Short story collections are notoriously difficult to get published, but I wanted to find the right publisher. I completed the manuscript and then it sat there idly for some time. The book has taken several years to come together. Before we talk about the millions of things that you do with your life, can you tell us about your forthcoming short-story collection, Two Steps Forward? Has there been a key motivation behind the writing of the book? You may well be the busiest person I know. Did I mention that her first collection of stories is being published by Affirm Press later this year? Recently Irma Gold and I chatted via magic-mail. Her gigs include having her short stories published in Australia’s best journals, blogging at overland, freelance editing, managing a wide variety of publication projects, and that no small matter of raising a swag of young kids. Irma just goes about her business, and it’s a supremely multifaceted business, not putting herself ‘out there’, just working away, writing well, very well indeed. We’re all guilty, no one gets away scot-free. The world of literature – perhaps the arts in general – is jam-packed with people trying to be someone, trying to be an artist, a ‘creative’ (why is that term so bloody irksome?), to stand out, to be significant and, the greatest crime of all, important. Yes, that’s an inane sentence, but let me explain. The world of literature is filled with personalities.
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