Podcasts about emerging writers festival

‘My inner child is playing with matches and I've brought marshmallows'- from An Ode to my Little Firebrand by Anke In this episode of 3CR's Spoken Word show aired on Thursday 21 November 2024, you will hear Anke talk about righteous anger, injustice and the need for a new kind of superhero. If you are unsure how to pronounce Anke's name, it rhymes with the German word for thank you – ‘Danke'. Born in Germany and raised in Adelaide Australia, anke illustrates stories, poems, and events using sand and an ‘old-school' overhead projector. She also writes poetry and song lyrics for her garage folk band Awkward Strangers. She has worked throughout Australia as a performer, facilitator and artist, including with the award-winning multi-arts company Crossroad Arts, in Mackay, Queensland. Her sand work has illustrated spoken word poetry events in Melbourne, a 24-hour Speak Out event in Federation Square, and she runs Perc.U.lations, a monthly poetry event in Dandenong. This year two of her pieces featured in the Emerging Writers Festival 2024 Wall of Echo. Poems written and performed by Anke in this episode:Captain KindnessAn Ode to my Little FirebrandLines and Bridles NoteSpoken word and poetry come from the heart and touch on all the topics peculiar to the human condition. As such there may be content in this show that could cause distress. Please practice self-care when listening and seek help if you need it. CreditsRecorded and produced by Indrani Perera.Picture: Brendan Bonsack.Thank you to Anke for sharing her poetry and to you for listening! 

Acknowledgement of Country// News Headlines// 7:15am - Barbara Shaw (IRAG) - Karrinjarla Muwajarri Mparntwe Rally//Arrernte activist Barbara Shaw from the Intervention Rollback Action Group or IRAG spoke at a rally on Saturday the 18th of June in Mparntwe Alice Springs calling for Karrinjarla Muwajarri, no guns in community. The Karrinjarla Muwajarri campaign, organised by members of the Yuendumu community, demands a ceasefire and the restoration of self-determination to Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory. In this speech, Barbara Shaw connects the 15th anniversary of the Northern Territory Intervention with state violence in Aboriginal communities. Our thanks to the Punk Tree Hour crew on 8CCC Community Radio Alice Springs and Tennant Creek for sharing this recording with us! You can find out how to support the Karrinjarla Muwajarri campaign at karrinjarlamuwajarri.org, and more information about IRAG is available via their Facebook page - Intervention Rollback Action Group.// 7:30am - Music and Promotion//Event promotion: Emerging Writers Festival and Schizy Inc: Gnarly Writers, showing tonight at EWF Thursday 23rd of June from 7:30-8:30PM at Loop Project Space & Bar// Gnarly Writers celebrates storytellers who've been in the public mental health system for decades. These artists will bring you insights into the system and into healing, which might just come in handy to anyone starting out on a mental health lived experience apprenticeship or seeking validation for a lifetime of service. This event emphasizes that writing one's own story can be more than a chance to impart words of wisdom: it's also an act of freedom from a lifetime of being recorded. Find out more here // Radiothon promotion: Thursday Breakfast is raising money for 3CR's 2022 Radiothon!//Donate over the phone: CALL 03 9419 8377 OR SMS 0488 809 855//Donate online at 3cr.org.au/donate, or via our CrowdRaiser at givenow.com.au/cr/breakfast.//Don't forget to nominate Thursday Breakfast when you make your donation!// 7:45am - Zianna Fuad - Blockade Australia//Then we are joined by Zianna Fuad, a member of the climate activist group Blockade Australia. To speak on the heavily armed police raid at a NSW property on Sunday the 19th of June. The raid was triggered after activists spotted camouflaged, unmarked police officers filming them. Followed by dozens of police storming the site and detaining protesters. 7 protesters were charged on Sunday with a range of offences, 5 of them have been slammed with extremely punitive conditions such as being denied bail and maximum sentences of 10 years. Join their event on Monday 27th of June in Sydney DAY ONE here// 8:00am - Anna Weekes//We also speak to Anna Weekes from Frack Free Arts NT about the continued sponsorship of arts programming from fossil fuel giants such as Santos who is a sponsor of the upcoming Darwin Festival. Anna is a community cultural artist who has worked within Australia and internationally on community directed arts projects for social justice. Anna has a passion for the creation of personal and group expression through the arts with a focus on art as a passage for social commentary to provoke thought and change. Anna has also received the Kirk Robson Community Cultural Arts Development award for her work over the past 10 years in the field. Sign the open letter to end funding by Santos here// 8:15am - Mammad Aidani//Finally, we are joined by Mammad Aidani, who is a human rights advocate, poet, playwright, theatre director and psychosocial resarcher. He speaks with us today about the play 'I said this to the bird', which is currently showing at the Institute of Postcolonial Studies with upcoming performances from the 24th to 26th of June.Ticket details are available here.//Mammad's research investigates the violence, torture, trauma and suffering experienced by Iranian and Middle Eastern immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers who have resettled in Australia and the West. He is currently the vice president of PEN International Melbourne. He teaches Hermeneutics and Phenomenological philosophy at the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, and his writings have been banned in Iran. You can read an essay by Mammad on exile, '300 words for truth,' here in Overland.// Songs//R U My Love - ParvynNilotic - Elsy WameyoKush (Amadou Suso Replay) - SO.Crates//

