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This month we welcome back the very game Steve Lamattina as we put on our witch's hats, grab our brooms and head out into Lancre to solve problems in Martin Wallace's The Witches, the fourth official Discworld board game. As Tiffany Aching or one of her fellow apprentice witches, you'll run around Lancre solving problems big and small with headology and magic, helped by an assortment of local characters. But it's not just about getting the highest score - you'll also need to watch each other's backs or everyone in the kingdom could lose! Be sure to stop and share tea, or you might end up a cackler... Which witch is your favourite? How does The Witches rank against the other Discworld board games? Do you see it as a great family game, a mediocre co-op challenge, or something in between? Who do you wish had been included as a card or playable character? And would you use the game to introduce your friends to board games, the Discworld, or both? Check out the episode notes for pictures of the game components, and use the hashtag #Pratchat67 on social media to join in the conversation on this one! Steve Lamattina is a writer and editor whose work spans film, music, education and technology. He was once CEO of the youth publishing company Express Media, whom we still stan, and currently works for the Victorian Department of Education. You can find him on Twitter as @steve_lamattina. Next month we're going back...back to nearly the beginning! Yes, for #Pratchat68 we're setting the procrastinator coordinates for 1981 as we read and discuss Pratchett's proto-Discworld sci-fi novel Strata. It's a nice short book to get in before we tackle The Long Utopia in July... Use the hashtag #Pratchat68 to send us questions about Strata! You'll find the full notes and errata for this episode on our web site.

Ahead of this October's Writers Festival of Belgium, we meet Esther Anatolitis, the Editor of Australia's oldest and most venerable Literary Journal ‘Meanjin'. Esther is a stalwart of literature festivals, one of the founders of the Australian Emerging Writers Festival, now in its 20th year, and previous head of Express Media. She wants to ensure that all voices are heard in the run up to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander voice to Parliament referendum later on this year. She also answers the question: what is a Writers Festival anyway? In conversation with Alia Papageorgiou.

What ethical considerations should you take into account when editing someone’s work? What questions should you ask yourself to make sure you edit a story responsibly? Join editors from Voiceworks​ and beyond for a roundtable discussion about working with other people’s words.Featuring: Maddie Godfrey, Bridget Caldwell, Dani Leever, Adalya Nash HusseinSHOWNOTES:National Young Writer's Festivalhttps://youngwritersfestival.orgFacebook - @youngwritersfestivalTwitter / Instagram - @NYWFAdalya Nash HusseinFacebook - @adalyanashhusseinTwitter - @adalyanhDani Leeverhttps://www.quiet.ly/60297Twitter - @DaniLeeverMaddie Godfreyhttps://www.maddiegodfrey.comFacebook - @maddiegodfreypoetTwitter - @howtobeheldBridget CaldwellTwitter - @bridgetblouListen Up Podcasting (Kel Butler)www.listenuppodcasting.com.auFacebook @kelbutler & @listenuppodcastingTwitter @KelBAustralia Council for the Artshttps://www.australiacouncil.gov.auCreate NSWhttps://www.create.nsw.gov.au The Copyright Agency https://www.copyright.com.au

In episode 28, players Liz, Ben and guest Steve Lamattina press start and blast away at Pratchett's 1992 novel of kids, war and videogames, Only You Can Save Mankind. Twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell isn't the best at computer games, but he loves them all the same. While playing Only You Can Save Mankind, a space combat simulator, he's taken by surprise when the Captain of the enemy ScreeWee fleet offers to surrender. After he accepts, the game starts to invade his dreams, and the aliens disappear - from everyone's computer. Something weird is going on - but at least it's a distraction from the war on TV and the Trying Times at home... Only You Can Save Mankind - dedicated to Pratchett's daughter Rhianna, now a renowned videogame writer - is explicitly about the first Gulf War (1990-1991), at a time when games looked more real and televised war looked more like a game. In early 2020, many themes of the book seem alarmingly current - even as the experience of computer games it describes is very firmly rooted in the past. Did you connect with Johnny's experience? Do you like videogames? Does this episode contain too much Pokémon and Freddi Fish? Use the hashtag #Pratchat28 (and maybe #DeliciousPokémon) on social media to join the conversation! Guest Steve Lamattina is a writer and editor who has worked in film, music, education and tech. He was also CEO of youth publishing company Express Media, and has written about food, events, movies, games, social media and much much more. You can find him on Twitter as @steve_lamattina. Next month it's back to the Discworld, and close to home - more or less - as we catch up with Rincewind in 1998's The Last Continent, and welcome back a returning guest: Fury! We'll be recording in late February, so get your questions in before then via social media using the hashtag #Pratchat29. You'll find the full notes and errata for this episode on our web site.

