Vignettes: The EWF Podcast: Recent Episodes

Emerging Writers' Festival

Vignettes: The EWF Podcast is an audio readings series from the Emerging Writers’ Festival.

Each season, we release five themed episodes featuring emerging writers from across Australia sharing new work across genres and forms.

The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) is one of Australia’s most established and well-respected literary festivals. We exist to develop, nurture and promote Australia’s new writing talent, creating platforms for connecting writing communities and their audiences.

This podcast was produced on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nations. We acknowledge that First Nations Peoples are the first storytellers of this land, and that their sovereignty has never been ceded. We pay respects to Elders past and present, and to the Elders of the lands that this podcast reaches.

Find out more at https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/vignettes-the-ewf-podcast/

The Electric Sea by Elizabeth Bourke by Emerging Writers' Festival

Judgement Day by Katy Chan by Emerging Writers' Festival

Declamation The writing of an elegyThe passing of a world within the mind.What could the new world mean to you?infinite, inexhaustible, strange, untamed. It struggles against daily the constraints of what is already declared real. It struggles against daily the tepid enoughness. It speaks diminishing languages in an enchanted way, the languages of play, the languages of imagination, pleasure and dedication growing its power within a new rhythm.Its enemy is sameness. Boredom, disillusionment. Alienation.Its enemy is sterility, it wants what is waved away and declared as nothing: no art without work, no work without employment, no employment without a pledge of loyalty. Loyalty to being hardworking, loyalty to your society, which tells you there is no education without usefulness. no usefulness without productivity. no productivity without guilt. no day goes by without the guilt of wanting to do more. there’s always self improvement, you can always be better, because what you bring to life itself is not enough, or so they say. you need more than 3 years for an entry level role. you need to work three times as hard as the next person who is trying to monetise three of their hobbies. But this new world calls to me too, and tells me something I feel is true:time that needs to be invested is robbed of its timely quality. and leisurely respite is just a break from the beating.That old world has a range of plastic medals -One for career, one for family, and one for influence and masterythese resemble premade products from a factory. I hear that new world as the elegy draws to a close.I hear that a person’s spirit can be the source of a revolution.A desire, an adventure, an openness and fluidity. Suggestion, intoxication, whimsy:Surrealism, the mind turning to reveal its other side: the influence of intoxicating dreamsinspiring me to declaim that what is possible is wider than what is real.And what is real isThe writing of this declamationThat rouses the world within the mind.This world begins through enchantment,dark sea in the making,swelling and flooding and flooding.

Four artists from UWRF and EWF appear in this transcontinental literary sound board. Investigating UWRF’s “powers within humans” (live, speak, think), these writers are called upon to artistically represent their connection to such powers.

Four artists from UWRF and EWF appear in this transcontinental literary sound board. Investigating UWRF’s “powers within humans” (live, speak, think), these writers are called upon to artistically represent their connection to such powers.

Four artists from UWRF and EWF appear in this transcontinental literary sound board. Investigating UWRF’s “powers within humans” (live, speak, think), these writers are called upon to artistically represent their connection to such powers.

Four artists from UWRF and EWF appear in this transcontinental literary sound board. Investigating UWRF’s “powers within humans” (live, speak, think), these writers are called upon to artistically represent their connection to such powers.

Episode 5: The (Im)Permanence of Punk. Kurt Eckardt & daniel ward.EWF are thrilled to share this final conversation of Crossings, between Kurt Eckardt and daniel ward.Kurt Eckardt works as Marketing and Events Manager at PBS in Naarm, and has recently worked in freelance music publicity, social media management and strategy, event booking and production, and as host of local music radio show Homebrew. Kurt also manages and performs in bands Hearts and Rockets and Astral Skulls, and runs DIY music and zine label and event collective, Psychic Hysteria. daniel ward is a poet and musician. they are the editor and founder of ‘no more poetry’, an independent publisher of poetry books and art magazines. their second and most recent collection is titled ‘eternal delight paralysis’. daniel is currently writing their third book titled ‘lavender poems’, a series of poems generated through automatic writing techniques guided by sensory explorations, meditation and mantra. their work often explores relationships between transgenderism and pantheism and is interested in the poem as both a problem and a prayer. they are a member of experimental sound collective ‘bodies of divine infinite and eternal spirit’ and are the drummer and sometimes guitarist for Wet Kiss. daniel and Kurt came together in October in Coburg North. They spoke about DIY culture, the local music & poetry scene, live performance & running their own label & publishing house. daniel & Kurt's thoughtfulness & enthusiasm towards the local arts scene was a perfect conversation to bring this season of Crossings to a close Credits:Producer: Jess Zanoni (@jesszanoni)Co-Producer & Audio Engineer: Sam Pannifex (@otalgiaaudio)Intro Music: Georgia Farry @bby__g__)Artwork: Tinieka Page (@tinieka)With thanks to Henry Farnan, EWF's Marketing & Publicity Coordinator.With support from the Queen Victoria Women's Centre (@qvwc_melbourne), Creative Australia, Creative Victoria, City of Melbourne. Proud to showcase the works of creatives of @melcityoflit.

EPISODE 4: BEING ALONE & TALKING TO PEOPLE. Rebecca Kelly & Misbah Wolf.Today EWF are stoked to share a conversation between poets Rebecca Kelly and Misbah Wolf. Rebecca Kelly is a poet from the waters of Darkinjung Country, currently situated on Wurundjeri Country. Presently, her work is fuelled by questions of class, being, identity and psyche. Misbah Wolf is a Naarm based poet, who is a hybrid artist, combining music, poetry, performance and art. Their current obsession is exploring the intersections of monotheism and alternative spiritualities through cut-ups, music, research and channelling and are currently writing what they have called an ‘auto-mythological’ fiction funded by Creative Victoria. They have published work through Peril Magazine, Australian Poetry Journal, Cordite, Slow Canoe, Solid Air: Australian and New Zealand Spoken Word, Mascara Literary Journal, Overland, Red Room Poetry and La Mama Poetica.. Their first book was Rooftops in Karachi. Her new book ‘Carapace’ was published by Vagabond Press in 2022. Misbah and Rebecca met for the first time for this conversation. They spoke about the spiritual, musical and thematic influences within their poetry, and the idiosyncratic patterns and processes of their practices. This is a tender-hearted, down-to-earth conversation. We hope you enjoy.Credits:Producer: Jess Zanoni (@jesszanoni)Co-Producer & Audio Engineer: Sam Pannifex (@otalgiaaudio)Intro Music: Georgia Farry @bby__g__)Artwork: Tinieka Page (@tinieka)With thanks to Henry Farnan, EWF's Marketing & Publicity Coordinator.With support from the Queen Victoria Women's Centre (@qvwc_melbourne), Creative Australia, Creative Victoria, City of Melbourne. Proud to showcase the works of creatives of @melcityoflit.

Today EWF are delighted to share a conversation between Peggy Frew and Mark Hewitt. Peggy Frew’s work has been shortlisted for the Stella Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award, longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, and the winner of the Barbara Jefferis Award. Peggy is a member of the critically acclaimed and award-winning Melbourne band Art of Fighting. Wildflowers is her fourth novel. Mark Hewitt is a writer from Melbourne. His debut fiction, the short story Doorknocker, was published in Empty Mind Plaza in 2022. Westie is his first novel. Peggy and Mark met in September for this conversation, having been acquainted in the past. They spoke about the ethics of writing fiction, their individual writing processes, making a living as an artist and more broadly the public and private identity of being a writer. There's great wisdom and food for thought in this conversation. We hope you enjoy listening.Credits:Producer: Jess Zanoni (@jesszanoni)Co-Producer & Audio Engineer: Sam Pannifex (@otalgiaaudio)Intro Music: Georgia Farry @bby__g__)Artwork: Tinieka Page (@tinieka)With thanks to Henry Farnan, EWF's Marketing & Publicity Coordinator.With support from the Queen Victoria Women's Centre (@qvwc_melbourne), Creative Australia, Creative Victoria, City of Melbourne. Proud to showcase the works of creatives of @melcityoflit.

Episode 2: ASSERTING COMPLEXITY. Vivian Nguyen & Jamie TramAsian Australian playwright and actor Vivian Nguyen brings a wealth of stage experience. Her debut 'Thin Threads' was shortlisted for the Patrick White Playwrights Award and 'Bugged' was published in ATYP’s National Studio. Her plays 'Politics Aside' and 'a moment to love' debuted to acclaim at Melbourne Fringe, and was supported by Theatre Works and City of Melbourne . She was shortlisted for the Red Stitch INK Writing Program, and was a recipient of The Wheeler’s Centre Hot Desk Fellowship for 2023. She’s been commissioned by Malthouse Theatre and Footscray Community Arts Centre. Her most recent work is 'The Astonishing Comet Boombox' which was presented in collaboration with City of Maribyrnong for Melbourne Fringe Festival. . Find her on instagram @vivngynJamie Tram is a culture writer and screenwriter. They are the Small Screens Editor at The Big Issue, and their work can be found in Spectrum at The Age, Senses of Cinema, Filmink, and elsewhere. They’ve appeared on ABC’s Art Works and Triple R’s Primal Screen to gush about their favourite Hong Kong actors (amongst other less important topics). In 2022, they co-wrote the animated short Graveyard Shift, which premiered at MQFF Opening Night. They are an alumni of MIFF’s Critics Campus and the VCA, where they’ve since returned to tutor screenwriting. They are also a 2023 Hot Desk Fellow. Find them on instagram @jamiecatchesthetram, and twitter @sameytramCredits:Producer: Jess Zanoni (@jesszanoni)Co-Producer & Audio Engineer: Sam Pannifex (@otalgiaaudio)Intro Music: Georgia Farry @bby__g__)Artwork: Tinieka Page (@tinieka)With thanks to Henry Farnan, EWF's Marketing & Publicity Coordinator.With support from the Queen Victoria Women's Centre (@qvwc_melbourne), Creative Australia, Creative Victoria, City of Melbourne. Proud to showcase the works of creatives of @melcityoflit.

