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Live from ABC Radio Melbourne’s The Friday Review… a postcard to Tooradin, in beautiful West Gippsland, Victoria. Listen in to the archived recording from September 2021.
A Stage In My Life features a story written and read by a different guest each week, based on a memorable live performance. Listen back to the recording of David’s reading featured on ABC Radio Melbourne for the Friday Review in September 2022.
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David was invited to The Cité internationale des arts as Writer in Residence for the month of June in 2022. The Cité internationale des arts brings together interdisciplinary artists in the heart of Paris and allows them to implement a creative or research project in all disciplines.
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At the 2019 PEN International Congress in Manila, David Francis, PEN America’s writer-delegate, was elected to the seven-member Board of Trustees of PEN International.
The annual PEN International Congress offers an opportunity for the entire PEN community to gather and speak about our work. Officially, it is the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the international office of PEN, but its importance extends far beyond this function. The Congress helps us strengthen our networks and connections; reinforce and refine our core principles through discussion, debate and pass resolutions; exchange experiences and ideas; celebrate writing in all its forms; and simply catch up with old and new friends and colleagues. Each Congress is hosted by a PEN Centre that works with the international office to develop a programme of literary events alongside the AGM which is reflective of PEN’s diverse membership. Every Congress is also given a thematic focus, which is decided by the host PEN Centre and often reflects issues that are of utmost importance to the members of that particular Centre. Recent themes have included ‘The Environment and Literature – What Can Words Do?’ (Tokyo 2010, hosted by Japan PEN); ‘Words, Words, Nothing but … Words?’ (Linz 2009, hosted by Austrian PEN); and ‘The Role of the Word’ (Bogotá 2008, hosted by Colombian PEN) and “Speaking in Tongues” (Manila 2019, hosted by PEN Philippines).
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David’s first novel Agapanthus Tango, published in seven languages, is being re-released in Australia in 2018 through Brio Books. Join them for the re-release party or find out more.
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David and Wayne Macauley discuss Wedding Bush Road and writing on the second half of the Published... or Not podcast back in May 2017. Listen and download the episode here.
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Listen to the podcast of David on Poets Cafe on KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles from August 16, 2017. Episode available here.
Read David Francis's interview in SoCal Magazine online here. They say of his writing, "Francis writes with a poetic flair, creating nuances that suck you into the moment."
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Wedding Bush Road gets reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books by Jean Hey. Read "The Land Down Under" here.
"Wedding Bush Road envelopes us in a strange world where nothing can be taken for granted. This is a rich, beautifully textured novel, unforgettable in its setting and the people who live there. Along with Daniel, we blink in the white-hot sun, trying to soak it all in, and in the end, find ourselves reluctant to leave."
David Francis and Joshua Mohr, author of Sirens, join Barbara DeMarco-Barrett on her 'Writers on Writing' podcast to discuss their books and the writing process. Listen to the episode here.
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Fiona Gruber reviews Wedding Bush Road in the Australian Book Review. Read the preview of the full review online here, and purchase the issue here.
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Read an excerpt of Wedding Bush Road in Angel's Flight Literary West, along with an in-depth Q&A with the author.
The recording from David Francis and Jane Smiley's conversation at the L.A. Public Library's ALOUD series is now available for download here.
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Wedding Bush Road gets a write-up in the Kirkus Review.
David Francis sits down to chat about Wedding Bush Road with Andrea Arnold for Electric Lit. Read it online here.
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Wedding Bush Road is reviewed by Peter Pierce in The Australian. Pierce writes, "Wedding Bush Road is an accomplished, many-faceted novel, joining recent, distinguished portrayals of small town life, probing the fissures within families and the complex competition of individuals’ desires over control of disputed territories and opportunities. (...) the reward is a highly wrought narrative that resonates with moral ambiguity, and the imagination and intelligence to confront it."
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Candida Baker reviews Wedding Bush Road for The Sydney Morning Herald. Read it here.
David Francis and Wedding Bush Road are discussed in the Books section of The Sydney Morning Herald. Read it online here.