Alice Robinson: The Glad Shout and Alice Bishop: A Constant Hum - In Conver...

Join Mel Cranenberg (3RRR presenter of Back Story) in conversation with Alice Bishop author of A Constant Hum (Text Publishing) and Alice Robinson author of The Glad Shout (Affirm Press) – the three will delve into the craft of writing fiction that explores disaster.

Alice Bishop grew up in Christmas Hills, Victoria. Her writing has been published by Meanjin, Overland, Australia Book Review, Lip Magazine and the Wheeler Centre. Her debut book, a short story collection, is called A Constant Hum.

Alice Robinson earned a Bachelor of Creative Arts at The University of Melbourne and a PhD in Creative Writing at Victoria University, where she was awarded the Vice Chancellor's Award for Research.

Her fiction, essays and reviews have been published widely, including in She Sheds(Affirm Press) and in literary journals such as Kill Your Darlings, The Lifted Brow, Arena, TEXT, Fireflies, Meanjin and The Australian Humanities Review among others.

​​Robinson’s debut novel, Anchor Point, was long listed for the 2016 Stella Prize, the 2016 Indie Book Awards (debut fiction), and named one of 25 best Bookclub books in The Herald Sun. Her second novel, The Glad Shout, was published by Affirm Press in March 2019.

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