Podcasts about mudgee readers festival

Can reading change the world? Jenn Martin and Jennifer Wong discuss reading and writing that makes a difference, then Jennifer Wong shares a personal life-changing read - How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee. Events, authors, and books mentioned in this episode Mudgee Readers Festival - https://www.mudgeereaders.com/ Writing NSW - https://writingnsw.org.au/ Cat Sparks on Climate Fiction - https://espace.curtin.edu.au/handle/20.500.11937/70516 Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood Pachinko by Min Jin Lee Growing up Queer in Australia edited by Benjamin Law Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit Mouth Full of Blood by Toni Morrison Don’t Get Too Comfortable by David Rakoff How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee What Girls Got Wrong (and Right!) About the Iowa Writers’ Workshop https://www.vulture.com/2015/01/what-girls-got-wrong-about-iowas-mfa-program.html Pilgrim at Tinkers Creek by Annie Dillard Reading suggestions for Liz Liz loved Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch Jenn and Keryn’s suggestions London Falling by Paul Cornell Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw The Rook by Daniel O’Malley The Company series by Kage Baker Thanks very much to Keryn Stewart for being our guest Readers Advisor on this episode! Music by Blue Dot Sessions. New episode every Saturday. Join us on Facebook to chat more about books and to get your own reading suggestions from Jenn: facebook.com/friendsatlibrary

Families are complicated! Jenn Martin and Jennifer Wong discuss what makes a good family saga and share their experience reading a multi-generational novel about a Korean family living in Japan: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee. Authors and books mentioned in this episode Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Commonwealth by Ann Patchett The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri Praise Song for the Day by Elizabeth Alexander Pachinko by Min Jin Lee Middlemarch by George Eliot Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck The Makioka Sisters by Junichirō Tanizaki The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell Reading suggestions for Annabel from Sydney Annabel loved: The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris Jenn’s suggestions: A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell The Endless Steppe by Esther Hautzig The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah The Book Thief by Markus Zusak A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles See you at the Mudgee Readers Festival! https://www.mudgeereaders.com/ Music by Blue Dot Sessions. New episode every Saturday. Join us on Facebook to chat more about books and to get your own reading suggestions from Jenn: facebook.com/friendsatlibrary

Author of "The Love of a Bad Man", Laura Elizabeth Woollett, talks to Sharelle Fellows about her thrilling novel "Beautiful Revolutionary", which explores what happens to a young couple caught in the orbit of Jim Jones and The People's Temple. A fictional take on one of history's most unbelievable and tragic moments. SHOW NOTES: Mudgee Readers' Festivalwww.mudgeereaders.comTwitter / Facebook @mudgeereaders Writes4Festivals www.writes4women.comFacebook @Writes4FestivalsTwitter and Instagram @w4wpodcast Pamela Cookwww.pamelacook.com.auFacebook - @pamelacookauthorTwitter - @PamelaCookAU Kel Butler - Listen Up Podcasting www.listenuppodcasting.com.auTwitter @KelB / Facebook @kelbutler Laura Elizabeth Woollettwww.lauraelizabethwoollett.comFacebook @laura.e.woollett

Australian storytelling dates back 65,000 years and continues to evolve, from the Dreamtime to contemporary art. Gamilaroi artist Paris Norton talks to Paul Collis and Aleshia Lonsdale about the Aboriginal storytelling voice, it's history, politics and contemporary incarnation. #MRF18 #MRF2018 #writing #reading #writingfestivals #writngnsw #creatensw #indigenousart #IndigenousFor all of the Mudgee Readers Festival episodes go to www.writes4women.com OR SUBSCRIBE at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you get your pods.SHOW NOTES:Mudgee Readers' Festivalwww.mudgeereaders.comFacebook @mudgeereadersWrites4Festivals / Writes4Womenwww.writes4women.comFacebook @writes4womenTwitter and Instagram @w4wpodcastPamela Cookwww.pamelacook.com.auFacebook - @pamelacookauthorTwitter - @PamelaCookAUKel ButlerTwitter @KelB / Facebook @kelbutlerParis NortonWeb - https://parisnorton.comAleshia Lonsdale Web - www.aleshialonsdale.comTwitter @tirikee1

Writers talk about the jobs they do when they aren't writing and the jobs they had before they picked up a pen. Hear how their work informs, influences and occasionally hinders, their writing lives. Featuring James Colley, Inga Simpson, Kate Wild, and hasted by Summer Land#MRF18 #MRF2018 #writing #reading #writingfestivals #writngnsw #createnswFor all of the Mudgee Readers Festival episodes go to www.writes4women.com OR SUBSCRIBE at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you get your pods. SHOW NOTES:Mudgee Readers' Festivalwww.mudgeereaders.comFacebook @mudgeereadersWrites4Festivals / Writes4Womenwww.writes4women.comFacebook @writes4womenTwitter and Instagram @w4wpodcastPamela Cookwww.pamelacook.com.auFacebook - @pamelacookauthorTwitter - @PamelaCookAUKel ButlerTwitter @KelB / Facebook @kelbutlerJames Colleywww.jamescolley.comTwitter / Facebook @jamcolleyInga Simpsonwww.ingasimpson.com.auFacebook @ingasimpsonKate WildTwitter @katewildabcFacebook @katewildSummer Landhttps://summerlandauthor.comTwitter @summerinozFacebook @SummerLandAuthor

Waiting for Elijah is an account of a tragedy that didn't have to happen - the 2009 shooting go 24 year old Elijah Holcombe by a police officer in Armidale. It is also an intense, forensic deconstruction of the extended legal proceedings that followed and a heartbreaking portrait of a family's grief. Kate Wild and Sharelle Fellows discuss this compelling narrative and the research and reportage that went into it. (CW - This podcast talks about death and mental health and may trigger some people. If you need help please contact Lifeline on 13 11 44)For all the Mudgee Readers Festival 2018 episodes go to www.writes4women.com or subscribe to Writes4Festivals#MRF18 #MRF2018 #writing #reading #writingfestivals #writngnsw #creatensw #mudgee #katewild #waitingforelijahSHOW NOTES:Mudgee Readers' Festivalwww.mudgeereaders.comFacebook @mudgeereadersWrites4Festivals / Writes4Womenwww.writes4women.comFacebook @writes4womenTwitter and Instagram @w4wpodcast