Writers on Wednesday: Lynette Washington
Welcome back to Writers on Wednesday. This week I am chatting with Adelaide author, Lynette Washington ... Tell me a bit about yourself … I’m a short story writer, teacher, editor, reviewer and mother. Tell us about your most recently published book? My latest book (as editor) is a short story collection called Breaking Beauty . It is a collection of 28 stories by 27 writers, all on the theme of beauty. We asked the writers to write about beauty, but we didn’t expect that they would be so brutal with the idea! In the end, what I learnt was that beauty rarely exists without a dark side, a grubby underbelly. The stories are so diverse and tackle the theme from so many different angles that it’s a real insight into the complexity of the idea of beauty – which I think is one of the (sometimes dangerous) obsessions of our time. Tell us about the first time you were published? I got started late in life. My first (significant) publication was the ...