The Gumboot Collective
Click here to buy Denizen as a paperback, eBook or audiobook
Home Denizen Events Media & Interviews Portfolio Podcast Media Kit Contact James McKenzie Watson James McKenzie Watson James McKenzie Watson James McKenzie Watson Home Denizen Events Media & Interviews Portfolio Podcast Media Kit Contact James McKenzie Watson writes fiction with a focus on health and rural Australia. His novel Denizen won the 2021 Penguin Literary Prize and was published by Penguin Random House in 2022. Denizen also received a 2021 Varuna Residential Fellowship and a 2021 KSP Residential Fe
James has written for The Guardian , Meanjin , Kill Your Darlings and the Newtown Review of Books . He has appeared at events including the Sydney Writers Festival, Newcastle Writers Festival and BAD Crime Sydney. He co-hosts the writing and health podcast James and Ashley Stay at Home with author Ashley Kalagian Blunt and works as a nurse.
The Gumboot Collective