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines with Emily// Thursday Breakfast is raising money for 3CR's 2022 Radiothon!Donate over the phone: CALL 03 9419 8377 OR SMS 0488 809 855 Donate online at 3cr.org.au/donate, or via our CrowdRaiser at givenow.com.au/cr/breakfast.Don't forget to nominate Thursday Breakfast when you make your donation!// Ellise Bourne, Media and Communications Officer at the Renters and Housing Union or RAHU, joins us to discuss the crisis of rental availability in Australia and about the ongoing fight for renters rights. Ellise is also a disability worker and proud unionist. You can find out more about RAHU's work, including how to find your local RAHU branch, at rahu.org.au.// Michelle Roger is a Gippsland based Disabled artist, writer and model. She is part of the Emerging Writers Festival event 'By My Bed' at No Vacancy gallery and online. Disabled Artists with lived experience of disability, chronic pain, and chronic illness answer the question ‘What are the objects that make up your world?' Alongside the photographs, you will find musings about the body, accessibility, care, community, and tenderness that can accumulate by their beds.// Dylan O'Hara is the acting manager of Vixen, Victoria's peer-only sex worker organisation. Vixen is a member organisation of Scarlet Alliance, the national peak body representing sex worker organisations in Australia, and the Global Network of Sex Work Projects, NSWP. Today, Dylan will be discussing the impacts and obstacles of the Victorian Sex Work Decriminalisation Act 2022.// We also heard from some excellent former Thursday Breakfasters - Katia Lallo (Done By Law on 3CR) and Rosie Isaac - and from Natalie Osborne (Radio Reversal on 4ZZZ), who shared why they love community radio!// Katia let us know about a new campaign fighting for workplace justice for community legal workers- you can sign the petition to support their fight for fair workplace conditions here, and follow them on Twitter and Instagram. You can also attend the campaign launch at Trades Hall on Thursday 16 June at 5.30PM.// Songs//hate me - miniskirt ft. blackwinterwells//Smile - Izy//

The 2022 Emerging Writers Festival is set to run from June 15th-25th; our host Nick chats with Festival Artistic Director and co-CEO Ruby-Rose Pivet-Marsh and 2022 Ambassador Jeanine Leane about what patrons can look forward to. EVENTS MENTIONED Full Festival Schedule: https://bit.ly/3MSFkWQ 4 x 4 Rules for Writing: https://bit.ly/3GmgD2L   EXPLORE BOOKS MENTIONED Whisper Songs by Tony Birch https://bit.ly/3wSQ13q One Hundred Days by Alice Pung https://bit.ly/3uSwqPq Ellen Van Neerven Collection https://bit.ly/3wLZcFt Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen https://bit.ly/352d3sO TAKE CARE by Eunice Andrada https://bit.ly/3JXz3YL The Mother Wound by Amani Haydar https://bit.ly/2SH5sgI Unlimited Futures by Rafeif Ismail, Ellen van Neerven https://bit.ly/3wNu7Bo   FOLLOW Emerging Writers' Festival on Twitter | https://twitter.com/EmergingWriters Emerging Writers' Festival on Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/emergingwriters/ Emerging Writers' Festival on Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/EmergingWritersFestival/   CREDITS  Guests: Ruby-Rose Pivet-Marsh, Jeanine Leane Host & Producer: Nick Wasiliev Published on: 27 May 2022 Season: 2 Episode: 31 © 2022 BooktopiaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode Business features Ally Kirkpatrick, writer, reader, and owner of the charming independent bookstore, Old Town Books, in Alexandria, VA. Listen to her inspiring story of opening a brick-and-mortar bookstore in the age of downloadable books. Among other endeavors, Ms. Kirkpatrick has developed the Emerging Writers Festival, a three-day event which connects readers to new writers and provides classes and workshops to emerging authors. In addition, Ms. Kirkpatrick gives back to her community by volunteering to help set up housing for Afghan refugees who have recently arrived in Northern Virginia. 

