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Pioneer Works @pioneerwork.bsky.social · 11d

“You were stung then, and you’re stung again now. It got you in its tentacles.” In new fiction from @madeleinewatts.bsky.social, jellyfish summon heat waves and prophecy. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/te...

Tentacle Memory | Broadcast

When heat waves summon jellyfish and prophecy.

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Madeleine Watts @madeleinewatts.bsky.social · 16d

A new short story about pregnancy, jellyfish, and heat for Broadcast by Pioneer Works, available now:

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Tentacle Memory | Broadcast

When heat waves summon jellyfish and prophecy.

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Madeleine Watts @madeleinewatts.bsky.social · Aug 1

Caught a 22-hour flight to Perth last week to attend a symposium on Helen Garner. Sometimes, as it turns out, it's very nice to meet your idols!

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Helen Garner and the In-between Space

For the last five days, I’ve been in Perth, attending a symposium at the University of Western Australia on the work of Helen Garner.

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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · Jul 30

"Part of why I loved the diaries is that in the diaries the character of ‘Helen’ emerges in full force, fictional and non-fictional all at once". @madeleinewatts.bsky.social on her encounter with Helen Garner at 22, and ever since... madeleinewatts.substack.com/p/helen-garn...

Helen Garner and the In-between Space

For the last five days, I’ve been in Perth, attending a symposium at the University of Western Australia on the work of Helen Garner.

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Madeleine Watts @madeleinewatts.bsky.social · Jul 7

A return to Substack because I have new Thoughts on making art and having children.

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Revisiting Stravinsky's Lunch

Thinking about women artists and having children

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Lucie Elven @lucieelven.bsky.social · May 13

I’m talking to Vijay Khurana about his extremely tense and impressive novel THE PASSENGER SEAT (Peninsula) on Thursday 22 May at @burleyfisher.bsky.social. It’s the London launch. Free tickets!
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LAUNCH: The Passenger Seat By Vijay Khurana

Thursday 22nd May 6.30 to 9pm Join us to celebrate the launch of The Passenger Seat by Vijay Khurana, published by Peninsula Press. Vijay will be discussing his new novel with Lucie Elven; author of...

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · May 8

Wish I could go to this. A must for anyone in Berlin!

Madeleine Watts @madeleinewatts.bsky.social · May 8

Berlin! I will at Lettretage tomorrow night (May 9), talking with @ajbwells.bsky.social about ELEGY, SOUTHWEST. Drinks + books for sale, admission free.

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Madeleine Watts @madeleinewatts.bsky.social · May 8

Berlin! I will at Lettretage tomorrow night (May 9), talking with @ajbwells.bsky.social about ELEGY, SOUTHWEST. Drinks + books for sale, admission free.

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Chloë Ashby @chloeashby.bsky.social · Apr 24

I reviewed (and loved) Madeleine Watts’ second novel, Elegy, Southwest, which is thoughtful and quietly compelling, and conjures the familiar sense of steadily trundling towards disaster…. In this week’s @thespectator1828.bsky.social www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

The road trip from hell: Elegy, Southwest, by Madeleine Watts, reviewed

Throughout her quietly compelling second novel, Elegy, Southwest, Madeleine Watts conjures a sense of trundling steadily towards disaster. The narrator, a young Australian woman called Eloise, is reco...

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Miriam Balanescu @balanescumiriam.bsky.social · Apr 4

it was genuinely hard to express just how brilliant Madeleine Watts’ second novel Elegy, Southwest is. I reviewed it for @financialtimes.com in the Weekend Mag out tomorrow.

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Elegy, Southwest — a road trip though America’s apocalyptic landscapes

Madeleine Watts’ shrewdly funny novel anchors the climate crisis in personal grief and prescient parallels with California’s wildfires

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🆒 @arielcourage.bsky.social · Mar 6

madeleine watts and i are just two millennial ladies who wrote sad climate road-trip novels so this was an esp. fun interview

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Writer Madeleine Watts on balancing growth and guarding against burnout – The Creative Independent

Writer Madeleine Watts discusses taking creative work seriously, describing a world impacted by climate change, and the importance of replenishing the soul with art

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · Apr 1

"Part of falling in love, and the foundation of the relationship, was the fact that we were both writers, and both really liked one another’s writing. That was woven into the fabric of the relationship ..."

