Final Draft - Great Conversations

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What's Final Draft - Great Conversations about?

Great conversations with authors from Australia and around the world.

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Final Draft - Great Conversations episodes:

04.21.2024
Yumna Kassab’s Politica
The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us...
04.18.2024
Miranda Darling’s Thunderhead
The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us...
04.14.2024
Book Club - Miranda Darling’s Thunderhead
Miranda is a writer, poet, and co-founder of Vanishing Pictures. Her latest novel is Thunderhead. Across a single day we are thrown into the life of Winona Dalloway. From the moment she wakes, stealing a few precious moments before her time...
04.12.2024
Sharlene Allsopp’s The Great Undoing
The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us...
04.08.2024
Final Draft Goes National!
Final Draft has been invited by the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia to join its Community Radio Network. This means that we've been working hard to develop episodes that will be shared across Australia on the hundreds of community radio stations...
04.02.2024
Book Club - Ernest Price’s The Pyramid of Needs
Ernest Price is a transgender man working as a secondary English teacher in Naarm/Melbourne. His writing has been published by Queerstories and Overland. The Pyramid of Needs is his first novel. Linda is ready to hit the big time. The fact...
03.26.2024
Book Club - Vikki Wakefield's To the River
Vikki Wakefield is an author of fiction for young adults and adults. Her novel This Is How We Change the Ending was a Book of the Year in the 2020 CBCA Awards. Vikki’s new novel is To the River. Twelve Years...
03.25.2024
Elizabeth Coleman's A Dance With Murder
The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us...
03.19.2024
Book Club - Yumna Kassab’s Politica
Yumna Kassab is a writer from Western Sydney. Her novels include Australiana and The Lovers. Yumna’s writing has been listed for prizes including the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, Queensland Literary Awards, NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, and The Stella Prize. Yumna Kassab...
03.15.2024
David Brooks’ The other side of daylight
The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us...
03.12.2024
Book Club - Sharlene Allsop’s The Great Undoing.
Sharlene Allsop is the debut author of The Great Undoing. The Great Undoing offers up a speculative future where our endless drive for connectivity and security threatens to turn society on its head. Scarlet Friday is a truth teller in a hyper...
03.11.2024
Sydney Writers Festival 2024 Program Launch with Artistic Director Ann Mossop
The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us...
03.01.2024
Book Club - David Brooks’ The other side of daylight
One of the pure pleasures that I have in sharing great Australian literature is bringing in a new poetry collection and the poet gives us an opportunity to hear them read some of their work in their own words. ...
02.27.2024
Mykaela Saunders’ Always Will Be
The Final Draft Great Conversations podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that...
02.23.2024
Book Club - Sarah Sasson’s Tidelines
Today I’m bringing you a debut novel. It’s called Tidelines and it’s by Sarah Sasson. Sarah Sasson is an Australian physician and writer. Her poetry, short stories and non-fiction have been published in Australia, the United Kingdom and USA. On a suburban...
02.19.2024
Blak & Bright First Nations Literary Festival
The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us...
02.16.2024
Book Club - Grace Chan’s Every Version of You
Grace Chan is a speculative fiction writer and psychiatrist. Her short fiction has appeared in Going Down Swinging, Aurealis, amongst many others, and she has been shortlisted for the Aurealis Awards, the Norma K Hemming Award, and Viva la Novella. Today...
02.12.2024
Povo - The New Anthology from Sweatshop Western Sydney Literary Movement
The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us...
02.09.2024
Book Club - Robert Skinner’s I’d Rather Not
Robert Skinner is the author of I’d Rather Not. To delve much further into his biography would be risk spoilers for I’d Rather Not which reads something like the autobiography of someone you’d love to meet at a party, but...
02.04.2024
Sarah Sasson's Tidelines
The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us...
02.01.2024
Book Club - Eugen Bacon’s Serengotti
Eugen Bacon is an African Australian author of novels and short fiction. Her fantasy writing has won a British Fantasy Award and has been a finalist for amongst others the World Fantasy awards and the Aurealis. Today I’m bringing you her latest...
01.30.2024
A.W. Hammond’s The Berlin Traitor
The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us...
01.25.2024
Randolf Stow's Tourmaline in the Australian Classics Book Club
The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us...
01.20.2024
Kate Jennings' Moral Hazard in the Australian Classics Book Club
The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us...
01.15.2024
Amy Whitting's I for Isobel in the Australian Classics Book Club
The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us...
01.10.2024
Robin Klein's Came Back to Show You I could Fly in the Australian Classics Book Club
The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us...
01.05.2024
Boyd Oxlade's Death in Brunswick in the Australian Classics Book Club
The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us...
12.31.2023
Criena Rohan's The Delinquents in the Australian Classics Book Club
The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us...
12.25.2023
Madeleine St John's The Women in Black in the Australian Classics Book Club
The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us...
12.23.2023
Final Draft - Summer Sessions Preview
The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us...
12.20.2023
Jack Heath's Kill Your Husbands
The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us...
12.13.2023
Book Club - End of Year Wrap & Gift Guide
Here are our top picks to help you find something for the booklover in your life! Michael Thompson's How to Be Remembered For the romantics. How to be Remembered has a fantastic concept that begs you to root for the protagonist and then...
12.06.2023
Book Club - Lucy Treloar’s Days of Innocence and Wonder
Lucy Treloar is the award winning author of Salt Creek and Wolfe Island. Today we’re discussing her new novel Days of Innocence and Wonder Till is on the run from life, taking to the open road in a quest to keep...
12.04.2023
Nicholas Jose’s The Idealist
The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us...
11.29.2023
Book Club - Sara M Saleh’s The Flirtation of Girls; Gahzal El-Banat
Sara M Saleh is a writer, poet, human rights lawyer, and the daughter of Palestinian, Lebanese and Egyptian migrants. Sara’s first novel is Songs for the Dead and the Living (Affirm Press, 2023) and her first poetry collection is The...
11.27.2023
Mirandi Riwoe's Sunbirds
The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us...
11.23.2023
Book Club - Melissa Lucashenko’s Edenglassie
Melissa Lucashenko is a Miles Franklin award winning author of Bundjalung and European heritage. Her novels include Killing Darcy, Mullumbimby and Too Much Lip. Today we’re going to be discovering her latest, Edenglassie. In the 1850’s Meanjin/Brisbane is a mix of...
11.20.2023
Tony Birch's Women & Children
The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us...
11.08.2023
Book Club - Mirandi Riwoe's Sunbirds
Mirandi Riwoe is an acclaimed author of historical fiction. Her novel Stone Sky Gold Mountain won the 2020 Queensland Literary Award. Mirandi’s new novel Sunbirds. In the shadow of war a wealthy Dutch family celebrate on their tea plantation. The war...
11.06.2023
Graham Akhurst's Borderland
The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us...
11.02.2023
Book Club - Tony Birch's Women & Children
Tony Birch is the author of novels, poetry and short fiction. You’ve met him on the show before with his collection Dark as Last Night which won the Steele Rudd award at the Queensland Literary Awards. Today Tony is joining...
10.31.2023
Bonus - Chris Womersley's The Diplomat
*Today's is a special Bonus episode rebroadcasting Chris Womersley's The Diplomat which was no longer available in our archive The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues...
10.30.2023
Chris Womersly's Ordinary Gods and Monsters
The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us...
10.23.2023
Book Club Encore - Claire G Coleman's Enclave
This week's episode is an encore performance of the book club originally from June 2022 Claire G. Coleman is a Noongar writer, from Western Australia, now based in Naarm. Claire’s debut novel is the award winning Terra Nullius as well as...
10.18.2023
Maxine Beneba Clarke’s We Know a Place
The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us...
10.16.2023
Book Club - Davina Bell’s What to Do When You’re Not Sure What to Do
Davina Bell is a children's book editor and an author of books for all ages. Her picture books include All the Ways To Be Smart and All of the Factors of Why I Love Tractors. Her debut young adult novel,...
10.12.2023
Sara M Saleh's Songs for the Dead and the Living
The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us...
10.09.2023
Book Club - Graham Akhurst’s Borderland
Graham Akhurst is a Kokomini writer who grew up in Meanjin. He is a Lecturer of Australian Indigenous Studies and Creative Writing at UTS. Borderland is his first novel. Jono is finishing high school and trying to figure out his place...
10.06.2023
Love Your Bookshop Day at Megalong Books
The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us...
10.03.2023
Emily Spurr’s Beatrix & Fred (Spoiler Free)
The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us...

