Meet Susan Midalia

I agree Susan, Lucy would be wonderful to chat to next, as a poet I admire AND a West Australia!

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Interview by Nicole Melanson ~

Susan Midalia is a fiction writer and freelance editor. She has published three collections of short stories: A History of the Beanbag, shortlisted for the Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards; An Unknown Sky, shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award; and the recently released Feet to the Stars. She is the judge of several literary awards and was recently a peer assessor for the Australia Council for the Arts. She has a PhD in contemporary Australian women’s fiction and has published on the subject in national and international literary journals. Susan has lived most of her life in Perth, Western Australia, where she regularly conducts short story writing workshops. Her two most precious creations are her adult sons.

HOW DID YOU GET STARTED?

I began writing fiction in response to the death of my father, as a means of trying to understand my…

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