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October 2025




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One Story is out  with Ultimo Press in October 2025. 



Sad Girl Novel is out with Ultimo Press in Australia, and with Hodder & Stoughton in the UK. 

I’m a fiction writer living in Naarm/Melbourne. My second novel is coming out in October. The most lovely thing you can do for an author is to pre-order their book, like for example here or at your favourite bookstore .

I’ve been working on a companion series of (very) short fiction called Five Stories. One story a day, for five days, over a week in August. You can subscribe to it at my Substack or keep up to date on Instagram.

If you a looking for a brief biography written in third person that you can copy and paste for something, you can find it here.







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Praise for Sad Girl Novel




‘Pip Finkemeyer turns the genre inside out in her debut, which follows Kim, a delusional 
27-year-old Australian expat in Berlin, for a year as she tries to write a novel. Kim’s ennui is revealed to the reader through her relationships – with her pregnant best friend, with her therapist, with denizens of the literary world – and her unreliable inner monologue. Both inhabiting and deconstructing the genre, it’s meta and twisty, with a wry narrative voice.’

— GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE MONTH


‘Take Hannah Horvarth's endearing naivety and Kirstin Wiig’s loveable kookiness and you have the hilarious new protagonist Kim - you can't help but root for her. Unique and smart with wry humour that will make you laugh out loud. I enjoyed following (and re-living) the trials and tribulations of being a 20-something writer desperate to prove herself to the world.’

— EMMA GANNON    


‘Pip Finkemeyer has drawn such a unique, funny and painfully astute character in Kim. I could keep reading her inner monologue forever. It is rare to pick up a novel so simultaneously hilarious and moving. I loved it.’

— LAURA KAY, AUTHOR OF THE SPLIT



‘A humorous, heartfelt novel about finding one’s identity and purpose, the expectations held against you, and following your dreams even if it means stepping out of your comfort zone.’

— READINGS BOOK OF THE MONTH


‘A captivating novel . . . Finkemeyer has an irreverent voice that will have you reaching for a pen to underline every second sentence. Sad Girl Novel will appeal to literary fiction readers who enjoyed Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You.’

— BOOKS + PUBLISHING             


‘What a voice - weird, witty, wonderfully unique. SAD GIRL NOVEL will make you laugh and move you, too. A winning combination.’

— CHLOE ASHBY, AUTHOR OF WET PAINT        


‘While Kimberley Mueller spends a lot of time wondering whether she's talented, Finkemeyer need have no such doubts. Finkemeyer's narrator--with her gift for both self-delusion and self-awareness--is a stroke of genius. Sad Girl Novel achieves all we can ask of contemporary fiction: it mocks and sympathises in equal measure. I closed it feeling better able to laugh at myself.’

— DIANA REID, AUTHOR OR LOVE & VIRTUE


‘Told through the eyes of Kim, a twenty-something Australian navigating the complexities of love, friendship, and mental health in Berlin, this novel will have you laughing, crying and wanting more. A book about finding yourself, losing yourself and everything in between, Finkemeyer will draw you in with her stark realism and heartbreaking honesty.’


— THE URBAN, AUSTRALIA


Writing



SHORT FICTION

Cables

Kill Your Darlings Magazine

ESSAY

Memoir, Fiction, or Something In Between

Kill Your Darlings Magazine

SHORT FICTION

Heat Waves

Mikrokosmos Journal

ESSAY

Sad girls, mad girls, bad girls: The evolution of the literary trope

Harpers Bazaar

Press

SELECTED INTERVIEWS

Sad girls: Entenda como histórias sobre garotas tristes viraram hit literário

O Globo Brazil

A smorgasbord of unlikability’: The authors helping ‘sad girl lit’ grow up

The Guardian

Finkemeyer on critiquing sad girl novels: ‘It has to have a heart’

The Guardian

How I Melbourne

Melbourne Food and Wine 

Emerging Writers Series

Aniko Press

First Time Podcast, live at the Williamstown Literary Festival

First Time Podcast

On creating and subverting a ‘Sad Girl Novel’

ABC Big Weekend of Books

Book Matters Podcast

Connected Libraries

Undistracted with Laura Bennett

Hope Radio

Bio


Pip Finkemeyer is a novelist living in Naarm/Melbourne. Her debut Sad Girl Novel was published in 2023. You can find her writing in Harper’s Bazaar, Kill Your Darlings, Big Issue, Eleven Stories: The Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize, Mojo Best of Fiction Anthology, and more. She has a Masters in Publishing and Editing from RMIT.

Pip has worked for tech companies in Australia and internationally, including a language learning app and in the not-for-profit space. She has a special interest in inclusive and accessible design. In this work as a UX writer, designer and researcher, she spent her days learning about the thoughts and feelings of people using the internet, and has tried to capture some of those thoughts and feelings in her second novel One Story. 

Contact

If you’d like to get in touch please do! Find me on Instagram or email me. Subscribe to my newly minted Substack here.

My agent is Claire Friedman at InkWell Management.