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16 episodes
since Nov. 2, 2021
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Melanie Saward has a new book out! Love Unleashed is a romantic comedy with modern representation of First Nations people. In the 2010’s humour would often revolve around queerphobia, fatphobia and othering in general. Mel’s done a PhD about romantic comedy writing and I could have listened to her …

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Eleanor Elliott Thomas published her debut novel The Opposite of Success in 2023. We had a chat during the summer school holidays about crowbarring writing into a legal career, the Faber Academy course that helped shape this work and Thomas' expertise, fat characters who are not the sidekick, peopl…
Joining me for a belated upload for this episode are two marvellous folks. Ailsa Wild and Emily Hart. Em is up first, giving us the skinny, the 411 on what goes on in publishing. Emily was award the 2022 Rising Star award at the ABIA awards. At the time of recording (October 2022) Emily was work…
We're back! Joining me for episode 11 is Catherine Deveny. Writer, comedian, public speaker, writing coach, Brunswick loving cafe fiend. We speak about her memoir True North, and this conversation happened fricken ages ago but I got stuck with the editing because it's hard and I didn't want to.…

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Joining me for episode 10 is Eloise Grills, author of the astonishing and brilliant illustrated memoir big beautiful female theory (all lower case on purpose). We talk about writing the body, the self, awards, shaking off that self conscious buzzing to get in the zone, and a bunch more.  If y…
Joining me for episode 9 is Olivia A Muscat, a writer and reader who loves audiobooks. We talk about the absolute bullshit that is ableist gatekeeping, the changes over time in technology for blind and vision impaired readers and the love we share for teenage fiction.  You can keep up with Ol…
Sarah Krasnostein does a deep dive like nobody else - author of The Trauma Cleaner and The Believer, she joins me to chat about finding her subjects, the nature of a full life as a creative parent, and that perhaps the secret might be doing the transcripts straight away, instead of leaving them to …
The Hungry Air is a collection of poetry that explore a life, a body, a family and the pain of disconnection and severing of ties. I speak with Rachael Wenona Guy about this exquisite collection. 
What does the future of health look like? How do you write poetry about a disabled body, about your disabled body? Andy Jackson's book Human Looking is an exquisite collection of poems exploring personal and historical accounts of the body. The institutionalising of difference, the fellowship we fi…
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