Podcast appearances and mentions of julie koh

Playwright Joanna Murray-Smith reflects on her storied career ahead of the world premiere of Berlin at the Melbourne Theatre Company and a revival of Honour at Sydney's Ensemble Theatre — a play that had its first reading with a cast that included Meryl Streep. Also, MasterChef meets The Hunger Games in the new Australian opera Chop Chef and we discuss the state of Australian playwriting with Currency Press founder Katharine Brisbane and the CEO of the newly formed Australian Plays Transform, Louise Gough.

Playwright Joanna Murray-Smith reflects on her storied career ahead of the world premiere of Berlin at the Melbourne Theatre Company and a revival of Honour at Sydney's Ensemble Theatre — a play that had its first reading with a cast that included Meryl Streep. Also, MasterChef meets The Hunger Games in the new Australian opera Chop Chef and we discuss the state of Australian playwriting with Currency Press founder Katharine Brisbane and the CEO of the newly formed Australian Plays Transform, Louise Gough.

Playwright Joanna Murray-Smith reflects on her storied career ahead of the world premiere of Berlin at the Melbourne Theatre Company and a revival of Honour at Sydney's Ensemble Theatre — a play that had its first reading with a cast that included Meryl Streep.Also, MasterChef meets The Hunger Games in the new Australian opera Chop Chef and we discuss the state of Australian playwriting with Currency Press founder Katharine Brisbane and the CEO of the newly formed Australian Plays Transform, Louise Gough.

A story of poetry slams, hipster beer and the wild chase to bring a slam poet to justice — poetic justice, that is.

A story of poetry slams, hipster beer and the wild chase to bring a slam poet to justice — poetic justice, that is.

A writer who can't write, with appalling taste in men, finds herself in possession of a mysterious itch.

A writer who can't write, with appalling taste in men, finds herself in possession of a mysterious itch.

In conversation with Julie Koh, novellist and non-fiction writer Charlotte Wood talks about the winding path she took to get her first book published, and how she maintained her writing life. 'Staying on the Path' was presented as part of Forest for the Trees 2018, an event at Sydney Writers' Festival.

•Julie Koh left a career as a lawyer to pursue writing. Her books ‘Capital Misfits’ and ‘Portable Curiosities’ have been met with critical acclaim and in 2017, she was named the Best Young Australian Novelist by the Sydney Morning Herald. She spoke about her life as a writer in 'My Path Through the Forest' as part of Forest for the Trees 2018 at Sydney Writers’ Festival.

These powerful new voices are reshaping the landscape and literature of Australia and influencing how we see ourselves as a community. Hear excerpts of their work and a discussion of what it is to find your voice. With Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Julie Koh, Peter Polites, Ellen van Neerven, and Benjamin Law (convenvor). Presented by NSW Writers’ Centre. Audio Credits Introduced by Shelia Pham Recorded and Produced by Zacha Rosen

Cream Reaper by Julie Koh and Dog Farm, Food Game by Eamonn Marra are the subject of today's discussion about reading and writing with Pip Adam.

This week were joined by writer Julie Koh ahead of Boundless: A festival of diverse writers happening on October 28 at Bankstown Arts Centre. We also took a look at #MeToo - does it ask too much of survivors? Plus, we spoke about the French equivalent Rat Out Your Pig and activist Tarana Burke who began the Me Too crusade 10 years ago specifically for women of colour. Thoughts That Count: Who's responsibility for closing the gender wage gap in Australian sport? We heard from Ladies Who League founder Mary Konstantopoulos, sports journalist Kieran Wagstaff and our listeners on the topic.

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.