Katherine Brabon won the 2016 Vogel’s Literary Award for The Memory Artist and was interviewed for the Sydney Morning Herald by Melanie Kembrey.

‘We’re all familiar with the stories of struggling writers – the piles of rejection letters from publishing houses, the abject poverty, the bad posture from years spent hunched over a desk.

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