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Kim Mahood
Kim Mahood is a writer and artist who grew up in Central Australia and…
DiscoverWandering with Intent shortlisted for The Age Nonfiction Book of the Year
Scribe is pleased to share that Wandering with Intent: essays by Kim Mahood has been shortlisted for the Age Book of the Year in the nonfiction category.
The category was judged by author Michael McGirr and reviewer Simon Caterson, who said that the judging process involved reading a range of books by writers who ‘wrote with courage, conviction, and in their prose convey a unique awareness of themselves and the wider world.’
Wandering with Intent was commended as ‘an extraordinary collection of essays from the spaces in which non-Indigenous and Indigenous Australia continue to encounter each other.’
Congratulations to Kim and all of the other shortlisted writers.
Find out more about the shortlist here.
Wandering with Intent
WINNER OF THE 2023 AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD FOR NONFICTION
To essay means to try, to endeavour, to attempt — and to risk failure. For Kim Mahood, it is both a form of writing and an approach to life.
In these finely observed and probing essays, award-winning artist and writer Kim Mahood invites us to accompany her on the road and into the remote places of Australia where she is engaged in long-established collaborations of mapping, storytelling, and placemaking. Celebrated as one of the few Australian writers who both lives within and can articulate the complexities and tensions that arise in the…
