Podcasts about lifted brow

Join Michelle as she talks with prize-winning author Katerina Gibson about her new novel The Temperature. Katerina Gibson (1994) is a writer and bookseller living in Naarm. Her debut collection Women I Know won the 2023 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, the Steele Rudd Award, and was shortlisted for the Glenda Adams Prize for New Writing. Her stories have appeared in HEAT, Granta, Overland, The Griffith Review, the Lifted Brow, Meanjin, and New Australian Fiction, among other places. Her story ‘Fertile Soil' was the Pacific region winner of the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and was later translated into Italian. Katerina was named SMH 2023 Best Young Australian Novelist. Her debut novel The Temperature is forthcoming with Scribner in September 2024. Katerina is represented by Caitlan Cooper-Trent at Curtis Brown: caitlan@curtisbrown.com.au https://www.katerinagibson.com/

Dan Hogan (they/them) is a working-class writer originally from San Remo, NSW, Australia (Awabakal and Darkinjung Country) and is currently based on  Gadigal Country (Sydney).Dan's debut full-length poetry collection Secret Third Thing won the 2022-2023 Five Islands Prize for a first book of poetry and was released by Cordite Books in 2023, and can be purchased here. In their spare time, Dan runs small DIY publisher Subbed In.Dan's poetry has also been recognised by the Peter Porter Poetry Prize, Judith Wright Poetry prize and Val Vallis Award, among others.Spanning poetry, non-fiction and fiction, Dan's writing has appeared in Meanjin, Overland, Going Down Swinging, Jacobin, Southerly, Cordite, The Suburban Review, The Guardian, Crikey, Scum Mag, Rabbit, Sydney Morning Herald, ABC, The Lifted Brow and Voiceworks, among others. Their work has been anthologised in books such as Nothing to Hide: Voices of Trans and Gender Diverse Australia (Allen & Unwin, 2022) and Groundswell (Overland, 2022). More of their work can be found at https://www.2dan2hogan.com/ Production and Interview: Tina Giannoukos  

Travel back to February 2023 for this interview with Henry and Carody Culver, the editor of Griffith Review. Carody was a contributing editor for Peppermint magazine and has written for publications including Kill Your Darlings, The Lifted Brow and Books+Publishing. This conversation was originally broadcast on 97.7FM Casey Radio in February 2023. Produced by Rob Kelly.

Kate and Katherine catch up in the aftermath of Kate's trip to Newcastle Writers Festival, in which she managed to lose (and ultimately find) both her laptop and her luggage. The discuss festival etiquette and recommends things to read, including everything by Kevin Wilson (check out last week's episode!!). This episode our featured book segment is brought to you by Allen and Unwin and we're talking to Madelaine Lucas about her debut novel Thirst For Salt.  Madelaine Lucas is the author of Thirst For Salt and a senior editor of NOON. Born in 1990, she was raised in Melbourne and Sydney as the daughter of a visual artist and a rock ‘n' roll musician. In 2015, she moved to New York to complete her MFA in fiction at Columbia University, where she now teaches in the undergraduate and graduate writing programs.  Her essays and interviews have appeared in publications such as Paris Review Daily, The Believer, Literary Hub, Catapult, The Lifted Brow and Meanjin, and her fiction has been awarded the Elizabeth Jolley Prize and the Overland/Victoria University Emerging Writer's Prize.  She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and her dog, Pancho. Check out show notes for this episode on our website www.thefirsttimepodcast.com or get in touch via Twitter (@thefirsttimepod) or Instagram (@thefirsttimepod). You can support us and the making of Season Six via our Patreon page. Thanks for joining us!

Madelaine Lucas is the author of the debut novel Thirst for Salt, available from Tin House. Lucas is a senior editor of NOON. Born in 1990, she was raised in Melbourne and Sydney as the daughter of a visual artist and a rock ‘n' roll musician. In 2015, she moved to New York to complete her MFA in fiction at Columbia University, where she now teaches in the undergraduate and graduate writing programs. Her essays and interviews have appeared in publications such as Paris Review Daily, The Believer, Literary Hub, Catapult, The Lifted Brow and Meanjin, and her fiction has been awarded the Elizabeth Jolley Prize and the Overland/Victoria University Emerging Writer's Prize. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and her dog, Pancho. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Etc. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi's email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram  YouTube TikTok Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3CR Wednesday Breakfast 22/2/23With Claudia (and Grace remotely) 7:05AM Claudia speaks with former 3CR presenter Evan Wallace about the recent spate of media reporting about Mpartwnee/ Alice Springs. Evan is a journalist and radio presenter working for the ABC on the ground in Mpartwnee/ Alice Springs.  Further reading: https://theconversation.com/heres-some-context-missing-from-the-mparntwe-alice-springs-crime-wave-reporting-199481 Media guidelines: https://genderinstitute.anu.edu.au/news/media-changing-story-media-guidelines-reporting-domestic-family-and-sexual-violence-northern 7:35AM Claudia speaks with Jamila Khodja and Bec Kavanagh from the Wheeler Centre about the upcoming M/Other event. M/Other is a weekend-long programme of conversations about the way in which 'motherhood' is experienced, portrayed and labelled. On at Wheeler Centre and online March 3-5. For tickets and information head to https://www.wheelercentre.com/event-series/m-other/ 7:53AM Grace gives us further insight into the experience of international students in Naarm/Melbourne, revisitng a conversation between Jacob from Queering the Air and PhD student Hao Zheng. Hao speaks about her latest paper on the experiences of queer international students during COVID lockdown & finding community in Naarm. This conversation first aired on 3CR's Queering the Air on 5th February. 8.10AM Claudia speaks with Eda Gunaydin, a Turkish-Australian essayist and researcher, whose writing explores class, capital, intergenerational trauma and diaspora. Her work has appeared in the Sydney Review of Books, Meanjin, The Lifted Brow, and others.. Her debut essay collection Root and Branch: Essays on Inheritance is the winner of the 2023 Victorian Premier's Literature Prize for Non-Fiction. You can follow Eda on Twitter @ eda__gunaydin  To show support for those impacted by the Turkiye Syrian earthquakes, Eda recommends connecting with the following organisations: AHBAP: https://ahbap.org/bagisciol / KRC: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ST5BWWFB7FPGS / Fundraiser for affected uni students: https://www.gofundme.com/f/surviveduniversitystudents?member=25029215&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_content=undefined&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer&utm_term=undefined  

In this episode, we speak to author and essayist Ellena Savage. We discuss hierarchies of power within the arts and the precarity of writing for a living, as well as what it means to work both within and in opposition to literary and academic institutions. We address ideas of consumption and capitalism, as well as the dream of a classless society which makes space for beauty and pleasure. We explore the experimental essay form as a means of capturing the fractured nature of memory and time, and the subversion of catalogues and archives as a feminist tool. We discuss what it means to write 'memoir' or 'anti-memoir' and the intersection of these ideas with gender and social class. We also chat about complex notions of home and belonging, amidst gentification and colonial histories. Ellena Savage's debut essay collection, Blueberries, was published by Text Publishing and Scribe UK in 2020. It was shortlisted for the 2021 VPLA and long-listed for the Stella Prize. She has written essays, stories and poems for Sydney Review of Books, Paris Review Daily, Literary Hub, Meanjin, Overland, Cordite, Mirror Lamp Press, Kill Your Darlings,The Big Issue Fiction Edition and The Lifted Brow (where she was an editor). She has also written for periodicals such asThe Age, Guardian Weekend and Eureka Street, where she wrote a monthly cultural politics column between 2011-2016, and in the anthologies Open Secrets (2021), The Cambridge History of the American Essay (forthcoming), Choice Words (2019), The Best of the Lifted Brow: Volume Two (2017), Poetic Justice (2014), and The Emerging Writer (2013). She has written for gallery and performance contexts via Darebin City Council, Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, and ArtsHouse. She also published a chapbook, Yellow City with The Atlas Review in 2019. References Blueberries by Ellena Savage Little Throbs (newsletter) by Ellena Savage Memnoir by Joan Retellack (Chain #7: Memoir/Anti-Memoir edited by Jena Osman and Juliana Spahr) Bhanu Kapil Crabcakes: A Memoir by James Alan McPherson Poetry is not a Luxury by Audre Lorde As always, visit Storysmith for 10% discount on Ellena's work.