Crossings is EWF's new podcast series of in-conversations between local writers & artists. Each episode pairs two artists whose practices exist at the threshold of one another. These free-flowing, intimate conversations are coloured by curiosity, attentiveness and enquiry. Hear novelists, poets, playwrights, screenwriters, publishers, musicians, architects and photographers proffer questions and perspectives about the minutia of their creative and professional practices.Episode 1: DREAM & SONG. Genevieve Callaghan & Felix Garner-Davis.Genevieve is a writer and performer based on Wurundjeri Country. In 2022 she released her first book called one story a day, published by no more poetry press. She is also one half of musical duo Water Signs. Find her work on instagram @one_story_a_day & @watersignsbandFelix Garner-Davis is a writer and architecture student at the Melbourne School of Design, having previously studied literature at Monash. His first book, 'drone', was published in 2021 also published by no more poetry. Find him on instagram @felixgarnerdavisRead a selection of Genevieve & Felix's poems at emergingwritersfestival.org.auCredits: Producer: Jess Zanoni (@jesszanoni) Co-Producer & Audio Engineer: Sam Pannifex (@otlagiaaudio) Intro Music: Georgia Farry @bby__g__) Artwork: Tinieka Page (@tinieka) With thanks to Henry Farnan, EWF's Marketing & Publicity Coordinator. With support from the Queen Victoria Women's Centre (@qvwc_melbourne), Creative Australia, Creative Victoria, City of Melbourne. Proud to showcase the works of creatives of @melcityoflit.

In this pre-recorded audio segment, two poets share and discuss their recent work. Weaving language, labour and spirit, they expose the intersections and splinters that arise when two perspectives are made to share the same space.

In writing, we are so often worried about getting from A to B – whether that is moving the narrator or character from one place to another, getting dialog from one character to another, or information from the narrator to the reader – we often forget about the spaces that surround ourselves, our words, our ideas, and our readers. These spaces have shapes, sounds, vibrations, feelings, resistances, echoes, and other presences in the world that call out to the writer and reader who take the time to listen and feel. This workshop is designed to get you to spend an hour listening to and feeling these physical and metaphorical spaces with the intention of learning to incorporate them into your writing.

In writing, we are so often worried about getting from A to B – whether that is moving the narrator or character from one place to another, getting dialog from one character to another, or information from the narrator to the reader – we often forget about the spaces that surround ourselves, our words, our ideas, and our readers. These spaces have shapes, sounds, vibrations, feelings, resistances, echoes, and other presences in the world that call out to the writer and reader who take the time to listen and feel. This workshop is designed to get you to spend an hour listening to and feeling these physical and metaphorical spaces with the intention of learning to incorporate them into your writing.

In writing, we are so often worried about getting from A to B – whether that is moving the narrator or character from one place to another, getting dialog from one character to another, or information from the narrator to the reader – we often forget about the spaces that surround ourselves, our words, our ideas, and our readers. These spaces have shapes, sounds, vibrations, feelings, resistances, echoes, and other presences in the world that call out to the writer and reader who take the time to listen and feel. This workshop is designed to get you to spend an hour listening to and feeling these physical and metaphorical spaces with the intention of learning to incorporate them into your writing.

In writing, we are so often worried about getting from A to B – whether that is moving the narrator or character from one place to another, getting dialog from one character to another, or information from the narrator to the reader – we often forget about the spaces that surround ourselves, our words, our ideas, and our readers. These spaces have shapes, sounds, vibrations, feelings, resistances, echoes, and other presences in the world that call out to the writer and reader who take the time to listen and feel. This workshop is designed to get you to spend an hour listening to and feeling these physical and metaphorical spaces with the intention of learning to incorporate them into your writing.

In writing, we are so often worried about getting from A to B – whether that is moving the narrator or character from one place to another, getting dialog from one character to another, or information from the narrator to the reader – we often forget about the spaces that surround ourselves, our words, our ideas, and our readers. These spaces have shapes, sounds, vibrations, feelings, resistances, echoes, and other presences in the world that call out to the writer and reader who take the time to listen and feel. This workshop is designed to get you to spend an hour listening to and feeling these physical and metaphorical spaces with the intention of learning to incorporate them into your writing.

In writing, we are so often worried about getting from A to B – whether that is moving the narrator or character from one place to another, getting dialog from one character to another, or information from the narrator to the reader – we often forget about the spaces that surround ourselves, our words, our ideas, and our readers. These spaces have shapes, sounds, vibrations, feelings, resistances, echoes, and other presences in the world that call out to the writer and reader who take the time to listen and feel. This workshop is designed to get you to spend an hour listening to and feeling these physical and metaphorical spaces with the intention of learning to incorporate them into your writing.

In writing, we are so often worried about getting from A to B – whether that is moving the narrator or character from one place to another, getting dialog from one character to another, or information from the narrator to the reader – we often forget about the spaces that surround ourselves, our words, our ideas, and our readers. These spaces have shapes, sounds, vibrations, feelings, resistances, echoes, and other presences in the world that call out to the writer and reader who take the time to listen and feel. This workshop is designed to get you to spend an hour listening to and feeling these physical and metaphorical spaces with the intention of learning to incorporate them into your writing.

In writing, we are so often worried about getting from A to B – whether that is moving the narrator or character from one place to another, getting dialog from one character to another, or information from the narrator to the reader – we often forget about the spaces that surround ourselves, our words, our ideas, and our readers. These spaces have shapes, sounds, vibrations, feelings, resistances, echoes, and other presences in the world that call out to the writer and reader who take the time to listen and feel. This workshop is designed to get you to spend an hour listening to and feeling these physical and metaphorical spaces with the intention of learning to incorporate them into your writing.

In writing, we are so often worried about getting from A to B – whether that is moving the narrator or character from one place to another, getting dialog from one character to another, or information from the narrator to the reader – we often forget about the spaces that surround ourselves, our words, our ideas, and our readers. These spaces have shapes, sounds, vibrations, feelings, resistances, echoes, and other presences in the world that call out to the writer and reader who take the time to listen and feel. This workshop is designed to get you to spend an hour listening to and feeling these physical and metaphorical spaces with the intention of learning to incorporate them into your writing.

In writing, we are so often worried about getting from A to B – whether that is moving the narrator or character from one place to another, getting dialog from one character to another, or information from the narrator to the reader – we often forget about the spaces that surround ourselves, our words, our ideas, and our readers. These spaces have shapes, sounds, vibrations, feelings, resistances, echoes, and other presences in the world that call out to the writer and reader who take the time to listen and feel. This workshop is designed to get you to spend an hour listening to and feeling these physical and metaphorical spaces with the intention of learning to incorporate them into your writing.

In writing, we are so often worried about getting from A to B – whether that is moving the narrator or character from one place to another, getting dialog from one character to another, or information from the narrator to the reader – we often forget about the spaces that surround ourselves, our words, our ideas, and our readers. These spaces have shapes, sounds, vibrations, feelings, resistances, echoes, and other presences in the world that call out to the writer and reader who take the time to listen and feel. This workshop is designed to get you to spend an hour listening to and feeling these physical and metaphorical spaces with the intention of learning to incorporate them into your writing.

In writing, we are so often worried about getting from A to B – whether that is moving the narrator or character from one place to another, getting dialog from one character to another, or information from the narrator to the reader – we often forget about the spaces that surround ourselves, our words, our ideas, and our readers. These spaces have shapes, sounds, vibrations, feelings, resistances, echoes, and other presences in the world that call out to the writer and reader who take the time to listen and feel. This workshop is designed to get you to spend an hour listening to and feeling these physical and metaphorical spaces with the intention of learning to incorporate them into your writing.

In writing, we are so often worried about getting from A to B – whether that is moving the narrator or character from one place to another, getting dialog from one character to another, or information from the narrator to the reader – we often forget about the spaces that surround ourselves, our words, our ideas, and our readers. These spaces have shapes, sounds, vibrations, feelings, resistances, echoes, and other presences in the world that call out to the writer and reader who take the time to listen and feel. This workshop is designed to get you to spend an hour listening to and feeling these physical and metaphorical spaces with the intention of learning to incorporate them into your writing.

