July 28, 2026

ABOUT THIS EPISODE

The conversation around men's mental health, identity and emotional lives is changing. Literature is one of the places where that shift is happening. On the page, writers are exploring what it costs men to conform, to hide, to perform strength they don't always feel.

Masculinity and Mental Health was presented at the Newcastle Writers Festival.

Listen to Big Ideas: The radicalisation of boys — Jess Hill, George Megalogenis, Thomas Mayo with Natasha Mitchell at Byron Writers Festival

Speakers

Tyree BarnetteAuthor of Stolen Man on Stolen Land: Being African-American in Australia

Brandon JackFormer AFL player and author of Pissants and 28: A memoir of football, addiction, art, masculinity and love

Andrew PipposAuthor of The Transformations and Lucky's

Michael Williams (host)Editor of The Monthly

Society & Culture

History

English

Australia

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Jess Hill

George Megalogeni

Thomas Mayo

Natasha Mitchell

Andrew PipposAuthor

Michael William

men

masculinity

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