Eda's always considered herself a cultural ambassador for being gay, but a night out during Mardi Gras isn't quite the promotional tour she'd hoped for.Eda Gunaydin is a Turkish-Australian writer and researcher interested in class, race and diaspora. You can find her essays and creative non-fiction in Meanjin, The Sydney Review of Books and The Lifted Brow. She has been shortlisted for a Queensland Literary Award and the Scribe Non-Fiction Prize. She is currently Contributing Editor at the Sydney Review of Books, and her debut essay collection Root and Branch was published in May 2022. It's brilliant and I've been recommending it to everyone I speak to, you should buy it. But first listen to this story, recorded at Riverside Theatres in Paramatta in 2022.Queerstories an award-winning LGBTQI+ storytelling project directed by Maeve Marsden, with regular events around Australia. For more information, visit www.queerstories.com.au and follow Queerstories on Facebook.The Queerstories book is published by Hachette Australia, and can be purchased from your favourite independent bookseller or on Booktopia.To support Queerstories, become a patron at www.patreon.com/ladysingsitbetter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our main interview this episode is with writer and critic Kylie Maslen. We talk about what writing looks like from a disabled perspective, balancing being vulnerable with inflicting further trauma on yourself, and of course memes! Kylie's work has appeared in The Guardian, Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings, Adelaide Review, Crikey and Junkee, among other outlets. In 2018 she was the recipient of the Kill Your Darlings New Critics Award, and her essay ‘I'm Trying to Tell You I'm Not Okay' was longlisted for the Lifted Brow & RMIT non/fiction Lab Prize for Experimental Non-fiction. Kylie's first book, ‘Show me Where it Hurts' was shortlisted for the Victorian Premiers Non Fiction award in 2021. She contributed to the recently released MELBOURNE ON FILM collection with Black Inc. Kylie lives in Adelaide on Kaurna Country. This episode's featured book is Marshmallow, the second novel from Victoria Hannan. This segment is brought to you by Hachette. Victoria Hannan is a writer and photographer. Her first novel, Kokomo was the 2019 winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript and her second novel Marshmallow is out now. We spoke to Victoria in Season 4 and you can find out more about her initial path to publication in that convo (https://thefirsttimepodcast.com/2021/05/04/victoria-hannan-on-the-highs-and-lows/) Check out show notes for this episode on our website www.thefirsttimepodcast.com or get in touch via Twitter (@thefirsttimepod) or Instagram (@thefirsttimepod). Don't forget you can support us and the making of Season Five via our Patreon page. Thanks for joining us!

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.

The Last Continent is about Fourecks, a country legally distinct from Australia because Sir Terry says so--and because it's a country of original people and accidental new inhabitants, rather than colonial powers. Also it hasn't rained for a very long time.Pratchat is a podcast from Splendid Chaps Productions in which hosts Elizabeth Flux and Ben McKenzie have embarked on a six (ish) year mission to read every Terry Pratchett novel*, one a month, and discuss them with special guests. Elizabeth Flux (Pratchat Library Captain) is a freelance writer with a focus on film and pop culture, and previous editor of Voiceworks magazine. She has been published in Film Ink, Metro, Junkee, The Lifted Brow, Spook and Kill Your Darlings and can be found tweeting terrible puns @ElizabethFlux. Pratchat is Elizabeth's first podcast.Ben McKenzie is a comedian, writer and game designer. His work includes the VR game Table of Tales: The Crooked Crown and time travel radio comedy Night Terrace (as heard on BBC Radio 4 Extra). He also teaches creative writing for 100 Story Building and comedy writing for the Australian College of the Arts. Ben tweets at @McKenzie_Ben, his favourite dinosaur is Stegosaurus, and his favourite element is helium. Ben has previous hosted and produced the podcasts Splendid Chaps, re:Discovery and On the Terrace, some of which may return.Check us out on twitter at @atuin_podHelp us keep the lights on via our Patreon!Follow individual hosts at @urizenxvii, @The_Miannai, and @JustenwritesWe can also be found at www.compleatdiscography.pageOur art is by the indomitable Jess who can be found at @angryartist113Music is by Incompetech and used under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution license.Take a Chance by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4457-take-a-chanceFuzzball Parade by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5044-fuzzball-paradeLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

In this episode, writers Mike Meginnis and David Burr Gerrard join host Catherine Nichols to discuss Patricia Highsmith's 1950 novel Strangers on a Train. In the novel, two characters, Guy and Bruno, meet on a train; each have someone they would like to see murdered. Bruno offers to kill Guy's estranged wife, Miriam, in exchange for Guy killing Bruno's father. Guy doesn't agree, but Bruno kills Miriam anyway, and then expects to be paid back in murder. The conversation touches on the homoeroticism in the novel, how it deals with blurred identity, and how it expresses Highsmith's identification with monsters. Mike Meginnis is the author of the forthcoming Drowning Practice (2022, Ecco) and Fat Man and Little Boy (2014, Black Balloon). His short fiction and essays have appeared in Hobart, PANK, The Lifted Brow, Recommended Reading, Booth, The Pinch, The Collagist, The Sycamore Review, Fanzine, American Book Review, and Writer's Digest. His story "Navigators" appeared in Best American Short Stories 2012. He lives and works in Iowa City. David Burr Gerrard is the author of THE EPIPHANY MACHINE (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2017) and SHORT CENTURY (Rare Bird, 2014). He teaches creative writing at the 92nd Street Y, The New School, The Yale Writers' Workshop, Catapult, and the Sackett Street Writers' Workshop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lucia Osborne-Crowley is a journalist, essayist, writer, and legal researcher. Her debut was the 2020 memoir 'I Choose Elena', a work she has followed up in 2021 with 'My Body Keeps Your Secrets'. Her news reporting has appeared in ABC News, Guardian, Huffington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Women's Agenda. Her long-form writing has appeared in The Lifted Brow and Meanjin. About The Garret Read the transcript of this interview at thegarretpodcast.com. The interview was recorded by Zoom, and we can't wait to start recording in person again soon. 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.

In this interview, Sarah Ghassali chats to Lujayn Hourani about LGBTQIA+ pride and intersectionality. Lujayn is a Lebanese-Palestinian writer, editor, and arts worker currently living on Wurundjeri Country. Born stateless, they emigrated to Melbourne in 1997. Lujayn is the Communications Director at Road to Refuge NGO and is one of the recipients of the 2020 Wheeler Centre's Next Chapter writers' scheme. You can find his writing in the Australian Poetry Journal, Meanjin, Going Down Swinging, The Lifted Brow and Overland, among others. This podcast was recorded and produced during Pride Month, June 2021. 

“Forty years into the future there’s going to be this idea of a groundswell of books emerging about this time that were all about this topic that got us all talking” – Khalid Warsame on the hoped-for impact of climate change in fiction As part of The Fitzroy Writers Festival we were thrilled to welcome Khalid Warsame, Alice Robinson and Sean O’Beirne for a discussion about one of the most pressing issues of our time, climate change, and how it’s addressed in fiction. This is an edited recording of the session held earlier this year. You can find work from Khalid, Alice and Sean in the Yarra Libraries collection, both in branch and online through e-resources like Cloud Library. Khalid Warsame is a writer whose essays, fiction, and criticism have appeared in numerous publications, including The Lifted Brow, The Saturday Paper, Overland, The Big Issue, Cordite Poetry Review, and Meanjin. Khalid also contributed a piece to the anthology After Australia. His story, List of Known Remedies, is a slice of life of young Melbournians – working in cafes, talking with friends, and tending to ill pets, set against a backdrop of extreme weather and increasingly authoritarian government rule. Sean O’Beirne is the author of the short story collection A Couple of things before the End, a funny, bitingly satirical and outstandingly original debut told in a range of voices and styles. Alice Robinson is the author of two novels. Her debut, Anchor Point, was longlisted for the Stella Prize and the Indie Book Awards. Her latest novel, The Glad Shout, is a stunning novel set in a Melbourne that has been destroyed by a catastrophic storm. Told in a starkly visual and compelling narrative, the book is a deeply moving homage to motherhood and the struggles faced by women in difficult times. Yarra Libraries Recommends The Glad Shout- Alice Robinson Anchor Point - Alice Robinson A Couple of Things Before the End- Sean O’Beirne After Australia Anthology The Rain Heron – Robbie Arnott Our theme is Add And by Broke for Free

On this week's show, Palestinian writer and editor, Lujayn Hourani, shares some of their new work, reflecting on the resistance and resilience of the Palestinian people through generations of colonial violence and oppression.Lujayn is a recipient of The Wheeler Centre's Next Chapter Scheme, and has been published in Meanjin, Overland, Australian Poetry, Going Down Swinging and The Lifted Brow, to name a few.Lujayn is Associate Producer at Next Wave and Online Editor at Voiceworks.This episode features music from Jowan Safadi, Nour Harkati, and Muqata'a.

