Season 1. Episode 1: Anna Spargo-Ryan

Craig and Irma chat about why they’ve launched the podcast, the history of the green room and their own green room experiences.Then Anna Spargo-Ryan chats with Irma about how she grew up with her own publishing house (sort of!), the manuscripts that never made it to publication, how she accidentally pitched a book on Twitter that led to a heated auction, what said heated auction involved (hint: a lot of emotional paralysis on the couch), the worst rejection of her writing life and a whole lot more.About AnnaAnna Spargo-Ryan is the author of two novels, The Paper House and The Gulf. She is currently working on a nonfiction book which is based on her Horne Prize-winning essay called ‘The Suicide Gene’. Her short work has been widely published in places like the Guardian, The Saturday Paper, The Age, Meanjin, and many others. She is a PhD candidate at Deakin University and is the Nonfiction Editor at Island magazine.