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Hello friends and welcome to the last episode of the Exophonic writer Podcast of 2025.

I have great company! Join me on my chat with Mages Ruiz Diaz from Acts of Imagination, as we discuss how we both brought our Argentinian cultural backgrounds to our work here in Australia.

Also, we touched on particularly interesting topics such as Mages' branding work for an Azerbaijani client, changing names after migration and  some pondering on the Spanish language.

This one is a must-listen-to, so I hope you tune in! 😎

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Hi exophonic friends,

We are here again with yet another amazing guest! 

Dr Gabriel García Ochoa is a Mexican-born academic and writer based in Melbourne, Australia. He teaches at Monash University, where his work explores cultural literacy, world literature, and translation. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University and is the author of the 2019 science fiction novel The Hypermarket. 

Join me in my conversation with Gabriel as we discussed cultural literacy, English as birth right, cultural expectation on exophonic writers and, —surprise, surprise— imposter syndrome!

We also delved into Gabriel's first novel (linked below) and what he's writing next.

https://www.amazon.com.au/Hypermarket-Gabriel-Garcia-Ochoa/dp/0578650967

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Hello Exophonics,

As promised, here are the first few chapters (poems) of my debut novel Tango Masala.

I tried my best and I hope you like it (but much respect for voice actors!)I read the first 46 pages, and the following poems:

1. Comfort Zone 
2. Hamster Palace 
3. The Millers 
4. Liam
5. Micro 
6. Lila and Rim 
7. Pink House 
8. Castle-hotel 
9. Check Mate 
10. Milan
11. Hindi 
12. Here to work 
13. New Teacher 

If you want to see more, head to my website www.zoegomezcass.com or read a sample on Amazon:

 https://www.amazon.com/Tango-Masala-Zoe-Gomez-Cass/dp/1763595234?asin=1763595234&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1

See you on the next one.

Much love,

Zoe Xx

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Hi, exophonics! ✨

Let me share with you all that I'm learning as a newly self-published exophonic author. We'll talk about: 

• why your friends may not read your book
• stocking your book in real-life bookstores and libraries
• where is a good place to promote your indie-publish book.

Plus, if you stick until the very end I'll tell you one surprising marketing technique I'm deploying 🙃

In the episode, I mentioned Creative Pep talk Podcast  (which is pretty famous), but just in case you didn't know it here is the link: https://www.creativepeptalk.com/

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Whether to reach a wider audience, or to detach yourself from saying hard things, or because your native language has a very complex writing system. Whatever the reason that brings you to write in a non-native language... this is a story that only you can tell, so write it!

In conversation with author and book coach Karmen Spiljak, we talked about grammar skills, cultural expectations, opportunities for exophonics in the publishing world and her own trajectory in being an exophonic writer.

If you want to know more about today's guest, you can find more here:

https://karmenspiljak.com/

https://storyallegiance.com/about/

Tune-in and add to your exophonic reality a little piece of truth from the point of view of other exophonics from across the globe ✨🙂

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Once upon a time... when I was researching for exophonic resources (right before launching the very first episode of this podcast) I came across a website that was boasting exophonic poetry and short stories. I was surprised because honestly there wasn't much for and about exophonic writers other than a bunch of articles that were all recounting the same thing.

Danae Spyrou is behind Lite House, a website for Exophonics and in this episode she shares what inspired her to start this project and how you too can share your writing in this website that celebrates diversity of voices, accents and experiences. :)

✨Here's the link for you to check it out and submit your writing:

https://tothelitehouse.com/

✨Also, join the exophonic writers group on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/share/g/16r86gPqEf/

I hope this episode has been informative and inspiring. Please share this valuable information with your exophonic friends and let's take over the world with our Exophony (😈 *she laughs maliciously*  😈)

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Hiiiii 🙃 

The Exophonic Writer Podcast is back, baby!  💪 😎 And we have a great season ahead...

In this season, we'll talk about early lessons of a self-published author, a website that's especially looking to publish exophonic writers, a book coach who works with exophonic writers, the relationship we have with our second language, the exophonic landscape of Melbourne, Exophony as taught in university, and so much more!

5 beautiful guests are joining us for this first half of the season (and I could not feel more honoured 🥺).

Also, exciting news... we have EXOPHONIC MERCH! 

I created this cute line of products to tell the world about your craft without having to speak at all (because, chances are, you're heavily introverted just like me :p):

Check it out at:

 https://www.zoegomezcass.com/podcast

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Hi, exophonics.  I know... it's been a minute.

But I have a really good excuse. I've been working on the publishing process of my first novel: TANGO MASALA!!!

Tango Masala is a psychological coming-of-age drama written in verse, about Bianca, a language teacher living in Buenos Aires and Milan, an Indian businessman bearing a job proposal that will change Bianca's world.

It's available on hardback and paperback, Kindle and Kindle Unlimited. In this episode of The Exophonic Writer Podcast I want to share three valuable lessons I learnt in the process:

1. Don't overcomplicate things.
2. Give yourself plenty of time.
3. Have realistic expectations.

That's a bit generic advice, isn't it? Tune in to find out how these three lessons were relevant in my publishing process. :)

SEE YOU SOON IN SEASON 2! XoXo

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Hello, Exophonics!

In this episode I'll share with you a map of the milestones of my (still very young) trajectory in this writerly life. My aim is to inspire you to do the same with your own journey and, like that, beat IMPOSTER SYNDROME, once and for all!...Or at least try. 😉

Let's gooo!✨

Show notes:

My Paris blog (in Spanish):
https://unaciudadenelmundo.wordpress.com/

Sleeping Beauty of Melbourne (my first ever published short-story):
https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/65633600/lots-wife-edition-3-2021

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Welcome,  exophonic friends!

It's almost impossible to talk about exophony without talking about Identity, since it's such a  fundamental pillar  for this practice.

Matters of Identity emerge during the phase of choosing to become an exophonic writer as well as during the phase after one has already been writing in a second language for a while (well, duh, matters of identity govern almost everything we do, don't they?)

In this episode, I'm posing a lot of questions about the expectations surrounding   identity and literary voice of exophonic writers and even though they are questions I don't necessarily know the answer to, I think they are important questions to start asking.

✨ SHOW NOTES  ✨

Check out my recently created website:
www.zoegomezcass.com

Read my recently published short stories in multilingual online magazine, Puentes Review:

ENG version "Tale Trapped in a Little Jar of Salt"

SPA version "Cuento Atrapado en un Frasquito de Sal"

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