Do ideas come to you while you’re out walking? There’s a unique connection between writers and walking – and in this episode, Belinda Castles shares the inspiration and experience in creating her new book, Walking Sydney. The book is a curated collection of talks had while on walks with authors around various parts of the city and exploring the concepts of nostalgia, change and a sense of place.
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Links mentioned in this episode
- WIN Jack Reacher Book Pack by Lee Child
- Buy So You Want to be a Writer – the book!
- Facebook group for So You Want to be a Writer
Writer in residence: Belinda Castles
Belinda Castles is the author of Walking Sydney: Fifteen walks with a city's writers and novels Bluebottle, Hannah & Emil, The River Baptists and Falling Woman. Her novels have won the Australian Vogel and Asher Literary Awards and been longlisted for the Stella Prize, and she has been named one of the Sydney Morning Herald‘s Best Young Novelists. She is also the editor of Reading Like an Australian Writer and a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Sydney.
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