Stirring performances and readings from Blak and Indigenous writers recorded at this years' Emerging Writers Festival. Image credit: Renay Barker-MulhollandArtist statement: Flowers grow, the world revolves, and we make it through another day. While the sun sets, the diminishing rays ignite our own introspection on the status quo and our part in that. As we take stock of where we are, intertwined is a wealth of knowledge and strength.  This is the destination, and now is the journey. This work was created in response to my first outing on Country with my new powered 4wd wheelchair, I was finally able to engage in something so integral to my culture. I came across a giant bush covered in spectacular flowers, and was awestruck by the beauty of it. I finally felt in that moment that I could see what true justice for everyone meant, while noting the solid and intricate branches that grew these magnificent specimens. We've had the world stop, and the looming of the unknown has forced us through space and time to reflect on the kind of world it is we're trying to save. Now is the time to be brave, the revolution is here. Just like that beautiful bush, we needed to make sure every branch supports a magnificent display of us. 

The doin time show broadcasteda special event featuring artists who all have lived experiences of incarceration — sharing theirdreams of abolitionist futures and how we might get there. This Late Night Literature: Imagining Abolitionist Futures event took place on Thursday 24 June and featured stories submitted by women currently in prison, read out by the hosts on their behalf.Hosted by Nayuka Gorrie and Witt Gorrie as part of the Emerging Writers Festival 2021.The evening of storytelling featured Flick Smith, Tabitha Lean, Rosalina Curtis, Ashleigh and Stacey. Nayuka Gorrie introduces the event.Hosted by Nayuka Gorrie and Witt Gorrie as part of the Emerging Writers Festival 2021.Featuring the voices and work of Flick Smith, Tabitha Lean, Rosalina Curtis, Ashleigh and Stacey. You can watch the event on YOUTUBE — just search emergingwritersfestival.org.au and Late night Literature Abolitionist Futures.

We hear an interview with Wage Peace anti-war protestor Margaret Pestorius, who attempted a citizen's arrest on former defense minister, Christopher Pyne, as part of the Disrupt Land Forces protests in Brisbane at the start of June. Afterwards, we hear excerpts from Dreaming Disability Justice, an online event hosted by the Disability Justice Network and the Emerging Writers Festival, featuring Vanmali Hermans, Julia Rose Bak and Margot Beavon-Collin.

Welcome to The Weekend Booktopian, our weekly podcast to kick off your weekend! Our team will give you the low down on all things book news related, and turn you on to the books that we are reading right now! For our forty-eighth episode Nick hosts Jo, Joel and special guest Veronica Heritage-Gorrie as they discuss Emerging Writers Festival 2021, the Miles Franklin Shortlist and the winner of the Pulitzer Prizes. We then give you our latest round of book recommendations, before another edition of Book Fight! Emerging Writers Festival: https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/ EWF 2021 Events: https://bit.ly/3cyPqMq Books Mentioned in this podcast: Jamaica Kincaid - A Small Place: https://bit.ly/3vqEsPU Nina Young, Denise Young - My Father the Murderer: https://bit.ly/3grrSve Erin Stewart - The Missing Among Us: https://bit.ly/3iJlLEq Gary Lonesborough - The Boy From The Mish: https://bit.ly/3paHhBo Sally Rooney - Beautiful World, Where Are You?: https://bit.ly/39wm7YN Liane Moriarty - Apples Never Fall: https://bit.ly/3iYDkOA Anthony Doerr - Cloud Cuckoo Land: https://bit.ly/342ZuZA Jonathan Franzen - Crossroads: https://bit.ly/3fCbN4f Martha Wells - Fugitive Telemetry: The Murderbot Diaries: https://bit.ly/389oiAM Norman Swan - So You Think You Know What's Good for You?: https://bit.ly/3hgcWRH Veronica Heritage-Gorrie - Black and Blue: https://bit.ly/3wqcAg9 Louise Erdrich - The Night Watchman: https://bit.ly/2RWUqnd Host: Nick Wasiliev Guests: Jo Lewin, Joel Naoum & Veronica Heritage-Gorrie - Emerging Writers Festival Producer: Nick Wasiliev

