Mark Smith lives and works on Victoria’s Surf Coast. His debut novel The Road To Winter (2016) was shortlisted for the Australian Indie Book Awards, the Aurealis Awards and the WA Young Readers’ Book Awards. The sequel, Wilder Country, will be released in August, 2017. Mark is also an award winning writer of short fiction, with credits including the 2015 Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize and the 2013 Alan Marshall Short Story Prize, and his work has appeared in Best Australian Stories 2014 & 2015, Review of Australian Fiction, The Big Issue and The Australian.

Mark Smith lives and works on Victoria’s Surf Coast. His debut novel The Road To Winter (2016) was shortlisted for the Australian Indie Book Awards, the Aurealis Awards and the WA Young Readers’ Book Awards. The sequel, Wilder Country, will be released in August, 2017. Mark is also an award winning writer of short fiction, with credits including the 2015 Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize and the 2013 Alan Marshall Short Story Prize, and his work has appeared in Best Australian Stories 2014 &amp; 2015, Review of Australian Fiction, The Big Issue and The Australian.

108. Mark Smith: Land of Fences, reluctant readers & hope.

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Words and Nerds Podcast is an entertaining and conversational podcast that aims to get inside a writer's mind. We discuss books, the social and political influences of a writer's work and how literature has the power to change the world. The podcast digs deep to bring you an in depth and sometimes humorous analysis of the author's book and its influences. Join us for a new way of looking at literature. Dani Vee your host, English teacher, podcaster, reader, book enthusiast and over-thinker. Dani is joined by various guest co-hosts and has a number of spin off episodes including the Feedback Sessions, Summer Series Takeover, Bite-Size Episodes, livestreams, mash-ups and cross-overs. Subscribe, leave a review and listen now.

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