Interviews

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Backstory

In this episode, host Mel Cranenburgh chats to Sophie Black, Head of Publications at the Wheeler Centre, about their new funding initiative for aspiring writers. The Next Chapter is an unprecedented new way of supporting writers and Sophie explains all the ins and outs of the scheme. Mel then talks to S.A. Jones, author of The Fortress, an absorbing, confronting and moving novel which asks questions about consent, power, love and fulfilment.

Listen Notes

The Book Podcast

This absorbing, confronting and moving novel asks questions about consent, power, love and fulfilment. It asks what it takes for a man to change, and whether change is possible without a radical reversal of the conditions that seem normal.

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On Writing

“One of my favourite books of the year”.

Join Joshua Pomare for Episode 40 - S.A. Jones - The Fortress, gleaning insights from the writer.

Born in England but raised in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, SA Jones was seven when her parents bought her a clunky, black typewriter that made a very satisfying ‘ping’ noise when she reached the end of a line.

From there, she was hooked. And thus began one of the most formative and important relationships of her life: that with the written word.

Jones holds a PhD in History and is a novelist, reviewer, historian and commentator. Her essays and creative non fiction are widely published including in The Big Issue, Kill Your Darlings, Overland, The Drum, The Guardian and The Age.

Her published novels are The Fortress, Isabelle of the Moon and Stars and Red Dress Walking.

Jones is represented by Jacinta di Mase.

Contact her at serjimo@yahoo.com.au