Acknowledgement of Country News Headline El Gibbs, disability advocate and award-winning writer with a focus on disability and social issues, has been a guest on Thursday Breakfast several times this year to discuss the National Disability Insurance Scheme and the issue of independent assessments, the roll out of the COVID-19 vaccine for disabled folks, and outcomes for disabled people in the latest federal budget. Today, El chats with us about the intersections between this advocacy work and community media. Anna Carlson is a host and producer with 4ZZZ Radio Reversal - one of our sibling radio shows based in Meanjin. Anna joins us to chat about community radio and why you should support it! We speak with Yamiko Marama and Amarachi Okorom, two artists who are part of ‘Amazing Babes', an online storytelling event that is part of the Emerging Writers Festival. Amarachi Okorom is a Nigerian born Igbo actor, spoken word poet and emerging playwright. She has recently started diving into writing for stage and has been in residency in 2020 with Lonely Company. Yamiko Marama is a writer, therapist and food truck owner from Naarm. Yamiko is an inaugural recipient of The Wheeler Centre's Next Chapter Fellowship and is a contributor to Growing Up Queer in Australia. Anti-poverty activist Kristin O'Connell, has been a regular guest on 3CR Thursday Breakfast over 2020-21. Kristin speaks with us today about anti-poverty activism and community media, and provides a brief update on the Social Security Legislation Amendment (Streamlined Participation Requirements and Other Measures) Bill 2021, which stands to make rapid and significant changes to mutual obligation requirements. With a special guest call from Priya's parents :) SongsBullseye - Jess BBefore Daylight - The MerindasHeartless - ONEFOURDamaged - MiieshaAncstr - The Ancient Bloods  

Welcome to The Weekend Booktopian, our weekly podcast to kick off your weekend! Our team will give you the low down on all things book news related, and turn you on to the books that we are reading right now! For our forty-seventh episode Nick hosts Mark, Ashleigh and special guest Elena Gomez as they discuss Emerging Writers Festival 2021. We then give you our latest round of book recommendations, before another edition of Book Fight! Emerging Writers Festival: https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/ EWF 2021 Events: https://bit.ly/3cyPqMq Books Mentioned in this podcast: Nick Cutter - Little Heaven: https://bit.ly/3ixojVY Emma Southon - A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: https://bit.ly/3g6CVKn Peter F. Hamilton - Judas Unchained: https://bit.ly/3pFNEi3 Zakiya Dalila Harris - The Other Black Girl: https://bit.ly/3pE42zo J.P. Pomare - The Last Guests: https://bit.ly/3pE4bmq Anwen Crawford - No Document: https://bit.ly/2RFUyHr Evelyn Araluen - Dropbear: https://bit.ly/352d3sO Ella O'Keefe - Slowlier: Book 6: https://bit.ly/3cwgQ5C Host: Nick Wasiliev Guests: Ashleigh Berry, Mark Harding & Elena Gomez - Ambassador for Emerging Writers Festival 2021 Producer: Nick Wasiliev

Welcome to The Weekend Booktopian, our weekly podcast to kick off your weekend! Our team will give you the low down on all things book news related, and turn you on to the books that we are reading right now! For our forty-third episode Nick hosts Zia, Arthur and Joel as we discuss the Emerging Writers Festival and discuss the gamification of reading. We then give you our latest round of book recommendations, before another episode of Book Fight! Books Mentioned in this podcast: Bri Lee - Who Gets To Be Smart: https://bit.ly/3y49Feh Eddie Jaku - The Happiest Man on Earth: https://bit.ly/34GLaHx Colum McCann - Apeirogon: https://bit.ly/3tLbBF5 Trent Martin Kirchner - How To Borrow A Dog: https://bit.ly/3fk12Dx Host: Nick Wasiliev Guests: Zia Keirouz, Arthur Malkoun and Joel Naoum Producer: Nick Wasiliev

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

Presenting Vignettes, the new audio reading podcast series from Emerging Writers’ Festival. Trailer out now!

 Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly Dr Nikki Moodie, Gomeroi woman and sociologist based at the University of Melbourne, joins us to discuss recent changes to the university sector in Australia. This conversation focuses on the intersection between impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and austerity measures such as fee hikes, and the effects that this is likely to have on teaching and learning. We hear part of Writing Blak an event presented online by the Wheeler Center in partnership with the Emerging Writers Festival last Thursday. Hosted by Evelyn Araluen, four emerging First Nations writers from The Next Chapter writers’ scheme – Jasmin McGaughey, Racheal Oak Butler, Lorna Munro and Meleika Gesa-Fatafehi – discuss the creative process, writing for Blak and settler readerships, and how they respond to expectations of genre, character and identity.  Reyvi Marinas, secretary of The Philippines Australia Solidarity Association (PASA) and Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne Law School, shares his grave concerns about the proposed Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Amendment Bill 2020 which threaten to severely limit democratic rights.  SongsSachém - GeminiHoodzy - Hardcase

