Kate Mildenhall and Astrid Edwards recorded this session 'The Hummingbird Effect' LIVE at Canberra Writers Festival in August 2023. Kate's debut novel, Skylarking , was longlisted for Debut Fiction in The Indie Book Awards 2017 and the 2017 Voss Literary Award, and her bestselling The Mother Fault was longlisted for the 2021 ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year and shortlisted for the 2020 Aurealis Awards. The Hummingbird Effect is her third novel. Kate also teaches creative writing and co-host...
Aug 29, 2023•58 min•Season 2023Ep. 248
Erin Riley is a social worker, and has spent most of the last decade working alongside marginalised populations in community aged care. Erin is also a writer, and their A Real Piece of Work is their debut memoir and collection of essays. Erin brings a queer lived experience to their professional work and to their writing. They were a Penguin Random House Australia Write It fellow in 2021, and have been published in Kill Your Darlings , Bent Street and various corners of the internet. Read the tr...
Aug 16, 2023•24 min•Season 2023Ep. 247
Anna Funder is the author of the international bestsellers Stasiland (2002) and All That I Am (2012). Her third major work, Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life (2023) interrogates the historical record to uncover Eileen O'Shaunessy, the wife of George Orwell, and her influence on his writing. Her books have won multiple literary awards: Stasiland received the the Samuel Johnson Prize (the UK's premier award for non-fiction and All That I Am the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Originally trained ...
Aug 13, 2023•35 min•Season 2023Ep. 246
Briohny Doyle writes extraordinary fiction. Echolalia was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2021, and in 2023 she released Why We Are Here . Briohny is a lecturer in creative writing at The University of Sydney and a former Fulbright scholar, and her writing also appears in The Monthly, The Guardian, Meanjin, The Griffith Review, and The Age. Read the transcript for this interview here . About The Garret Follow The Garret: Writing and Publishing and our host Astrid Edwards on I...
Aug 06, 2023•28 min•Season 2023Ep. 245
Beejay Silcox is a writer and literary critic, and also the Artistic Director of the Canberra Writers Festival. Her literary criticism and cultural commentary regularly appears in national arts publications, and is increasingly finding an international audience, including in the Times Literary Supplement , The Guardian and The New York Times . Read the transcript for this interview here . About The Garret Follow The Garret: Writing and Publishing and our host Astrid Edwards on Instagram. Explore...
Jul 31, 2023•25 min•Season 2023Ep. 244
Maxine Beneba Clarke is the author of the short fiction collection Foreign Soil, the memoir The Hate Race and the poetry collections Carrying the World and How Decent Folk Behave. Her children's picture books include the CBCA Honour book The Patchwork Bike and the illustrated poem When We Say Black Lives Matter, which was longlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal. In 2023 she is Poet in Residence at The University of Melbourne. Maxine has appeared on The Garret before, and you can listen to her mo...
Jul 05, 2023•24 min•Season 2023Ep. 243
Sally Young is professor of political science at the University of Melbourne. Media Monsters: The Transformation of Australia’s Newspaper Empires (2023) interrogates the history of Australia's media dynasties and the move from newspaper print to radio and TV and the online world. She is the author of six previous books on Australian politics and media, including the award-winning Paper Emperors: The Rise of Australia's Newspaper Empires , which Media Monsters follows on from. Her other works inc...
Jun 28, 2023•26 min•Season 2023Ep. 242
Kate Larsen is a writer, arts and cultural consultant currently based on Kaurna Yerta in Tamtanya/Adelaide. As one of Australia’s best-known social media poets, her alter ego Katie Keys (aka @tinylittlepoems) wrote and posted a daily poem for over a decade. Her first printed collection, Public. Open. Space , was released in 2023. Kate’s work has been published or commissioned by The Relationship is the Project , Meanjin , Overland , Kill Your Darlings , Voice & Verse and anthologies, magazin...
Jun 22, 2023•26 min•Season 2023Ep. 241
Isabelle Oderberg is a journalist with two decades of experience across Europe, Asia and Australia. Her first book, Hard to Bear , addresses a gap in the market and demonstrates it is possible to write about an experience some dismiss as unpalatable. Isabelle mentions her agent Melanie Ostell, and Melanie has appeared on The Garret before to discuss what a literary agent does . Read the transcript for this interview here . About The Garret Follow The Garret: Writing and Publishing and our host A...
Jun 15, 2023•31 min•Season 2023Ep. 240
Sarah Krasnostein is the multi-award winning author of The Trauma Cleaner , The Believer and the Quarterly Essay Not Waving, Drowning . A regular contributor to The Monthly and The Saturday Paper , she was awarded the 2022 Walkley Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism. Her latest work, On Peter Carey , was released in 2023. Sarah previously appeared on The Garret with Jess Hill discussing writing their Quarterly Essays . Read the transcript for this interview here . About The Garret Follow The Garret...
