About Trish Bolton
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Trish Bolton is a writer based in Melbourne. Her debut novel Whenever You're Ready is published by Allen & Unwin.
She has a Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing from RMIT. Her writing has been published in The Age, Sunday Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Canberra Times, Overland, New Matilda, The Big Issue and Visible Ink.
Trish has been the recipient of an Australian Society of Authors mentorship, a Varuna Publishing Introduction Pathway Fellowship, a Varuna Residential Writer's Fellowship, joint-winner of a Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW) Jim Hamilton unpublished manuscript award, runner-up FAW Whitelight Drama Script Award and longlisted for the Virginia Prize for Fiction (UK) and the Mslexia Women's Novel Competition (UK).
She has been a media adviser to the federal leader of a political party, worked in policy and research in women's health, and lectured in Media and Communications at Swinburne University.
Trish lives with her partner on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri people.
INTERVIEWS
ABC Saturday Morning Breakfast with Alice Zaslavsky
Not A Rich Kid Podcast with Kath Dolheguy
The WestWords Podcast with Elizabeth Walton: How long does it truly take to learn to write a novel
Wordroom Podcast with Elizabeth Walton: The Novel: Whenever You’re Ready with Trish Bolton
Better Reading: Stories behind the Story Podcast with Cheryl Akle: Ageism, grief and the lives of older women
No worries if not podcast (UK) with Lily O'Farrell: Why are women afraid of looking old
Date with a Debut: Interview with Nick Wasiliev
The Change Podcast: Grieving the different versions of ourselves as we age
OLDER WRITING
The Age and SMH
Always being positive can become a negative
Enjoying yourself mum, or just out of breath
Homeless and invisible: the broken families
Women are no longer prepared to put up or shut up
Finding diversity is easy as ABC
Goodbye to independent press if Howard has his way
Time to think about decriminalising marijuana
The most mortal sin of all - growing old
Multiple reasons why the earth doesn’t move
Silence on child abuse victims is ending loudly
Sunday Age
Overland
Raining cats and dogs and rubbish too
Feminism is more than a memory
Why does the ABC continue to insult us with Bolt?
Shafting Kevin - not such a great day for feminists
Writing without fear or favour
New Matilda
AQ - Australian Quarterly
Land of the Fair Go - An Exploration of Australian Identity
Scan: Journal of media arts culture