Vignettes, the Emerging Writers' Festival storytelling podcast, brings you readings from Maya Hodge, Eric Jiang and Zhi. For more information, go to https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/vignettes-the-ewf-podcast/

Vignettes, the Emerging Writers' Festival storytelling podcast, brings you readings from Hannah Debus and Elena Gomez. For more information, go to https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/vignettes-the-ewf-podcast/

Vignettes, the Emerging Writers' Festival storytelling podcast, brings you readings from Katerina Gibson, Khalid Warsame, and Grace Chan. For more information, go to https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/vignettes-the-ewf-podcast/

Vignettes, the Emerging Writers' Festival storytelling podcast, brings you readings from Luke Patterson and Polly Sara. For more information, go to https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/vignettes-the-ewf-podcast/

Vignettes, the Emerging Writers' Festival storytelling podcast, brings you readings from Renay Barker-Mulholland, Ursula Robinson-Shaw, and Hayley Singer. For more information, go to https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/vignettes-the-ewf-podcast/

Vignettes, the EWF storytelling podcast, returns for its fourth season, Winter. Over the coming weeks, join us for audio stories from some of our favourite writers. For more information, go to https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/vignettes-the-ewf-podcast/

Tarneen Onus-Williams, Hasib Hourani and Muhib Nabulsi will share their personal food related stories for this episode today. The theme for today’s episode was first inspired by the piece The Politics and Solidarity of Food which you can find in Overland online here: https://overland.org.au/2021/06/the-politics-and-solidarity-of-food/

Tarneen Onus-Williams is a community organiser for Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance and has worked on Invasion Day, Black Deaths in Custody and Stop the forced closures of Aboriginal Communities in WA. They are a filmmaker and writer and have been published in IndigenousX, NITV and RightNow. Tarneen’s day job is supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who are victims/survivors and perpetrators of family violence. You can also find Tarneen's great baking account @blakbaker on Instagram.

Hasib Hourani is a Lebanese-Palestinian writer, editor, and arts worker living on unceded Wurundjeri Country. Hasib is a 2020 recipient of The Wheeler Centre's Next Chapter Scheme and is currently working on a book of experimental poetry about suffocation and the occupation of Palestine. Hasib writing challenges expectations of land, identity, and the relationship between the two. You can find Hasib’s work in Meanjin, Overland, Australian Poetry, and Going Down Swinging, among others.

Muhib Nabulsi is a disabled person living with chronic illnesses, an unproductive writer, a novice filmmaker, a 2nd gen diaspora Palestinian (aka a Palestinian), a disorganised community organiser, and a service industry worker.

This podcast was audio produced by Joe Buchan. Our theme music was created by Thu Care and the artwork for each episode was created by Molly Hunt. You can find out more about the team behind this podcast and the artists featured in this episode on the EWF website at emergingwritersfestival.org.au. This podcast was produced on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. EWF pays respects to elders past and present and acknowledges sovereignty was never ceded.

Léa Antigny, Paige Clark and Laura Stortenbeker share their readings for today's episode, Bloom. As we transition in more ways than one, out of lockdown and into warmer days, it's a pleasure to hear from these talented emerging writers on the things changing and blooming in their lives.

Léa Antigny is a Sydney-based publicist and writer whose personal essays and non-fiction have been published in The Guardian, Kill Your Darlings, and The Lifted Brow.

Paige Clark is a Chinese-American-Australian writer, researcher and teacher. Her fiction has appeared in Meanjin, and, in 2019, she was runner-up for the Peter Carey Short Story Award and shortlisted for the David Harold Tribe Fiction Award. She Is Haunted is her first book, keep hearing great things about, out now with Allen and Unwin.

Laura Stortenbeker is a writer and editor. Her work has been published in Overland, Meanjin and Kill Your Darlings. In 2017 she was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript.

Also, just a reminder that the open artist call-out for the 2022 Emerging Writers’ Festival is closing soon on December 3rd. You can go to our website to get your application in to be part of the festival.

This podcast was audio produced by Joe Buchan, and our theme music was created by Thu Care. You can find out more about the team behind this podcast and the artists featured in this episode on the EWF website. This podcast was produced on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation – EWF pays respect to their elders past and present, and to the elders of all lands that this podcast reaches.

For today’s episode, Tabitha Lean, Ella Baxter and Gabriella Munoz will share readings themed around motherhood.

We’ll hear one mother reflect on the pain of being separated from her daughter while in prison; a mother trying to talk about the pandemic with her children, and a new mother’s first days after giving birth in lockdown.

Tabitha Lean is a Gunditjmara woman, storyteller, poet and abolition activist, and we feel really lucky to have her on Vignettes today. You can find more of her writing at therevolutionware.com or through her Twitter at @haveachattabs.

Gabriella Munoz is a Mexican-Australian award-winning writer and editor based in Melbourne, Australia. Her essays and translations have been published in The Victorian Writer, Mascara Literary Review, Istor, the Sydney Morning Herald and many other places. She writes about migration, motherhood, adoption and popular culture.

Ella Baxter is a writer and artist living in Melbourne. Her debut novel, New Animal was released in March this year. She is currently working on her second novel, Woo Woo.

The open artist call-out for the 2022 Emerging Writers’ Festival is now open. You can apply to be part of the festival via our website at emergingwritersfestival.org.au

This podcast was audio produced by Joe Buchan, and our theme music was created by Thu Care.

In this episode, Oliver Reeson, Mia Nie and Tori Hobbs share readings on the theme Body Language.

These artists reflect on bodies in pain and bodies in pleasure; what it means to inhabit a body in transition and a body in illness. They will consider both the ordinariness and specialness, as well as the resistance, of living in their bodies.

Oliver Reeson is an essayist and screenwriter. In 2021, they are one of the recipients of The Next Chapter Fellowship, mentored by Maria Tumarkin. They are also the co-creator and writer of SBS web series Homecoming Queens.

You can read Oliver Reeson's essay ‘Body Language: on Kylie Minogue, Cancer and Coming Back to Life’ here: https://lithub.com/body-language-on-kylie-minogue-cancer-and-coming-back-to-life/

Mia Nie is a Chinese-Australian comic artist, zine-maker, and award-nominated ex-poet. Her work explores the complexities, contradictions, and deeply felt desires of transgender subjectivity. She is passionate about understanding queer history and imagining queer futures. Mia is a recipient of The Wheeler Centre’s The Next Chapter 2020 Fellowship, and is currently working on her first graphic novel.

Tori Hobbs is a queer, non-binary, disabled, low-income, Burgher writer and care worker living on Ngunnawal, Ngunawal and Ngambri land. Tori hopes to invest their personal and professional experiences of ableism, care work, disability justice and its intersections into all that they do.

Vignettes is produced by Millie Baylis and audio produced by Joe Buchan. Our theme music was created by Thu Care and the artwork is by Molly Hunt. You can find out more about the team behind this podcast and the artists featured, as well as access a transcript of the episode, on the EWF website – at emergingwritersfestival.org.au

This podcast was produced on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nations. We acknowledge that First Nations Peoples are the first storytellers of this land, and that their sovereignty has never been ceded. We pay respects to Elders past and present, and to the Elders of the lands that this podcast reaches.

Sissy Austin and Dakota Feirer share readings on the theme Land Back, for our first episode of Vignettes Season 3: Spring.

Sissy Austin is a Gunditjmara, Keerray Wurrung, Peek Wurrung and Djab Wurrung woman, and a community advocate for grassroots change. Sheis a grounded 27-year-old Aboriginal woman and she believes strongly in the power of Aboriginal voices and stories creating grassroots change in communities. Sissy has a history of advocacy, campaigning, community organising and navigating the intensity of Aboriginal politics and she is consistently advocating for self-determination to be the driving principle in all that she does. Sissy also has a personal blog called ‘Silent No More’ and has written articles for various outlets.

For this episode, Sissy reads a piece about the destruction of a sacred tree on Djab Wurrung country – you can find the original piece published in the Guardian here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/27/the-destruction-of-a-sacred-tree-on-djab-wurrung-country-has-broken-our-hearts

Dakota Feirer is a Bundjalung man living upon Dharawal and Yuin Lands. As a young poet, Dakota has performed for live audiences including Yours and Owls Festival and the Museum of Contemporary Art. Dakota’s body of work consists of poems, stories and reflections that critically engage with intergenerational trauma, gender, spirit and healing; all of which informed the methodology of his recent thesis which explored Indigenous cultural sovereignty in the 21st century. Dakota is carving out a path as an independent researcher, educator and advocate for healing country and First Nations communities through art and storytelling.

As mentioned in the episode, we encourage you to check out Pay the Rent at paytherent.net.au and the Dhadjowa foundation at https://dhadjowa.com.au

This podcast was audio produced by Joe Buchan. Our theme music was created by Thu Care, and our artwork is by Molly Hunt. You can find out more about the team behind this podcast and the artists featured, as well as access a transcript of the episode, on the EWF website – at emergingwritersfestival.org.au

Vignettes, the EWF storytelling podcast, is back for its third season: Spring. From November, we’ll be sharing brand new audio stories from emerging writers across the continent. With readings spanning genres, forms and themes, the podcast will feature personal essays, poetry and short stories on everything from mothering to the politics of food.

We hope these episodes will provide you with new worlds to escape into and new ways to reflect on the world we’re living in.

Find and subscribe to Vignettes: The EWF Podcast wherever you listen to podcasts, and find out more at https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au

Listen in as Maddie Godfrey reads their poem 'When Does Your Body Feel Like It Belongs To You?'. This was created for the Emerging Writers' Festival 2021, as a part of the series 'Dis-belonging Bodies'.