Jun 12, 2023•23 min•Season 2023Ep. 239
Ghassan Hage and Randa Abdel-Fattah reflect on the publication of ' The Racial Politics of Australian Multiculturalism' - a combined work celebrating the 25th anniversary of Ghassan's ' White Nation: Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Society' and the 20th anniversary of his ' Against Paranoid Nationalism: Searching for Hope in a Shrinking Society'. Ghassan is internationally renowned for his research on the intersection of racism, nationalism and colonialism. He is a professor of a...
Jun 04, 2023•25 min•Season 2023Ep. 238
Omar Sakr is the author of three poetry collections, Non-Essential Work (2023), The Lost Arabs (2019) , These Wild Houses (2017). His first novel, Son of Sin (2022) was shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards. Omar performs 'Iris', a poem from his latest collection, at the 6:30 mark. The Lost Arabs won the 2020 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry and was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Award, the John Bray Poetry Award, the Judith Wright Calanthe Award, and the Colin Roderick Awa...
May 31, 2023•22 min•Season 2023Ep. 237
Overland Literary Journal Issue 249 features several essays, including ' A guide to the colonisation of my mother tongues ' by Natalia Figueroa Barroso and ' Dovetails ' by EJ Clarence. Natalia is an Uruguayan-Australian poet and storyteller and a member of Sweatshop Literacy Movement, with degrees in Communication, Screenwriting and Media Production. Her work has appeared in the collections Racism: Stories on Fear, Hate and Bigotry ; Any Saturday , 2021: Running Westward and Between Two Worlds ...
May 24, 2023•23 min•Season 2023Ep. 236
Ellen van Neerven is an award-winning writer of Mununjali Yugambeh and Dutch heritage. They write fiction, poetry, plays and non-fiction. Ellen’s first book, Heat and Light , was the recipient of the David Unaipon Award, the Dobbie Literary Award and the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Indigenous Writers Prize. They have written two poetry collections: Comfort Food , which was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize, and Throat , which was shortlisted in 2021 for th...
May 17, 2023•27 min•Season 2023Ep. 235
Pip Williams was born in London, grew up in Sydney, and now lives in the Adelaide Hills. Her debut novel was the wildly successful The Dictionary of Lost Words (2020), which was based on her original research in the Oxford English Dictionary archives. The Bookbinder of Jericho (2023) is her second work of historical fiction, and exists in the same world as The Dictionary of Lost Words. Her first work was One Italian Summer , a memoir of her family’s travels in search of the good life. Read the t...
May 14, 2023•26 min•Season 2023Ep. 234
Zoya Patel is the author of No Country Woman , a memoir of race, religion and feminism, and Once A Stranger , her debut novel. She is co-host of The Guardian 's Book It In podcast, and the Margin Notes podcast alongside Yen Eriksen. Zoya is a columnist for the RiotACT, and regular books critic and writer for The Guardian , Canberra Times , SBS Voices, Refinery29 and more. Zoya has won numerous awards for her writing and editing, and she was a 2020 judge for the Stella Prize and Chair of the 2021...
Apr 26, 2023•27 min•Season 2023Ep. 233
Eloise Grills is an award-winning essayist, comics artist and poet, interested in hybrid visual-textual forms. big beautiful female theory is her first illustrated memoir-in-essays. In addition to being shortlisted for The Stella Prize, the work was shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards and highly commended in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. Her first poetry collection, If you’re sexy and you know it slap your hams , was shortlisted for the 2020 Mary Gilmore Award. Read the transcript f...
Apr 20, 2023•21 min•Season 2023Ep. 232
Adriane Howell is a Melbourne-based writer and arts worker. In 2013, she graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Master of Creative Writing, Publishing and Editing. She is co-founder of the literary journal Gargouille . Hydra (2022) is her debut novel. Read the transcript for this interview here . About The Garret Follow The Garret: Writing and Publishing and our host Astrid Edwards on Instagram. Explore our back catalogue (and transcripts) at thegarretpodcast.com . Support the show: h...
Apr 18, 2023•19 min•Season 2023Ep. 231
Louisa Lim is an award-winning journalist, podcaster and author. Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong (2022) was shortlisted for the Stella Prize, as well as the Walkley Book Award and the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award. Her previous book, The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited (2014), was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for political writing. She is a Senior Lecturer in Audiovisual Journalism at the University of Melbourne. She previously spent a decade in...
Apr 16, 2023•24 min•Season 2023Ep. 230
Debra Dank is a Gudanji/Wakaja woman. Her memoir We Come With This Place is shortlisted for the Stella Prize in 2023. An educator, she has worked in teaching and learning for many years – a gift given through the hard work of her parents. She continues to experience the privilege of living with country and with family. Debra completed her PhD in Narrative Theory and Semiotics at Deakin University in 2021. Read the transcript for this interview here . About The Garret Follow The Garret: Writing a...
