Author Q&A with Susan McCreery for Thurs. 8pm AEST - please leave your Qs here

We'll be chatting with the author of Loopholes, Susan McCreery, here on Thursday night. Loopholes is a collection of microfiction - many less than half a page in length - so it will be great chance to hone in on this short short form. Plus Loopholes has just been nominated for The Most Underrated Book Award which will be announced next week at The Wheeler Centre in Melbourne. So this will also be a good chance to chat with an emerging author about her writing journey and how she feels about the attention her book is receiving. I'm leaving a couple of questions below to kick off the evening's discussion. Feel free to leave your questions below too.

Lovely to be here. What I want to ask Sue is how does she discipline herself to write a flash fiction piece every day?

Great question, Julie. And a snap with Marjorie.

Because I'm an obsessive type, Julie! And I felt dreadful if I didn't once I'd made the commitment to it!

So, yes. Haven't said this. It was a New Year's resolution to write a piece a day in 2015.

I'm impressed!

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Have I missed any questions? Gotta be SO on your toes for this. Am in a sweat.

You’re doing a great job! I’m really enjoying reading along. We’ll tidy up a few of the comments afterwards, but this is going to be such a great resource for new writers 😊

Yes, Susan has been fab, Ash, as have the other writers in the house tonight!

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Thanks Susan. What are you writing now? Or will saying it out loud put a curse on it?

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"Well then". A gem.

Special mentions also for "Moored" and "The Present". Made me wonder why I bother with 3000 words.

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If there's still time for one more question ... I haven't read a whole lot of microfiction. Are there any collections or writers of this form you would recommend Susan?

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Hey everyone, thanks for being part of our first Q&A on Tablo. And especially to our guest author, Susan McCreery. Let's wrap it up for now. The Tablo team are keen to get your feedback on your experience here tonight. So drop me a line and i'll pass on your comments. Night all - so lovely to be talking writing with such a great bunch of peeps.

Thank you Bron, Susan and everyone who joined tonight! There are a few improvemts we can look at from tonight — loading all comments on a single page and improving navigation will be a start. There’s so much great content here and advice for new writers, I’m excited to see what can come of it!

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thank you, I wish I had your discipline

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Spineless Wonders

An independent Sydney-based publisher of short Australian stories from single stories to novellas as well as single-author collections and anthologies. Spineless Wonders hosts The Carmel Bird Award for short fiction and The joanne burns Microlit Award for microfiction and prose poems.

Author Q&A with Susan McCreery for Thurs. 8pm AEST - please leave your Qs here