut book Fragile Creatures (Black Inc. June 2024), they will discuss how to move from manuscript to release. Looking at residencies, agents, editing, publication and audience, the pair will be in conversation followed by a question and answer session. This event suits writers who are nearing completion of a book length work and want to understand the national publishing landscape.
ABOUT THE BOOK
A powerful debut from an extraordinary voice, gentle in the face of extremity
Khin’s sister Theda has a strange illness and a euthanasia drug locked in a box under her bed. Her doctor thinks her problem is purely physical, and so does she, but Khin is not so sure. He knows what they both went through growing up in Perth – it wasn’t welcoming back then for a Burmese-Australian family.
With Theda’s condition getting worse, Khin heads off to the United States. He needs to sort things out with his ex-partner. Once there, events take a very odd turn, and he finds himself in court.
This is a family story told with humour, wonderment and complete honesty. It’s about care, truth and the hardest choices – and what happens when realities clash. How do we balance responsibility for others with what we owe ourselves? Fragile Creatures will sweep you up and leave you stunned at its power.
PRAISE FOR THE BOOK
‘The miracle of this book is the writer’s tone: calm, patient and searching, steadfast in the face of unthinkable suffering’ — Helen Garner, author of The Spare Room
‘Compelling and compassionate. Your heart will ache as you read Khin Myint’s beautiful, poetic prose. Such wisdom and grace in these pages – an extraordinary story I will keep thinking about for a long time to come.’ —Alice Pung, author of One Hundred Days
‘A fearless and incisive exploration of masculinity, families and racism. Khin Myint brings a sharp emotional intelligence and a gentle sensibility to this extraordinary story that is at once quietly devastating and uplifting. A new and compelling voice in Australian non-fiction.’ — Kristina Olsson, author of Boy, Lost: A Family Memoir
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Robert Wood
Collapse BioDr. Robert Wood (BA, B.Econ, Hons, AM, PhD) is interested in community, ideas and language, and the author of five books with an international profile. In 2021, he is one of ten Westpac Social Change Fellows. Robert was an Endeavour Research Fellow at Columbia University from 2017 to 2018 working with Nobel, Booker and Pulitzer Winners. In 2018, he was a Copyright Agency Emerging Critic with Sydney Review of Books, and had a monthly column with the Los Angeles Review of Books from 2017 to 2020. Between 2013 and 2016, he edited for the journals Cordite, Peril, and Overland, and was on the Faculty of The School of Life in Melbourne. Robert is responsible for developing partnerships with artists and social change organisations; planning a program of activities, including writing, publishing and mentoring; quality control of all creative outputs; and implementing best-practice models that improve wellbeing.
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Khin Myint
Collapse BioKhin Myint is an author based in Perth. His writing has appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald, Liminal magazine and The West Australian, among other publications. He was selected as one of ten participants in the Wheeler Centre's Next Chapter scheme in 2021.
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