Yesterday is a piece of sound art that blurs reality and fiction, sound design and script. Yesterday was made for a Late Night Lit listening party, as part of the Emerging Writers Festival in Melbourne in 2019. The brief for the evening was: "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."To work with that brief, I decided to examine my own relationship with memory, with the moments from my past both big and small, and how those memories live in my body.Content Note: While there’s nothing particularly graphic in this piece, there are moments of it that deal with family death and grief, anxiety, and PTSD. Please take care of yourself.Written and Produced by Erin KyanInterviewer voiced by Lee Davis-ThalbourneErin Kyan voiced by himselfNurse voiced by Fox CooperWorks on Passer Vulpes Presents are produced by Passer Vulpes Productions. To find out more about us and our shows, visit passervulpes.com.If you enjoyed this piece, consider backing us via our Patreon! Patrons get access to secret Discord channels, monthly livestreams, behind-the-scenes sneak peaks and more! To become a Patron, visit patreon.com/passervulpes, or to find out other ways of supporting us, visit passervulpes.com/support!

Jean comes out - as a fanfic writer. A nostalgic throwback to simpler times, when representation was out of reach and a young writer found fame - and critique - online. Jean Tong is a Melbourne-based writer. Her previous work includes Hungry Ghosts (Melbourne Theatre Company), Romeo Is Not The Only Fruit (The Coopers Malthouse, MICF), and Anti Hero (Monash Centre for Theatre and Performance). She has also presented at the Emerging Writers’ Festival, and published in Peril Magazine and Meanjin. In 2018, she was selected for Screen Australia’s ‘Developing the Developer’ workshop, and for Film Victoria’s TV and Online Concept lab (Plot Twist). Queerstories is an LGBTQIA+ storytelling night programmed by Maeve Marsden, with regular events in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. For Queerstories event dates, visit www.maevemarsden.com, and follow Queerstories on Facebook. The new Queerstories book is published by Hachette Australia, and can be purchased on Booktopia. To support Queerstories, become a patron at www.patreon.com/ladysingsitbetter And for gay stuff, insomnia rant and photos of my dog Frank follow me - Maeve Marsden - on Twitter and Instagram.

This week in the pharmacy we have the writer, poet, and artist KHAIRANI BAROKKA! All the poems we prescribe and talk about in this episode can be found here: http://bit.ly/2klT8AG KHAIRANI BAROKKA was born in Jakarta and currently lives in London. Among her honours, she was an NYU Tisch Departmental Fellow for her masters, Emerging Writers Festival’s (AUS) Inaugural International Writer-In-Residence (2013), and Indonesia’s first Writer-In-Residence at Vermont Studio Center (2011). Okka is the writer/performer/producer of, among others, a deaf-accessible, solo poetry/art show, Eve and Mary Are Having Coffee. It premiered at Edinburgh Fringe 2014 as Indonesia’s only representative, with a grant from HIVOS. She was recognized in 2014 by UNFPA as one of Indonesia’s “Inspirational Young Leaders Driving Social Change”, for highly prolific, pioneering international work in inclusive, accessible arts. Published internationally in anthologies and journals, Okka has presented work extensively, in ten countries, is a frequent public speaker, and has been awarded six residencies and various grants. She is author and illustrator of poetry-art book Indigenous Species (Tilted Axis Press, 2016), co-editor with Ng Yi-Sheng of HEAT: A Southeast Asian Urban Anthology (Fixi, 2016), and co-editor, with Sandra Alland and Daniel Sluman, of Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back (Nine Arches Press, May 2017). A PhD-by-practice researcher at Goldsmiths, as an LPDP Scholar in Visual Cultures, Okka is currently working on a book and visual works. Her first full-length poetry collection, Rope, is currently out with Nine Arches Press (October 2017). [Theme music for the podcast is by Aretha Franklin played by the wonderful coversart & also Ahmad Jamal from his album Tranquility]

In today's episode we had a sit down with Matt Gilson from OLD TOWN BOOKS located in Alexandria Virginia. After 10 years of not having an independent bookstore Ally Kirkpatrick decided to open a bookstore in her home town.We learned more about OLD TOWN BOOKS and how Matt got involved in the book business. He also shared what you can expect walking in which also involves their store dog - Scout.Matt  discussed the rise of independent bookstores and their come back after watching them close ten to fifteen years ago. We also talked about the importance of bookstores curating their inventory in order to not overwhelm readers. This is also a key factor in creating a personal experience with books, and a great way to introduce readers to new titles and authors - not just bestsellers.Matt shared his biggest challenge, and what he loves most about working in an independent bookstore. We also talked about his current reads, his favorite go-to-genre, and he even offers up some advice for individuals who are considering opening an independent bookstore in their town!Old Town Books will be hosting an Emerging Writers Festival on August 16 - 18, 2019. For more details visit - https://www.emergingwritersfestival.com Thank you so much Matt for coming on the show!Listen to the FULL EPISODE over on on our Patreon Page - https://www.patreon.com/bibliofinder CONNECT with OLD TOWN BOOKShttps://bibliofinder.com/listing/old-town-books/ CONNECT with BIBLIO HAPPY HOURPATREON PAGE - https://www.patreon.com/bibliofinderBIBLIOFINDER - https://bibliofinder.comBIBLIO HAPPY HOUR - https://bibliohappyhour.com 

