Podcast appearances and mentions of marlee jane ward

You know how sometimes you go in to a space, and you instantly feel at home? Like, none of that awkwardness whilst you get your bearings - everyone is friendly and open and you feel totally comfortable. And, when you find those places you want to make sure that you go back time and again and soak up those good vibes. Right? RIGHT? Well, not so much for this week's guest, the award winning writer Marlee Jane Ward, who went to Sydney's Club Kooky only the once after being taken there when she first moved to the city way back in 2001. Why did she not go back? Well, you'll have to listen to the episode to find out! We talk all about how to be unapologetically yourself, running away from home without a plan, and Y2K fashions... Do you have any memories of Club Kooky, or clubbing from your own queer scene that you want to share? Well, if you have please get in touch - I want to create the biggest online record of people's memories and stories - go to www.lostspacespodcast.com and find the section 'Share a Lost Space' and tell me what you got up to! Bonus points for embarrassing photos! You can also find me on Facebook (www.facebook.com/lostspacespod), Instagram (www.instagram.com/lostspacespod) and Twitter (www.twitter.com/lostspacespod) Find out more about Marlee by visiting her website https://www.marleejaneward.com/ , and, if you enjoy a bit of dystopian fiction check out her young adult award-winning Orphancorp Series. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/k-anderson/message

Poet and writer Sally Evans joins Liz and Ben as they rejoin Tiffany Aching for a trip up into the mountains to meet the next generation of witches in A Hat Full of Sky, the 32nd Discworld novel, first published in 2004. Note that while this episode discusses a book for younger readers, it does contain swearing and we discuss concepts only appearing metaphorically in the book, including puberty and (briefly) masturbation. Parents may wish to listen first before listening with their big wee ones. Tiffany Aching's life is all change: she's off into the mountains to apprentice with Miss Level, a research witch who even other witches find a bit weird. She's left behind her home, her family, and everything she's ever known. Even the Nac Mac Feegle - the drinking, fighting pictsies who've become her fierce protectors since she was briefly their Queen - aren't coming with her. Tiffany soon finds that fitting in among other new witches, and learning the craft, are far harder than anything she's done before. And that's before the one bit of magic she knows brings her to the attention of a hiver - a bodiless, mindless, invisible creature looking for someone with power to inhabit... While a certain other magical young person was attending a school of magic and magic (as the copyright lawyers insist we call it), Pratchett's own Tiffany Aching sets out on a very different journey of discovery. While only 11, she must grapple with her own burgeoning powers (barely under her control), new social dynamics, the affections of someone who is merely less annoying than he used to be, and all the perils of growing up, including the monster in your own head... Is this book too grown up for 11-year-olds? Does Pratchett have a high estimation of young people? Are we on the money about the metaphors? How great would it be to have an ondageist? And are the Feegles still fun, or has Tiffany already outgrown them? Er...so to speak. Use the hashtag #Pratchat43 on social media to join the conversation! Guest Dr Sally Evans is a poet and researcher based in Melbourne, Australia. As part of her PhD, Sally created four chapbook-length sequences of poetry, including a modern reworking of The Odyssey by Homer, and giving Fifty Shades of Grey the blackout poetry treatment. You can hear Sally talk Mad Max: Fury Road on the apocalyptic fiction podcast Catastropod, hosted by previous Pratchat guest Marlee Jane Ward, and follow her on Twitter at @SalacticaActual. Next episode we fulfil our stupidest promise: yes, two and half years after we discussed The Colour of Magic, and around 35 years after its first publication, we finally resolve Pratchett's most literal cliffhanger. Join us as we read the second ever Discworld novel, 1986's The Light Fantastic! Send us your questions using the hashtag #Pratchat44, or get them in via email: chat@pratchatpodcast.com You'll find the full notes and errata for this episode on our web site.

Marlee pens a love letter of sorts to her nail technician, the queerest of queer babes who's excellence and creativity makes her feel powerful. Marlee Jane Ward is a writer living on Wurundjeri Land. She is the author of the award-winning Orphancorp trilogy and is currently living her dream of being someone's fabulous goth aunt. 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.

During our Classic Dystopias Film Series at Bargoonga Nganjin, North Fitzroy Library, we pondered why we’re drawn to dystopias and what we might be able to learn from them. In our panel discussion on the topic our unpleasant future experts (Metro editor Adolfo Aranjuez, Orphancorp author Marlee Jane Ward and Peter Allen from the Victorian College of the Arts) attempted to answer these questions and others following screenings of Metropolis, Bladerunner and Alphaville. Yarra Libraries Recommends... these dystopian films and books Metropolis Bladerunner Alphaville Children of Men Gattaca Blade Runner 2049 Utopia - Thomas More From utopia to apocalypse : science fiction and the politics of catastrophe - Peter Yoonsuk Paik The Slynx – Tatiana Tolstaya The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins The Orphancorp Series – Marlee Jane Ward Tell us which dystopian books and films you love @yarralibraries

Australian YA author Alison Evans and I talk about their new book, ‘Highway Bodies’, as well as queers, tenderness and zombies! Follow Alison and Marlee on Twitter (Note: the sound on this episode is a little crackly. My apologies!) Intro and Outro: Metamorphosis by Osiris Saline Produced and edited by Marlee Jane Ward