Shirley Le is a creative producer at Sweatshop Literacy Movement. She's also a second-generation Vietnamese-Australian who grew up in western Sydney. Her roots and her postcode used to create an invisible barrier for her writing, but now they're a source of strength and power. Shirley has performed at the Sydney Writers Festival, the Sydney Festival and the Wollongong Writers Festival, and was awarded the WestWords Emerging Writers Fellowship in 2017. Her work has been published by SBS Online, The Lifted Brow and the Griffith Review, as well as the latest Sweatshop anthology ‘Racism'. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Wow! Food, family, memory, insight, body, mind - worth the effort this one. Eating with My Mouth Open (NewSouth, 2021) is food writing like you’ve never seen before: honest, brave, and exceptionally tasty. Lyrically written, Sam van Zweden offers a millennial response to classic food writers, revelling in body positivity on Instagram, remembering how Tupperware piled high with sweets can be a symptom of spiralling mental health, dissecting wellness culture and all its flaws, sharing the joys of living in a family of chefs and seeing a history of migration on her dinner plate. Recalling the writing of Lindy West and Roxane Gay, as well as classic food writers M.F.K. Fisher and Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Eating with My Mouth Open considers embodiment and the meaning of true nourishment within the broken food system we live in. Not holding back from the struggles of mental illness and difficult conversations about weight and wellbeing, Sam Van Zweden advocates for a body politics that is empowering, productive and meaningful. Sam van Zweden is a Melbourne-based freelance writer interested in experimental nonfiction, essays, mental health, body writing, food, and memory. Sam’s writing has appeared in the Saturday Paper, Meanjin, The Big Issue, The Lifted Brow, Cordite, The Sydney Review of Books, The Wheeler Centre and others. Bede Haines is a solicitor, specialising in litigation and a partner at Holding Redlich, an Australian commercial law firm. He lives in Sydney, Australia. Known to read books, ride bikes and eat cereal (often). bede.haines@holdingredlich.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm

Wow! Food, family, memory, insight, body, mind - worth the effort this one. Eating with My Mouth Open (NewSouth, 2021) is food writing like you’ve never seen before: honest, brave, and exceptionally tasty. Lyrically written, Sam van Zweden offers a millennial response to classic food writers, revelling in body positivity on Instagram, remembering how Tupperware piled high with sweets can be a symptom of spiralling mental health, dissecting wellness culture and all its flaws, sharing the joys of living in a family of chefs and seeing a history of migration on her dinner plate. Recalling the writing of Lindy West and Roxane Gay, as well as classic food writers M.F.K. Fisher and Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Eating with My Mouth Open considers embodiment and the meaning of true nourishment within the broken food system we live in. Not holding back from the struggles of mental illness and difficult conversations about weight and wellbeing, Sam Van Zweden advocates for a body politics that is empowering, productive and meaningful. Sam van Zweden is a Melbourne-based freelance writer interested in experimental nonfiction, essays, mental health, body writing, food, and memory. Sam’s writing has appeared in the Saturday Paper, Meanjin, The Big Issue, The Lifted Brow, Cordite, The Sydney Review of Books, The Wheeler Centre and others. Bede Haines is a solicitor, specialising in litigation and a partner at Holding Redlich, an Australian commercial law firm. He lives in Sydney, Australia. Known to read books, ride bikes and eat cereal (often). bede.haines@holdingredlich.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm

Wow! Food, family, memory, insight, body, mind - worth the effort this one. Eating with My Mouth Open (NewSouth, 2021) is food writing like you’ve never seen before: honest, brave, and exceptionally tasty. Lyrically written, Sam van Zweden offers a millennial response to classic food writers, revelling in body positivity on Instagram, remembering how Tupperware piled high with sweets can be a symptom of spiralling mental health, dissecting wellness culture and all its flaws, sharing the joys of living in a family of chefs and seeing a history of migration on her dinner plate. Recalling the writing of Lindy West and Roxane Gay, as well as classic food writers M.F.K. Fisher and Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Eating with My Mouth Open considers embodiment and the meaning of true nourishment within the broken food system we live in. Not holding back from the struggles of mental illness and difficult conversations about weight and wellbeing, Sam Van Zweden advocates for a body politics that is empowering, productive and meaningful. Sam van Zweden is a Melbourne-based freelance writer interested in experimental nonfiction, essays, mental health, body writing, food, and memory. Sam’s writing has appeared in the Saturday Paper, Meanjin, The Big Issue, The Lifted Brow, Cordite, The Sydney Review of Books, The Wheeler Centre and others. Bede Haines is a solicitor, specialising in litigation and a partner at Holding Redlich, an Australian commercial law firm. He lives in Sydney, Australia. Known to read books, ride bikes and eat cereal (often). bede.haines@holdingredlich.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm

Queerstories 2020 is a special series of the Queerstories podcast recorded during the lockdown months of 2020, featuring LGBTQI+ storytellers reflecting on the events of the year. This week’s stories pertain to a haunting of sorts, from the paranormal to the pathological. Queenie Bon Bon is a  writer, performance artist and sex worker living and working in Narrm/melbourne. Their work focuses on labour and the body. They have created four full length shows - which have toured in Australia, Europe and North America. Their work has been featured on locanto, backpage and in Maximum Rock and Roll and The Lifted Brow. They are  a member of Australian sex worker art collective Debby Doesn't Do It For Free and have been part of the Scarlet Alliance executive committee for 5 years. They are the 2020 Recipient of Firstdraft's Writers Program. Victoria Zerbst is a political satirist, comedy writer and performer for The Feed on SBS. She is a co-founder of the Sydney-based comedy collective Freudian Nip and the 2020 recipient of the ATYP Rebel Wilson Comedy Commission. Queerstories is an LGBTQI+ storytelling night programmed by Maeve Marsden, with regular events around Australia. For Queerstories event dates, follow Queerstories on Facebook. The Queerstories book is published by Hachette Australia, and can be purchased from your favourite independent bookseller or on Booktopia. To support Queerstories, become a patron at www.patreon.com/ladysingsitbetter And for gay stuff and insomnia rants follow me - Maeve Marsden - on Twitter and Instagram. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kaitlyn Blythe joined Marijo Požega in an honest conversation that explored cultural and ideological ideas that impact on people with chronic illness/disability, while discussing COVID-19, the disability support pension and housing (un)affordibility.Kaitlyn Blythe (formerly Kaitlyn Plyley) is a Melbourne-based writer and performer. Her writing has been published by Junkee, The Sydney Morning Herald, Seizure, The Lifted Brow, and more. In 2019, Kaitlyn received Copyright Agency's Ignite Grant and The Wheeler Centre's Hot Desk Fellowship to work on her chronic illness memoir, Suddenly 80.Kaitlyn trained in storytelling under teachers from LA's The Moth and NYC's Upright Citizens Brigade, and has performed true stories from her life at festivals and events all over Australia. Her podcast Just A Spoonful – where she interviews young people living with chronic illness and/or disability about their work, daily lives and passions – has ranked in Australian iTunes' top 100 and featured on triple j, ABC radio and at the National Young Writers Festival. Listen to the Just A Spoonful Podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/just-a-spoonful/id927826969You can find Kaitlyn on Twitter at: @BlytheByName 

Today on the Good Problem Podcast we have the amazing Nic Holas talking about the evolution of HIV activism.⁠ Nic is a queer activist, writer and the co-founder of The Institute of Many, an advocacy platform and grassroots movement for people living with HIV. ⁠In addition to his work with The Institute of Many, Nic is the Campaigns Director at Change.org and his writing on HIV/AIDS, LGBTIQA issues, law reform, and human rights has appeared in the ABC, Archer Magazine, The Guardian, Sydney Morning Herald, SBS, Hello Mr., The Lifted Brow, and Junkee, as well as in international and local queer media. He has been a frequent guest on current affairs TV and radio, including appearances on Q&A, Lateline, Radio National, and Triple J. Nic has also worked extensively in media and communications for non-profits and digital agencies, as a political policy writer, and as an artist. Nic is reading Conflict is Not Abuse, by Sarah Schulman, Humankind, by Rutger Bregman, and Glimpses of Utopia: Real ideas for a fairer world, by Jess Scully Nic is listening to the Rabbit Hole podcast by the New York Times You can find Nic on Twitter at @nicheholas⁠ and find The Institute of Many at https://theinstituteofmany.org/

Great Conversations features interviews with authors and writers, exploring books, writing and literary culture from Australia and the world.Today's episode features Khalid Warsame discussing his story in the anthology After Australia.After Australia offers a selection of twelve incredible Indigenous Writers and Writers of Colour including Ambellin Kwaymullina, Karen Wyld, Omar Sakr, Future D Fidel and Zoya Patel. Together they imagine Australia for 2050 and beyond.Khalid is a Melbourne based writer, editor, and arts producer. He’s a former fiction editor at the Lifted Brow and co-director of the National Young Writers Festival, and is also writing his first novel.Khalid’s story in the anthology is List of Known Remedies. It’s a seemingly innocuous tale of friendship, relationships and a sick dog that hides a startling and sinister future…Join me as we discover Khalid Warsame’s List of Known Remedies

This week we dig into shame in medicine - how students are taught using shame, how shame affects patients, and why the phrase "we ask this question to everyone" might not be the most useful way of signposting in a conversation between a doctor and patient. You can read Lucia's six-part series for the Wellcome Trust about shame here: https://wellcomecollection.org/series/XnIR1BIAACoAdpbI Our expert guests: Lucia Osborne-Crowley is a writer and journalist. Her news reporting and literary work has appeared in Granta, GQ, The Sunday Times, HuffPost UK, the Guardian, ABC News, Meanjin, The Lifted Brow and others. I Choose Elena is her first book. Her second book, My Body Keeps Your Secrets, will be published in February 2021. Dr Chloe Beale is a consultant liaison psychiatrist and the suicide prevention lead for East London NHS Foundation Trust.

