![]() There was often one or at most two writers in each class who were there because I was a fantasy writer, and I did my best to give them more genre-specific support than I ever found myself. I actually learned a lot from teaching, as well – through a stroke of luck I fell into work as a creative writing teacher at night school through my twenties, and developed several regular courses, mostly for beginner writers. Formal study was never much use to me because the creative writing teachers I had access to were not sympathetic at all to genre. I spent most of my teens writing novel after novel, and reading voraciously. ![]() How have you developed your writing craft?Ībsolutely through practice. It was at a time when there was a very set idea in Australia about what fantasy fiction was like, and my book was very different – it was a comedy about pirates and explosive magic. I always feel a bit guilty about telling this story, because my path to publication is no help to anyone! I entered the George Turner Prize (which no longer exists) for an unpublished SF/F novel, and I won! Splashdance Silver was bought by Transworld in 1998 when I was just nineteen years old, and published a few months later. ![]() Tansy, can you tell me how you first came to be published? ![]()
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