Millie Baylis joined Marijo to discuss her work, 'small days', and resisting harmful ideas of productivity and the wellness trends. We also ask why accessing public transport is still such a challenge for people with a disability. Millie Baylis is a writer living in Melbourne, on Wurundjeri land. She studies Professional Writing and Editing and is developing memoir, essays and short stories. In 2019 she is a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow, and an Express Media participant of Toolkits: Memoir and Toolkits Fiction. Her work has recently appeared in Kill Your Darlings and Overland Online. Millie was also recently the managing editor of Visible Ink. You can check out the links to Millie's articles discussed during this conversation here:How To Rest: Chronic Illness and Finding Joy in Small Days.  https://www.killyourdarlings.com.au/article/how-to-rest/'Please offer me a seat': travelling with an invisible illness.  https://overland.org.au/2019/04/please-offer-me-a-seat-travelling-with-with-an-invisible-disability/ You can find Millie on Twitter at: @MillieBaylis 

Helen Scheuerer is the YA fantasy author of the bestselling novel, Heart of Mist (2017) and the upcoming sequel Reign of Mist (September 2018). Both books are part of the action-packed trilogy, The Oremere Chronicles. Helen is also the Founding Editor of Writer’s Edit, an online literary magazine and learning platform for emerging writers. It’s now one of the largest writers’ platforms in the world. She has been previously shortlisted for Express Media’s Outstanding Achievement by a Young Person in the Literary Arts Award and the Young Writers Showcase. Helen has also run writing and editing workshops for the NSW Society of Women Writers.

Sean is thrilled to lean into it and have a cerebral discussion with Jessica Alice about all things writing and they also both pay special tribute to Kat Muscat. Jessica Alice is a writer, broadcaster, artistic programmer and newly appointed director of Writers SA. Sean starts the show by reading a poem called UHF. A poem commissioned by Dear Everybody Collective. Jessica Alice talks about her new position as newly appointed director of Writers SA. And also about the Kat Muscat Fellowship and the newly published collection of Kat's work titled Defiance, Feminism, Empathy: The Writings of Kat Muscat. Jessica Alice takes on the More Than a Challenge and reads a new poem inspired by the following creative prompts. Driverless Cars - I can't remember who supplied this creative prompt! Sorry! If it was you give me a yell and I'll give you a shout out. Arctic - Cameron Semmens. Sean reads a poem inspired by the following creative prompts. Prompts - Rebecca Vespertine - Cigarette butts and confetti Cameron Semmens - Crow has been standing on my face. Fee Sievers - picture of a peacock at Montsalvat. Mark Ireland - Well dressed cowboys. ??? - Tarot (sorry this prompt was from a while ago and again I can't remember who supplied it. LOL. Was it you?) Penny Ulmer- The Kafka diaries, February 12, 1922, I have loved this for years, particularly this: The gesture of rejection with which I was forever met did not mean: 'I do not love you' but 'You cannot love me, much as you would like to; you are unhappily in love with your love for me, but your love for me is not in love with you'. In the World of Whelan segment Sean discusses his upcoming gig performing at Cafe Philosophique De La Mort. Tickets available now. Jessica Alice closes the show by reading a remarkable piece of writing by the late Kat Muscat called So Your Dick Isn't Perpetually Hard. Which is also included in the newly released publication by Express Media, Defiance, Feminism, Empathy: The Writings of Kat Muscat.

Recorded at the 2014 National Young Writers Festival. My guest this episode is writer, editor, Creative Producer of Express Media and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome haver, Lefa Singleton Norton. We push through our festival brain fog to talk women in comedy, why there's no shame in watching Midsomer Murders, explaining your illness to your boss, and fading out of your own life. Lefa tells me how she got started in the creative industries, and how she had to drastically change her career when Chronic Fatigue Syndrome hit.

The author of Ambulances & Dreamers talks about her new book, Express Media, poetry in Australia, poetry for young people, and lots more.