Catch up or listen again to fascinating discussions from our past festivals. Visit our YouTube channel for the latest 2020 talks. Also available on your favourite podcast platforms.
Kate Rotherham in conversation with Lucy Treloar about the art of short story writing, what they love and what tips they have for aspiring writers.
– 47mins 53secsBen Doherty, Alice Pung, Arnold Zable and Amal Awad discuss racism, identity and belonging in Australia; the need to move beyond tokenism in our embrace of our diversity; and what it means to be a good human.
– 1hr 12mins 2secsAndy Muir, Christian White and Richard Anderson talk to Marg Hickey about their latest novels while discussing our insatiable fascination with the crime-thriller genre.
– 56mins 35secsGet an insider’s look into the world of book publishing with Elissa Baillie of Simon & Schuster, Coco McGrath from Affirm Press and Jacqueline Kent, author of A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, a Literary Life. Chaired by Jane McCredie. Event sponsored by Writing NSW.
– 1hr 26mins 33secsJason Steger chats with Toni Jordan about her novel The Fragments, set in 1930s New York and 1980s Brisbane.
– 1hr 1mins 14secsWiradjuri language experts and advocates Ruth Davys, Dr Pettina Love, Geoff Anderson and Professor Ghil’ad Zuckermann speak with Sally Warhaft about the significance of language preservation and the impact of language decline on identity and shared cultural knowledge. Presented by the Murray Art Museum Albury.
– 1hr 9mins 43secsAn insightful, revelatory and inspiring exploration of home, childhood, parents, loss and life with Jessie Cole and Caroline Baum in discussion with Ailsa Piper.
– 1hr 15mins 35secsSenior journalists Tony Wright and Chris Hammer tease at the threads between fact and fiction as they discuss Chris’s first novel Scrublands.
– 58mins 34secsTo what degree is the author present in their fiction or the biographer present in stories of others? Is the self as revealed in memoir any truer than the self that emerges in other genres? Jessie Cole and Robert Hillman get introspective with Caroline Baum about the ways they appear in their writing.
– 1hr 14mins 13secsJason Steger talks to Robert Hillman about his exquisite and moving book The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted.
– 1hr 13mins 23secsJason Steger talks to Emily Maguire, Michael Sala and Nicole Hayes about the prevalence of violence in everyday life as depicted in their novels, and the importance of language in shifting narratives and assumptions.
– 1hr 14mins 42secsBruce Pascoe and Tony Birch discuss the recovery and regeneration of Indigenous knowledges and the necessity for Aboriginal beliefs and practices to be valued and reflected in our modern age.
– 1hr 2mins 23secsABC Radio's Gaye Pattison talks to Angela Pippos about her new book, Breaking The Mould – Taking A Hammer To Sexism In Sport.
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