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Among AustLit's records are collections of interviews with Australian authors who write in a variety of forms and genres.
The following links are to collections of interviews available in full text.
BlackWords Interviews
In late 2013, Dr Anita Heiss sent a series of questions to nineteen contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers. To complete the series, Anita Heiss herself was then interviewed by AustLit. Read the complete BlackWords interviews here.
SF Snapshot Series
In 2005, Australian author Ben Peek began what became the ongoing Australian Speculative Fiction Snapshot series, a collection of short interviews with Australian speculative-fiction authors, editors, artists, and fans. The series had subsequently been run five more times, sometimes with the same interviewees but always adding new people. The result is a fascinating overview of more than ten years in Australian genre writing. Access the full series from this AustLit record.
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