2019 Fogarty Literary Award longlist: author Mel Hall on how swimming inspired a whole manuscript.

The Fremantle Press Podcast

May 13 2019 | 00:11:04

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The only Freo resident to make the Fogarty Literary Award, Mel Hall, came in to talk to Marketing and Communications Manager Claire Miller about her manuscript The Shapes. In this podcast, Mel discusses the successive events that happened to her to inspire her novel, and how a therapeutic swim in the pool sparked the idea for a fictional healing modality. She also reads an excerpt from The Shapes, that encapsulates the blooming relationship between Finn and Ethann – with two n’s – as well as a few new age jokes thrown into the mix.

This episode of the Fremantle Press podcast is mastered and edited by Aidan d’Adhemar.

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