Life, death, healing, hydrating, water is all these things - symbolically and literally - and so much more.

In this final episode of our Autumn Season of Vignettes, we have invited Natalie Cromb, Hineani Roberts, Nikki Viveca to share with us their thoughts on waves and whirlpools and waterways.

Let's dive in...

Through season one, we loved bringing readings directly to you from some of our favourite writers. And we’re excited to do it again with Season Two. This time around, we’ll have five new episodes to carry you through leafy Autumn.

For this episode, we invited Julia Rose Bak, Hajer Al-awsi and Dzenana Vucic to respond to the theme of Skin. We can’t wait for you to hear what these three incredible artists have in store for Mineral.

Through season one, we loved bringing readings directly to you from some of our favourite writers. And we’re excited to do it again with Season Two. This time around, we’ll have five new episodes to carry you through leafy Autumn.

For this episode, we invited Hana Pera Aoake, Maddison Miller and Iris Lee to respond to the theme of Mineral. We can’t wait for you to hear what these three incredible artists have in store for Mineral.

Through season one, we loved bringing readings directly to you from some of our favourite writers. And we’re excited to do it again with Season Two. This time around, we’ll have five new episodes to carry you through leafy Autumn.

For this episode, we invited Lorna Munro, Harry Reid and Damien Becker to respond to the theme of Stick. We asked them to consider the sticking points of life - from stoking flames to building bridges, and we can’t wait for you to hear what they have in store.

Vignettes, a podcast from the Emerging Writers’ Festival, is back for a second season! Throughout autumn, we’ll hear original readings from artists, responding to themes drawn from the world of nature.

Over the next five weeks, we’ll feature emerging writers from all around the continent, working across genres and forms. Our five-part Autumn series begins with Fungi, dropping very soon.

Find and subscribe to Vignettes: The EWF Podcast wherever you listen to podcasts, and find out more at emergingwritersfestival.org.au

Through season one, we loved bringing readings directly to you from some of our favourite writers. And we’re excited to do it again with Season Two. This time around, we’ll have five new episodes to carry you through leafy Autumn.

This first episode of themed 'Fungi'. We’re so excited to share these reflections of connection, community and weaving with you – with Nardi Simpson and Aisha Trambas.

Our final episode of the season is Lunar. We asked three artists to ponder the night sky – to turn towards the moon as she hangs, watching over us. Tune in to hear from Lay the Mystic, Prema Arasu and Georgia Kartas as they respond to the theme Lunar.

For this episode of Vignettes, we invited Yamiko Marama, Vince Ruston and Lou Garcia Dolnik to respond to the prompt “moth” – to share with us the dreams they pin on the wing span of these fluttering friends.

For our third episode, we’ll hear from artists Jesse Oliver and Jazz Money with their creative responses to the theme, 'Plant'.

We invited them to reflect on their connections to the green, moving, breathing things - from houseplants to forest floors - that we are so lucky to co-exist with.

When you cast your mind up towards the sky, what do you think of? Perhaps you think of clouds, sunsets and shades of blue. Maybe your mind wanders further and reaches for instances of optimism, searching for opportunities and wandering into dream spaces.

For this episode, we invited Awale Ahmed, Christy Tan and Ruby Hillsmith to respond to the theme of Sky. We can’t wait for you to hear what they have in store.

For this first episode, we asked Philip Marri Winzer and Victoria Alondra to respond to the theme of 'Grain'. To us, grain speaks to the smallness of something at its beginning, which is why it felt like a perfect opener for this new podcast. But it’s also sustenance, building, the fibres of being and, of course, going against the grain.

We hope you enjoy hearing from these two spectacular artists.

Presenting Vignettes, the new audio reading podcast series from Emerging Writers’ Festival. Trailer out now! 🎙 Stay tuned over the coming days to get the down-low on what Vignettes is all about.

First episode launches Tuesday 17 November. 🎉

Find and subscribe to Vignettes: The EWF Podcast wherever you listen to podcasts. Find out more at emergingwritersfestival.org.au.

SouthSide is a project which documents singular moments in the lives of artists, makers and residents of South-East Melbourne (Naarm) and surrounding suburbs. Established in 2016, there are now over 75 stories collected within SouthSide’s pages. Join SouthSide founder Shanice/Sol Fernandez and featured artist Jess Nikitina-Li, as they launch the latest issue of the zine.

With Shanice/Sol Fernandez and Jess Nikitina-Li

Listen in as Wai Mun Mah gives us some advice on being a female monster straight from the red-rum, murderous lips of Bloody Mary.

Listen in as Ana Maria Gomides‘ voice guides us through reflections on Ferris Bueller, the not-so-little, boss b***h Iuara the Mermaid, and her own experiences of growing up.

Listen in as Sammaneh Poursh incants a poem about the Gorgon Medusa filled with rage and power, mysticism and myth, lushness and violence (and, just a warning, it can get a little gory).

What does it mean to be a poet? We reckon it’s something like having a voice that’s full of attitude, wit and sincerity, a voice that’s continually re-imagining what it means to be contemporary. Three poets present their unpublished works in progress in an audio project in collaboration with Cordite and Australian Poetry.

With Laniyuk, Dom Symes and Lucy Van

Presented in partnership with Australian Poetry and the Cultural Fund.

What does it mean to be a poet? We reckon it’s something like having a voice that’s full of attitude, wit and sincerity, a voice that’s continually re-imagining what it means to be contemporary. Three poets present their unpublished works in progress in an audio project in collaboration with Cordite and Australian Poetry.

With Laniyuk, Dom Symes and Lucy Van

Presented in partnership with Australian Poetry and the Cultural Fund.

What does it mean to be a poet? We reckon it’s something like having a voice that’s full of attitude, wit and sincerity, a voice that’s continually re-imagining what it means to be contemporary. Three poets present their unpublished works in progress in an audio project in collaboration with Cordite and Australian Poetry.

With Laniyuk, Dom Symes and Lucy Van

Presented in partnership with Australian Poetry and the Cultural Fund.

What flashes of understanding, which moments of ecstasy and despair, what memories linger in the days, months and years stacked up behind us? From the mundane to the monumental, from last Wednesday to last century, the fuzzy memories of yesterdays and yesteryears will be brought into crisp sonic relief by our stellar lineup of audio artists at this live listening party.

With Manisha Anjali, Erin Kyan, Fiona Murphy, Daisy Nduta and Anita Sanders

Hosted by Camilla Hannan, Curated and Produced by Kirby Fenwick

See full artist bios here https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/late-night-lit-yesterday-a-live-listening-party/

Recentre the future by taking a look into arts, activism and the young creatives using both to inspire action in their justice-informed practices. With Idil Ali, Joshua Allen and Georgia Mae

Critical Conversations brings the future into the present, centring Indigenous voices, looking beyond access, transcending gender and placing artists at the centre of social change. Recorded at Arts Centre Melbourne as part of the inaugural Future Echoes festival, Critical Conversations invites you to engage with the arts, the world, the present and the future.

Refocus on experiences and expressions of gender and take a journey into performance and community beyond the confines of binaries. With Mama Alto, Casper Plum and Dani Weber

Critical Conversations brings the future into the present, centring Indigenous voices, looking beyond access, transcending gender and placing artists at the centre of social change. Recorded at Arts Centre Melbourne as part of the inaugural Future Echoes festival, Critical Conversations invites you to engage with the arts, the world, the present and the future.

Reframe discussions about access and consider the way we interact with the arts, inclusive practices and the world around us. With Jessica Ibacache and Hannah Morphy-Walsh.

Critical Conversations brings the future into the present, centring Indigenous voices, looking beyond access, transcending gender and placing artists at the centre of social change. Recorded at Arts Centre Melbourne as part of the inaugural Future Echoes festival, Critical Conversations invites you to engage with the arts, the world, the present and the future.

EPISODE 5: GALA B, BY MARYANN WEBB A video game turns out to be anything but fun and games.

Urban Internet Myths is a five-episode audio horror series featuring writers from across the continent. Released as daily episodes throughout DWF19, our unreliable narrator will act as your guide to the spooky, kooky and weird world wide web.

Voiced and produced by Rudi Bremer

Download the transcript here: https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/DWF19-Gala-B.docx

View all episodes of Urban Internet Myths here: https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com/event/urban-internet-myths/

Check out the full 2019 Digital Writers' Festival program at https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com/

Joan Didion once said, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live”.

We also do so in order to love. Six artists read a short scene from a literary work that has shaped their idea of love – romantic, familial, friendly or otherwise. In a kind of literary sex-ed, these artists trace and articulate the influence of literature on their perception and practice of love.

With Alistair Baldwin, Gabriela Georges, Natasha Hertanto, Darlene Silva-Soberano and Eugene Yang. Hosted by Claire Sullivan.

Presented in partnership with Archer Magazine

Full artist bios here: https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com/event/read-to-love/

Download the transcript of the podcast here:

Check out the full festival program here: https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com/

It’s 2050 and writers are still working, but how? Considering the rise of the gig economy and major upheaval in our production and consumption of written and creative content, what is our forecast of the profession of writing into the 21st century?

Jini Maxwell, Dhakshayini Sooriyakumaran and Marisa Wikramanayake explore.

