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Literary Mixers - Louise Allan and Amanda Curtin

Literary Mixers is an event pairing emerging authors with established authors as they talk candidly about their journeys to publication: their highs and lows, friends lost, and amount of wine and chocolate consumed during the writing process. Authors confess their innermost fears, share their vulnerabilities, and reflect on the joys of being a writer.

On 14 June 2018 Louise Allan and Amanda Curtin shared a conversation on the difficult journey to publication, writers supporting writers, rejection, and many, many drafts.

Listen to Louise and Amanda in conversation below.

Part 1 – Louise Allan and Amanda Curtin

 

Part 2 – Louise Allan and Amanda Curtin

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Jess Nyanda
"I think I get too stuck in the original shape of things, and then I get distracted with a new idea and forget that you need to play around with the work a bit. And that it’s fun to just flip an idea completely on its head, sometimes the core of the it might just fall out and expose itself if you turn it upside down/chop it up/write it as a big chunky prose poem."
A portrait of Lakshmi. She is wearing all black and is smiling at the camera. Behind her is a very bright green wall of leaves coming from a delightful sycamore.
Lakshmi Kanchi
"My husband described the Centre for Stories as a different kitchen, wherein using a bunch of unknown-before ingredients, I managed to develop a different spread. I too have felt a poignant and palpable shift in the flavour and texture of my poetry."
Black and white portrait of Meg Gatland-Veness
Meg Gatland-Veness
"As a teacher, I see every day the struggles that teenagers face and what they have to deal with before they even get into the classroom."
A woman with glasses standing outside looking at the camera
Angela Meyer
"I’m also fascinated by perception. Someone is convinced they have seen a ghost—science says there must be an explanation, but even if there is, the emotional imprint, the response, of the individual can’t be dismissed."
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