2001
has been a bumper year for Dana Bath. Her stories have appeared in the
anthologies You and Your Bright Ideas and Ribsauce; in October she filled
Nantha’s Cuisine to overflowing for the launch of Plenty of Harm
in God, her first novel. According to Bath, “I knew I wanted to
be a writer from the time I was really small. I used to have a space
in my cupboard where I’d keep these piles of manuscripts.”
She challenges herself by entering the Anvil Press Annual International
Three Day Novel Writing Contest every Labour Day weekend. “If something
turns out to be unreadable, I just chuck it,” she says. Far from
unreadable, her ’98 effort won third place, and in ’99 she
took second prize. She’s currently putting together a collection
of fiction that includes these pieces, and a second novel is in the
germinal stage. :
2001
has been a bumper year for Dana Bath. Her stories have appeared in the
anthologies You and Your Bright Ideas and Ribsauce; in October she filled
Nantha’s Cuisine to overflowing for the launch of Plenty of Harm
in God, her first novel. According to Bath, “I knew I wanted to
be a writer from the time I was really small. I used to have a space
in my cupboard where I’d keep these piles of manuscripts.”