Apr 13, 2023•22 min•Season 2023Ep. 229
Edwina Preston is a Melbourne-based writer and musician. Preston is the author of a biography of Australian artist Howard Arkley, Not Just a Suburban Boy (2002), the novel The Inheritance of Ivorie Hammer (2012), and the novel Bad Art Mother (2022). Her writing and reviews have appeared in The Age , The Australian , The Sydney Morning Herald , Heat , Island , Griffith Review and The Conversation . Read the transcript for this interview here . 🫢 And we apologise for the quality of Astrid’s audio...
Apr 11, 2023•23 min•Season 2023Ep. 228
Sarah Holland-Batt is the author of three books of poetry – The Jaguar (2022), The Hazards (2015) and Aria (2008) – and a book of essays on contemporary poetry, Fishing for Lightning (2021). Her honours include the 2016 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry, a Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship, and residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo in the United States. She is presently the Judy Harris Writer in Residence at the University of Sydney’s Charles Perkins Centre, and Professor of Creative Writing...
Apr 09, 2023•28 min•Season 2023Ep. 227
The Garret is back. We kick off with interviews with the six writers shortlisted for The Stella Prize - Sarah Holland-Batt, Edwina Preston, Debra Dank, Louisa Lim, Adriane Howell and Eloise Grills. New interviews start Monday 10 April 2023. About The Garret Follow The Garret: Writing and Publishing and our host Astrid Edwards on Instagram. Explore our back catalogue (and transcripts) at thegarretpodcast.com . Support the show: https://linktr.ee/garretpodcast See omnystudio.com/listener for priva...
Apr 05, 2023•1 min•Season 2023Ep. 226
Our host Astrid Edwards is one of the judges of the 2023 Stella Prize . As a result, The Garret is on hold until March 2023. About The Garret Follow The Garret: Writing and Publishing and our host Astrid Edwards on Instagram. Explore our back catalogue (and transcripts) at thegarretpodcast.com . Support the show: https://linktr.ee/garretpodcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Sep 01, 2022•56 sec•Season 2022Ep. 225
Robert Watkins is the Publishing Director of Ultimo Press. He has over 20 years experience in the Australian book industry having worked in book retail, sales, marketing, publicity, publishing and more recently as Head of Literary at Hachette Australia. Robert’s love for a good story well told has led to publishing some of Australia’s most acclaimed contemporary authors, including Maxine Beneba Clarke, Claire G. Coleman, Sarah Schmidt and Michael Mohammed Ahmad. He is an advocate for progressive...
Aug 15, 2022•34 min•Season 2022Ep. 224
Dervla McTiernan is a wildly successful crime writer. Her debut novel, The Ruin , was a critically acclaimed international bestseller which won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction, the Davitt Award for Best Adult Fiction and the Barry Award for Best Original Paperback. The second and third installments in the series, The Scholar and The Good Turn , garnered similar praise. In 2022 she released her first stand alone crime novel, The Murder Rule. Born in County Cork, Ireland, Dervla practis...
Aug 14, 2022•24 min•Season 2022Ep. 223
Rick Morton is a senior reporter for The Saturday Paper , a regular guest on ABC’s The Drum and an award-winning author of three non-fiction books: 100 Years of Dirt, On Money and My Year of Living Vulnerably. In 2022 he edited the anthology Growing Up in Country Australia. He has appeared on The Garret before, and you can listen to that interview from 2021 here . About The Garret Follow The Garret: Writing and Publishing and our host Astrid Edwards on Instagram. Explore our back catalogue (and ...
Jul 20, 2022•24 min•Season 2022Ep. 222
Dr Neela Janakiramanan is a reconstructive plastic surgeon and advocate, and with the 2022 publication of The Registrar she adds novelist to her list of achievements. Neela was also one of the medical leads in the Kids off Nauru campaign and in bringing together the Australian medical community and operationalising the Australian Medevac legislation to facilitate medical care for refugees in offshore detention. Neela is a regular contributor to Women's Agenda , and has also written for The Age/ ...
Jul 13, 2022•27 min•Season 2022Ep. 221
Claire Coleman is a Noongar writer, born in Western Australia and now based in Naarm. Her family have been from the area around Ravensthorpe and Hopetoun on the south coast of WA since before time started being recorded. She has written three works of speculative fiction to date - Terra Nullius: A Novel (2017), which was shortlisted for The Stella Prize, among many other awards, The Old Lie (2019) and Enclave (2022). Her acclaimed non-fiction book, Lies Damned Lies: A personal exploration of the...
Jul 09, 2022•27 min•Season 2022Ep. 220
Phillipa McGuinness is a former book publisher turned author. She is the author of The Year Everything Changed: 2001, which was shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards and the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, and also Skin Deep: The inside story of our outer selves. Phillipa has appeared on The Garret before, and you can listen to that interview here. About The Garret Follow The Garret: Writing and Publishing and our host Astrid Edwards on Instagram. Explore our back catalogue (an...
Jun 29, 2022•30 min•Season 2022Ep. 219