Madeleine Watts is a writer whose work has appeared in the White Review and the LIfted Brow. Her novella Afraid of Waking It won the Griffith Review novella prize. In The Inland Sea, our narrator has left the comfort of university with barely a vague plan for what comes next. On the advice of a friend she falls into a job as an emergency call centre operator. There she listens day in and day out as disasters befall callers around the country. Jotting down these moments in her notepad she becomes fascinated with the kind’s of tragedies filling her world.I’m sure many of us have been through exactly this; you know that life is supposed to begin but where’s the start button, and what’s the first step?!The Emergency call centre offers constant reminders of disaster; floods ravage northern Queensland while fires ring Sydney. Our narrator tries to understand the impact of all this while following the script and transferring the call; police, fire, ambulance.Against all this tragedy our narrator is heedless to her own safety. Emotional and physical well being are hazardous and fate is there to be tempted.The Inland Sea was written about Sydney in 2013 around the time Madeleine Watts left for New York, but it’s themes resonate with our present as we try to come to grips with a world seemingly on the brink.Madeleine’s unnamed narrator is a careful and lyrical chronicler but we are constantly left to wonder at her detachment from the events around her. There is so much feeling and so much anticipation but we know that the stories being told are not reliable.And it is storytelling that is at the heart of The Inland Sea. The narrator’s story, our story of Australia and the trajectory it is taking us towards destruction are habits we need to break. The Inland Sea is a story telling us that our stories are inadequate; that we need to change the stories we are telling and craft new ones that might offer some semblance of hope.

Australian writer Ronnie Scott discusses his debut novel, “The Adversary”, a story of gay friendship set over a long, hot Melbourne summer.SHOW NOTES: Nicole AbadeeWebsite: https://www.nicoleabadee.com.auFacebook: @nicole.abadeeTwitter: @NicoleAbadeeRonnie Scotthttps://www.penguin.com.au/authors/ronnie-scottPenguin "The Adversary": See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sometimes imagining a little murder is the only way Nayuka can get through the day. Nayuka Gorrie is a Kurnai/Gunai, Gunditjmara, Wiradjuri and Yorta Yorta writer who's been published by The Guardian Australia, NITV, Junkee, the Saturday Paper, the Lifted Brow, Kill Your Darlings and Archer Magazine. They were a Wheeler Centre Next Chapter recipient in 2018, and they've written for TV including Black Comedy, Get Krackin! and The Heights. Queerstories is an LGBTQI+ storytelling night programmed by Maeve Marsden, with regular events around Australia. For Queerstories event dates, visit www.maevemarsden.com, and follow Queerstories on Facebook. The Queerstories book is published by Hachette Australia, and can be purchased from your favourite independent bookseller or on Booktopia. To support Queerstories, become a patron at www.patreon.com/ladysingsitbetter And for gay stuff and insomnia rants follow me - Maeve Marsden - on Twitter and Instagram.

“It’s a story of these two best friends, the narrator and Dan, who have met each other at that time in your life when you have finally found your people. And, because you’ve found your people, you sort of throw yourselves at each other really hard…. but by the time we meet them they’ve exhausted each other. They still mean a lot to each other, but they need to change their friendship.” – Ronnie Scott In partnership with the Kill Your Darlings First Book Club, Yarra Libraries brings you this conversation between first-time-novelist Ronnie Scott and First Book Club Host Ellen Cregan. In it, they touch on Melbourne in summer, close friendship and the Fitzroy Pool. Ronnie Scott’s debut novel, ‘The Adversary’, is a sticky, summer novel. In it, a young man in Brunswick has devoted his winter to recreational showers, staring at his phone, and speculating on the activities of his best friend and housemate, Dan. But now summer is coming, and Dan has found a boyfriend and a job, so the young man is being pushed out into the world, in search of friendship and love. Ronnie Scott writes essays and criticism for newspapers, websites and magazines. In 2007 he founded The Lifted Brow, an independent literary magazine. He's a Lecturer in the Writing and Publishing discipline at RMIT University. ‘The Adversary’ is his first novel. Established in 2014, the Kill Your Darlings First Book Club partners with local publishers to each month promote a new release debut book of fiction or non-fiction that KYD is gunning for everyone to read! Through a series of events, online content, podcast coverage and profiles, the KYD First Book Club encourages wide-ranging and long-lasting conversations about these authors and their books both on and off the screen. Thanks to Kill Your Darlings for their partnership on this event. Yarra Libraries Recommends: The Adversary – Ronnie Scott Hotel du Lac – Anita Brookner (available on Cloud Library) Cherry Beach – Laura McPhee Browne (audiobook on RB Digital) Being Black n’ Chicken, and chips – Matt Okine (audiobook on RB Digital) Little Stones – Elizabeth Kuiper (available on Cloud Library) Room for a Stranger – Melanie Cheng (audiobook on RB Digital) Witches: What Women Do Together – Sam George Allen (Audiobook available through Cloud Library) Call Me Evie – J.P. Pomare (audiobook on RB Digital) Beautiful Revolutionary – Laura Elizabeth Woollett (available on Cloud Library) This is an edited recording. Our theme song is Add And by Broke For Free.

'We've all had that feeling where the ground has shifted when you weren't quite paying attention.' Each month we celebrate an Australian debut release of fiction or non-fiction with the Kill Your Darlings First Book Club. For April that debut is Ronnie Scott's novel The Adversary, out now from Penguin Random House. After a long winter in a creaky share house in Brunswick, a young man is pushed out of his comfort zone in search of friendship and love. This is a funny and exhilarating debut novel about sexuality, sociability and sticky summers at the pool. Ronnie Scott writes essays and criticism for newspapers, websites and magazines. In 2007 he founded the Lifted Brow, an independent literary magazine. He's a Lecturer in the Writing and Publishing discipline at RMIT University. The Adversary is his first novel. Our May First Book Club title will be Please Don't Hug Me by Kay Kerr (Text Publishing). Our theme song is Broke for Free's ‘Something Elated'. Further reading: Read Ellen Cregan's review of The Adversary in our April Books Roundup. Read Ronnie's Shelf Reflection on his reading habits and the writing that inspires him. (more…)

This interview with Anna Spargo-Ryan is the first instalment of The Garret At Home - the same podcast as always, now recorded with everyone... at home. Anna is the Non-Fiction Editor of Island Magazine. She received the 2016 Horne Prize for her essay ‘The Suicide Gene', and is currently writing a memoir. She has also written for TheGuardian, ELLE, Meanjin and Good Weekend. Anna also publishes fiction, and she is the author of The Gulf and The Paper House. Her short fiction has been published inThe Big Issue, Island, Kill Your Darlings and The Lifted Brow. She is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at Deakin University, where she also teaches nonfiction writing. About The Garret  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.

"Somehow all our eclectic tastes combine and we get this glorious mess..." Dzenana Vucic is one of the volunteer editors behind The Lifted Brow, the literary magazine that styles itself as “a quarterly attack journal from Australia and the world”. Providing a platform for underrepresented voices, they do a great job of tapping talent that might otherwise be overlooked, uncovering experimental forms of literature and producing brilliantly exciting work. In this conversation she speaks about how the team make that happen, the pressures they face as a group of volunteers working without pay, and the many ways in which the Brow is growing beyond the magazine itself.

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

Jenn Shapland's live event at BookPeople Bookstore in Austin, Tx Jenn Shapland's work won a 2017 Pushcart Prize and fellowships/residencies at Ucross, the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Yaddo, the Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians, and Vermont Studio Center. Her essays have been published in Tin House, THE Magazine, Pastelegram, The Lifted Brow, Electric Literature, NANOfiction, and The Millions. She teaches in the Creative Writing department at the Institute of American Indian Arts and has a PhD in English from UT Austin. She designs and makes clothing for Agnes. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Bastian is trying to understand why they keep taking photos of the stove. So, they decide to write about it. Bastian Fox Phelan is a writer, musician and zinemaker who lives in Newcastle on the land of the Awabakal people. They were shortlisted for the 2017 Scribe Nonfiction Prize, their writing has been published in The Lifted Brow, Runway, Scum Magazine and Tincture Journal, and they’re currently working on a literary memoir signed to Giramonda Publishing. Bastian works with Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and National Young Writers’ Festival to deliver their popular Zine Fair events, and they are part of dream pop duo Moonsign, who just released an album about grief and climate change on Yes Rave records. Queerstories is an LGBTQI+ storytelling night programmed by Maeve Marsden, with regular events around Australia. For Queerstories event dates, visit www.maevemarsden.com, and follow Queerstories on Facebook. The 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 and insomnia rants follow me - Maeve Marsden - on Twitter and Instagram.

