You don’t realise how vulnerable you feel till you’re published.
Writing can be so exposing, anxiety-provoking. It can be good, having the publisher protect you a bit. I’m glad you used the L-word, literary! Allen & Unwin was very concerned to get that message across – that this is a book with exhilarating ideas but with real love and concern for the craft of writing. I’m lucky that the talented, award-winning Sandy Cull was chosen to design my cover. I think they wanted to avoid stressing out the new author until they’d solved all the challenges to their satisfaction. In fact my publisher only showed it to me when they’d finalised it. Did you have any say in the cover design? The cover makes it look like a cross between a dark urban fantasy and a literary novel. Q: Your book When we have Wings appears to be a near future story with elements of the detective genre. Watch out for give-away details at the end of the interview. Today I’ve invited the talented Claire Corbett to drop by. WATCH OVER ME, her second novel, is published by Allen & Unwin May 2017.I have been featuring fantastic female fantasy authors (see disclaimer) but this has morphed into interesting people in the speculative fiction world. Her paper Must Australia Always Be Imaginary? Cartography as Creation in Peter Carey’s “Do You Love Me?” was published in Antipodes: a global journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature in June 2015. She was awarded a residency at Writers Omi at Ledig House in upstate New York for Oct-Nov 2014 and a Bundanon residency in January 2017. 2 or 3 Things I Know About You was selected for Best Australian Stories 2015. Her story Snake in the Grass was selected for Best Australian Stories 2014.
Her essay The Last Space Waltz: 2001 and NASA, was shortlisted for the 2012 ABR/CAL essay prize and published in Overland, Autumn 2014. WHEN WE HAVE WINGS is also published in Spain, Portugal, The Netherlands and Russia and has been released worldwide as an audiobook by Bolinda Publishing. It was shortlisted for the 2012 Barbara Jefferis Award and shortlisted for the 2012 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction. WHEN WE HAVE WINGS, a novel about humans genetically engineered to fly, was published by Allen & Unwin in July 2011. She worked on water and genetically modified organisms for the Environment Protection Authority and child and family health for NSW Health.Ĭlaire has had stories, essays and journalism broadcast on Radio National and published in Splash (Penguin), Re:Publica (A&R), Cinema Papers, Rolling Stone, Picador New Writing, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Monthly, Griffith Review and Southerly among others. She studied film and writing at the University of Technology, Sydney, and crewed on films before becoming a policy advisor to the Premier in the NSW Cabinet Office. Claire Corbett was born in Canada and moved to Australia as a child.
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