Ailsa Wild is an award-winning Australian author. She's the creator of The Naughtiest Pixie and the hilarious Squishy Taylor series, which has been published in the US, UK, Spain and Turkey and she has written picture books and a graphic novel. She is also a performer, acrobat and professional whip-cracker. She lives with her family … Continue reading Ailsa Wild on Acrobatics, Collaboration and Caring.
Image: Two women on a Zoom call. One is looking up. It's Kate's birthday! She's a hundred years old! Okay, she's forty. Katherine has specific questions and Kate has no f's to give... Unless you're a coastal cotton bush (then she loves you). https://audioboom.com/posts/7898356-kate-and-katherine-talk-the-big-four-oh
In this epsiode, Katherine talks to the best-selling, multi-award winning author of The Trauma Cleaner and The Believer Sarah Krasnostein. Sarah's work has appeared in a variety of publications in Australia, the UK and America including The Monthly, The Saturday Paper, Tablet Magazine, Longreads, Meanjin and Oxford Handbooks Online as well as various academic journals. She has a PhD in criminal law and is admitted to legal practice … Continue reading Sarah Krasnostein on ghosts, awkwardness and ethics
Jessie Tu is a Sydney-based journalist and writer. She was born in Taiwan and emigrated to Australia in 1992 with her family. Tu trained as a classical violinist for more than 15 years. Failing to succeed as a professional musician, she taught music. She's taught at refugee camps in the Middle East, volunteered with AUSAID … Continue reading YVWF: I Didn’t Plan it That Way with Jessie Tu
Michael Veitch is an actor, writer and broadcaster. He began his career in television comedy programs such asThe D-Generation, Fast Forward and Full Frontal, before freelancing as a columnist and arts reviewer for newspapers and magazines. For four years he presented Sunday Arts, the national arts show on ABC television, and has broadcast regularly across Australia … Continue reading YVWF: I Didn’t Plan it That Way with Michael Veitch
Rick Morton is an award-winning journalist and the author of three non-fiction books. His latest is My Year of Living Vulnerably – his follow up memoir to his best selling and critically acclaimed One Hundred Years of Dirt. Rick is the Senior Reporter for The Saturday Paper and the winner of the 2013 Kennedy Award … Continue reading YVWF: I Didn’t Plan it That Way with Rick Morton
Sally Hepworth is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels, most recently The Good Sister which was an instant bestseller. Her novel, The Mother In Law has been optioned for a TV series by Hollywood actress and producer, Amy Poehler. Sally has lived around the world and previously worked in event management and … Continue reading YVWF: I Didn’t Plan it That Way with Sally Hepworth
Meg Mason began her career at the Financial Times and The Times of London. Her work has since appeared in The Sunday Times, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sunday Telegraph. She has written humour for The New Yorker and Sunday STYLE, monthly columns for GQ and InsideOut and is a contributor to Vogue, ELLE, … Continue reading YVWF: I Didn’t Plan it That Way with Meg Mason
Image: Three women in a Zoom meeting laughing When poet, author and essayist Fiona Murphy gets in touch, Kate and Katherine re-think a rant they had previously. https://audioboom.com/posts/7890004-kate-and-katherine-talk-to-fiona-murphy Fiona Murphy is an award-winning deaf poet and essayist based in the Blue Mountains, NSW. Her work has been appeared in Kill Your Darlings, Overland, Griffith Review, … Continue reading Kate and Katherine talk to Fiona Murphy
Stephanie Smee left a career in law to work as a literary translator. She has translated many works including award winning crime fiction, memoirs and children’s literature. Stephanie mostly works in translating French to English, however her other languages include German, Italian and Swedish. Stephanie has two grown up children and lives in Sydney with … Continue reading Stephanie Smee on the art of translation
