Random Routine - Award-winning Trent Dalton runs through a day as a journalist and a novelist

Writer's Routine

English - October 27, 2021 07:09 - 7 minutes - 10.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 263 ratings
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Previous Episode: Zen Cho, author of 'Black Water Sister' - Ghost storyteller talks about switching genre, playing with language, and words spawning ideas

Next Episode: Joe Thomas, author of 'Brazilian Psycho' - Award-winning writer talks about routine changes, escaping to write, and social awareness.

This week's random routine, our bitesize chunk of inspiration, comes from Trent Dalton who came on the show back in 2019.

Not many authors have debut success like Trent Dalton. His book 'Boy Swallows Universe' won the 'Debut Fiction Prize' and 'Book of the Year' at the Australian Indie Awards, and went straight into the top 10, selling over 100,000 copies. It's a semi-autobiographical story about all Eli, in Brisbane in 1983, muddling through family life, trying to not be coaxed into drug-dealing, and having to save his mum from prison. The book has since sold many, many copies, more accolades, and even be turned into a play.

He's also written 'All Our Shimmering Skies', about a gravedigger's daughter, Molly Hook.

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You can get a copy of his work here - https://amzn.to/317dxz9

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