In the lead up to the Emerging Writers Festival, Viv and Digby interviewed Tegan Webb about zines, the State Library, and so much more.  The Emerging Writers Festival is now over for 2019, but you can find out more information here: https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/ Originally premiered on Sunday 16th June. Produced and edited by Marcie Di Bartolomeo.

Welcome to episode two of The Tune Up: Mama Alto on the Radical Potential of Storytelling and Strength in Softness - brought to you by Melbourne Recital Centre. Hosts Maxim Boon and Megan Steller speak with gender-transcendent diva and cabaret artiste Mama Alto about the power and potential of storytelling through song, how vulnerability builds strength in humankind and the inclusivity of contemporary cabaret. About Mama Alto: Mama Alto is a jazz singer, cabaret artiste & gender transcendent diva. Fierce, femme and fabulous, she has performed at beloved venues including The Butterfly Club, Brisbane Powerhouse, Chapel off Chapel, The Famous Spiegeltent, Gluttony, Hares & Hyenas, The Melba Spiegeltent, Melbourne Recital Centre, the National Gallery of Victoria, Porcelain Tea Parlour & more, and festivals such as Adelaide Cabaret Fringe, Adelaide Fringe, Feast (Adelaide), Emerging Writers Festival, Festival of Voices (Hobart), Marysville Jazz & Blues, Melbourne Cabaret Festival, Melbourne Fringe, Midsumma (Melbourne), Stonnington Jazz, Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras, Wonderland (Brisbane) & more. In 2018, she released four studio albums on vinyl, CD and digital release, all recorded with original analogue 1950s recording equipment. Vinyls & CDs are available here, and you can find Mama on Spotify, Apple Music, and many other popular streaming platforms. About your hosts Maxim Boon and Megan Steller: Maxim Boon is a British composer, writer and critic who has been based in Australia since 2014. When he's not ensconced in a concert hall or writing about Melbourne's music scene, he can mostly be found taking selfies with his dog. Megan Steller is an artist manager, writer and producer, who spends most of her time talking about classical music. She occasionally gets really enthusiastic at the symphony and claps in the wrong spot, but she's working on it. Find more stories about the music, musicians and people that make Melbourne Recital Centre the best place to hear at soundescapes.melbournerecital.com.au

Twenty-one today! In this episode, Elizabeth and Ben are joined by David Ryding of Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature as we rejoin Rincewind and some of his old friends in the 17th Discworld novel: 1994's Interesting Times. Rincewind, the worst student Unseen University ever had, has been quite literally to hell and back. But when a summons arrives in Ankh-Morpork requesting the presence of "the Great Wizzard", his old faculty bring him home, then send him to the far-flung Agatean Empire. All is not well on the Counterweight Continent: rebels are (gently) questioning centuries of enforced order, inspired by the revolutionary pamphlet "What I Did on My Holidays". The ruthless Lord Hong plots to change the Empire forever. The walls have failed to keep out a horde of barbarian invaders - seven of them, in fact. And it's about to be visited by a very special kind of butterfly... Pratchett revisits characters from his first Discworld novels, as Rincewind is reunited with Cohen the Barbarian in Twoflower's homeland. But in 2019, twenty-five years after it was first published, his depiction of a comic fantasy Asia leaves a bit to be desired. There's plenty going on, and some stirring speeches, but it's also hard to ignore that nearly all the main characters are white folks "saving" a nation inspired by real-world Asian countries from itself. Is there a clear message in the book? How does this sit on the evolution of Pratchett's work from parody to satire? And were you glad to see such old favourite characters return, or could you have done without them? We'd love to hear from you! Use the hashtag #Pratchat21 on social media to join the conversation. We hope you enjoyed our first ever live show, recorded at Nullus Anxietas VII, where we discussed Cohen's previous adventure in the short story Troll Bridge! We hope to record more bonus episodes in future, and you can help us do it by supporting Pratchat. In August we leave the Discworld and indeed fiction to read one of Pratchett's oddest books: The Unadulterated Cat, his 1989 collaboration with cartoonist Gray Joliffe, in which he makes the case that the only "real cat" is one that destroys gardens, eats wildlife and makes a thorough nuisance of itself. If you have questions, send them to us via social media using the hashtag #Pratchat22. Show Notes and Errata: David Ryding has been Director of the Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature office since its establishment in 2014 (though Melbourne has been a City of Literature since 2008). Prior to that he was director of the Emerging Writers Festival, then executive director of the NSW Writers Centre (now know as Writing NSW). You can find out more about what he does at the City of Literature office at cityofliterature.com.au, and they're also on Twitter at @MelCityofLit. If you're looking for other great literary podcasts made in Melbourne, you can find some listed on their site here.Men at Arms is the fifteenth Discworld novel, published in 1993. We covered it in episode one, Boots Theory, with Cal Wilson."Inscrutable" is a word long associated with stereotypical depictions of Asian cultures, especially the Chinese. It stems from a lack of effort to understand the differing cultural conventions encountered by Europeans, and seems to have reached a height in Victorian literature.Bill Bryson is an American-British non-fiction author whose work covers language, travel, history and science. His best known works include Notes From a Small Island, The Mother Tongue and A Short History of Nearly Everything. The white saviour is a trope in which non-white characters are unable to save themselves, and are rescued from disaster by a heroic white character. The Wikipedia article lists a large number of examples."Eurogames" are a tradition of modern boardgames with their roots in post-war Germany. Such games often focus on strategic depth and a balance of luck and skill. The Settlers of Catan,

