Susannah Begbie

Susannah grew up on a sheep farm in NSW. She moved to Sydney to study medicine and was immediately homesick for a place that smells of dry grass and dust.

She has worked as a GP from Boggabri to Broome, South Coast to Red Centre and a whole lot of places in between.

In 2006, Susannah started a Graduate Diploma in Professional Writing at Canberra University. She may finish it yet.

She was awarded Editor’s Pick for short story ‘Fly to meet you’ in the UCAN First anthology, and best written text for children’s book ‘Don’t You Dare!’ in the Get Real project.

Then she got distracted with a novel idea... ‘When Trees Fall Without Warning’ took ten years to write. Susannah has recently been awarded the 2022 Richell Prize for emerging writers, and is excited to announce she is working with the Jane Novak Literary Agency towards publication.