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Visit the Write Around the Murray YouTube channel and Soundcloud page for more talks. Also available on your favourite podcast platforms.
Visit the Write Around the Murray YouTube channel and Soundcloud page for more talks. Also available on your favourite podcast platforms.
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Jason Steger talks to Michelle de Kretser about her surprising double-sided novel, Scary Monsters.
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Jock Serong talks to Margaret Hickey and T.R. Napper about the ways and whys of their novels being described as noir fiction.
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Matthew Ruby talks to Yves Rees about their journey of transition and re-becoming, beyond the gender binary.
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Jason Steger talks to Nardi Simpson, Eliza Henry-Jones and Jock Serong about historical trauma and the spirit of place in their novels.
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Patti Miller and Lee Kofman talk to Eliza Henry-Jones about creativity, memory and truth in storytelling.
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Michelle de Kretser, Keir Wilkins and Amal Awad get at the heart of what’s essential to storytelling, with Margaret Hickey.
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Gabrielle Wang, Gary Lonesborough and Eliza Hull discuss the importance of diversity and representation in writing for children and young people, with Yves Rees.
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Yves Rees talks to Jeff Sparrow about climate change, capitalism, and the power of people just like you and me to change the tide of history.
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Margaret Hickey talks to Pip Williams about her much loved debut novel. Dymocks presents Pip Williams was part of the Write Around the Murray program for 2021
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Complicated Love with Sofie Laguna, Emily Maguire, Campbell Mattinson and Jason Steger
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Creating Captivating Children's Books with Ursula Dubosarsky, Sofie Laguna, Leigh Hobbs and Lisa Walker
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WAM 2021: Humour & Heart with Fiona Scott-Norman, Judy Horacek, Rick Morton and Lisa Walker
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Historical Frictions with Anita Heiss, Dorothy Simmons, Jock Serong and Jason Steger.
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WAM 2021: Seismic Shifts with Delia Falconer, Rick Morton and Ailsa Piper
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In celebration of International Women’s Day, La Trobe University and Write Around the Murray present a panel discussion on the historical and contemporary experience of women in politics. Featuring Judith Brett, Emeritus Professor of Politics at
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Both searing yet beautiful, the poetry and prose of Ellen van Neerven traces the continuing dispossession and violence that are our country’s uneasy inheritance. Ellen speaks with Dr Jeanine Leane about their powerful new poetry collection, Throat.
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Prehistoric animals, a pandemic and climate catastrophe are at the pointy ends of a three-way conversation between the latest novels of Chris Flynn, Laura Jean McKay and James Bradley. Jane Rawson explores an uncanny confluence of science,
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Jason Steger chats with them about font crimes, typomania and a P.I. who is many things, including deaf. This event will be Auslan interpreted.
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Respected journalist Paddy Manning tells stories of tragedy, loss, heroism and resilience, in a book that is both monument and warning in his account of the human toll of climate change. With Jane Rawson.
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With Professor Clare Wright at the helm, we hear from Megan Davis, Tony Birch, Lucy Treloar, Chris Flynn and James Dunk responding to the NSW History Week theme, History: What is it good for?
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A Room Made of Leaves turns historical fiction inside out. It is a stunning sleight of hand that gives the past the piercing immediacy of the present and reveals its urgent implications for our future. Don’t miss Kate Grenville in conversation
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In Bedlam at Botany Bay, historian James Dunk looks at how mental illness surfaced in colonial New South Wales. Weaving a narrative of freedom and possibility, unravel and collapse, he traces the path of people who found themselves at the edge of
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Working in various mediums including film, theatre and podcast, our panellists showcase recent projects and discuss the delicate art of working with the stories of others, working regionally, and working through Covid. With Alyson Evans, Helen
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Future Tense launches the WAM 2020 program and gives you a taste of what's to come when we delve further into the festival theme, Past Lives/Present Tense. Lucy Treloar and James Bradley's recent novels, Wolfe Island and Ghost Species, inhabit
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Many writers have been inspired by walking in urban environments - among them Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, Charles Baudelaire and Rebecca Solnit. But you don't have to live in Paris, London or San Francisco to find mystery on your doorstep. This
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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.
