Narratives Library National Edition
by Karena Wynn-Moylan author interviewer broadcaster
Each week award winning radio presenter Karena Wynn-Moylan interviews different authors and asks them to read their own work .The website www.narrativeslibrary.com gets over 200,000 hits per month and contains over 500 authors reading for just 5 minutes. This 28 minute podcast allows slightly longer reads and interviews, together with carefully selected musical tracks.'Quickpods' is the Narratives Library short and sweet edition lasting up to 15 minutes, featuring one new author each week. A sister program Arts Canvass, which Karena has presented for 25 years will also be included here from time to time.
Episodes
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Rafael Frumkin with 'Confidence'
I am sure many of us have followed with an air of breathless incredulity as we have read recently about some of the extraordinary scams that not just ordinary people, but big corporations have fallen for - how could they not see where the flaws were? And who reaped all theprofits? 'Confidence' by...
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Tyree Barnette and Steve Toltz
Tyree Barnette is an African american man living in Australia exploring australian indigenous culture. Steve Toltz 's hilarious novel has just been nominated for a Booker Prize.
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Ian Kemish and Judi Morison
Two novels about secrets. A crime/political thriller from Ian Kemish set across the globe and a story of yearning for knowledge of your origins from Judi Morison.
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Lee Kofman - 'Ruptured' and 'The Writer Laid Bare'
Lee Kofman - Ruptured Since October 7, 2023 life has changed irrevocably for Jewish women.Lee Kofman asked Jewish women to submit stories illustrating racism and aggression towards them, simply because of their Jewish identity. More than a hundred and fifty submissions were received and thirty…
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Amy Remeikis and Djon Mundine
Amy Remeikis -'Where it all Went Wrong: The John Howard Years' Was former prime minister John Howard the 'great economic manager' or did he create the terrible scenario we are now facing in Australia : the housing crisis, workplace insecurity and wage freezes, the selling off of our natural...
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Natalie Kyriacou and Bob Brown - 'People can be powerful'
Natalie Kyriacou - 'Nature's Last Dance' Natalie Kyriacou is an award winning environmentalist, charity director and author and founder of Green World. In this inspiring read of a penguin rescue she offers hope that collective action by like minded people can move mountains and if we work as a...
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Kaarron Warren and J J CArpenter
Two top S.F authors - Kaarron Warren with 'Not all Stones mean Murder' and J.J Carpenter with ' The Haunting of Kenmore Asylum'. Recorded at CONFLUX S.F convention in Canberra 2025.
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Richard Jones- Merging with Nature
Richard Jones has been a politician, a publisher, an environmental activist and now a ceramicist - at 85 years and he's probably just getting started! His life has been devoted to drawing attention to the plight of Nature, these days he lives surrounded by it. He has published this memoir which…
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Leanbh Pearson- fantasy author
This episode is actually two reads and interviews with highly popular fantasy author Leanbh Pearson. 'Loki: Untangling a Tale' and 'Bluebells in the devil's Garden'.Recorded at CONFLUX S.F convention 2025 in Canberra Australia.
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Australian Audio Awards Narratives extract-Trent Dalton
Australian Author Trent Dalton reads a short extract from his book 'Love Stories' , with an interview by Karena Wynn-Moylan. First broadcast in April 2025.
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Narratives Library Christmas Special part eight
Fascinating interviews and reads with world award winning radio presenter Karena Wynn-Moylan from Australian Radio Bay FM 99.9. These authors can also be found at www.narrativeslibrary.com PETER GRESTE - THE CORRESPONDENT To round out this small sampling of this years interviews here is...
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Narratives Library Christmas Special part seven.
Fascinating interviews and reads with world award winning radio presenter Karena Wynn-Moylan from Australian Radio Bay FM 99.9. These authors can also be found at www.narrativeslibrary.com PRIMA FACIE - SUSIE MILLER Suzie MIller's previous profession was a lawyer- one who became increasingly...
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Narratives Library Christmas Special part six.
Fascinating interviews and reads with world award winning radio presenter Karena Wynn-Moylan from Australian Radio Bay FM 99.9. These authors can also be found at www.narrativeslibrary.com GINA CHICK - We are the stars Gina Chick became well known to all of us from her win on 'Alone' - the...
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Narratives Library Christmas Special part five
Fascinating interviews and reads with world award winning radio presenter Karena Wynn-Moylan from Australian Radio Bay FM 99.9. These authors can also be found at www.narrativeslibrary.com MATTHEW EVANS - MILK Here is celebrity chef and farmer Matthew Evans extolling the virtues of 'Milk'.He...
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Narratives Library Christmas Special part four
Fascinating interviews and reads with world award winning radio presenter Karena Wynn-Moylan from Australian Radio Bay FM 99.9. These authors can also be found at www.narrativeslibrary.com TRENT DALTON - 'Love Stories' Picture Trent Dalton on a street corner with a little table and a powder blue...
