Summary: To celebrate the end of 2019, we've re-released our highest rating non-fiction interviews of the year: #3 is Kate Richards. Kate Richards is a memoirist, poet and most recently, a novelist. Her first work, 2013's Madness: A Memoir, received the Adelaide Festival's Award for Literature and was shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards. Kate followed that stunning debut with 2014's Is There No Place For Me: Making Sense of Madness, which was shortlisted for the Human Rights Award. In 2019 Kate moved from non-fiction to the world of fiction with her first novel, Fusion. Her work goes where few writers have ever gone. It is profound and honest, and represents not only a contribution to Australian literature, but a contribution to literature on mental health and identify. This episode comes with a content warning, as Kate's memoir and our discussion of it touches on trauma and mental illness. Related episodes: Sam Twyford-Moore, mentioned in this interview, spoke to The Garret about writing mania and chronic ill health. Fiona Wright, whose creative non-fiction works explore chronic ill health, also spoke about writing one's own story and how to represent illness on the page. About The Garret You can read the transcript of this interview at thegarretpodcast.com. You can also follow The Garret on Twitter and Facebook, or follow our host Astrid Edwards on Twitter or Instagram. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
