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The Garret: Writing & Publishing
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Alexis Wright on writing Praiseworthy
41 mins; May 04, 2024
Sam Elkin on his queer legal saga
24 mins; April 30, 2024
Laurie Steed on writing the short story form
30 mins; April 28, 2024
Kate Larsen on why the relationship is the project
24 mins; April 25, 2024
James Bradley on the colonisation of the oceans
23 mins; April 14, 2024
Amanda Lohrey on investigating meaning via fiction
25 mins; April 08, 2024
Nam Lee on 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem
26 mins; March 17, 2024
Catriona Menzies-Pike on the art of literary criticism
29 mins; March 13, 2024
Sara Saleh on writing poetry and creating 'The Gaza Suite'
36 mins; February 25, 2024
Tracey Lien on writing family, home and place
25 mins; February 11, 2024
Christos Tsiolkas on sex, middle age and the importance of criticism
28 mins; February 04, 2024
Kirli Saunders on poetry and multi-disciplinary practice
28 mins; January 25, 2024
LIVE | Richard Flanagan at The Capitol discussing 'Question 7'
43 mins; January 22, 2024
#1 industry interview of 2023: Beejay Silcox on literary prize judging
25 mins; January 14, 2024
#1 poetry interview of 2023: Maxine Beneba Clarke on banning work for kids
23 mins; January 12, 2024
#1 fiction interview of 2023: Pip Williams on recreating the past in fiction
26 mins; January 09, 2024
#1 nonfiction interview of 2023: Debra Dank on writing memoir
22 mins; January 07, 2024
Lucy Treloar on writing about the hard things well
23 mins; December 18, 2023
Brigid Mullane on how to be a publisher
24 mins; December 13, 2023
Tony Birch on working class storytelling in Australia
32 mins; December 10, 2023
Charlotte Wood on the difference between hope and courage
33 mins; December 05, 2023
Hedley Thomas on writing 'The Teacher's Pet'
33 mins; December 03, 2023
Tyson Yunkaporta on writing right and wrong
37 mins; October 23, 2023
Melissa Lucashenko on the past, present and Edenglassie
26 mins; October 15, 2023
Laura Jean McKay on writing our present and future
25 mins; October 09, 2023
Mirandi Riwoe on writing women, freedom fighters and a bygone era
25 mins; September 20, 2023
Sara Saleh on writing women's history into fiction
37 mins; September 13, 2023
Chris Masters on the perils and import of investigative journalism
30 mins; September 06, 2023
Leigh Sales on interviewing, journalism and stories that matter
30 mins; September 03, 2023
LIVE | Robbie Arnott at Canberra Writers Festival
51 mins; August 31, 2023
LIVE | Kate Mildenhall at Canberra Writers Festival
57 mins; August 29, 2023
Erin Riley on justice, social work and queer memoir
24 mins; August 16, 2023
Anna Funder on liberating the wife of Orwell, Eileen O'Shaunessy
35 mins; August 13, 2023
Briohny Doyle on elegy, time and the non-human world
28 mins; August 06, 2023
Beejay Silcox on literary criticism and the art of judging
25 mins; July 31, 2023
Maxine Beneba Clarke on book bans and writing poetry for young people
23 mins; July 05, 2023
Sally Young on researching Australia's media monsters
26 mins; June 28, 2023
Kate Larsen on poetry, the state of Arts funding and our online world
26 mins; June 22, 2023
Isabelle Oderberg on writing to break the silence around miscarriage
31 mins; June 15, 2023
Sarah Krasnostein on Peter Carey and Arts criticism
23 mins; June 12, 2023
Ghassan Hage and Randa Abdel-Fattah on 'The Racial Politics of Australian Multiculturalism'
25 mins; June 04, 2023
Omar Sakr on poetry, fiction and the perception of both
21 mins; May 31, 2023
Overland: Natalia Figueroa Barroso and EJ Clarence
23 mins; May 24, 2023
Ellen van Neerven on racism and misogyny in sport
