The Empty Page

Diana Reid chats about her new book Love And Virtue and the process of writing it. 

Kate Langbroek chats (as only Kate can) about her first book Ciao Bella and the Italian adventure that inspired it.

Sarah Bailey chats about her new book The Housemate and the process of writing it on this completely spoiler-free episode of The Empty Page.

Bruce Elder is a dead-set legend of the writing world, and in this episode he chats about music writing, travel writing, and his extraordinarily thorough website, aussietowns.com.au 

In this completely spoiler free episode of The Empty Page, Margaret Hickey talks about her debut novel Cutters End, the process of writing it, and how teaching kids how to write gives her faith that the next generation will still be in love with books.

Jeff Apter makes his triumphant return to The Empty Page to chat about his new Bon Scott book, Bad Boy Boogie. This book tells the Bon Scott story in a unique and revealing way, and even the most ardent Bon Scott fan will learn something new about Bon when they read Jeff's book.

Lisa Millar is the co-host of ABC TV's News Breakfast, so the fact that she found the time to write her memoir with those brutal early starts is an achievement in itself. A self-described reluctant memoirist, Lisa has a fascinating story and a great way of telling it. In this episode we chat about her book Daring To Fly, the process of writing it, and the lengths Lisa went to in order to overcome her fear of flying.

David Allan-Petale is living proof that every writer has their own unique way of going about their business. In David's case, he sets fire to his first draft before he starts his second. Really! This is one of many fascinating aspects of David's writing life that you'll hear about in this episode, and if you haven't yet read his amazing new book Locust Summer, you can be assured that this podcast is spoiler free.

To kick off season 3 of The Empty Page, three of Australia's best music writers swap stories with each other about their multi-decade careers. You'll hear how Jeff Apter once had Tex Perkins light a bonfire just for him, Stuart Coupe talks about being sent to Paris to interview Bruce Springsteen, and it's safe to say that Barry Divola’s name never appeared on Glenn Frey's Christmas card list. We all felt like we barely scratched the surface in this conversation, so you can expect part two of the music writer's round table in the not too distant future on The Empty Page podcast. 

On this episode we get stuck into the topic of writing for radio with two of the absolute best. Dave Gibson and Party Parslow chat about their time writing for The Doug Mulray show.