With Alaina Gougoulis, editorial co-ordinator at Text Publishing! Conversation points: proofreading ebooks, workplace house points, The Far Side, glossy photograph pages, graveside Vegemite, penguin punching, gangrene above the fireplace, Madeleine St John, biographies are the ultimate google search, The Women in Black, book clubs, dalliances, big goblin conversations, lunch eating time, Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls, […]

Starring our old mate Liam Wood! Points of interest: Quickdraw intro, George Clooney Up In The Air, Koo Wee Rup!, turkey paradise, creative writing in high schools, username squatting, Australian summer as a kid, Swords and Sex, negating the cool, editing in the age of Google, holding newborns (aka lizards), Haim, Mmmbop! Books: Floundering by […]

With Rereader and deputy Brow Lifter, Steph Van Schilt. Riveting convo about: farts, feel the pressure, creepy live tweeting Steph’s life, striking, nice foley, ass, Super Nintendo Chalmers, swearing, sass and the apocalypse, teenage bus ride romance, outsiders, Divergent, don’t read this in public, matinee cry, Orphan Black, Hologram novellas, Friday Night Lights, The Double […]

With old mate Brigid Mullane, the newish editor of Kill Your Darlings! Items of interest: Terror, literary shuttle bus, bookstore customers, Franco tie-ins, gift giving rep, the apple isle, Iceland, JLaw future BFF, hype machine, passive reading, Wheel of Time, Boxing Day Tsunami, explaining grief, Joan Didion, pretending to be a ghost, Tig Notaro, Balinese […]

With comic maker extraordinaire Bernard Caleo. Interesting: Sicily, Graphic Novels! Melbourne!, making comics when you can’t draw, legibility, horses with hands, going down with the drawing ship, actively conspiring, Ms Page Turnery, depression and dead fish, salt is the opposite of pepper, surprising your readership, specialist in melancholy, Fun Home: The Musical, Ask Me Another, […]

With Elizabeth Redman! Points of interest: secret code language (shorthand), Sky Business ads, wicked fungus, wine diluted by shampoo off-runnings, John Howard’s superannuation, Cosmo vs Cosmos, critical numeracy, printing money, tooth fairy upcycling, hilarious hostage crisis, improve your first sexual experience, verse novels, tracksuit pants of the heart, St P Dogg, Martin Luther, sacrificing bulls […]

Starring Lachlann Carter and Jenna Williams from 100 Story Building. Points of interest: Dave Eggers and 826 Valencia, burrito watch, stupidload, Foley sound effects, punches, BYO mic, other people’s impressions, really bad retellings of Bible stories, you want your kids to be dolphins, history spoilers, The Little Mermaid, not finishing books, Tavi Gevinson, ways of […]

With Mel Campbell, author of Out of Shape. Conversation points: the last episode ever ever, dumb Dalmatians, fire drills and plan crashes, literally side splitting laughs, pagers, WikiHow tracheotomy, clothing sizes, aura, baby weight, the trouble with body image, modes of non-fiction and memoir, writing the personal, timely Swedes, JOMAD Classic, pizza marriage, being seen […]

Back in the saddle, with the new director of the Emerging Writers’ Festival, Sam Twyford-Moore! Points of interest: Sam overload, 10 years of EWF, benign growth, taking care of yourself as a writer, expectations, where in the world is Latika Bourke, fetishising busyness, saying yes, saying no, The Rereaders, in jokes, child narrators, autofiction, undisclosed […]

Starring the Prince Philip of Australian literature, Chad Parkhill. Talking points: Footscraycray, National Young Writers Festival, local knowledge, pelicans, Alex and Alex, Chad talks about alcohol for seriously like 15 minutes straight, saffron, agave, emulsified dairy fat, squashed frogs, vibrato, Hobart, PotCon 2013, Be Kind Rewind, the structural problem of full time work and murder […]