Australian cli-fi novelist Jane Abbott: ''It astounds me there is so little ‘cli-fi’ out there, although I do think it’s on the rise. And on a personal note, I hope the term ‘cli-fi’ sticks and becomes as well-known and as generic as ‘sci-fi’.''

An interview with the Australian cli-fi novelist Jane Abbott, author "WATERSHED" (2016)

''It astounds me there is so little ‘cli-fi’ out there, although I do think it’s on the rise. And on a personal note, I hope the term ‘cli-fi’ sticks and becomes as well-known and as generic as ‘sci-fi’.''

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Interviewer: Nigel Featherstone

INTERVIEWER

What made you want to write Watershed?

JANE ABBOTT

I never set out to write Watershed per se, at least not the way it turned out. I did want to write a book about climate change. I think it’s the single most important issue we face, and will become (indeed is already) a root cause of so many other problems, including food shortages, mass migration, and other humanitarian issues. It astounds me there is so little ‘cli-fi’ out there, although I do think it’s on the rise. And on a personal note, I hope the term ‘cli-fi’ sticks and becomes as well-known and as generic as ‘sci-fi’.

 

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Interview with Jane Abbott

Posted on November 5, 2016 by Verity La in Lighthouse Yarns

 

Who are the exciting new voices of Australian literature? There’s no better place to start than Jane Abbott. A single mother of 2 sons, Abbott was born in the U.K., raised in the leafy suburbs of Sydney’s North Shore, and now divides her time between Melbourne and central Victoria.

 

Jillaroo, nurse, secretary, short-time teacher, office administrator (followed by a reluctant career in marketing), she has tried her hand at most things and lived in many places.

 

Abbott’s second manuscript, Watershed, was written in 2013; it received a Commendation in the 2014 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, and secured Jane a place in the ACT Writer Centre’s’ HARDCOPY professional development program for emerging Australian writers. The Australian called Watershed ‘an accomplished and highly readable debut’.

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