Rochelle Siemienowicz

Rochelle Siemienowicz is self described as an editor and arts journo, memoir writer and lover of things beautiful and strange! She is also a highly regarded film critic, journalist, editor and columnist with a PhD in Australian cinema and was the long time film editor for The Big Issue. Her work has been published widely, including in The Age, Kill Your Darlings, The Big Issue, ScreenHub and SBS Movies.In this episode we talk about our friendship since high school, putting yourself out there, her first book Fallen which is a frank, compelling and beautifully written memoir, a true tale of sex, love and religion.She also shares her knowledge about writing with some great tips for young aspiring writers. The love hate relationship with writing, she talks honestly about polyamorous relationships, her PHD, her upcoming second book Double Happiness, set for release in 2024, content creating, managing mental health, what is next and current Australian film and TV content."Writing is a mystical magical process and you don't really know what you are doing until your in it" "I do like the stoics but sometimes the stoics can be a bit like joyless, I like a bit more hedonism with my stoicism, I like good things in life, I like Buddism, eastern mystisim and avoiding desire and fear and all of that but at the same time I think desire is life and it's okay to be hungry for life and it's okay to want things and it's treading that fine line between accepting what is and being an almost sort of detachment while almost throwing yourself in and fully immersing yourself in the flow of it, it's kinda of a bit paradoxical really". Rochelle Siemienowicz