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Megan Voysey-Braig, winner of the 2007/08 EU Literary Award for Till We Can Keep an Animal, answers some questions posed by the Mail & Guardian:

Tell us about your everyday writing routine
Everyday? I wish I could be that disciplined! It involves a lot of pacing, swigging back the tea and coffee and rolling cigarettes, feeling haunted and staring at the screen. For me it has a lot to do with listening — I have a few hundred people in me at a time (so it feels!) vying for their stories to be told, which can make it very exhausting. It is more of a process of sorting out the stories, one by one, what are they saying, what do they want to say, etc. While I am listening nothing much in the way of actual writing happens. I need to find the quiet “OK, now it can be told” space and I don’t stop till it is done.

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• Till We Can Keep An Animal by Megan Voysey-Braig
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