Writing a Childhood

Tom Lamont is an award-winning journalist. In 2015 he became one of the founding writers on The Guardian’s ‘Long Read’ desk, and since 2017 he has been a regular correspondent for American GQ. He lives in north London with his wife and two children. Going Home is his first novel. 

Téa Obreht won the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction for her debut novel The Tiger’s Wife, which was also a 2011 National Book Award finalist and an international bestseller. Her work has been anthologised in The Best American Short Stories and has appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, Harper’s, Vogue and Zoetrope: All-Story. Her new novel is called The Morningside. 

Jonathan Green has been an editor, writer, commentator and broadcaster in a 40-year career as a journalist, beginning with a cadetship at The Canberra Times and including 15 years at The Age. He is the author of Around Australia in 80 Days (2004) and The Year My Politics Broke (2013). He has been editor of literary quarterly Meanjin since 2015, and he presents Blueprint for Living on ABC Radio National.