Anne Vines is a Melbourne-based fiction writer. Her novel, The Ship Wife was published in 2023. Her short stories have won a slew of awards including the Boroondara Award in 2014 and the Keith Carroll Award in 2020. She was also commended in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript in 2008, and in the Varuna HarperCollins Award in 2007. She was also short-listed for the Alan Marshall Award, The Age Short Story Award and the international Wasafiri New Writing Prize. Anne has worked on both her novels at Varuna Writers’ Centre.

She completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Melbourne in Literature and History, and taught in secondary schools and adult education in Victoria and London, which led her to co-write the VCE English and Literature courses.

Flight is her latest novel.

In the 183rd episode of The HYBRID Author Podcast host Joanne Zara Ellen Morrell, author of young adult fiction, women's fiction and short non-fiction for authors chats to Anne about:

• exploring love, war and forbidden desire in her new novel Flight
• what draws Anne to this particular period in history and the inspiration behind the story itself
• Anne's research for Flight and her surprising discoveries about Melbourne during the war that shaped the narrative
• the relationships portrayed in Flight and what readers will take away
• Anne's publishing adventure
• her burning advice for aspiring authors in the historical fiction genre or in the literature/publishing field and much more.