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Narratives Library Christmas Special part three
Fascinating interviews and reads with world award winning radio presenter Karena Wynn-Moylan from Australian Radio Bay FM 99.9. These authors can also be found at www.narrativeslibrary.com MUSIC Let's go to the world of music with two people who work at opposite ends of that world - long time...
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Narratives Library Christmas Special part two
Fascinating interviews and reads with world award winning radio presenter Karena Wynn-Moylan from Australian Radio Bay FM 99.9. These authors can also be found at www.narrativeslibrary.com Jane Caro- 'Lyrebird' Lyrebirds are fabulous mimics of other bird's calls, chain saws. car horns, but the...
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Narratives Library Christmas Special part one.
A review of just some of the fabulous artists and authors interviewed by award winning radio presenter Karena Wynn-Moylan on Arts Canvass Bay FM and the Narratives Library in 2025. Kumi Taguchi, 'The Good Daughter' Born in Melbourne to a Japanese father and an Australian mother, Kumi grew up in...
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Screenworks Regional to Global Conference June 2025
Screenworks is a National Film and TV body based in Northern NSW Australia that has grown from a small local, to national to global influential body in 25 years. I popped along to their 2025 conference and 25th birthday party , sponsored by Netflix, to ask a few people the simple question- who…
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Dan Sindel - They Only Love you when you're Winnning
Heavy Metal guitarist Dan Sindel releases his second album and talks about why it has taken so long, the difficulties all independent musicians face and his triumph over personal adversary. Several tracks from his latest album are featured.
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Indira Naidoo and Bruce Pascoe
Indira Naidoo writes of a year of discovering the small pleasures that help us heal from grief in 'The Space Between the Stars' While multi published author Bruce Pascoe writes of a year of delights on the wetlands and beaches of his home in 'Black Duck'.
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Mark Holden and Stuart Coupe
Mark Holden tells us what it was like to become a 'rising star' in 'My Idol Years', how he accidentally insulted Elton John and about turning his back on fame to become a barrister. Stuart Coupe has hung out backstage with almost everyone from the 70s, until now. A highly respected rock…
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Richard Roxburgh and Tony flowers
Richard Roxburgh, international actor has also tried his hand at children's litreature as well. Here he reads from 'Artie and the Grime Wave', and does all the funny voices. Tony Flowers and Nick Falk go one better in 'How to stop an alien invasion using Shakespeare'. This podcast good for kids…
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James Bradley and Melissa Lucashenko
James Bradley , author of 'Clade' reads from his speculative fiction novel and discusses how he writes about global catastrophes froma human reltionships viewpoint. Melissa Lucashenko is an award winning Australian indigenous author who gives us an insight to the personal struggles of individuals...
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Jess Kitchings and Jacinta Parsons - women's lives fact and fiction
Jess Kitching's book is fiction but based on her own experience and that of other women who have felt the fear of being stalked by a serial killer. Jess tries to get right into the mind of one such character in her book -'Lucky Number 11'; In her book 'A Question of Age' Jacinta Parsons is...
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Black and Write!
Dinuka McKenzie - The Torrent Dinuka McKenzie is an Australian Indigenous novelist who writes Crime novels. "It's hard enough being a female detective without being pregnant, exhausted and with a competitive and ambitious, new partner in tow .Detective Sergeant Kate Miles is counting down the…
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Literary Time Travelling - Suzanne Gervay and Sally Collin-James
Two very different authors , but both wonderful storytellers with deep messages. Suzanne Gervay – Heroes of the Secret Underground Suzanne Gervay OAM is also a lifetime Social Justice Literature Award winner. Suzanne's family were Holocaust survivors who escaped to Australia after the war. In…
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From Vikings to death in a Sauna - Lisa Hannet and Dennis Altman
As always on the Narratives Library National Edition, our authors will read for a about 5 minutes then discuss their work. Always illuminating! DENNIS ALTMAN – Death in the Sauna A crime story that leads us from a gay sauna, to the intrigues of of an international AIDS conference. This is...
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The Narratives Library -Fantasy and Crime -Lucy Sussex and Anne Buisst
This edition, a crime thriller and a fantasy novel. Just to keep you balanced! ANNE BUISST- Locked Ward A psychiatrist with a bipolar disorder suspects the police have arrested the wrong person in a murder case. An insightful story about how women are often more vulnerable than men when it comes…
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Craig Silvey and Nat Amore
It was Youth Book week so I have featured these two outstanding Young Adult Authors. As always on Narratives they read fromtheir own work and then discuss the book, their lives and being a writer. NAT AMOORE - WE RUN TOMORROW Nat Amoore hosts a podcast on kidslit, rides a skateboard and had very...
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Small Towns, Bad Towns and Bad Times - BAD Crime Writing Festival 2022
The Second podcast of three authors featured at the BAD Crime Writers Festival in Sydney in 2022. These three authors will also be featured in this years festival - Margaret Hickey, Suzanne Leal and Rae Cairns. Held annually in the glorious atmosphere of the Mitchell State Library of NSW, BAD...