Sam Cooney is a Melbourne based publisher, writer and editor. He runs the not-for-profit publishing organisation that produces the quarterly literary magazine The Lifted Brow. Sam is also a member of a number of literary boards and is a sessional lecturer in creative writing and publishing subjects at RMIT and the University of Melbourne. He says his career was “born out of a love of reading.” “I was going to the next great Australian novelist and everyone was going to love and adore me…and that might still happen.” Sam was first asked to edit submissions to the publication Voiceworks and says, “it was there I realised I was good at that and perhaps I was better at that then being a writer.” “The biggest revelation was the act of editing somebody else’s work and publishing it can be as creatively fulfilling as writing your own work.” He says editing work can be easier in some respects but you don’t get the same “adrenaline rush” and “pride of doing it yourself.” Throughout this interview Sam talks very candidly about his editing saying he is an “interventionist editor” and that he will openly and honestly discuss with a writer how they can make their piece better. http://backstoriespodcast.com.au/samcooney

Doubting Writing/Writing Doubt: Public Readings Developed in partnership with RMIT University non/fiction lab The Doubting Writing/Writing Doubt workshops were held over August and September 2019 to look closely at the themes of ACCA's exhibition, On Vulnerability and Doubt, and to ask: "How can engaging with doubt and vulnerability help us let go of conventional writing positions, and go further into writing about art in the expanded field?" Listen here to the public readings by the 10 participants of their works, the final forms of which will be reproduced in a standalone publication. Further information: acca.melbourne/program/doubting-writing-public-readings/ Recorded at ACCA on Wednesday 21 August 2019 Thank you to our partners: RMIT University non-fiction lab, Art + Australia,Art Guide Australia, The Lifted Brow

Elizabeth Bryer is a writer and translator. She is an editor at Brow Books, and was previously the inaugural translations editor of The Lifted Brow for two years. From Here On, Monsters (2019) is her debut work of literary fiction. Her short stories and essays have appeared in The Lifted Brow, Seizure, Meanjin, GriffithReview, Kill Your Darlings, Sydney Review of Books, among many others. In 2017 Elizabeth received the prestigious PEN America/Heim Translation Fund Grant to translate Aleksandra Lun's The Palimpsests. Her translations of fiction by Carlos Yushimito, Claudia Salazar Jiménez, Aleksandra Lun and María Jose Ferrada have appeared in The Lifted Brow, Overland, Words without Borders, Asymptote and Nashville Review. 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.

Featuring stories written and read by Bailey Sharp, Frances An, Courtney Thompson, Anna Martin, and Mira Schlosberg. Links missing in your podcast app? Find them on our show page at http://fbiradio.com/oritdidnthappen#allthebodies Episode art by Bailey Sharp. THAT BIG REPORT — BAILEY SHARP Bailey Sharp is a cartoonist, and co-art editor of the Lifted Brow. Find more of her work on Instagram. You can buy That Big Report in its original comic form — or her other work — at her store. That Big Report was originally read at Read to Me, a comics reading night in Sydney. Find it on Facebook. The next Sydney event is in September. LỖ — FRANCES AN Frances An is a writer, and a member of the Finishing School Collective. You can find out more about both on the Finishing School website. Lỗ was originally published in Seizure, and you can read it there. Thanks also to Felicity Castagna. Zelda Music cues in Lỗ: Koriko Village Them (Ocarina of Time) Drums Practice (Majora’s Mask) PORTRAIT OF A HIGH TO MODERATE FUNCTIONING ALCOHOLIC — COURTNEY THOMPSON, READ BY ANNA MARTIN Portrait of a High to Moderate Functioning Alcoholic won the Queerstories prize in the OutStanding LGBTIAQ+ Short Story Competition for 2017. You can hear Courtney reading the story herself on their podcast. And you can read the original story here. Entries are now open for the 2019 OutStanding LGBTIQA+ Short Story Competition, until September 1st. Enter here. Thanks also to Teresa Savage. Access free and confidential advice about alcohol and other drugs by calling the National Alcohol and Other Drug hotline. Call 1800 250 015 Music from Portrait of a High to Moderate Functioning Alcoholic: Bottom Riser — Smog Kosame No Oka (from “Drunken Angels”) — David Mansfield (Isle of Dogs Soundtrack) APOCALYPSE STORY — MIRA SCHLOSBERG Mira Schlosberg is a writer and comic artist. They are the editor of Voiceworks magazine, comics editor for Scum Mag, and were a Wheeler Centre Hotdesk Fellow for 2017. Apocalypse Story was written during that fellowship, and was highly commended in the 2017 OutStanding LGBTIQA+ Short Story Prize. You can read the story in its print form there. This version of the story was recorded by Izzy Roberts-Orr. Izzy is a writer, editor and radio producer. Find more of her incredible work here. Music from Apocalypse Story: Untouched [cover] — The Sunset Takeover   Intro and Outro Music: The Greatest (full-length version) — They Might Be Giants Kerrison’s Punch — Nick Cave & Warren Ellis

Susie explores the ways that Aboriginal people, especially women, continue to be Othered by white-colonial ways of seeing. Susie Anderson is a Koori writer from western Victoria who lives and works in Sydney. Her writing typically focuses on erasure of Indigenous narratives throughout Victoria and Australia, and attempts to reconnect within this fragmentation. She has been published in publications like The Lifted Brow, Rabbit Poetry, un magazine and was part of the anthology Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia. 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 we listen to a panel discussion hosted by Allies Decolonising.The event, Sovereignty, Treaty and Constitutional Recognition brought together Aboriginal community members to discuss the treaty process and Aboriginal sovereignty. PanelistsLidia Thorpe is a Gunnai-Gunditjmara woman, living on Wurundjeri country in Melbourne’s north. She is a community worker, mother and grandmother. Lidia has spent decades fighting for Aboriginal rights and the environment, including fighting to successfully save a million-year-old gorge in Nowa Nowa, East Gippsland and becoming the first Aboriginal woman to serve in the Victorian Parliament.Crystal McKinnon is a Yamatji woman who lives and works on Kulin country. She has worked at many universities and Aboriginal community-controlled organisations, and she is currently working at RMIT as a Vice Chancellor’s Indigenous Research Fellow. In one of her projects at RMIT, Crystal is working with a team on an Australian Research Council Discovery Indigenous Project named: Indigenous Leaders: Lawful Relations from Encounter to Treaty. Her work has looked at concepts of Indigenous sovereignty, Indigenous social movements and protest, and Indigenous resistance through the use of the creative arts, including music and literature.Paola Balla is a Wemba-Wemba & Gunditjmara woman living on Kulin Country. She’s worked in Koorie community arts as an artist & curator & in education at Moondani Balluk Indigenous Academic Centre at Vic Uni & the Indigenous Arts and Cultural Program at Footscray Community Arts Centre. Her work focuses on self-determination & sovereignty within the arts & is a member of the Blak Brow Collective who edited Blak Brow for the Lifted Brow. Her PhD research focuses on Indigenous women’s disruptions & resistance through art. Her work is based on sovereignty, matriarchy & First Nations ways.Event ModeratorClare Land is a historian at Moondani Balluk at Vic Uni, and author of the book Decolonizing Solidarity which outlines how people like her might emerge towards being less racist, and how she can better use privileges she has access to in support of Aboriginal struggles. Her knowledge and politics have been shaped in particular by Gary Foley, Dr Uncle Wayne Atkinson, and by the Thorpe family. 

Tropical island getaways are not for the faint hearted, and travelling alone can awaken some of the ugliest spiritual epiphanies, as Bobuq learnt on an Eat, Pray, Love inspired trip to Hawaii at the age of 20. Bobuq Sayed is a writer, multi-disciplinary artist, queer youth worker and community organiser of the Afghan diaspora. They have co-edited Archer Magazine in the past, and they are the co-editor of un Magazine's forthcoming issues 13.1 and 13.2. Their work has appeared in Kill Your Darlings, Black Girl Dangerous, Overland, The Lifted Brow, ACMI, Peril and VICE. Queerstories is an LGBTQI+ storytelling night programmed by Maeve Marsden, with regular events around Australia. For Queerstories event dates, visit www.maevemarsden.com, and follow Queerstories on Facebook. The Queerstories book is published by Hachette Australia, and can be purchased from your favourite independent bookseller or on Booktopia. To support Queerstories, become a patron at www.patreon.com/ladysingsitbetter And for gay stuff and insomnia rants follow me - Maeve Marsden - on Twitter and Instagram.  

