This is a special episode brought to you in collaboration with the Apollo Bay Word Fest and their Warm Winter Words event that usually takes place in the Mechanics Hall at Apollo Bay on a Sunday afternoon in July surrounded by the bookish community. We encourage listeners to sit back and enjoy these interviews as … Continue reading Warm Winter Words #1: Tony Birch
This episode of Conversations with Friends is with authors and writing group buddies Lauren Draper and Susan White. https://audioboom.com/posts/7639732-conversations-with-friends-15-lauren-draper-and-susan-white Lauren Draper Lauren (above) is a writer based in Melbourne. Her contemporary young adult novel, The Museum of Broken Things, was shortlisted in the 2020 Text Prize and will be published by Text Publishing in 2022. … Continue reading Conversations with Friends #15: Lauren Draper and Susan White
Oh, Melbourne, here we are again in Lockdown 2.0. We try and look on the bright side and discuss what we enjoyed about our first lockdown and what, if anything we're going to do differently second time around. Kate is heading into The Word Cave with Sarah Sentilles this coming week in an attempt to … Continue reading Lockdown 2.0 & Kate Grenville on rejection, generosity & rules for editing
This episode of Conversations with Friends is with McKinley Valentine and Angus Hervey. https://audioboom.com/posts/7634460-conversations-with-friends-14-mckinley-valentine-and-angus-hervey McKinley Valentine McKinley Valentine (above) is newsletter-maker and newsletter-evangelist. She makes The Whippet, a collection of interesting bits of history and science, personal digressions, and unsolicited advice. She's also an emerging fantasy writer – her short fiction has been published in … Continue reading Conversations with Friends #14: McKinley Valentine and Angus Hervey
This episode of Conversations with Friends is with Gabriel Bergmoser and Damian Robb. https://audioboom.com/posts/7628816-conversations-with-friends-13-gabriel-bergmoser-and-damian-robb Damian Robb Damian Robb (above) writes words for screen and paper. In 2014 he completed a Masters in screenwriting at the Victorian College of the Arts, and has since worked for a number of production companies to develop stories and ideas. … Continue reading CWF#13: Gabriel Bergmoser and Damian Robb
We received am email from listener Elizabeth Passmore asking us how to find time to write while in the trenches of early motherhood. Some things we mention you might like to check out: The Motherhood ed Jamila RivziMotherhood and Creativity ed Rachel PowerRufi Thorpe's essay Mother, Writer, Monster, Maid Then we speak to debut author, … Continue reading Motherhood & Anna Downes on anxiety, agent-hunting & international auctions
This episode of Conversations with Friends is with authors Alice Robinson and Meg Mundell. https://audioboom.com/posts/7616657-conversations-with-friends-12-alice-robinson-and-meg-mundell Alice Robinson (above) is the author of Anchor Point, longlisted for the Stella Prize and the Indie Book Awards in 2015 and The Glad Shout, shortlisted for an Aurealis Award and winner of the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction … Continue reading Conversations with Friends #12: Alice Robinson and Meg Mundell
In this episode Kate and Katherine give listening recommendations! https://audioboom.com/posts/7612980-listening-recommendations-and-laura-mcphee-browne-on-short-form-fiction-covers-and-the-power-of The following get mentioned: Chernobyl podcast Debutante: Race, Resistance and Girl Power, via Audible Slow Burn, second season on Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton The New York Times Rabbit Hole This episode of Good One with Hannah Gadsby Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel (technically … Continue reading Listening recommendations and Laura McPhee-Browne on short form fiction, covers and the power of a good bio
This episode of Conversations with Friends is with RWR McDonald and Katherine Kovacic. https://audioboom.com/posts/7611173-conversations-with-friends-11-rwr-mcdonald-and-katherine-kovacic R.W.R. (Rob) McDonald is a Kiwi living in Melbourne with his two daughters and an extended rainbow family including HarryCat and Stevie Nicks the chicken. Rob attended Faber Academy’s Writing a Novel Stage 1 and Stage 2. Rob realised while studying … Continue reading Conversations with Friends #11: RWR McDonald and Katherine Kovacic
This episode of Conversations with Friends is with a real life writers group! We get to listen in on Nina Kenwood, Emily Gale and Bronte Coates. https://audioboom.com/posts/7605465-conversations-with-friends-10-emily-gale-nina-kenwood-and-bronte-coates Nina Kenwood Nina Kenwood (above/down the bottom) is a writer who lives in Melbourne. Her debut young adult novel It Sounded Better in My Head won the 2018 Text … Continue reading Conversations with Friends #10: Nina Kenwood, Emily Gale and Bronte Coates
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