Emerging Writer #4—Rebecca Giggs

The final emerging writer in our series is Rebecca Giggs. We'd been admiring Rebecca’s work from afar for a while before we signed her for a lyrical, thoughtful work of narrative nonfiction about humans' relationship to whales.

Rebecca is currently a creative-writing lecturer at Macquarie University in Sydney, and was shortlisted for the Australian Book Review's Calibre Prize this year. Her book will be published in 2015, but her work will also be appearing in this year’s Best Australian Science Writing for those of you who can’t wait.

Rebecca’s ambitions for publication are not just for herself, but for the publishing and bookselling industries as well: 'I have a reverie, and I don't think it's immodest, of going back to the bookstore I used to work in (the best bookstore in Australia, Perth's Planet Books and thumbing the spine of my book on the shelf. In the reverie I do this not just after the book is released, but later, much later. Perhaps Planet keep ordering it because of my connection to the place, which would be nice, but sometimes I indulge myself in imagining that the book continues to be enjoyed for a long time. I am surprised to see it there, and then all I do is pull it a little out from the shelf, look at the cover art, and slide it back. Of course, the daydream is dependent not only on people continuing to want to read my work, but on the continuation of a fine independent bookstore well into the future as well. I hope there are always enough voracious readers on Beaufort Street to keep that place alive.'

You can catch Rebecca at The Early Words where she will be talking about the relationship between humans and animals, and -- if you’re lucky enough to have grabbed a ticket, because it's sold out! -- at her Writing Night School session on creative nonfiction.

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Emerging Writer #4—Rebecca Giggs

Multi-time winner of the Australian Small Publisher of the Year Award