This month Nicole Lee chats to Pulitzer Prize nominated and PEN/W.G. Sebald Award winner Susan Choi about her brief flirtation with acting, her MFA experience, how her writing process has changed with each of her novels, and writing from an Asian American perspective. 

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And check out Susan's website at susanchoi.com!

In this episode of The Creative Conversation, Nicole Lee talks to the very inspiring, very passionate journalist Jennifer Byrne (The Book Club, Jennifer Byrne Presents, 60 Minutes, Foreign Correspondent) about always following your interests, having an interesting life, preparing for prickly interviews and how to not choose a career!

This month Nicole Lee chats to award winning novelist Nick Earls (48 Shades of Brown, Zigzag Street, Perfect Skin, The Fix) about possibly going to childcare with Eddie Izzard, working as a storytelling armchair (and diagnosing a heart failure in the process) and using paper clips to hold together his story ideas!     

This month Nicole Lee chats to BAFTA and AFI award winning screenwriter Craig Pearce (Strictly Ballroom, Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge!, The Great Gatsby) about his writing process on The Great Gatsby with best friend Baz Luhrmann, doing a movie with Brooke Shields, and what Shakespeare the rockstar would have been like in Elizabethan England! 

This month Nicole Lee chats to writer/director/producer Tony Ayres (The Home Song Stories, The Slap, Nowhere Boys, Camp) about making feature films versus working in television production, how to put your work out there and what Matchbox Pictures (and NBCU) is up to next!

This month Nicole Lee chats to playwright Hannie Rayson (Hotel Sorrento, The Swimming Club, The Glass Soldier) about travelling to sensate your soul, the financial pressures of being a freelancer, and finding imaginary friends in your word processor.***Notes:The Divided Heart by Rachel Power“Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” - E. L. Doctorow

This month Nicole Lee talks to Academy Award nominated screenwriter and novelist John Collee (Happy Feet, Master and Commander, Walking With Dinosaurs 3D) about his days as a medical student, his writing process, and emoting dinosaurs.

*A note on sound* - In this episode the sound cuts in and out a bit, so you might have to adjust the volume at times. This will be addressed in the second episode.