Full artist bios here: https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com/event/the-future-of-labour/

Download the transcript of the podcast here: https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/LNL-Read-to-Love.docx

Check out the full 2019 Digital Writers' Festival program at https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com

“One way to know you’re in the presence of – in possession of, possessed by – a racial imaginary is to see if the boundaries of one’s imaginative sympathy line up, again and again, with the lines drawn by power.” Claudia Rankine

In this session Roj Amedi, Denise Chapman, Genevieve Grieves and Odette Kelada upack the practice of racial literacy and discuss the impact of race and place in one’s imagination, work and storytelling.

Full artist bios here: 2019.digitalwritersfestival.com/event/the…maginary/

Download the transcript of the podcast here: https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/DWF19-The-Racial-Imaginary.docx

Check out the full Digital Writers' Festival program at https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com

EPISODE 3: THE TIC TIC WOMAN, BY NIKESH MURALI A letter from a friend serves as a warning – and a goodbye.

Urban Internet Myths is a five-episode audio horror series featuring writers from across the continent. Released as daily episodes throughout DWF19, our unreliable narrator will act as your guide to the spooky, kooky and weird world wide web.

Voiced and produced by Rudi Bremer

Download the transcript here: https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/DWF19-Tic-Tic-Woman.docx

View all episodes of Urban Internet Myths here: https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com/event/urban-internet-myths/

Check out the full 2019 Digital Writers' Festival program at https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com/

How do we write trauma unflinchingly yet ethically? What is literature’s role in witnessing, archiving and healing deep personal and societal wounds?

In this session Eda Gunaydin, Bram Presser, Maria Tumarkin and Anders Villani delve into the complexities of authentically rendering trauma on the page.

Full artist bios here: https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com/event/literature-and-trauma/

Download the transcript of the podcast here: https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/DWF19-LITERATURE-AND-TRAUMA.docx

Check out the full festival program here: https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com/

Traditionally, when the Bogong moth swarmed in the cool regions of Mount Bogong during summer, local tribes would gather to conduct ceremonies and feast on this protein-rich food source. We come together for a night of fearless truth-telling in honour of the Bogong and the centuries of tales exchanged under its wings. Hear six First Nations artists and activists reflect on the stories of blak activism in their lives. We celebrate blak resistance, defiance and fight in all its forms.

With Nikayla Bamblett, Neil Morris, Tarneen Onus-Williams, Evelyn Araluen and Sermsah ‘Suri’ Bin Saad. Hosted by Laniyuk.

Presented in partnership with Blak & Bright First Nations Literary Festival

Full artist bios here: https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com/event/the-bogong-spoken-word-blaktivism/

Download the transcript of the episode here: https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/DWF19-Episode-Four-BOGONG-SPOKEN-WORD.docx

Check out the full 2019 Digital Writers' Festival program at https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com

EPISODE 2: THE PIGGY WIGGY MAN, BY STEVE DILLON A group of friends prepare everything for fun camping trip. Well, almost everything.

Urban Internet Myths is a five-episode audio horror series featuring writers from across the continent. Released as daily episodes throughout DWF19, our unreliable narrator will act as your guide to the spooky, kooky and weird world wide web.

Voiced and produced by Rudi Bremer

Download the transcript here: https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/DWF19-Piggy-Wiggy-Man.docx

View all episodes of Urban Internet Myths here: https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com/event/urban-internet-myths/

Check out the full 2019 Digital Writers' Festival program at https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com/

Libraries can be sites for the democratisation of access to knowledge, but they can also perpetuate systems and structures of knowledge that are exclusionary or elitist. Hear from the founders of alternative approaches to library building: the Community Reading Room, Incendium Radical Library and Đất Nước travelling library.

With Anne-lise Ah-fat, Torika Bolatagici and Kylie Tran

Full artist bios here: https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com/event/remaking-libraries/

Download a transcript of the episode here: https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/DWF19-REMAKING-LIBRARIES.doc

Check out the full 2019 Digital Writers' Festival program at https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com

When the idea of fake news propagates, truth becomes an increasingly fluid concept. From social media echo chambers to algorithms, how does the internet shape the information we receive? In an increasingly hostile political climate, what is the role of the journalist and how do they respond to the vagaries of the web and to accusations of media bias?

With Maddison Connaughton, Madeline Hayman-Reber and Sami Shah

Full artist bios here: https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com/event/the-future-of-truth/

Download the transcript of the episode here: https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/DWF19-Episode-Two_THE-FUTURE-OF-TRUTH.docx

Check out the full 2019 Digital Writers' Festival program at https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com/

Urban Internet Myths is a five-episode audio horror series featuring writers from across the continent. Released as daily episodes throughout DWF19, our unreliable narrator will act as your guide to the spooky, kooky and weird world wide web.

Voiced and produced by Rudi Bremer

EPISODE 1: BODIES NEEDED, BY RAE WHITE A temporary reception job at a funeral home takes a turn for the permanent.

Download the transcript here: https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/DWF19-URBAN-INTERNET-MYTHS.docx

View all episodes of Urban Internet Myths here: https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com/event/urban-internet-myths/

Check out the full 2019 Digital Writers' Festival program at https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com/

What will the library look like in 2222? Have humans shot for the stars, leaving the last of our histories within a supercomputer at the heart of the La Trobe Reading Room? Will the walls of the Redmond Barry Reading Room be lined with the spines of holographic titles?

The far future of State Library Victoria has been imagined by six of our favourite emerging writers and contains everything from robot librarians to a biological bank storing extinct species’ DNA. We invite you to pop on some headphones and hear their visions of utopias, dystopias and more.

With Claire G Coleman, Georgia Kartas, Olivia Muscat, Adalya Nash Hussein, Mira Schlosberg and Tegan Webb

Produced by Thanh Hằng Phạm

Artist bios can be found here: https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com/event/2222/

Download the transcript here: https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2222-Transcript.docx

View the full 2019 Digital Writers' Festival program at https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com

EPISODE 4: ALL CATS LOOK GREY IN THE DARK, BY ANGHARAD LODWICK A cat is not a cat is not a cat is definitely! Not! A! Cat!

Urban Internet Myths is a five-episode audio horror series featuring writers from across the continent. Released as daily episodes throughout DWF19, our unreliable narrator will act as your guide to the spooky, kooky and weird world wide web.

Voiced and produced by Rudi Bremer

Download the transcript here: https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/DWF19-All-Cats-Look-Grey-in-the-Dark.docx

View all episodes of Urban Internet Myths here: https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com/event/urban-internet-myths/

Check out the full 2019 Digital Writers' Festival program at https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com/

How can we write gripping crime fiction that is socially aware of the realities of criminalisation and the complexities of the criminal justice system?

Gala Vanting, Nayuka Gorrie and Queenie Bon Bon give us a chance to think critically about cultural and legal ideas of ‘the criminal’ and ‘the victim’. They discuss the effects of criminalisation and over-policing on politicised communities, and the importance of unpacking one’s own ideas about deviance, investigation, punishment and criminality as a writer of crime.

Full artist bios here: https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com/event/representing-criminalisation/

Download the transcript of the podcast here: https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/DWF19-EPISODE-ONE_REPRESENTING-CRIMINALISATION.docx

Check out the full festival program here: https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com/

Pop methods and AI interactions meet in ‘seatbelt’ to tell a kind of story. Considerations of real, digital and future selves live in the choices that made the piece sound the way it does.

Written and spoken by Ava Amedi Produced by Riley From X Amount Records

This audio work meditates, by responding to a photograph, on how a relationship – my relationship with my brother – is maintained through almost entirely digital means. It explores how digital apps can replace physical interaction within a sibling relationship, and whether they do this satisfactorily. The audio adapts a print version of the work featured in my book of poems and poetic prose, Entries, forthcoming from Cordite Books in 2019.

Future Truths: The Shard Thief - by Georiga Kartas by Emerging Writers' Festival

Catch electronic musician, composer and multi-instrumentalist James Gales performing at EWF19 in Ways of Listening this Thursday 20 June, 7pm at State Library Victoria.

Presented in partnership with Melbourne Recital Centre, Ways of Listening is an experience not to be missed. Take in an evening of speech and sound that moves from synth-pop to classical, and incorporates poetry, projection, live music, discussion and prose as six artists trace the roots of their musical influences.

Featuring readings and performances by our three Melbourne Recital Centre Writers in Residence Kiara Lindsay, Caitlin McGregor and Xanthea O’Connor. Hosted by jazz singer, cabaret artiste and gender transcendent diva Mama Alto, accompanied by electronic musician, composer and multi-instrumentalist James Gales and violinist and writers’ mentor Adalya Nash Hussein.

This track, Flâneur was written by James Gales for HIDING SPOT, a fashion installation by Jessica Gregory at RMIT in 2016.

Book tickets to the event here: https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/ways-of-listening/

Curious about what goes into making EWF happen every year? Hear from three quarters of the EWF19 Programming Team, Aisha Trambas, Izzy Roberts-Orr and Ruby-Rose Pivet-Marsh as they discuss their interests, motivations, inspirations and pathways to curation.