In our seventeenth episode we join everyone's favourite dysfunctional coven - and guest, writer Nadia Bailey - as we return to Lancre for the 1992 Discworld novel, Lords and Ladies! The Lancre coven have returned from their trip abroad, but despite the impending royal wedding of Magrat and King Verence, all is not well in the Ramtops: it's circle time, when the walls between worlds are thin, and in the witches' absence someone has been toying with powers beyond their understanding. As usual Granny Weatherwax thinks she can sort everything out herself: facing down a young witch wannabe and keeping the Gentry at bay. But Granny is off her game. Is it the arrival of an old flame? Or is her time as a witch of Lancre nearly up? She'll need Nanny and Magrat's help to see off the threat of the Lords and Ladies... Bringing us back to the witches after only one book away, Lords and Ladies is a particularly Pratchett take on the ancient Celtic stories that inspired modern ideas of fairies and elves. One of the few novels to cross the streams between the witches and wizards, it also gives us more of a glimpse into Esme Weatherwax's past, hints at the future of witchcraft (and royalty) in Lancre, and introduces the infamous "Trousers of Time". Is this your favourite witches novel? What do you think of the parallel universes, other dimensions and alternate timelines it describes? And is this the best take on elves since Tolkien? We'd love to hear from you! Use the hashtag #Pratchat17 on social media to join the conversation. Don't forget that you can see Liz and Ben at both Speculate 2019 on March 15 and 16, and at Nullus Anxietas 7, the Australian Discworld Convention, on April 13 and 14! Plus Ben's new show, You Chose Poorly, plays at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival from April 1-7. Next month, to tie in with our appearance at Speculate, we'll be leaving the Discworld and blasting off into outer space as we discuss one of Pratchett's early sci-fi novels, The Dark Side of the Sun, with writer Will Kostakis! We'll likely be recording around the time of Speculate 2019, so get your questions in via social media before March 15th using the hashtag #Pratchat18. Show Notes and Errata: Nadia Bailey is an author, journalist and critic whose work has appeared in The Australian, The Age, The Lifted Brow and many others. The Book of Barb, an unofficial celebration of the surprisingly popular supporting character from the first season of Netflix "kids on bikes" drama Stranger Things, was her first book; it was followed by The Stranger Things Field Guide in December 2018. In between Nadia wrote The World's Best BFFs, a book of profiles of celebrity best friends. All three are published by Smith Street Books. You can find Nadia online at nadiabailey.com, and she tweets at @animalorchestra.There are two examples of Steven Moffat writing women who marry men who follow them around in Doctor Who - first in his most famous episode, Blink, and then in the Christmas special The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe. There are similar behaviours in his other work, going all the way back to Press Gang. We previously mentioned The Craft in our Witches Abroad episode, but it's worth mentioning here that one of its stars, Fairuza Balk, made her major screen debut in another film referenced this episode: Return to Oz (see below).The Last Unicorn (1982) is an adaptation of the 1968 fantasy novel by American writer Peter S. Beagle, and has a pretty star-studded voice cast including René Auberjonois, Alan Arkin (who plays the incompetent magician Schmendrick), Jeff Bridges, Mia Farrow (who plays the titular unicorn), Angela Lansbury and Death himself, Christopher Lee! It has music written by Jimmy Webb, including songs performed by the band America.Narnia is a fantasy world invented by English writer C S Lewis in his Chronicles of Narnia books. The White Queen first appears in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950),

CB Mako and Pauline Vetuna joined the show to talk about their experiences as disabled people of colour, intersectionality, the lack of representation in disability advocacy spaces & much more!CB Mako is a non-fiction and fan-fiction writer.  Winner of the Grace Marion Wilson Emerging Writers Competition (for non-fiction) and shortlisted for the Overland Fair Australia Prize, cubbie has been published in the Suburban Review, The Lifted Brow, The Victorian Writer, Peril Magazine, Mascara Literary Review, Djed Press among others. Cubbie has also performed as artist and panelist at Emerging Writers' Festival, Digital Writers Festival, Melbourne Fringe Festival, and Melbourne Writers Festival.  You can follow cubbie on Twitter at: @cubbieberry Pauline Vetuna is a Black Pacific Islander writer and blogger based in Narrm.  You can follow Pauline on Twitter at: @paulinevetuna and check out her blog at https://paulinevetuna.wordpress.com.   

In this episode of Backstory, Melissa Cranenburgh is joined by Elise Valmorbida, the author of the novels Matilde Waltzing, The TV President, and The Winding Stick, as well as The Book of Happy Endings.Her most recent work, The Madonna of the Mountains received the Prize for Fiction at the 2019 Victorian Literary Awards.Mel is then joined by Sam Cooney, head of the not-for-profit independent publishing organisation that produces the quarterly literary magazine The Lifted Brow, publishes books under its Brow Books imprint, posts new pieces of commentary and criticism online every day or two, stages events, awards writing prizes, and does a whole lot more.

This event formed the public outcome of ACCA’s new writing program, Writing in the Expanded Field, alongside ACCA's exhibition Eva Rothschild: Kosmos (2018). In this public forum, writers, artists and performers who took part in the writing program, share results of the writing workshops and reflect on the future of art writing, criticism and publishing. Presented in partnership with RMIT University non/fictionLab and supported by Art+Australia, Art Guide Australia and The Lifted Brow, Writing in the Expanded Field explores new methodologies for art writing and criticism, opening writing to an ‘expanded field’ in which the encounter between writer and artwork, and the relations of this engagement, may be animated by various writing positions between the critical, the personal and the imaginary. Writing in the Expanded Field was developed in collaboration with Lucinda Strahan, writer and researcher at the RMIT non/fictionLab. More info: http://acca.melbourne/program/writing-in-the-expanded-field/ https://www.rmit.edu.au/research/research-institutes-centres-and-groups/research-groups/nonfictionlab

This week! We’re going through our open tabs and will be discussing corporate vegetarianism, the future of retail, and how to build a functional home. Helping us bring some outside perspective today is our special guest Jana Perkovic. Jana is the editor of Assemble Papers, a Melbourne-based magazine about small footprint living across art, architecture, design, environment, and financial matters, which neatly brings together her background in urbanism and her interest in telling stories through media. She has worked in urban policy in Brussels and in place-making through art in Berlin, and she also works as a researcher in urban design and planning policy at the University of Melbourne. To make sure both sides of her brain get used, she also has a side gig as a performing arts critic and dramaturg. Jana writes a long-standing column on theatre for The Lifted Brow, and co-creates Audiostage, a podcast of conversations with creatives. Basically, she’s amazing. Remember! We are now an ENHANCED podcast. That's right - If you listen to our podcast in Overcast or Pocket Casts, or Castro, you can get super special images, links, and chapter breaks in your player while you listen. Featured links from our discussion - Want to get these in your inbox every Friday? Sign up for our text-only tinyletter at tinyletter.com/jackywinter Intro The Lifted Brow https://www.theliftedbrow.com/ Lara WeWork Goes Vegetarian http://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/20/business/wework-vegetarian.amp.html Inside WeWork’s decision to go meat-free https://www.fastcompany.com/90213697/inside-weworks-decision-to-go-meat-free The impossible burger https://impossiblefoods.com/food/ Jeremy Nike’s huge new flagship looks like the future of retail https://www.fastcompany.com/90267865/nikes-new-nyc-flagship-looks-like-the-future-of-retail Jana Building Houses That Grow With Us https://www.curbed.com/2018/11/14/18093134/home-movie-theaters-game-rooms-mcmansion-hell-wagner Feedly RSS reader https://feedly.com/i/welcome McMansion Hell http://mcmansionhell.com/ How buildings learn by Stewart Brand https://www.amazon.com/How-Buildings-Learn-Happens-Theyre/dp/0140139966 99% Invisible- Half a House https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/half-a-house/ MUJI https://www.muji.com/au/ Jana's Socials Assemble Papers https://assemblepapers.com.au/ Audiostage podcast http://audiostage.guerrillasemiotics.com/ Thumbs Up / Thumbs Down / Shaka Progress Bar app https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/progress-bar/id1441939775?mt=12 If you like the show or these links or think we sound like nice people, please go and leave us a rating or review on iTunes. It helps other people find the show and boosts our downloads which in turn lets us know that what we're doing is worth doing more of! To subscribe, view show notes or previous episodes head on over to our podcast page at http://jackywinter.givesyouthe.biz/ Special thanks to Jacky Winter (the band, with much better shirts than us) for the music. Listen to them over at Soundcloud. Everything else Jacky Winter (us) can be found at http://www.jackywinter.com/

December 17 is the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, a day to remember those lost this year and renew commitments to the ongoing struggle for empowerment, visibility, and rights for all sex workers.James speaks with Sam Elkin, Victoria's first dedicated LGBTIQ+ Outreach lawyer, about the LGBTIQ Legal Service, a partnership between St Kilda Legal Service and Thorne Harbour Health and its work in relation to queer family issues, discrimination, employment, social welfare, family violence, and the vital work the service provides.For more information, contact Sam Elkin via sam@skls.org.au.James speaks withTimothy Jones, a historian of gender, sexuality and religion, and lecturer at La Trobe University, about the same-sex marriage postal survey one year on and its implications on the queer community, the Ruddock report into religious freedom, and his writing contribution to The Lifted Brow’s publication 'Going Postal'.Get the book here.James speaks with Jane Green, a sex worker activist and member of the Vixen Collective, about the collective’s campaign to decriminalise sex work in Victoria, the ongoing fight for sex worker rights, and the effects on sex workers resulting from Tumblr's ban of ‘explicit images’.Read Jane’s blog at sexliesducttape.me.

This week on Breakfasters, the team chat about nerd parties; boxer and bronze world medal holder, Kristy Harris drops by the studio, Triple R regular Michael Harden talks about the best and worst foods of 2018; editor Paola Balla chats about The Lifted Brow new issue titled “Black Brow”; and Bob Brown and Paul Thomas come onto the show to chat about their latest book “Green Nomads: Wild Places”.

