Department of the Vanishing, author Johanna Bell
Before the Anthropocene, the air pulsed with birdsong. Now, a silence is falling.Ava spends her days at The Department, rebuilding lost species from the remaining fragments of art and scientific data. Her dying mother thinks she should quit. So does her lover, and the sex workers who loiter outside…
Episode 720: Alexandra Pierce, Ian Mond, and The Totally Temporary Book Club
With Gary away at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts in Florida, and celebrating his 80th birthday (!!!!!), Jonathan sat down to chat with Alexandra Pierce and Ian Mond about why we read books, why we talk about and review them, and three great new books from 2026 that we lov…
Adult Explorers: HOPE IS THE THING with bird tales
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Welcome to the "Early Start for Kids Podcast Series", co-hosted by the incredible Associate Professor Pauline Jones and Dr Karel Strooband. 🎧 In our latest episode, we're delving into the captivating world of the 2023 p…
Little Explorers: HOPE IS THE THING with bird tales – part 1
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Johanna Bell’s Department of the Vanishing
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Book Club - Johanna Bell’s Department of the Vanishing
Johanna Bell is an award winning author of fiction, poetry and children’s books. Her new novel Department of the Vanishing won the 2025 Tasmanian Literary Award for Best Unpublished Manuscript.
For more than twenty years Ava has toiled away at the Department of Vanishing cataloguing species as the…
What it means to be a City of Literature - with Sue Hayes
Exploring the unique literary scene on a tiny island at the edge of the world...
In 2023, Nipaluna/Hobart became a UNESCO City of Literature, making it the second city in Australia after Melbourne to achieve this status. But what does it actually mean? And who does it benefit? Is it all just anoth…
Johanna Bell's Weird Writing
Award-winning author Johanna Bell spoke with 8CCC's Kate Lyons-Dawson as she journeys down the Stuart Highway to deliver her Writing the Weird workshops. Previously Garramilla (Darwin) based where she founded a storytelling studio to elevate voices from northern Australia, she now lives in Nipaluna…
Constructing a verse novel, writing residencies and community-based storytelling - with Johanna Bell
Exploring the unique literary scene on a tiny island at the edge of the world...
Why on earth would anyone spend almost ten years writing and constructing a complicated verse novel using the tricky, painstaking framework of bricolage? And what exactly did this mean for the author, her book designer…
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