Coming of age story of small town life and the complexity of family and community relationships was based on Schmidt’s own experience growing up in Albany, a town in the Great Southern District of Washington, and losing her father to cancer.
Schmidt was 15 when she first wrote the story idea in a notebook on a car trip from Albany to Perth.
The Hungerford Prize has launched some jobs including that of the world’s best-selling author Natasha Lister. attributed to him:
For a while it was “more of a therapeutic job” and it remained unchanged in my desk drawer while I got my degree in creative writing and started working in media.
After three years as a journalist, she became “familiar with the ignoring and ignoring of Aboriginal stories and voices in the media in general” and it occurred to her that she was a writer in Western Australia with a responsibility to write in an inclusive manner.
She decided to include Noongar characters in her book, but to avoid cultural appropriation, profiling, or symbolism, she did a college honors project in which she returned to Albany and consulted directly with the Noongar Elders.
“In March of this year, when I presented salt river road To Hungerford, I have spent a few months in a six month period in Albany. I just started a new job in the ABC office there, and my partner, Pete, and I are still surrounded by packing boxes,” she told Fremantle Press at the time of her award nomination.
“There was so much to do, a dog that needed a walk, and emails that needed checking, yet I wrote the ‘Hungerford Prize’ on the board in big red big letters. I never for a moment imagined I would be on the long list, let alone the list abbreviated, but it was my first time getting a full draft of my manuscript, and I had this nagging feeling of “If not now, when?”
So she postponed her other jobs and spent weeks honing the manuscript for submission.
“I thought it was the end of it. I was proud just to refine and submit the draft.
Fremantle Press has always been my dream publisher salt river road; So, to be recognized by them? I’m still squeezing myself.”
salt river road It will be published in November 2023.
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