All Episodes

Ep 274: Alexis Wright on writing Praiseworthy

Ep 273: Sam Elkin on his queer legal saga

Ep 272: Laurie Steed on writing the short story form

Ep 271: Kate Larsen on why the relationship is the project

Ep 270: James Bradley on the colonisation of the oceans

Ep 269: Amanda Lohrey on investigating meaning via fiction

Ep 268: Nam Lee on 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem

Ep 267: Catriona Menzies-Pike on the art of literary criticism

Ep 266: Sara Saleh on writing poetry and creating 'The Gaza Suite'

Ep 265: Tracey Lien on writing family, home and place

Ep 264: Christos Tsiolkas on sex, middle age and the importance of criticism

Ep 263: Kirli Saunders on poetry and multi-disciplinary practice

Ep 262: LIVE | Richard Flanagan at The Capitol discussing 'Question 7'

#1 industry interview of 2023: Beejay Silcox on literary prize judging

#1 poetry interview of 2023: Maxine Beneba Clarke on banning work for kids

#1 fiction interview of 2023: Pip Williams on recreating the past in fiction

#1 nonfiction interview of 2023: Debra Dank on writing memoir

Ep 261: Lucy Treloar on writing about the hard things well

Ep 260: Brigid Mullane on how to be a publisher

Ep 259: Tony Birch on working class storytelling in Australia

Ep 258: Charlotte Wood on the difference between hope and courage

Ep 257: Hedley Thomas on writing 'The Teacher's Pet'

Ep 256: Tyson Yunkaporta on writing right and wrong

Ep 255: Melissa Lucashenko on the past, present and Edenglassie

Ep 254: Laura Jean McKay on writing our present and future

Ep 253: Mirandi Riwoe on writing women, freedom fighters and a bygone era

Ep 252: Sara Saleh on writing women's history into fiction

Ep 251: Chris Masters on the perils and import of investigative journalism

Ep 250: Leigh Sales on interviewing, journalism and stories that matter

Ep 249: LIVE | Robbie Arnott at Canberra Writers Festival

Ep 248: LIVE | Kate Mildenhall at Canberra Writers Festival

Ep 247: Erin Riley on justice, social work and queer memoir

Ep 246: Anna Funder on liberating the wife of Orwell, Eileen O'Shaunessy

Ep 245: Briohny Doyle on elegy, time and the non-human world

Ep 244: Beejay Silcox on literary criticism and the art of judging

Ep 243: Maxine Beneba Clarke on book bans and writing poetry for young people

Ep 242: Sally Young on researching Australia's media monsters

Ep 241: Kate Larsen on poetry, the state of Arts funding and our online world

Ep 240: Isabelle Oderberg on writing to break the silence around miscarriage

Ep 239: Sarah Krasnostein on Peter Carey and Arts criticism

Ep 238: Ghassan Hage and Randa Abdel-Fattah on 'The Racial Politics of Australian Multiculturalism'

Ep 237: Omar Sakr on poetry, fiction and the perception of both

Ep 236: Overland: Natalia Figueroa Barroso and EJ Clarence

Ep 235: Ellen van Neerven on racism and misogyny in sport

Ep 234: Pip Williams on writing commercial historical fiction

Ep 233: Zoya Patel on moving from memoir to fiction

Ep 232: Eloise Grills for The Stella Shortlist

Ep 231: Adriane Howell for The Stella Shortlist

Ep 230: Louisa Lim for The Stella Shortlist

Ep 229: Debra Dank for The Stella Shortlist

Ep 228: Edwina Preston for The Stella Shortlist

Ep 227: Sarah Holland-Batt for The Stella Shortlist

Ep 226: The Garret is back for 2023

Ep 225: The Garret, The Stella and March 2023

Ep 224: Robert Watkins on what it takes to be a publisher

Ep 223: Dervla McTiernan on crime fiction and people who look down on genre

Ep 222: Rick Morton on editing anthologies and switching to fiction

Ep 221: Neela Janakiramanan on writing what really happens to our doctors

Ep 220: Claire Coleman on literary speculative fiction (yes, it is a thing)

Ep 219: Phillipa McGuinness writes about skin, power and beauty

Ep 218: Yassmin Abdel-Magied talking about her revolution

Ep 217: Winnie Dunn and Amani Haydar on 'Another Australia'

Ep 216: Carl Merrison and Hakea Hustler on their YA writing partnership

Ep 215: Ceridwen Dovey and Eliza Bell on the absurdity of motherhood

Ep 214: Melanie Ostell on what it takes to be a literary agent

Ep 213: Julianne Schultz on finding the soul of Australia

Ep 212: Anita Heiss on 'Am I Black Enough For You?'

Ep 211: Lee Kofman on writing honestly and reading as a writer

Ep 210: Kári Gíslason on retelling stories from the past

Ep 209: Mirandi Riwoe on finding the story

Ep 208: Jane Caro on writing realistic fiction

Ep 207: Jess Hill and Sarah Krasnostein on writing Quarterly Essays

Ep 206: Josh Kemp and Australian Gothic fiction

Ep 205: Yumna Kassab on writing experimental stories

Ep 204: Eliza Hull and stories of disabled parenting

Ep 203: Justin Smith on writing with humour and kindness

Ep 202: Jackie Huggins on writing her parents' biographies

Ep 201: Omar Sakr on 'Son of Sin' and writing fantasy

Ep 200: At home with Omar Musa

Ep 199: Reading Audit 2021

Ep 198: At home with Jennifer Down

Ep 197: At home with Emily Bitto

Ep 196: At home with Andy Jackson

Ep 195: At home with Charlotte Wood

Ep 194: Bookselling with Louise Ryan

Ep 193: At home with Winnie Dunn

Ep 192: At home with Jay Kristoff

Ep 191: On the road with Claire G. Coleman

Ep 190: At home with Lucia Osborne-Crowley

Ep 189: At home with Yves Rees

Ep 188: At home with Jennifer Mills

Ep 187: At home with Terri-ann White

Ep 186: At home with Briohny Doyle

Ep 185: At home with Larissa Behrendt

Ep 184: At home with Mark Brandi

Ep 183: At home with Amani Haydar

Ep 182: Michael Mohammed Ahmad

Ep 180: At home with Alice Pung

Ep 179: At home with Tony Birch

Ep 178: At home with Anita Heiss