It’s hard to top the moment the first book deal comes through. What’s been the most significant moment in your writing career so far? It’s necessary to let go of the desire to stand next to a reader and explain what you meant. Finished work doesn’t belong to you anymore, and you can’t change it, and that requires a lot more faith than an insecure writer (me) might have. It’s not easy to send it into the world and trust that it will be received the way it was intended. I find it so hard to be objective about my work, especially when I’ve read and edited every single line 50 times. The simple satisfaction of writing one really good sentence. It remains the only poem I’ve ever had published, and with good reason. The first fiction I had published was in the Suburban Review – a bit of an angry allegory about family violence, with magpies. In Year Five, a poem I wrote about Anzac Day was published in the school yearbook. What was the first piece of writing you had published?
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