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

00:00 / 00:11:04

Hosted By

Show Notes

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.

Other Episodes

Episode 12

May 01, 2020 • 00:54:24

If you've ever wondered how a picture book gets from the head of the creator into the hands of our children, this is the podcast episode for you

Lots of people want to write picture books. Fremantle Press receives almost 600 picture book submissions a year, and we only publish up to...

Episode 0

August 31, 2022 • 00:16:17

Helen Milroy presents: Tyrown Waigana on learning the language of the land

Tyrown Waigana joins the podcast to chat to Helen Milroy about the importance of learning the Noongar language and believes his collaborative book with...

Episode 1

May 31, 2018 • 00:16:53

Meet Carrie Cox author of Afternoons with Harvey Beam

As a young man, Harvey Beam got the hell out of his hometown, confirming his suspicions that you can successfully run away from your...