What's Final Draft - Great Conversations about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Final Draft - Great Conversations episodes:

Yumna Kassab’s Politica

Miranda Darling’s Thunderhead

Book Club - Miranda Darling’s Thunderhead

Sharlene Allsopp’s The Great Undoing

Final Draft Goes National!

Book Club - Ernest Price’s The Pyramid of Needs

Book Club - Vikki Wakefield's To the River

Elizabeth Coleman's A Dance With Murder

Book Club - Yumna Kassab’s Politica

David Brooks’ The other side of daylight

Book Club - Sharlene Allsop’s The Great Undoing.

Sydney Writers Festival 2024 Program Launch with Artistic Director Ann Mossop

Book Club - David Brooks’ The other side of daylight

Mykaela Saunders’ Always Will Be

Book Club - Sarah Sasson’s Tidelines

Blak & Bright First Nations Literary Festival

Book Club - Grace Chan’s Every Version of You

Povo - The New Anthology from Sweatshop Western Sydney Literary Movement

Book Club - Robert Skinner’s I’d Rather Not

Sarah Sasson's Tidelines

Book Club - Eugen Bacon’s Serengotti

A.W. Hammond’s The Berlin Traitor

Randolf Stow's Tourmaline in the Australian Classics Book Club

Kate Jennings' Moral Hazard in the Australian Classics Book Club

Amy Whitting's I for Isobel in the Australian Classics Book Club

Robin Klein's Came Back to Show You I could Fly in the Australian Classics Book Club

Boyd Oxlade's Death in Brunswick in the Australian Classics Book Club

Criena Rohan's The Delinquents in the Australian Classics Book Club

Madeleine St John's The Women in Black in the Australian Classics Book Club

Final Draft - Summer Sessions Preview

Jack Heath's Kill Your Husbands

Book Club - End of Year Wrap & Gift Guide

Book Club - Lucy Treloar’s Days of Innocence and Wonder

Nicholas Jose’s The Idealist

Book Club - Sara M Saleh’s The Flirtation of Girls; Gahzal El-Banat

Mirandi Riwoe's Sunbirds

Book Club - Melissa Lucashenko’s Edenglassie

Tony Birch's Women & Children

Book Club - Mirandi Riwoe's Sunbirds

Graham Akhurst's Borderland

Book Club - Tony Birch's Women & Children

Bonus - Chris Womersley's The Diplomat

Chris Womersly's Ordinary Gods and Monsters

Book Club Encore - Claire G Coleman's Enclave

Maxine Beneba Clarke’s We Know a Place

Book Club - Davina Bell’s What to Do When You’re Not Sure What to Do

Sara M Saleh's Songs for the Dead and the Living

Book Club - Graham Akhurst’s Borderland

Love Your Bookshop Day at Megalong Books

Emily Spurr’s Beatrix & Fred (Spoiler Free)