Anna Funder on liberating the wife of Orwell, Eileen O'Shaunessy
Anna Funder on liberating the wife of Orwell, Eileen O'Shaunessy
Anna Funder is the author of the international bestsellers Stasiland (2002) and All That I Am (2012). Her third major wo... Read more
13 Aug 2023
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35mins
Briohny Doyle on elegy, time and the non-human world
Briohny Doyle on elegy, time and the non-human world
Briohny Doyle writes extraordinary fiction. Echolalia was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2021, and ... Read more
6 Aug 2023
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28mins
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
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25mins
Maxine Beneba Clarke on book bans and writing poetry for young people
Maxine Beneba Clarke on book bans and writing poetry for young people
Maxine Beneba Clarke is the author of the short fiction collection Foreign Soil, the memoir The Hate Race and the poetry... Read more
5 Jul 2023
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23mins
Sally Young on researching Australia's media monsters
Sally Young on researching Australia's media monsters
Sally Young is professor of political science at the University of Melbourne. Media Monsters: The Transformation of Aust... Read more
29 Jun 2023
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26mins
Kate Larsen on poetry, the state of Arts funding and our online world
Kate Larsen on poetry, the state of Arts funding and our online world
Kate Larsen is a writer, arts and cultural consultant currently based on Kaurna Yerta in Tamtanya/Adelaide. As one of Au... Read more
22 Jun 2023
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26mins
Isabelle Oderberg on writing to break the silence around miscarriage
Isabelle Oderberg on writing to break the silence around miscarriage
Isabelle Oderberg is a journalist with two decades of experience across Europe, Asia and Australia. Her first book, Hard... Read more
15 Jun 2023
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31mins
Sarah Krasnostein on Peter Carey and Arts criticism
Sarah Krasnostein on Peter Carey and Arts criticism
Sarah Krasnostein is the multi-award winning author of The Trauma Cleaner, The Believer and the Quarterly Essay Not Wavi... Read more
12 Jun 2023
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23mins
Ghassan Hage and Randa Abdel-Fattah on 'The Racial Politics of Australian Multiculturalism'
Ghassan Hage and Randa Abdel-Fattah on 'The Racial Politics of Australian Multiculturalism'
Ghassan Hage and Randa Abdel-Fattah reflect on the publication of 'The Racial Politics of Australian Multiculturalism' -... Read more
4 Jun 2023
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25mins
Omar Sakr on poetry, fiction and the perception of both
Omar Sakr on poetry, fiction and the perception of both
Omar Sakr is the author of three poetry collections, Non-Essential Work (2023), The Lost Arabs (2019), These Wild Houses... Read more
31 May 2023
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21mins