Today’s guest, Garth Jones, hails from Mad Max Land. Garth is a stereotypical Australian: an irreverent larrikin from out in the sticks absolutely MARINATED in car and footy culture as well as Australiana of yore. He designed ads for phone sex lines, wrote for a church newspaper and drew a few comics for David Lee […]

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Dark Matter Zine welcomes special guest AViVA. Aviva Anastasia Payne, professionally known as AViVA, is an Australian singer-songwriter and author, a multidisciplinary artist with international success, garnering more than three billion global streams of her music to date. Having always been a lover of stories and made-up worlds, she has fed her passion for self-expression […]

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My special guest for this podcast is Menna Van Praag who was born in Cambridge, England and studied Modern History at Oxford University. And who sets her novels in Cambridge. Need I say more?! Yes? Ok. After studying Modern History at Balliol College, Oxford, Menna returned home to Cambridge to study creative writing and work […]

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This year so far I’ve been privileged to read and review some FANTASTIC books, of which The Gifts by Liz Hyder was one. In this podcast I interview the author! Liz Hyder is a writer, experienced workshop leader and award-winning arts PR consultant. She has a BA in drama from the University of Bristol and, […]

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A few weeks ago I was jaw-droppingly surprised when a publicist emailed me and offered an interview with Kee Chan. Although I’d noticed the TV series Kung Fu in the pop culture zeitgeist, I hadn’t started watching it. I promptly said “YES PLEASE” to the interview and binged all of the series that’s currently (legally) […]

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This year’s International Women’s Day podcast is an interview with Bridget Hodder who co-wrote a cross-cultural novel with Fawzia Gilani Williams. Cross-cultural novel Bridget Hodder and Fawzia Gilani-Williams wrote an unforgettable tale of cross-cultural interfaith friendship for kids. The Button Box is a middle grade time-travel novel following Ava, a Sephardic Jewish girl, and Nadeem, […]

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In this podcast, Nalini talks to award-wining author Heather Mateus Sappenfield whose latest novel, River Between Hearts, is a heartwarming middle school novel suitable for adults. Heather Mateus Sappenfield’s writing explores the adventures that fill life, often set in the Rocky Mountain landscape that has been her lifelong home. She explores the many selves each […]

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David VERBEEK (1980, Netherlands) studied film, photography and philosophy at the New School University in New York, and film directing at the Netherlands Film Academy, where he graduated in 2005. During his studies he completed his first feature, Beat (2004), selected for IFFR. Many of David’s films screened at prominent film festivals. They’ve also been […]

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In this podcast Nalini talks to actor, screenwriter and director Anna Hopkins. Anna is famous for her 3 roles as a journalist on Defiant, The Expanse and now in the horror short V/H/S/94, launching today on Shudder. She also won an award for her role as the villain Lilith on Shadowhunters, a role Anna relishes. […]

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Nalini Haynes talks to author and academic Ilsa Evans. While bringing up her children solo, Ilsa completed an honors degree in Women’s Studies, for which she won the Dissertation Prize. During this time she also rose to the rank of Sergeant in the Army Reserves. These achievements were separate. Ilsa completed a PhD at Monash […]

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