27 mins; May 17, 2023
Pip Williams on writing commercial historical fiction
26 mins; May 14, 2023
Zoya Patel on moving from memoir to fiction
26 mins; April 26, 2023
Eloise Grills for The Stella Shortlist
20 mins; April 20, 2023
Adriane Howell for The Stella Shortlist
19 mins; April 18, 2023
Louisa Lim for The Stella Shortlist
23 mins; April 16, 2023
Debra Dank for The Stella Shortlist
22 mins; April 13, 2023
Edwina Preston for The Stella Shortlist
23 mins; April 11, 2023
Sarah Holland-Batt for The Stella Shortlist
27 mins; April 09, 2023
The Garret is back for 2023
1 min; April 05, 2023
The Garret, The Stella and March 2023
56 secs; September 01, 2022
Robert Watkins on what it takes to be a publisher
34 mins; August 15, 2022
Dervla McTiernan on crime fiction and people who look down on genre
24 mins; August 14, 2022
Rick Morton on editing anthologies and switching to fiction
23 mins; July 20, 2022
Neela Janakiramanan on writing what really happens to our doctors
27 mins; July 13, 2022
Claire Coleman on literary speculative fiction (yes, it is a thing)
26 mins; July 09, 2022
Phillipa McGuinness writes about skin, power and beauty
30 mins; June 29, 2022
Yassmin Abdel-Magied talking about her revolution
31 mins; June 26, 2022
Winnie Dunn and Amani Haydar on 'Another Australia'
23 mins; June 22, 2022
Carl Merrison and Hakea Hustler on their YA writing partnership
24 mins; June 06, 2022
Ceridwen Dovey and Eliza Bell on the absurdity of motherhood
28 mins; June 03, 2022
Melanie Ostell on what it takes to be a literary agent
27 mins; May 25, 2022
Julianne Schultz on finding the soul of Australia
30 mins; May 11, 2022
Anita Heiss on 'Am I Black Enough For You?'
28 mins; May 01, 2022
Lee Kofman on writing honestly and reading as a writer
32 mins; April 20, 2022
Kári Gíslason on retelling stories from the past
30 mins; April 13, 2022
Mirandi Riwoe on finding the story
23 mins; April 07, 2022
Jane Caro on writing realistic fiction
28 mins; April 03, 2022
Jess Hill and Sarah Krasnostein on writing Quarterly Essays
34 mins; March 23, 2022
Josh Kemp and Australian Gothic fiction
24 mins; March 17, 2022
Yumna Kassab on writing experimental stories
19 mins; March 16, 2022
Eliza Hull and stories of disabled parenting
22 mins; March 09, 2022
Justin Smith on writing with humour and kindness
24 mins; March 02, 2022
Jackie Huggins on writing her parents' biographies
27 mins; February 25, 2022
Omar Sakr on 'Son of Sin' and writing fantasy
23 mins; February 24, 2022
At home with Omar Musa
28 mins; November 24, 2021
Reading Audit 2021
3 mins; November 24, 2021
At home with Jennifer Down
26 mins; October 27, 2021
At home with Emily Bitto
28 mins; October 13, 2021
At home with Andy Jackson
27 mins; October 06, 2021
At home with Charlotte Wood
30 mins; September 29, 2021
Bookselling with Louise Ryan
26 mins; September 22, 2021
At home with Winnie Dunn
25 mins; September 19, 2021
At home with Jay Kristoff
34 mins; September 14, 2021
On the road with Claire G. Coleman
23 mins; September 10, 2021
At home with Lucia Osborne-Crowley
30 mins; September 03, 2021
At home with Yves Rees
29 mins; September 01, 2021
At home with Jennifer Mills
22 mins; August 27, 2021
At home with Terri-ann White
28 mins; August 25, 2021
At home with Briohny Doyle
30 mins; July 28, 2021
At home with Larissa Behrendt
28 mins; July 18, 2021
At home with Mark Brandi
32 mins; July 11, 2021
At home with Amani Haydar
29 mins; June 30, 2021
Michael Mohammed Ahmad
49 mins; June 23, 2021
At home with Alice Pung
16 mins; June 14, 2021
At home with Tony Birch
36 mins; June 09, 2021
At home with Anita Heiss
27 mins; April 28, 2021
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