A lighthouse on the gloomy shores of 1921 is where we take you in this episode, as we meet AWC alumna and author Camille Booker and her gothic historical mystery, The Woman in the Waves. Camille shares her inspirations and experience writing the book and the AWC course that helped her weave the stories together in this specific world.
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- Camille Booker’s joyful journey to published author
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Writer in residence: Camille Booker
Camille is an author, creative writing teacher, and PhD student. She has a bachelor’s degree in creative writing and is currently pursuing her PhD, also in creative writing. Her debut novel, What If You Fly?, was longlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize in 2019, was runner up in the Hawkeye Manuscript Development Prize in 2020, and was published with Hawkeye in 2021.
In 2022 she completed the Curtis Brown Creative 6 Month Novel Writing Course. During that time, she wrote her second historical fiction novel, The Woman In The Waves, which was then shortlisted for the 2023 Varuna/Affirm Press Mentorship Award, runner up in the 2023 CYA Conference Competition, and won both the Grand Prize of the Mystery/Thriller category of the 2022 Book Pipeline Unpublished Competition and the 2023 Hawkeye Manuscript Development Prize, and will be published with Hawkeye in 2025.
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This podcast is brought to you by the Australian Writers' Centre and our course History, Mystery and Magic.
Find out more about your host, Valerie Khoo (@valeriekhoo on Twitter and @valeriekhoo on Instagram).