The Curtain Between, by Maryam Azam and first published in Seizure/Sweatshop's 'Stories of Sydney', depicts the budding of new love in two young university students. The young woman, our narrator, balances her romantic interest with cultural expectations, and the reveals how limitation can sometimes be fruitful. Maryam Azam is a Pakistani-Australian writer and teacher who lives and works in Western Sydney. She graduated with Honours in Creative Writing from Western Sydney University and is a recipient of the WestWords Emerging Writers’ Fellowship. She has performed her work at the Sydney Writers' Festival and the Emerging Writers Festival and is a member of Sweatshop: Western Sydney Literacy Movement. Her debut collection is The Hijab Files (Giramondo, 2018). Photo by Ifrah Akhter on Unsplash.

In this episode, author Mark Brandi joins Mel Cranenburgh to talk about his new novel, The Rip, described as'an urban crime novel that slowly and masterfully hooks you in... then shocks with the horrific crime and the dread that the characters you care about aren't going to make it out alive'.Then Melbourne-based animator, comic artist and zinemaker, Peo Michie, and multidisciplinary artist, musician and writer, Heather Joan Day, come by to chat with Mel about Interstitial, an event exploring life between cultures from the Emerging Writers Festival and Liminal.

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?” === Featuring: Timmah Ball, Darlene Silva Soberano, Latifa Elmrini, Lauren Sanders, Manisha Anjali and Tamsien West Produced by: Lindsey Green === See the full EWF19 Program here: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/events/fe…val/2019/ See Timmah's bio here: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/ewf…-podcast/

With the 2019 Emerging Writers Festival fast-approaching, co-hosts Arnie and Sim caught-up with Artistic Director – and former SYN presenter – Izzy Roberts-Orr about her decade-long involvement with the Festival, its colourful promotional artwork, its international connections and which poet she’d most like to have a coffee with. The Emerging Writers Festival officially begins this Wednesday, June 19th. For more information, head to emergingwritersfestival.org.au, or search @emergingwriters on social media. Segment originally aired Wednesday, June 13th. Produced by Tom Parry.

The Garret LIVE at the Library In partnership with the State Library of Victoria, The Garret hosts a series of live events with leading Australian writers. This event was recorded on Tuesday 21 May 2019. In this event, Maxine Beneba Clarke and Magan Magan discuss Growing up African in Australia with host Astrid Edwards and Shantel Wetherall. The discussion explores all angles of Growing Up African in Australia - Maxine's role as editor, Magan's role as editor and contributor, and Shantel's experience as a reader who grew up as part of the African Diaspora. Maxine Beneba Clarke is an Australian writer and poet of Afro-Caribbean descent. She is the author of the Indie and ABIA award-winning short fiction collection Foreign Soil (2014). Her most recent poetry collection Carrying The World won the 2017 Victorian Premier's Award for Poetry. Maxine is the author of the CBCA winning picture book The Patchwork Bike and her critically acclaimed memoir The Hate Race is being adapted for stage for Melbourne's Malthouse Theatre. She writes for the Saturday Paper. Magan Magan is a writer and poet who has read work at the National Gallery of Victoria, the National Young Writers Festival, the Emerging Writers Festival and Melbourne Writers Festival. His work has been published in Cordite Poetry Review and the anthologies Shots from the Chamber, Australian Poetry and Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry. Magan's latest book is From Grains to Gold (2018). Shantel Wetherall is a Melbourne culture writer, presenter and maker. Her work is featured in The Guardian and she produces and hosts Hey Aunty! Podcast. About The Garret You can read the transcript of this interview at thegarretpodcast.com.  You can also follow The Garret on Twitter and Facebook, or follow our host Astrid Edwards on Twitter or Instagram. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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

