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For so long, it seemed that readers were only interested in the experiences of people like me if we were traumatised, not triumphant – and I internalised this as an indisputable fact

The Small Press Network’s shortlist for book of the year is diverse and impressive.

Event description An illustrious family. A beautiful home. A shipwrecked young woman left on its doorstep. Don't think they're going to save her … About this event Kavita Bedford joins Nikki Gemmell to discuss her new book The Ripping Tree, an intense, sharp tale of survival written in Gemmell’s signature lyrical prose, but with audacious overtones. This is a thrilling examination of Australia’s dark colonial history. Conceptualised by Gemmell on her return to Australia after 15 years living in the UK, this novel has taken her nine years to craft. It is her love letter to Austr...

Specifically, she, like me, is freelance by choice: not a laid-off journalist or a parent juggling writing with domestic duty, but a childless millennial opting in, for a mix of reasons, to the gig economy. Her assignments are not the novel’s background, nor does her choice to write lead to grand arguments about writing. Instead, Bedford puts her narrator’s mundane freelance problems—When will she get paid? Is her editor exploiting her? Should she accept a dicey assignment?—at the novel’s core. Bedford is refreshingly committed to portraying writing not as a calling or craft but as...