"I'm a writer, reader and weirdo from Melbourne, Australia."Is how Marlee Jane Ward describes herself on her website and she is all of those things in the most delightful way BUT Marlee isn't just any ordinary writer...as Kel fast discovers in this interview. Marlee's preferred literary world is Speculative Fiction, she is obsessed with doomsday scenarios and post apocalyptic worlds and her first 2 books "Welcome to Orphancorp" and "Psynode" were both nominated for an Aerealis Award, they were that good. It's clear that Marlee Jane Ward is an exciting new voice on the literary scene and we aren't the only ones who think so! CONTENT WARNING:Marlee is open and candid about her mental health in this interview. It may trigger some people. If you or someone you know could use some help or support please contact Lifeline on 13 11 144. #w4wpodcast #marleejaneward #specfic #speculativefiction #writing #YA #SCIFI #catastropod #women #publishing #podcasts #orphancorpSHOWNOTES:Writes4WomenWeb - www.writes4women.comFacebook - @writes4womenTwitter / Instagram - @w4wpodcastPamela CookWeb -www.pamelacook.com.auFacebook - @pamelacookauthorTwitter - @PamelaCookAUKel ButlerFacebook / Twitter - @kelbutler / @kelbMarlee Jane WardWeb - www.marleejaneward.comTwitter - @marleejaneward

Justin Wooley, author of ‘A Town Called Dust’, joins me today to talk zombie apocalypses, the genre tropes, and his own post-apocalyptic worldbuilding. Also, two white people have an awkward conversation about cultural sensitivity and #ownvoices! Podcast hosted, produced and edited by me, Marlee Jane Ward. Intro and Outro: The Metamorphosis – Osiris Saline. http://catastropod.com

In episode thirteen, award-winning author Marlee Jane Ward joins us to talk Diggers! Published in 1990, Diggers picks up where Truckers left off, splitting the story of the Nomes in two. (You can catch up on Truckers in episode 9.) The Nomes, having fled the destruction of the Store in a stolen lorry, have spent six months - something like five years in Nome time - making a new life in an abandoned quarry. But as humans start to take an interest in their new home, Grimma must hold the quarry Nomes together - no easy task when Nisodemus, the acting Abbott, is trying to convince them all to return to the old ways of the Store. Meanwhile Dorcas, the engineer who made the Long Drive possible, has made a secret discovery in one of the old quarry sheds - a mighty beast, known only as Jekub... With many of the main characters from Truckers exiting the novel quite early on, Diggers focuses on Grimma and Dorcas, with the books' events happening concurrently with those in the third book, Wings. Among its many themes are Pratchetty commentaries on religion, faith, community and responsibility, as well as many new jokes about the ways in which Nomes misunderstand humans - or, perhaps, understand humans perfectly. Have you read Diggers? What did you think? Use the hashtag #Pratchat13 on social media to join the conversation. We particularly want to see your original drawings of Nomes (see the original description from Truckers in the notes below), and to hear what you think about the exciting news of the The Watch TV series being officially greenlit by BBC America!  November 24, 2018 marks a special Pratchett anniversary - 35 years since the publication of the very first Discworld novel! That's right, we're going back to the very beginning to read The Colour of Magic and find out if it really is a very good place to start, with help from fantasy writer and freelance editor, Joel Martin! We're sure you have loads of questions, so please send them in via social media using the hashtag #Pratchat14. Show Notes and Errata: Marlee Jane Ward's best known works are the YA sci-fi novella Welcome to Orphancorp - winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Young Adult - and it's sequel Psynode, both published by Seizure. A third and final book in the series is coming in 2019. You can find out more about Marlee at her web site, marleejaneward.com, or by following her on Twitter at @marleejaneward.Marlee's story "The Walking Thing" and Liz's story "Naming Rights" can both be found in the short story anthology Best Summer Stories published by Black Inc.Neil Gaiman is an English writer who started out as a journalist, but became better known for his comic book work. His most famous series, Sandman for DC's mature imprint Vertigo, chronicles the life of Dream, also known as Morpheus, one of the seven Endless, anthropomorphic personifications of concepts including Destiny, Despair and, yes, Death. (See the Once and For All podcast for a comparison.) Gaiman was the first journalist to interview Terry, soon after the publication of The Light Fantastic, and the two quickly became friends. Neil has since gone on to become a best-selling novelist, award-winning screenwriter and, most recently, a TV producer, in order to keep a promise to Terry that the television adaptation of Good Omens - the novel they wrote together, based on an idea of Neil's - would be good.The creepy little girl with long black hair who walks weirdly is Sadako, the vengeful spirit of a young girl murdered and thrown into a well in Ring, a 1998 Japanese horror film directed by Hideo Nakata. It was remade in English as The Ring in 2002, directed by Gore Verbinski and starring Naomi Watts. Both versions follow the plot of the 1991 novel by Koji Suzuki, which was been made into an earlier 1995 film and a television series in 1999.Ten is indeed an aspirational age for outdoor nomes, but is about the expected number of years for Store nomes.

In today's episode of Signal Boost, Jen talks to Rati Mehrotra about her debut novel, Markswoman. They explore how Mehrotra's own background inspired the world, why she decided to write it as a post-apocalyptic novel, what inspires her writing, and a few hints about what is coming next in the Asiana duology. Then Elizabeth is […]

Silver Threads Hares and Hyenas Anniversary podcast Silver Threads is a celebration of 25 years of the Hares and Hyenas Bookstore in Fitzroy Melbourne, supported by the UNESCO City of Literature Known Bookshops fund, in association with the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives, and in partnership with Melbourne Library Service. Episode 10 - Rapid Fire WARNING - the following program contains explicit content and themes In this episode we listen to a group of writers performing the Hares and Hyenas legendary Rapid Fire 6-minute story challenge. The line-up includes Marlee Jane Ward, Rochelle Da Silva, Reverse Butcher, Kylie Supski, Emerald, Eleanor Jackson, Paul, Vincent Salt, and Ardy Tibby. Introductory music by Alina, Kevin and Harrison - Melbourne Library Service Produced by Louise Cadell - Melbourne Library Service Mixed and Mastered by Flapjack Industry Records