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White Coat Crime- Three crime authors from BAD Crime Writers Festival 2022
BAD Crime Writers Festival is Australia's premier crime writers gathering. Over 5 days of special guests, authors reads, top crime experts, lawyers, barristers , and more get together and discuss all things criminal, dramatic and mysterious. Held in the historic Mitchell Library in Sydney it is a...
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Zined Out in Byron Bay
The first ever Byron Print Fair was held in April in Byron Bay and Ziners from far and wide attended. For organiser Benjo Kazue it was the culmination of months of planning. This podcast contains interviews with more than a dozen of the artists, publishers, poets and fans who attended.
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Michael Sharmon - On with the Music- 12 years in Hong Kong
Michael Sharmon left Australia in 2010 for Hong Kong to pursue a career in musical theatre. What followed was 12 amazing years of writing, producing, directing and performing around the country - sometimes 5 shows in one day! He looks back very fondly on this time and the opportunities it…
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George Smilovici
George Smilovici was a highly successful comedian who is now a musician who divides his time between Cuba ( where he grew up) and Byron Bay Australia. He is a guitarist and composer with a 14 piece band in Cuba and says he sometimes puts a few jokes in his solo shows just for old times sake. This...
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Phia
Melbourne singer/songwriter, multi instrumentalist and choir leader Phia has a brand new self titled album. Karena Wynn-Moylan talks to her about the songs on the album, motherhood and music, and coming back to Australia after success overseas. Four songs from the Album - Someone Out There, All…
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Two Poets - Chris Mansell and Richard Tipping
Chris Mansell and Richard Tippping have spent their lives immersed in their poetry and art. Here they each read from their latest publications and talk about the process of being a poet, writing and art. They were both guests at the Kyogle writers Festival and spoke with Karena Wynn-Moylan of the...
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Wallis Bird - new 'Hands'
Irish born, Berlin based singer/songwriter Wallis Bird has released a new album 'Hands' - 91/2 songs for 91/2 fingers. In production and arrangements it is a fresh take on her material. Here she talks with radio presenter of Arts Canvass Karena Wynn-Moylan. Contains four tracks from the album:...
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Bruce Munro - Tripping on the Light Fantastic
Interview with world renowned UK artist Bruce Munro with award winning interviewer Karena Wynn-Moylan
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Bruce Munro - the Light Fantastic
Interview with world renowned UK artist Bruce Munro abotu his next exciting installation this time planned for Byron Shire in Australia.
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Assistance for artists in the Northern Rivers NSW
For those artists affected by catastropic floodwaters in Northern NSW Australia who have lost studios, materials and livelihoods.
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Benjamin Gilmour- Making 'Jirga'
Benjamin Gilmour is a writer and director and also poet and paramedic. His film 'Jirga' is a powerful statement about war and the destruction of innocent people on both sides. In this interview he discusses with broadcaster Karena Wynn-Moylan about the calculating of risk involved in making this...
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Gareth Koch - Saladin's Dream
Karena Wynn-Moylan chats to Gareth Koch about his beautiful new album 'Saladin's Dream'. This album reflects many of Gareth's accomplishments as a musician and obsessions with history. Taking his cue from a number of medieval and middle eastern styles, Gareth plays a range of instruments based...
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Holly English's latest comic 'Dad'!
Holly English is fast gaining a reputation in comic zine circles for writing stories about relationships in her personal life that many of us can relate to. In this latest zine she goes in deep and tries to unravel her dysfunctional past with her psychotic father.
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Steve Kilbey 'The Hall of Counterfeits'
This was the first interview Steve gave on the release of his latest and newest musical offering 'The Hall of Counterfeits'. Steve is a musician who is always striving to challenge himself and explore new ways of presenting his musical ideas. Working freely in a two day studio session with...
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100 years of Ginger Meggs!
Ginger Meggs is 100 years old this year. Tristan Bancks, himself a popular children's book author, is the great great nephew of Ginger's creator Jimmy Bancks, and was asked by Penguin to write four new adventures for Ginger and his mates.
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Sarah McCleod
Arts Canvass presenter Karena Wynn-Moylan interviews Superjesus front woman Sarah McCleod on the eve of her solo tour in Australia.
About this show
Each week award winning radio presenter Karena Wynn-Moylan interviews different authors and asks them to read their own work .The website www.narrativeslibrary.com gets over 200,000 hits per month and contains over 500 authors reading for just 5 minutes. This 28 minute podcast allows slightly longer reads and interviews, together with carefully selected musical tracks.'Quickpods' is the Narratives Library short and sweet edition lasting up to 15 minutes, featuring one new author each week. A sister program Arts Canvass, which Karena has presented for 25 years will also be included here from time to time.
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