This week Kulja and Dylan speak with Dr Nicole Kalms, Director of XYX Lab, and the Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Monash University. They have a chat about a piece she wrote in The Conversation on designing safer cities, and listening to the experiences of women: https://theconversation.com/to-design-safer-parks-for-women-city-planners-must-listen-to-their-stories-98317 (emerg. 0408 006 636) Then, Brook Andrew talks about his Boiler Room Lecture: Walking on Bones, Empowering Memory: Brook Andrew and guests at SLV (part of the R.R. Memorial Forum) and his contribution to the book Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre Finally, Kulja and Dylan have a chat with Hayley West, who talked on the panel: Speakeasy: Death at the Emerging Writers Festival

We hear three short speeches from one of the Emerging Writers Festival’s most popular events, Amazing Babes. Amazing Babes is a night where eight women perform an ode to an amazing babe in their life. We hear excerpts of speeches from Poala Balla, Jasmeet Sahi and Susie Anderson.Cruel Charlie - Estere 

This week Breakfasters talk to Larissa Dubecki about the "Writers Night School: Food Writing" event at the Emerging Writers Festival, plus 'Feature Creatures' regular Simon Hinkley chats about the explosive bombardier beetle. Dr Jen comes in to debunk full moon myths, and the team chat about celebrities that live close by, and what to do in a blackout. With Sarah Smith, Jeff Sparrow, and Geraldine Hickey.

In our season one finale, satirist Julie Koh joins us to discuss switching careers, experimental short fiction, and whether satire can change the world when it feels like the world is satirising itself. Plus, a bonus for our listeners – the audio of Julie’s reading at the Emerging Writers’ Festival 2017 Program Launch. Julie Koh is a Sydney-based writer. She quit a career in corporate law to pursue writing, and her short stories have appeared in The Best Australian Stories and Best Australian Comedy Writing. Julie has written two short-story collections, Capital Misfits and Portable Curiosities. The latter has been shortlisted for the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction, the Steele Rudd Award in the Queensland Literary Awards, and the UTS Glenda Adams Award in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. Portable Curiosities was also one of The Guardian’s Best Australian Books of 2016, an Australian Book Review 2016 Book of the Year, a Sydney Morning Herald Daily Life feminist reading pick of 2016, and a Feminist Writers Festival Best Feminist Book of 2016. Julie is the editor of BooksActually’s Gold Standard and a founding member of Kanganoulipo.

As part of the Emerging Writers’ Festival, we hosted a panel exploring over half a decade of Australian television broadcasting with a fascinating look at the ABC. With its history stretching back to 1956, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation is an integral part of the Australian television landscape. ACMI and the Emerging Writers' Festival bring together a special panel of writers, critics and commentators to explore over half a decade of what many refer to as "Aunty", with a fascinating exploration of our national broadcaster. Taking a look back at its humble beginnings broadcasting a single non-commercial television channel, all the way through to its current position providing a suite of content across numerous terrestrial, digital and web based channels, our panel will explore past programs and examine the current crop of acclaimed ABC series including Rake, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, and Redfern Now. Recorded on 4/5/2014

In Episode Twenty Three, live from The Wheeler Centre for Emerging Writers Festival 2015, Peter and Bec pander to the Melbourne crowd, do a few groundbreaking ‘airport’ bits and talk about the Marriage Equality Bill before Australian Parliament. Then they're joined by RETURN GUEST, writer Brodie Lancaster, as they discuss the evolution of fan culture online by reading fan fiction, scrolling through an aspiring stalker's Instagram posts and recreating a famous Larry Stylinson moment of pure sex. Peter and Bec ditch their regular film review to critique a classic piece of American literature in honour of EWF15. Plus: News, Sports, the Lady from Lush™, Ranger Stacey Massage and a live reading of Peter’s epic poem ‘My Gilmore Year’.

Peter Millett talks about the challenges of writing for nine year olds and the first instalment of his Johnny Danger spy series.Sam Twyford_Moore talks about the authors and events at this year's Emerging Writers Festival.