Posted on Monday 27 May 2013
Emily Maguire named as one of The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists
Now in its 17th year, the awards go to writers 35 years or younger when their book is published…The quality of entries was impressive, leading us to choose six winners. Their stories inspired us with imaginative narratives, compelling characters and writing of virtuosity and intelligence. The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists
Posted on Sunday 23 September 2012
Emily Maguire talks to DailyLife about Fishing for Tigers
“I’m always trying, in my fiction, to get to the guts of what it means to love someone. I don’t only mean romantic love, though that’s certainly a big part of it. But friendship and family are important here too. We all want to be loved and accepted, to feel known and safe and cherished, and yet so often the people we love hurt us or we hurt them. And it’s rarely out of malice or cruelty. People inflict terrible damage on those they love through holding on too tightly or neglecting them at crucial moments or through simple carelessness. It’s too simplistic to say that if someone hurts you they don’t love you.” Full interview.
Posted on Sunday 23 September 2012
The Sydney Morning Herald reviews Fishing for Tigers
“While its steamier parts could make even the most ardent Fifty Shaders blush, Fishing for Tigers is less a cautionary tale about female desire and sexual awakening than it is about drifting from one’s ports of moral anchorage on the path towards home – wherever home may happen to be. Provocative and astute, as ever.” Full review.
Posted on Sunday 23 September 2012
Love in a Foreign Climate: Emily Maguire talks about Fishing for Tigers
“Where and what is home is a central theme of Emily Maguire’s new novel, her first to be set outside the author’s native Sydney. Long occupied with human motivations and relationships, and conflicts around culture, security, love and family, Maguire also explores corollary themes of identity and belonging through a story of self-discovery and developing love between Cal and Mischa, a woman twice his age.” Full interview
Posted on Friday 7 September 2012
Q&A about Fishing for Tigers
Emily Maguire chats with Bronte Coates of Readings about her new book, Fishing for Tigers.
Posted on Tuesday 10 July 2012
Brand new short fiction from Emily Maguire in the latest Review of Australian Fiction
‘So Many Things Happen’ – Brand new short fiction from Emily Maguire in the latest Review of Australian Fiction.
Posted on Thursday 31 May 2012
The many faces of feminism: Interview with Emily Maguire
The Scavenger’s Erin Stewart talks to panellist, writer and author Emily Maguire about what feminism is, whether it’s in a resurgence, its accessibility as a movement, and what still needs to happen.
Posted on Thursday 3 May 2012
Emily talks to ArtsHub about her writing life
Emily talks to ArtsHub about her writing life.
Posted on Friday 23 March 2012
The Accidental Feminist: Video of Emily's 2009 Pamela Denoon Lecture.
Emily Maguire looks at the role and status of feminism today; and how women born after 1970s successes of the women’s liberation movements have come to realise that political, economic, sexual, professional, social and domestic equality is far from achieved and that post-feminism is a media myth. (video)
Posted on Friday 23 March 2012
Clementine Ford on Betraying our Girlhood
Clementine Ford quotes Emily’s ‘Letter to the Girls I Misjudged’ in this column on the denigration of girlhood.