The August 2019 issue of Writers in Conversation has been published by HASS and Flinders University Library, and is available to read online.

For this eighth edition of the international literary journal that introduces writers across all literary genres, editors Dr Gillian Dooley and Nick Turner present five conversations with authors based in India, Australia and the UK, conducted by scholars from Mallorca, Australia and India.

Basudev Sunani is an Oriya poet from Odisha, and his interview with Jaydeep Sarangi explains his experience as a Dalit writer and his commitment to the Dalit movement. Another Indian poet, Malay Roychoudhury, in conversation with Zinia Mitra and Jaydeep Sarangi, gives a fascinating account of his formative part in the avant-garde Hungryalist movement in Bengal during the 1960s.

Two Australian novelists are interviewed. Jane Rawson talks with with Patrick Allington about her extraordinary unclassifiable novel, From the Wreck, partly based on a famous event in South Australian history, while Australian author Candice Fox speaks candidly to Mallorcan scholar Catalina Ribas-Segura about her successful career as a popular crime fiction writer.

South African-born novelist and academic Elleke Boehmer, now based at Oxford University, spoke with Gillian Dooley in Adelaide during February 2019 about her new book The Shouting in the Dark and other Southern Writing.

Staff with any ideas about other authors who would make interesting subjects for conversations can contact the editors via the Journal’s website.