— @madeleinewatts.bsky.social

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“Both our novels interrogate the juxtaposition or paradox of being on the road with somebody”: A Conversation between Vijay Khurana and Madeleine Watts

With The Passenger Seat and Elegy, Southwest coming out within weeks of each other, minor lits decided to capitalize on the coincidence and get novelist couple Vijay Khurana and Madeleine Watts tog…

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · Apr 1

“Both our novels interrogate the juxtaposition or paradox of being on the road with somebody”: A Conversation between Vijay Khurana (@vijaykhurana.bsky.social) and Madeleine Watts (@madeleinewatts.bsky.social)

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“Both our novels interrogate the juxtaposition or paradox of being on the road with somebody”: A Conversation between Vijay Khurana and Madeleine Watts

With The Passenger Seat and Elegy, Southwest coming out within weeks of each other, minor lits decided to capitalize on the coincidence and get novelist couple Vijay Khurana and Madeleine Watts tog…

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Madeleine Watts @madeleinewatts.bsky.social · Apr 1

Melbourne! This Thursday evening I will be launching Elegy, Southwest in Australia at Readings Emporium with Katherine Brabon. It would be lovely to see you there. Registration here:

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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · Mar 18

Against a backdrop of climate change, @madeleinewatts.bsky.social’s ‘Elegy, Southwest’ (@pushkinpress.com) is a lament for a world, a relationship, and the American road-trip novel, writes Abi Andrews www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/03/eleg...

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Chloë Ashby @chloeashby.bsky.social · Mar 18

Tomorrow!

Madeleine Watts @madeleinewatts.bsky.social · Mar 13

Elegy, Southwest is out in the UK today. If you’re in London next Wednesday, the 19th, I would love to see you at the launch at Daunt Books Hampstead.

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Madeleine Watts in conversation with Chloë Ashby

Buy tickets for the event with Madeleine Watts in conversation with Chloë Ashby at Daunt Books Hampstead from Daunt Books today.

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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · Mar 2

Elegy, Southwest, by Miles Franklin shortlisted author Madeleine Watts, weaves together the themes of imminent personal and environmental collapse.

Uncertainties, mysteries, doubts: Madeleine Watts takes an elegiac road trip through the American southwest

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Madeleine Watts @madeleinewatts.bsky.social · Mar 14

This is lovely, thank you very much!

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Madeleine Watts @madeleinewatts.bsky.social · Mar 13

Elegy, Southwest is out in the UK today. If you’re in London next Wednesday, the 19th, I would love to see you at the launch at Daunt Books Hampstead.

dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/events/...

Madeleine Watts in conversation with Chloë Ashby

Buy tickets for the event with Madeleine Watts in conversation with Chloë Ashby at Daunt Books Hampstead from Daunt Books today.

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Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · Feb 18

"'Elegy, Southwest' (Simon & Schuster) is artful and beautifully written, as are the depictions of Southwestern wastelands and the life that somehow perseveres there."

Reviewed by Meredith Boe

A Paradise Built on Quicksand in Madeleine Watts’s "Elegy, Southwest" - Chicago Review of Books

Our review of Madeleine Watts novel Elegy, Southwest.

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · Mar 5

keep your eyes on minor lits to read Madeleine and Vijay discussing The Passenger Seat and Madeleine's Elegy, Southwest

Madeleine Watts @madeleinewatts.bsky.social · Mar 4

Vijay’s book is out today in North America! A genius novel by the loveliest of men.

Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social · Mar 4

THE PASSENGER SEAT by Vijay Khurana is out today! A searing examination of male friendship and masculinity in an age of toxic loneliness, the NYT called it "unsettling and powerful" and the Literary Review of Canada said it "will both mesmerize and refuse comforting resolution."

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Madeleine Watts @madeleinewatts.bsky.social · Mar 4

Vijay’s book is out today in North America! A genius novel by the loveliest of men.

Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social · Mar 4

THE PASSENGER SEAT by Vijay Khurana is out today! A searing examination of male friendship and masculinity in an age of toxic loneliness, the NYT called it "unsettling and powerful" and the Literary Review of Canada said it "will both mesmerize and refuse comforting resolution."

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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · Mar 2

Lovely @readingsbooks.bsky.social notice (by head buyer Alison Huber) for @madeleinewatts.bsky.social's Elegy Southwest: "...sad and funny, grand and intimate, informed and inquisitive, and above all, a beautiful piece of writing." www.readings.com.au/product/9781...