Ep 468: Meet Ruth McIver, author of ‘I Shot The Devil’

Meet Ruth McIver, author of I Shot The Devil. Short story competitions you can enter; an eight-year-old novelist slips his handwritten book in a library shelf and it now has a year-long waiting list. Plus, we have 3 copies of The Keepers by AWC alumna Al Campbell to giveaway.

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Links mentioned in this episode

• 8-year-old Dillon Helbig slid his handwritten book onto a library shelf. It now has a year-long waitlist
• WIN The Keepers by Al Campbell
• So you want to be a writer Facebook group

Writer in residence: Ruth McIver

Ruth McIver recently completed her PhD in the field of true crime inspired fiction with Curtin University. Her first novel, Nothing Gold, was runner up in the inaugural Banjo Prize (2018) and was one of seven novels selected to be pitched at Bloody Scotland Crime Writing Festival (2014). I Shot the Devil won the 2018 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers.

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This podcast is brought to you by the Australian Writers’ Centre. 

Find out more about your host, Valerie Khoo (@valeriekhoo on Twitter and @valeriekhoo on Instagram).

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