Beejay Silcox

14 Podcast Episodes

Beejay Silcox on literary criticism and the art of judging

Beejay Silcox on literary criticism and the art of judging

Beejay Silcox is a writer and literary critic, and also the Artistic Director of the Canberra Writers Festival. Her lite... Read more

31 Jul 2023

25mins

'Slut Trouble' by Beejay Silcox

'Slut Trouble' by Beejay Silcox

This week on the ABR Podcast we revisit a shortlisted story from the 2016 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize: ‘Slut ... Read more

22 Jun 2023

24mins

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AWW23: Creme de la Phlegm - Melinda Harvey, Jeanine Leane, Caroline Overington & Beejay Silcox

AWW23: Creme de la Phlegm - Melinda Harvey, Jeanine Leane, Caroline Overington & Beejay Silcox

Chair: Catriona Menzies-Pike It was Goethe who declared "call the dog, he is a reviewer". Reviewers are almost universal... Read more

27 Mar 2023

57mins

Beejay Silcox on rhapsodising Helen Garner rightly

Beejay Silcox on rhapsodising Helen Garner rightly

The Writers on Writers series aims to tease some of Australia’s literary treasures out of the Aladdin’s cave of canonici... Read more

25 May 2022

10mins

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Beejay Silcox on 'Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller' by Nadia Wassef

Beejay Silcox on 'Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller' by Nadia Wassef

In 2002, Nadia Wassef founded – with her sister, Hind, and their friend, Nihal – the Cairo-based independent bookstore D... Read more

26 Jan 2022

18mins

Beejay Silcox on Sally Rooney

Beejay Silcox on Sally Rooney

It’s difficult to imagine a more hotly anticipated novel than Irish author Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You... Read more

29 Sep 2021

18mins

Theodore Ell in conversation with Beejay Silcox

Theodore Ell in conversation with Beejay Silcox

On 4 August 2020, Theodore Ell was living in Beirut, Lebanon, when an explosion erupted at the local port, killing more ... Read more

28 Jul 2021

42mins

Krissy Kneen in conversation with Beejay Silcox

Krissy Kneen in conversation with Beejay Silcox

Throughout her childhood, Krissy Kneen was surrounded by make-believe. At the centre of this enchanted world was her gra... Read more

19 May 2021

39mins

Beejay Silcox on Louise Milligan

Beejay Silcox on Louise Milligan

In the wake of Brittany Higgins's startling allegations of sexual abuse in Parliament House, Beejay Silcox revisits her ... Read more

31 Mar 2021

13mins

Beejay Silcox on Kazuo Ishiguro

Beejay Silcox on Kazuo Ishiguro

In 2017, Kazuo Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his masterful novels, which, in the judges’ words, uncove... Read more

2 Mar 2021

15mins

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