In episode 19, we discuss Alison Whittaker’s Blakwork.A mix of memoir, reportage, fiction, satire, and critique, Alison Whittaker’s Blakwork is an original and unapologetic collection from which two things emerge; an incomprehensible loss, and the poet’s fearless examination of the present.Whittaker, a Gomeroi multitasker from the floodplains of Gunnedah in NSW, has been published in the Sydney Review of Books, Seizure, Overland, Westerly, Griffith Review, the Lifted Brow, Meanjin and Archer, was the co-winner of the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize in 2017 for her poem, 'Many Girls White Linen' and most recently, she was the Australian Indigenous Poet-In-Residence for the 2018 Queensland Poetry Festival.Show Notes:Book Review / Blakwork by Alison Whittaker: https://writingnsw.org.au/blakwork-by-alison-whittaker/Blakwork (Alison Wittaker, Magabala): https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2018/07/26/112124/blakwork-alison-wittaker-magabala/Heart is full and burstin’ blak: https://nit.com.au/heart-is-full-and-burstin-blak/Confronting Multiplicity: An interview with Alison Whittaker: https://www.killyourdarlings.com.au/2016/03/confronting-multiplicity/Feminist Writers Festival Q&A: Alison Whittaker: https://feministwritersfestival.com/fwf-qa-alison-whittaker/'Dragged like a dead kangaroo': why language matters for deaths in custody: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/07/dragged-like-a-dead-kangaroo-why-language-matters-for-deaths-in-custodyRecommendations:Fi:‘Where It Hurts’ by Sarah de de Leeuw‘Birds Art Life Death: A Field Guide to the Small and Significant’ by Kyo Maclear‘Half a Life’ by Darin StraussKirby:‘Daughters of Passion’ by Julia O’Faolain‘The Fish Girl’ by Mirandi Riwoe‘Little Fires Everywhere’ Celeste NgNeve:Doctor Who, Season 11, Episode 3Charmed, 2018 Contact Us:Twitter: @litcanonballInstagram: @literarycanonballFind us on Facebook at Literary Canon BallEmail: literarycanonball@gmail.com

In episode seventeen, we discuss Buchi Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen.Published in 1974, Buchi Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen is the story of Adah, a young Nigerian woman, mother and wife who follows her husband to London in the pursuit of an independent life free from strict cultural traditions.Adah’s desire for equality and her struggle for self-confidence and dignity are themes that are reoccurring in Buchi’s work, and Second Class Citizen is an typical example of that.However, in 1960s London, Adah faces new struggles as a black immigrant, among them racism and the harsh realities of her marriage.Show NotesBuchi Emecheta: https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/buchi-emechetaBuchi Emecheta obituary: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/03/buchi-emecheta-obituaryA Sort-of Career: Remembering Buchi Emecheta: https://www.wasafiri.org/article/sort-career-remembering-buchi-emecheta/Cooking with Buchi Emecheta: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/08/03/cooking-with-buchi-emecheta-2/Buchi Emecheta interview | Civil Rights | women's rights | Today | 1975RecommendationsFi‘A Trip to Echo Spring: One Writers and Drinking’ by Olivia Laing‘Draw Your Weapons’ by Sarah Sentilles‘Annie Dillard and the Writing Life’ by Alexander CheeKirby‘The Good People’ by Hannah KentBBC World Series: The Documentary PodcastNevePose‘Mothers’ by Kim Ye-Seol in The Lifted Brow issue 39‘Peter Darling’ by Austin ChantContact UsTwitter: @litcanonballInstagram: @literarycanonballFind us on Facebook at Literary Canon BallEmail: literarycanonball@gmail.com

On this episode, host Mel Cranenburgh is joined by Angela Myer, publisher at Echo Press, to talk about Angela's debut novel, A Superior Spectre.Ginny Maxwell, co-editor of the much loved literary journal, The Lifted Brow, then joins Mel to talk about her thoughtful piece, "Labour Failures in the Arts Industry", published in early 2018 in The Saturday Paper.

Writing NSW launched its rebrand, new website, and upcoming course program with a night of readings and literary festivities at Lazy Bones on Thursday 7 June 2018. Stephen Pham read from his 8000 word essay 'Centering the crush: The ephemeral joy of Carly Rae Jepsen' published by The Lifted Brow. ____ Stephen Pham is a Vietnamese-Australian writer from Cabramatta. He is a member of Sweatshop: Western Sydney Literacy Movement. Stephen's short stories and essays have appeared in Overland, Meanjin, Griffith Review, SBS Life, and Sydney Review of Books. In 2017, Stephen received the Create NSW Writers' Fellowship to develop his debut novel, Vietnamatta. Recorded by Zacha Rosen Image credit: Raphael Stephens

Brad Listi talks with Chelsea Hodson, author of the essay collection TONIGHT I'M SOMEONE ELSE (Henry Holt) and a chapbook called "Pity the Animal." She is a graduate of the MFA program at Bennington College and has been awarded fellowships from MacDowell Colony and PEN Center USA Emerging Voices. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Frieze Magazine, Black Warrior Review, The Lifted Brow, Fanzine, Hobart, and elsewhere. She teaches at Catapult in New York and at Mors Tua Vita Mea in Rome. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we were joined by Amy Middleton, founder of Archer Magazine to chat about independent print and her approach to publishing inclusive stories about sexuality, gender and identity. We also spoke to Justin Wolfers co-editor of The Lifted Brow and writer Lauren Carroll Harris, who's essay, "A Basically Marxist Analysis on the Rise of Activewear", features in the magazine's 38th issue. And for Thoughts That Count we looked back at the magazines that shaped our teen years, and the importance of Dolly Doctor.

This week we were joined by Amy Middleton, founder of Archer Magazine to chat about independent print and her approach to publishing inclusive stories about sexuality, gender and identity. We also spoke to Justin Wolfers co-editor of The Lifted Brow and writer Lauren Carroll Harris, who's essay, "A Basically Marxist Analysis on the Rise of Activewear", features in the magazine's 38th issue. And for Thoughts That Count we looked back at the magazines that shaped our teen years, and the importance of Dolly Doctor.

Writer David Oberg sits down with Jonathan O'Brien to talk about voice, style, and the joyous experience of reading.David Oberg is a Brisbane-based writer whose work has been published in The Lifted Brow and Best Australian Stories 2017.See more of David: houseconspiracy.org/david-oberg

Tuesday16 January 2018 with Ayaan and Lauren7:00am Acknowledgement of Country7:15 Changes to gene tech regulations mooted by The Office of the Gene Technology Regulator late last year are raising serious concerns.Louise Sales joined John and Phil from Dirt Radio to speak about what these changes mean....7.30am  Lauren's recording of the Black Lives Matter Rally on 17th of January in Flemington.7:45 am Iris Lee, a writer and activist based in Melbourne / Kulin nations land. She has written for The Lifted Brow and presents on 3CR’s Queering The Air.8.00am Alternative NewsNow that same-sex marriage is legal, it's time for Australian state governments to amend laws requiring trans people to be unmarried at the time they apply for bureaucratic and documentary changes to reflect their gender. Discussion of performative allyship after #MelbourneBitesBack? 8.10am ACTU Indigenous Officer Lara Watson and founder of First Nations Workers Alliance discusses the Community Development Program and its negative impact on Indigenous and Torres Strait communities living in remote Australia.8.30am End

Nic Holas opens up for the first time about something very personal that happened to him, his sisters, and his Dad.    Nic Holas is an activist, writer, and co-founder of The Institute of Many (TIM), Australia's largest grassroots movement for People Living with HIV. Nic's writing on HIV/AIDS, LGBTIQA issues, human rights, and pop culture has appeared in Archer, The Guardian, Sydney Morning Herald, SBS, Hello Mr., The Lifted Brow, and Junkee, as well as in international and local queer media. Nic has been a frequent guest on current affairs TV and radio, including appearances on Q&A, Lateline, Radio National, and triple j. For the last 15 years Nic has also worked nationally and internationally as a director, performance maker, performer, and producer. Nic Holas is featured in the Queerstories book which can be ordered on Booktopia. Queerstories is an LGBTQI+ storytelling night programmed by Maeve Marsden, with regular events around Australia. For Queerstories event dates, visit www.maevemarsden.com, and follow Queerstories on Facebook. The Queerstories book is published by Hachette Australia, and can be purchased from your favourite independent bookseller or on Booktopia. To support Queerstories, become a patron at www.patreon.com/ladysingsitbetter And for gay stuff and insomnia rants follow me - Maeve Marsden - on Twitter and Instagram.   See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

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/

mud howard is a non-binary trans writer who fiercely believes in the healing power of the selfie. mud curates pnk prl, a queer erasure zine, and GLOW, a bi-monthly queer poetry series. mud is a graduate of the low-res MFA Poetry Program at the IPRC in Portland. You can find their work in The Lifted Brow, pnk prl, #Trans Anthology and THEM literary journal. On the Edge is a production of Cleaver Magazine and is produced by Ryan Evans. Visit cleavermagazine.com for more high quality art and literary work.

I had a lot of fun talking with Melbourne-based writer and spoken word artist Rhea Bhagat for this episode on Robin Coste Lewis's poem On the Road to Sri Bhuvaneshwari. We covered plenty of ground… Show notes Rhea's article Daba (excerpt) from The Lifted Brow's Capital issue Rhea's Overland piece Cashmere and the politics of the brown body Typecast as a … Continue reading "Ep 39. Rhea Bhagat on Dubai and Robin Coste Lewis"

In this episode, writer, poet and Program Manager of the Melbourne Writers Festival Jessica Alice joins us to discuss poetry as a truthful political medium, pathways to a career in arts programming, and the intricacies of modern dating etiquette. Jessica Alice is a writer, editor and artistic programmer. She is the Program Manager of Melbourne Writers Festival, Chair of the Kat Muscat Fellowship Custodial Committee and a Shadow Board Member of Melbourne Festival. She also directed the National Young Writers' Festival in 2014–15. Jessica’s writing and reviews have been published in The Guardian Australia, Metro Magazine, Overland, Junkee, VICE, The Lifted Brow, Spook Magazine, and Cordite Poetry Review, among others. Our theme music is Rainbow Chan’s “Last”, from her latest album Spacings.

