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This month’s Dog-Eared Readings took place in the elegant Stirling Hotel up in the Adelaide Hills and featured Corrie Hosking, Molly Murn and Rebekah Clarkson in conversation with Pip Williams, hosted by the brilliant Rachael Mead and equally brilliant Heather Taylor-Johnson.

Corrie was first to read who shared an excerpt from her next work as yet unpublished and being the inaugural winner of the Adelaide Festival Award for an Unpublished Manuscript in 2002. Accompanied by drawings of insects and birds, Corrie took us back to our roots where nature is something to be mindful about.

Next up was Molly, who shared a collection of poems also unpublished that focused on place and the liminal spaces in between. Molly works at the Matilda Bookshop in Stirling, a gorgeous store with beautiful books and I’ve heard Molly read before at a literary festival, so it was good to see and hear her again.

After the break, Rebekah chatted to Pip about her thoughts on various quotes by other writers, her writing practice and the thinking behind her books. I’m always fascinated to hear how other writers work and Pip’s goal setting of one word a day means she never fails! Continuing the theme of unpublished work, Pip shared the same and having read The Dictionary of Lost Words, one of those books I didn’t want to end, I’ll buy her next, The Bookbinder of Jericho, when she reads at Writers Week starting shortly.

Being up in the hills brought a different audience and it was wonderful to celebrate the incredible local writers who generously shared a blend of prose and poetry that we’ll no doubt see in print soon. The next readings include one of my favourite poets, Andy Jackson, so absolutely not one to be missed.