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Featuring: Aisha Trambas, Izzy Roberts-Orr and Ruby-Rose Pivet-Marsh Produced by: Lindsey Green

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View the full EWF19 Program here: https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/events/festival/2019/

Welcome to the future. This year, the Emerging Writers’ Festival invites you to speculate with us - to consider the possibilities of the future and the consequences of today.

We spoke to one of our favourite future visionaries Timmah Ball about the future of our cities and environments, and the place storytelling plays in the construction and actualisation of these realities.

We were also interested in what visions of the future the EWF family has, and so we asked, “Can you tell me about the future? What does it look like there?”

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Featuring: Timmah Ball, Darlene Silva Soberano, Latifa Elmrini, Lauren Sanders, Manisha Anjali and Tamsien West Produced by: Lindsey Green

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See the full EWF19 Program here: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/events/fe…val/2019/

See Timmah's bio here: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/ewf…-podcast/

What makes a routine or a ritual, as opposed to something you simply ‘do often’? Is there some kind of emotional weight? Or perhaps it is simply a dedicated commitment to a practice. In this episode, we explore rituals as they appear in everyday life: as routines, as commitments and as artistic practices.

We spoke with Kōtare and Matka, the masterminds behind Precog, a clubbing experience dedicated to community space and sensory, bodily experience. They discussed the purposes of clubbing as a ritual and a space for connection, “creating futures for outsiders”.

We also heard from writer, performer and dream archivist, Manisha Anjali. Manisha spoke to us about dream documenting and the importance of committing to one’s imagination. She also read her poem kala pani, originally commissioned for Pearlescent Verse.

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Featuring: Kōtare, Matka and Manisha Anjali Produced by: Lindsey Green

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See the full EWF19 Program here: https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/events/festival/2019/

See bios for Kōtare, Matka and Manisha Anjali here: https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/ewf19-podcast/

Read about 'Club Theory' here: https://www.aqnb.com/2018/05/03/club-theory-two-recombinant-texts-on-the-impossible-space-between-theory-experience-by-sally-olds-dj-sezzo/

From the concept of a social media influencer to the ways in which art and artists impact one another, influence is a word that seems to have taken on many new meanings, particularly in the digital landscape. In this episode, we look at the notion of influence - where it can be found and how it can be used.

We spoke to creative influencer, book reviewer, photographer and all-round lover of words, Tamsien West about social media as community, fandom and YA.

We also heard from Darlene Silva Soberano who shared with us their poem "You Like The Smiths?" and talked about the influence of place, time and popular culture on life and art.

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Featuring: Tamsien West and Darlene Silva Soberano Produced by: Lindsey Green

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See the full EWF19 Program here: https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/events/festival/2019/

See bios for Tamsien and Darlene: https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/ewf19-podcast/

When we say ‘financial stability’ you probably say ‘what the hell are you talking about, I’m a writer!’ The grind of making sure you can pay your rent as well as make work is real, and we’re all guilty of biting off more than we can chew sometimes.

There are as many different ways to be a writer as there are writers in the world. In this episode we looked at how to balance work with more work, learning your limits and the gear shifts required when you have multiple different forms of labour on your plate.

We spoke to wearer of many hats, including writer, editor and union representative, Marisa Wikramanayake, about her many roles and when it’s probably a good idea to start using the word “no”.

We also heard from essayist and critic Cher Tan who shared with us an excerpt from her zine "to all the shit jobs I've worked before" and spoke about the ways in which jobs and writing may not always be one in the same thing.

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Featuring: Marisa Wikramanayake and Cher Tan Produced by: Lindsey Green

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See the full EWF19 Program here: https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/events/festival/2019/

See bios for Marisa and Cher here: https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/ewf19-podcast/

Controversy has often courted the role of the critic - sometimes personified as a miserly cynic out to destroy, rather than elucidate, enrich or enlighten. But criticism is a vital part of our creative arts ecology - both an art form in its own right, as well as space within which many practicing artists engage in meaningful discourse with their peers.

In this episode, we explore the role of the critic - both as a mode of discourse, to be engaged in with care, and as an internal force to be reckoned with - but not always dismissed.

We spoke to actor and writer Carissa Lee about the place and value of arts criticism, caring for your community in criticism, and the ways in which your own arts practice can inform and enrich your criticism.

We also spoke to writer, artist and poet Madison Griffiths about overcoming your inner critic, as well as the ways in which this inner naysayer can be useful and productive.

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Featuring: Carissa Lee and Madison Griffiths Produced by: Lindsey Green

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See the full EWF19 Program here: https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/events/festival/2019/

See bios for Carissa and Madison here: ttps://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/ewf19-podcast/

What will the library look like in 2222? Have humans shot for the stars, leaving the last of our histories within a supercomputer at the heart of the La Trobe Reading Room? Will the walls of the Redmond Barry Reading Room be lined with the spines of holographic titles?

The far future of State Library Victoria has been imagined by six of our favourite emerging writers and contains everything from robot librarians to a biological bank storing extinct species’ DNA. We invite you to pop on some headphones and hear their visions of utopias, dystopias and more.

With Claire G Coleman, Georgia Kartas Olivia Muscat, Adalya Nash Hussein, Mira Schlosberg and Tegan Webb

Produced by Thanh Hằng Phạm

Presented in partnership with State Library Victoria

Book tickets and read full artist bios through the event page here: https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/2222/

Keen to learn more about the 2019 Emerging Writers' Festival program? Artistic Director Izzy Roberts-Orr and Digital Producer Ruby Pivet set out to interview the person who knows it best...

The Emerging Writers’ Festival launches our 2019 festival program with a night of readings. What, exactly, is an ‘emerging’ writer? At what point do you come out of the chrysalis?

At this special event, hear from Kat Clarke, Vidya Rajan, Sumudu Samarawickrama and Ahmed Yussuf, as they each tell us about the first time they considered themselves a writer. Hosted by the Artistic Director of the Emerging Writers' Festival, Izzy Roberts-Orr, and Program Coordinator Aïsha Trambas.

Presented in partnership with the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas.

View the full program and book tickets online, or pick up a copy of the program at your local bookstore, library or cafe https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/events/festival/2019/

Download the transcript from the event as a .pdf here: https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/ewf-cms/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Emerging-Writers%E2%80%99-Festival-2019-Program-Launch-The-Awkward-Stage.pdf

Or view on Issuu here: https://issuu.com/digitalwritersfestival/docs/emerging_writers__festival_2019_pro

Have you ever inspected the unfurling coils of a fern, or marvelled at the ascending spirals of a nautilus shell? Fractals are self-repeating structures whose beautiful consistency means that the smallest element is representative of the entire structure.

Multidisciplinary artist Hawiine wonders alongside founder of literary platform Negro Speaks of Books Inez Trambas and writer Rafeif Ismail whether, like fractals, it is our most minute and repeated practices that reveal our largest visions. If this is the case, then we must be careful to think thoroughly about the relationship between part and whole, self and community, present and future.

To create something big, one must start small. Or quite possibly, the small is all.

Produced by Thanh Hằng Phạm

Check out the full DWF18 podcast program here: 2018.digitalwritersfestival.com/stream/listen/

When, in an ableist society, one’s access and participation in IRL spaces may be limited and fraught, what possibilities can the virtual sphere provide?

Join queercrip activist and artist Robin Eames, and writers Katerina Bryant, CB Mako and Gemma Mahadeo as they discuss their relationships with disability, chronic illness and creative practices in the virtual realm. A conversation about the politics of visibility/invisibility, the body, freedom and autonomy online.

Produced by Thanh Hằng Phạm

Check out the full DWF18 podcast program here: 2018.digitalwritersfestival.com/stream/listen/

Download a copy of the transcript here: http://2018.digitalwritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Transcript_Chronic-Illness-Disability-and-Digital-Life.docx

Our guest producer for this episode, Marta Skrabacz, wonders how queer storytellers are collapsing boundaries and binaries through form, content and community. With so many queer writers finding themselves and their work a home in online spaces, the distinction between digital vs. IRL communities is blurring. Meanwhile, as we expand our avenues for self-expression, we also evolve new forms and ways of working with one another.

Hear an experimental, queer, creative audio compilation featuring Bastian Fox Phelan, Shareeka Helaluddin and Charlotte Raymond about the experience of sharing the personal online, finding your space in a community, and the power in queering narratives.

Check out the full DWF18 podcast program here: 2018.digitalwritersfestival.com/stream/listen/

Download a copy of the transcript here: http://2018.digitalwritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Transcript_Queering-Narratives.docx

For many members of diaspora, our current digital era is one of unprecedented capacity to connect with community across the globe, and to build on a strong history of diasporic collaboration and conversation.

In this episode, we are joined by writers and editors Ahmed Yussuf and Saaro Umar, and outgoing Managing Editor of pan-African writers’ collective Jalada, Moses Kilolo, to discuss all things diasporic publication.

Building on our joint anthology Jalada x DWF: Diaspora, we talk further about the ins and outs of forming and sustaining publications that span languages, cultures and distance, the influence of current digital media on our capacity to collaborate, and the importance of border-defying creative platforms for our communities.