Narrate rounded out the final leg of MRelay 2016/17. Storytelling is a tool for knowledge generation and cultural transmission. The telling of one’s personal journey can be used to share cultural history and create social cohesion. This session provided a speaker’s corner for the city, a platform for ideas to be heard and stories to be told. It was opportunity to hear from ethnically and culturally diverse voices, ages and genders. Here we investigated digital storytelling, personal and architectural narratives. Our questions were: How can new technologies encode narrative, strengthen identity and build community? With the rise of artificial intelligence, we explore what it means to be human. Narrate was hosted by Karen McCartney, writer and editor extraordinaire. Speakers included Aric Chen, curator of art and design at M+; Sam Cooney, publisher of The Lifted Brow; Jill Garner, Victorian Government Architect; Candy Bowers, actress, social activist; Adele Varcoe, producer and fashion designer; Kenny Pittock, Melbourne-based visual artist; and Lucy Adams, manager of homeless law at Justice Connect.

In our latest episode, writer and feminist Amy Gray joins us to chat about motherhood, RuPaul, naked selfies, the politicisation of women’s bodies, and how we can maintain the rage and take positive political action in the post-Trump world. Amy Gray is a freelance writer based in Melbourne. She often writes about feminism, popular culture, media, parenting and the gentle art of sitting. Her work has been published in The Age, The Guardian, ABC, SBS, The Lifted Brow and a bunch of other places. Our theme music is Rainbow Chan’s “Last”, from her latest album Spacings.

7th episode Recorded on July 21th, 2016 For video version go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In8a3IY8akA Recorded at Different Fur Studios --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dan Thorpe is a Performer//Composer based in Adelaide, South Australia. Influenced by everything from queer punk to American experimentalism to dolewave, Dan Thorpe’s music “decimat[es] the boundaries of genre” [CutCommon, 2016]. His broad base of musical experience is reflected in a curious, experimental and genre defying compositional and performance output linked together by a love of storytelling and sense of irreverence for existing forms. As a composer, his work always has a focus on collaborative, open approaches to composition that stress the importance of performers’ creative input in musical expression. As a performer, his focus is on contemporary Australian repertoire, work by queer and women composers, and multi-instrumental improvisation. As a composer, Dan’s work has been performed as part of highSCORE Festival [IT], Fresh Minds Festival [Tx, US], Æpex Ensemble’s Soundsystem Takeover [US, Mi], and he has had works premiered by Ensemble Offspring [AU, NSW], Soundstream Collective [AU, SA], the Australian String Quartet [AU], Kelsey Walsh [US, Ca/DE (Berlin)], and Conrad Tao [US, NY]. As a performer, he has performed around Australia and Internationally [full list], has self released an LP and EP, an EP on 魚 たれ and an upcoming tape on 3BS records. He holds a Bachelor of Music with First Class Honours (Sonic Arts/Composition) and a Master of Philosophy from the University of Adelaide. In his spare time, Dan likes theatre, tumblr,running, cooking and math rock. He also likes writing about things, and blogs over at danisnotadj sometimes for actual publications like The Lifted Brow. He also teaches at the University of Adelaide, volunteers for peak youth mental health body headspace, and helped found both the South Australian Youth Mental Health Action Group and the Elder Conservatorium Students’ Association. To keep up with dan visit: https://www.facebook.com/danthorpemusician/ twitter.com/danisnotadj http://www.danthorpe.net danisnotadj.tumblr.com soundcloud.com/danisnotadj danthorpe.bandcamp.com or email at: hello@danthorpe.net

Sep. 5, 2015. Contemporary fiction writers Tony Birch and Ellen Van Neerven, along with social historian Bruce Pascoe introduce readings and understanding into the diversity of stories that make modern Australia -- both fact and fiction -- at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Speaker Biography: Tony Birch is the Aboriginal Australian author of the short story collection “Father's Day” and the novels “Shadowboxing” and “Blood,” which was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Melbourne Prize for Literature. Both his fiction and nonfiction works have been featured in Australian and international literary magazines and anthologies. His recent collection of short stories, “The Promise” (University of Queensland Press), delivers 12 tales with a sensitive and humorous take on life, including the stories of a trio of amateur thieves left in charge of a baby moments before a heist, a group of boys competing in the final of a marbles tournament and two young friends obsessed with the mystery of a submerged car in their local swimming hole. Birch is currently the inaugural Bruce McGuinness Research Fellow within the Moondani Balluk Centre at Victoria University in Australia. He will be releasing another novel, “Ghost River,” in October 2015. Speaker Biography: Ellen van Neerven is a young award-winning Aboriginal Australian writer from the Yugambeh people of South East Queensland. Her recently published debut novel, “Heat and Light," received the David Unaipon Award and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize, the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and the Dobbie Literary Award. Her work has appeared in various publications, including McSweeney’s, Review of Australian Fiction, The Lifted Brow, Meanjin, Ora Nui and Mascara Literary Review. Neerven lives in Brisbane and is the senior editor of the Black&Write! project at the State Library of Queensland, which supports and promotes Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers and editors. Speaker Biography: Australian Bruce Pascoe is a Yuin, Bunurong and Tasmanian who has written more than 25 books of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. He has widely varied experience from his work as a teacher, farmer, fisherman, barman, fencing contractor, Aboriginal language researcher, archaeological site worker, lecturer and editor. Some of his works include the short story collections “Nightjar” and “Ocean” and the historical nonfiction books “Cape Otway: Coast of Secrets” and “Convincing Ground.” In 2013 Pascoe received the Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction for “Fog a Dox” (Magabala Books). His most recent nonfiction work, “Dark Emu: Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident?” describes in depth the land management and agricultural practices of the Australian Aborigines and includes excerpts from early explorers’ diaries that demonstrate the extent to which modern retellings of early Aboriginal history understate the sophistication of these systems. Pascoe is a member of the Wathaurong Aboriginal Cooperative of southern Victoria. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6961

Actor, standup and improvisor Sophie Long kind of has two secret lives. In one of them, she learned Impro at the Second City, where Tina Fey and Stephen Colbert got their start. It’s difficult to explain: which means sometimes it’s like having a secret life. It can so hard to know how to talk about it. Or when. And that’s before we get to Sophie’s other secret life. Links from this episode: Story night, Fabulous Monster; a bit more on Second City; read the Hyperbole and a Half comic; writer Michelle Law wrote about life at the Second City in the Lifted Brow 25. Songs in this episode: Mr Moustafa — Alexandre Desplat Si Tou Vois Ma Mere — Sidney Bechet Saturate — The Chemical Brothers  Hear more episodes of Not What You Think at fbiradio.com/notwhatyouthink

Is The Truman Show real? We go deep. My guest this episode is Brisbane writer Samuel Maguire, whose work has been published in Stilts, The Lifted Brow, and Scum Mag. Sam is living with Bipolar Type 1 Disorder and an anxiety disorder and uses The Lord of The Rings instead of sleep medication. We talk psychotic breaks, The Hunger Games, why Michelle Law is great, and mums reading your sad blog posts.

Patrick Lenton is a playwright, fiction writer and blogger, based in Sydney Australia. He blogs at The Spontaneity Review. He was a Finalist in the 2013 SOYA Awards. His plays have names like ‘Sexy Tales of Paleontology’ and ’100 Years of Lizards’. His theatre company is called the Sexy Tales Comedy Collective. He likes to publish his stories in journals like Going Down Swinging, Scum Mag, Stilts, Voiceworks, Best Australian Stories, TIDE and The Lifted Brow. He is a regular contributor to Junkee. He writes The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge column for Going Down Swinging. He edits an anthology of comedy writing called The Sturgeon General. He works as a Digital Marketer for Momentum Books. He has a collection of short and micro fictions called ‘A Man Made Entirely of Bats’ coming out in 2015.

Oliver Mol is a Sydney-based writer. He is 26. He grew up between America and Australia. He has lived in Houston, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. He was the recipient of a 2014 ArtStart Grant, the co-winner of the 2013 Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers and the recipient of a 2012 Hot Desk Fellowship. He has read creative nonfiction at the Museum of Contemporary Art. He has interned at The Lifted Brow, was a fiction editor at Voiceworks and is part of the Stilts Collective. His debut book Lion Attack! will be out through Scribe Publications early 2015. He is excited about life.

Pip Smith is a woman who's no stranger to drama — she's one of the founding minds behind DIY storytelling night Penguin Plays Rough; she's been the poet in residence for Aussie lit mag the Lifted Brow and is currently slogging her way through a doctorate in the creative arts.