Presented in partnership with Jalada

Produced by Beth Gibson

Check out the full DWF18 podcast program here: 2018.digitalwritersfestival.com/stream/listen/

Download a copy of the transcript here: http://2018.digitalwritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Transcript_-Jalada-x-DWF-Diasporic-Publication-in-the-Digital-Age.docx

Legend will tell you that The Writer™ is a solitary and hermit-like creature, famously detached and notoriously antisocial. Beyond tropes of the reclusive artist, what do we make of the very real experiences of withdrawal and isolation that can punctuate a writer’s lifestyle? We hear from wordsmiths Erin Stewart, Heather Joan Day and Sharon Willdin about coping with disconnection and sustaining a vibrant writing life amidst solitude.

Produced by Beth Gibson

Check out the full DWF18 podcast program here: 2018.digitalwritersfestival.com/stream/listen/

Download a copy of the transcript here: http://2018.digitalwritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Transcript_Writing-Through-Isolation.docx

We understand that the workforce is becoming increasingly digitised. But what does this mean for writers and storytellers working online, and how do we ensure our rights as part of a digital workforce?

In this episode, hear from Ben Eltham in conversation with Osman Faruqi and Marisa Wikramanayake as they discuss the realities of working for digital publication, the state of digital unionising in Australia, how we can draw on digital writers’ organising examples from the US, and how we imagine the future of online writing as workers.

Produced by Beth Gibson

Check out the full DWF18 podcast program here: 2018.digitalwritersfestival.com/stream/listen/

Download a copy of the transcript here: http://2018.digitalwritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Transcript_Hyperspace-Hustle.docx

While the true crime podcast genre is booming, we are brooding.

In a world saturated with violence, what is it about the true crime genre that has gripped so many of us, pulled is in, and kept us listening in droves? What does it say about the lived realities of gendered violence when we consider that true crime’s primary audience (85%) is women? Are we compelled to heal the traumas in our communities, or are we focused only on consumption of others’ wounds?

Aimee Knight peels back the layers of these questions with journalist and host of Curtain Amy McQuire, and true crime researcher Dr Rachel Franks. Join us in this urgent conversation for writers, readers, podcasters, filmmakers, journalists and consumers of true crime stories.

Produced by Beth Gibson

Check out the full DWF18 podcast program here: 2018.digitalwritersfestival.com/stream/listen/

Download a copy of the transcript here: http://2018.digitalwritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Transcript_True-Crime.docx

At a time when power is still consolidated within state run and corporate sponsored media, we are witnessing many communities using the internet as a means of resistance, organising and education.

This episode sharpens our gaze towards contemporary feminist activism in China, and the digital tactics used by the Chinese #MeToo movement in the face of restriction and censorship online.

Carol Que is a media educator and researcher interested in contesting carceral realities and digital futures. She is joined by writer Qian Jinghua and Feminist Voices’ founding editor 吕频 Lü Pin to discuss access to information, creating our own platforms, and fortifying our communities online.

Produced by Thanh Hằng Phạm

Check out the full DWF18 podcast program here: http://2018.digitalwritersfestival.com/stream/listen/

Download a copy of the transcript here: http://2018.digitalwritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Transcript_Resistance-Online-MeToo-in-China.docx

Humans have an enduring fascination with talking to machines – from ELIZA, the computer program built in the 1960s to mimic a psychotherapist, to Google’s latest AI assistant, which can book you a hairdressing appointment over the phone. Beyond passing the Turing Test, can algorithms communicate?

Host Oscar Schwartz has long been fascinated by the cultural trope and technological possibility of machines replacing humans (Humans Pretending to be Computers Pretending to be Humans, 2016). Harriet Gillies directed Lifestyle of the Richard and Family (NEXT WAVE, 2018) in collaboration with SwiftKey predictive text technology. In conversation, these artists will explore the pitfalls and possibilities of dialogue generated by machines, and what it means to speak with machines beyond binary.

Produced by Thanh Hằng Phạm

Check out the full DWF18 podcast program here: 2018.digitalwritersfestival.com/stream/listen/

Download a copy of the transcript here: http://2018.digitalwritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Transcript_Coded-Speech.docx

It’s the dawn of DWF18 and only fitting that we begin by honouring the wondrous, expansive and mystifying phenomenon that is the World Wide Web. To launch this year’s program, we hear from a range of festival artists about how the internet has shaped and altered their practice.

With: Gemma Mahadeo, Hien Pham, Fiona Tuomy, Tegan Webb, Ahmed Yussuf

Produced by Thanh Hằng Phạm

Full artist bios here http://2018.digitalwritersfestival.com/event/aurora-digitalis-art-practice-and-the-internet/

Download the transcript here: http://2018.digitalwritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Transcript_Aurora-Digitalis.docx

This episode features the first event of the 2017 Digital Writers Festival, a live conversation about the future of storytelling with Brooke Maggs, Misha Myers, Oscar Raby and Seb Chan, moderated by the festival’s Artistic Director, Izzy Roberts-Orr.

The Future of Storytelling was held at ACMI in partnership with ACMI Conversations and Monash University. You can watch the full event here: http://2017.digitalwritersfestival.com/event/dwf17-launch-the-future-of-storytelling/

Our theme music is ‘Please’ by Huntly.

Brooke Maggs is a freelance narrative designer and writer for games, VR and other creative industries. Brooke presented her project ‘The Gardens Between’, a breathtaking puzzle game where best friends find themselves in a surreal world of garden islands. Find out more about Brooke here: https://brookemaggs.com/

Dr. Misha Myers is a Senior Lecture in the Centre for Theatre and Performance at Monash University, and tells stories of place through digital, interactive and located media. Misha presented her recent work ‘Nobody’s Ocean’, a transmedia performance game for smartphone that sent audience on journeys through Melbourne’s streets cast as Homer’s Odysseus. Find out more about Misha here: http://profiles.arts.monash.edu.au/misha-myers/

Oscar Raby is the Creative Director of the Melbourne-based Virtual Reality studio VRTOV. He is the Director of VR experiences ‘Assent’, ‘The Turning Forest’ and ‘Easter Rising: Voice of a Rebel’. Oscar presented ‘The Turning Forest’, a real-time CR VR experience that invites audiences into a magical space of imagination. Find out more about Oscars work for VRTOV here: http://vrtov.com/

Seb Chan is ACMI’s Chief Experience Officer. Prior to this he led the digital renewal and transformation of the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York (2011-2015). Seb presented his digital transformation of the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum.

Crafting audio content takes time, and we all have to start somewhere. Learn from Australian audio producers as they put their past tape to the test.

Bec Fary reflected on a clip from episode 1 of SleepTalker - When You Talk About Your Dreams. Listen to the rest here: http://sleeptalkerpodcast.com/1-when-you-talk-about-your-dreams/

Bec Fary is the creator of SleepTalker, the podcast about sleep, dreams, nightmares and what happens in your head after dark. She's also a freelance audio producer and is currently doing her Masters in Design. Listen to more of her work from SleepTalker here: http://sleeptalkerpodcast.com/

Evana Ho reflected on a clip from Episode Four - Divorce, of the Love, Canberra podcast. Listen to the rest here: http://www.lovecanberrapodcast.com/podcast/2016/3/28/episode-four-divorce

Evana Ho is the host and creator of Love, Canberra: intimate conversations about love, sex and relationships from the heart of the nation. She is also the co-organiser of the Canberra Podcasting group. Listen to more of her work on here: http://www.lovecanberrapodcast.com/

Jon Tjhia reflected on a clip from The Drowning Man, a piece he made for Paper Radio in collaboration with Chris Somerville. Listen to the full piece here: http://www.paperradio.net/fm/the-drowning-man

Jon Tjhia produces Paper Radio, a literary fiction and creative non-fiction podcast. He is also the Wheeler Centre's Digital Editor. Listen to more of his work here: http://www.paperradio.net/

Rosa Gollan reflected on a clip from her piece The Discussion, created for ABC RN's PocketDocs. Listen to the rest here: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/pocketdocs/the-discussion/8103098

Rosa Gollan is a producer for The Music Show on ABC Radio National. She previously worked as part of their Creative Audio Unit. The Discussion recently won an award at the Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Competition.

Tim Shiel reflected on a clip from Spirit Duel (feat. Luke Howard & Wally de Backer), which he created for the game The Gardens Between. Find out more about the game here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkswxaMg4MU&ab_channel=TheVoxelAgents

Tim Shiel is a musician and game composer who has worked on projects like Duet, Induction, and The Gardens Between. He's also a presenter on Double J and Triple J.

Kate Montague reflected on a clip from Murder in a small town, a two part documentary series she made for ABC RN's Earshot program. You can listen to the full series here: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/earshot/murder-in-a-small-town/6849926

Kate Montague makes audio content for podcasts, radio broadcast, online publications and exhibitions. She is also the founder and director of Audiocraft - a community for Australian radiomakers and podcasters. Find out more about Kate's work here: http://katemontague.com/

Voices of Trees is a special project produced in partnership with Australian Poetry and Red Room for the 2017 Digital Writers Festival.

We commissioned three poets - Bert Spinks, Steven Finch, and Mindy Gill - to create a new work of poetry in response to trees unique to the landscape surrounding them. Sound producer Britta Jorgensen then turned their poems into three unique creative audio pieces.

Our theme music is 'Please' by Huntly.

Tin Cans is a collaborative sound-based call and response between a pair of audio producers, produced in partnership with The Wheeler Centre for the 2017 Digital Writers Festival.

Listen in as Jess Ong from Darwin and Olivia Rosenman from Sydney get to know each other over a series of audio exchanges.

Our theme music is 'Please' by Huntly.

Our guest host for this episode is the multi-talented Areej Nur, co-founder of Still Nomads African artist collective. Areej is joined by Kate ten Buuren of This Mob Aboriginal artist collective and Alec Reade of New Wayfinders Pasifika artist collective. Together, they discussed community, creativity, and collective strength.

Kate ten Buuren is a young Taungurung artist and filmmaker, whose driving force is building confidence throughout her community. Find out more about This Mob here: https://www.facebook.com/thismob/

Areej Nur is a radio producer, presenter and trainer. She is the co-founder and curator of African artist collective and organisation, Still Nomads. Find out more about Still Nomads here: https://www.facebook.com/stillnomads/

Alec Reade is the co-founder of New Wayfinders Pasifika artist collective who together navigate community, identity and creativity. Reade is also a Content Lead at the community organisation Road to Refuge. Find out more about New Wayfinders here: https://www.facebook.com/newwayfinders/

This special episode is a wave from across time and space, featuring a range of selected Digital Writers’ Festival artists who have sent through an audio postcard from a place that’s meaningful to them and their work.

Extra music is Quizitive by Lee Rosevere.

We’re super stoked to say that we’ve just launched the program for the Digital Writers’ Festival! You can view it here: http://2017.digitalwritersfestival.com/

Gail Ingram is a writer from New Zealand, featuring in our Online Lit Collectives event Monday 30 October 7pm. Gail’s representing Sponge, an online journal for science fiction and speculative fiction, based in the post-apocalyptic city of Christchurch. http://2017.digitalwritersfestival.com/event/late-night-lit-journals/

Aimee Knight is a cultural critic and writer of creative non-fiction from Adelaide, who describes herself as a poptimist. She’s featuring in Editor and Author: Live Editing at 12:30pm lunchtime on Friday 27 October. http://2017.digitalwritersfestival.com/event/in-convo-live-editing/

Jesse Oliver is an emerging trans slam poet from Perth who enjoys rapping Shakespeare, practising his articulation and writing about social justice, aliens and star-crossed love. He’s the WA Slam Champion, and he’s appearing in our closing festival event Manifest at 7pm on Friday 3 November. http://2017.digitalwritersfestival.com/event/manifest/

Mindy Gill is a poet and editor-in-chief of Peril Magazine, working on one of our festival projects, Voices of Trees, in partnership with Australian Poetry and Red Room, which will be published on the DWF website when the festival begins on Tuesday 24 October. http://2017.digitalwritersfestival.com/event/voices-of-trees/

Winnie Dunn is a Tongan-Australian writer from Mt Druitt. She is a manager and editor at Sweatshop: Western Sydney Literacy Movement. She's appearing in our closing festival event Manifest at 7pm on Friday 3 November. http://2017.digitalwritersfestival.com/event/manifest/

Misty McPhail is our Sydney-based Creative Producer, as well as the Volunteers Manager for the Sydney Writers’ Festival, and a current PhD candidate at Western Sydney University, researching online literary festivals. Misty has programmed and produced Writing Web Series: Serial Showcase on Thursday 2 November, 7pm, as well as helping out with West Meets West, our collaborative event between Sweatshop in Sydney and West Writers Group in Melbourne, Tuesday 31 October 7pm. http://2017.digitalwritersfestival.com/event/writing-web-series-serial-showcase/ http://2017.digitalwritersfestival.com/event/west-meets-west-sweatshop-westwriters/

Samantha Glennie is our Sunshine Coast-based Creative Producer, as well as a poet and writing student from Queensland with a cosmic perspective on life. Sam has programmed and produced two events on Friday 3 November - the Digital Tour of Fanfiction Spaces at 12:30pm and Representation in Fanfic at 3pm. http://2017.digitalwritersfestival.com/event/digital-tour-fan-fiction-spaces/ http://2017.digitalwritersfestival.com/event/representation-in-fan-fic/

Steven Finch is our Perth-based Creative Producer, and he’s passionate about sustainability, Earth’s future and Australia’s literary community. Steven has programmed and produced Mapping Ecologies of the Digital, to be held in Perth on Saturday 28 October, 6pm local Perth time, and live-streamed to the rest of the world at 9pm AEDT. http://2017.digitalwritersfestival.com/event/perth-event/

In this episode we’re going down under and exploring the glorious, gory, titillating world of erotic writing in the digital age. Games designer Kim Allom speaks with erotic writer Krissy Kneen. We also hear from erotic writer and 2017 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow Angela Serrano.

~ADULT THEMES AND SOME SWEARS~

Krissy Kneen is a Brisbane-based author well known for her erotic writing, including the novel 'An Uncertain Grace', and the email series she completed with The Lifted Brow, 'Stranger in the Dark'.

Kim Allom is a Video Game Producer, working with Defiant Development in Brisbane. She also runs Blush Box, a collective of games makers who explore and promote romance in video games.

Angela Serrano is a 2017 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow, working on 'Transcendental Ickiness', a collection of short erotic fiction about queer young people of colour making their way in a world that’s not always ready for them.

'An Uncertain Grace' by Krissy Kneen https://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/an-uncertain-grace

An excerpt from 'Stranger in the Dark' by Krissy Kneen https://www.theliftedbrow.com/liftedbrow/excerpt-stranger-in-the-dark-by-krissy-kneen

Krissy recommends: 'Little Birds' by Anais Nin https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11036.Little_Birds

'Staying with the Trouble' by Donna Haraway https://www.dukeupress.edu/staying-with-the-trouble

Ursula Le Guin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin

Margaret Atwood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Atwood

Angela recommends: 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' By D. H. Lawrence https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32049.Lady_Chatterley_s_Lover

Angela Carter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Carter

In this episode, guest host Hannah Donnelly explores Indigenous speculative futures with Claire G Coleman, author of the recently released 'Terra Nullius', and Maddee Clark, who is writing their PhD on Indigenous speculative fiction and futurism.

Hannah Donnelly is a writer, DJ and the creator of Sovereign Trax. Her work experiments with future tense, speculative fiction and Indigenous responses to climate change through stories of cultural flows and water systems. Sovereign Trax is an online space promoting First Nations music through energising decolonization conversations and community in music. Hannah is currently working at Next Wave as an associate producer.

Claire G Coleman is a writer from Western Australia. She identifies with the South Coast Noongar people. Her family are associated with the area around Ravensthorpe and Hopetoun. Claire grew up in a Forestry’s settlement in the middle of a tree plantation – where her dad worked, not far out of Perth. She wrote her black&write! fellowship-winning manuscript Terra Nullius while travelling around Australia in a caravan.

Maddee Clark is a Yugambeh freelance writer living in the Kulin Nation. They are a Ph.D student researching Indigenous speculative fiction and futurism.

Links to works discussed and recommended

Claire G Coleman's 'Terra Nullius', published with Hachette https://www.hachette.com.au/claire-coleman/terra-nullius

Maddee Clark's 'Coded Devices', published on the Next Wave website http://2016.nextwave.org.au/essays/coded-devices/

A review of Hannah Donnelly's 'Sovereign Apocalypse' by Ellen van Neerven in the Lifted Brow https://www.theliftedbrow.com/liftedbrow/sovereign-apocalypse-zine-two-a-review-by-ellen

Claire recommends

Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington Garimara https://readingaustralia.com.au/essays/follow-the-rabbit-proof-fence/

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/432556.The_Chant_of_Jimmie_Blacksmith

Benang by Kim Scott https://www.fremantlepress.com.au/products/benang-from-the-heart

Maddee recommends

Fiona Foley https://www.mca.com.au/collection/artist/foley-fiona/

The Tribe http://www.tribeworld.com/

The Swan Book by Alexis Wright http://giramondopublishing.com/product/the-swan-book/

Heat and Light by Ellen van Neerven http://giramondopublishing.com/product/the-swan-book/

Nicole Watson http://rightnow.org.au/interview-3/interview-with-nicole-watson/

In our inaugural episode, guest host Madeleine Dore of Extraordinary Routines chats to illustrator Gorkie (Sarah Nagorcka) and writer and activist Jax Jacki Brown about their creative practices, as well as the challenges of balancing their creative careers.

Madeleine Dore is a freelance writer and founder of the interview project Extraordinary Routines. Her interviews, life-experiments, and articles regularly explore creativity, everyday life and the imperfection in between and have appeared in Sunday Life, 99u, Womankind, BBC, and more.

Jax Jacki Brown is a disability and LGBTIQ rights activist, writer, public speaker and disability sexuality educator. Jax was named one of the 25 LGBTI people to watch in 2015, in 2016 she made the Lesbians On The Loose (LOTL) Power List as an Agent of Change and in 2017 was appointed to the Victorian Ministerial Council on Women's Equality. Through her work, Jax provides a powerful insight into the reasons why society needs to change, rather than people with disabilities.

Sarah Nagorcka AKA Gorkie is a writer and cartoonist based in Melbourne. Recently shortlisted for the 2016 Overland NUW Fair Australia Prize, her illustrations appear regularly in Lateral Magazine and occasionally pop up on Reddit, where she receives criticism for drawing like a four year old.