The Kill Your Darlings Podcast

The Kill Your Darlings Podcast episodes:

• 06.29.2022

  Jackie Bailey on ‘The Eulogy’: First Book Club

  Editor’s note: This episode contains discussion of death and grief practices. Each month we celebrate an Australian debut release of fiction or non-fiction in the Kill Your Darlings First Book Club. For June that debut is The Eulogy by Jackie Bailey...

  
• 05.25.2022

  Bastian Fox Phelan on ‘How To Be Between’: First Book Club

  Each month we celebrate an Australian debut release of fiction or non-fiction in the Kill Your Darlings First Book Club. For May that debut is How To Be Between by Bastian Fox Phelan (Giramondo), a memoir about female facial hair,...

  
• 04.27.2022

  Rhett Davis on ‘Hovering’: First Book Club

  Each month we celebrate an Australian debut release of fiction or non-fiction in the Kill Your Darlings First Book Club. For April that debut is Hovering by Rhett Davis (Hachette), a powerful and kaleidoscopic story about three people struggling to...

  
• 03.22.2022

  Omar Sakr on ‘Son of Sin’: First Book Club

  Each month we celebrate an Australian debut release of fiction or non-fiction in the Kill Your Darlings First Book Club. For February that debut is Son of Sin by Omar Sakr (Affirm Press), a multifaceted tale brimming with angels and...

  
• 02.22.2022

  Natalie Kon-yu on ‘The Cost of Labour’: First Book Club

  Each month we celebrate an Australian debut release of fiction or non-fiction in the Kill Your Darlings First Book Club. For February that debut is The Cost of Labour by Natalie Kon-yu, out now from Affirm Press. Natalie was nine weeks...

  
• 11.29.2021

  SJ Norman on ‘Permafrost’: First Book Club

  Each month we celebrate an Australian debut release of fiction or non-fiction in the Kill Your Darlings First Book Club. For November that debut is Permafrost by SJ Norman, out now from UQP. This brilliant collection of short fiction explores the...

  
• 11.09.2021

  Pub Talk: Leah Jing McIntosh from Liminal

  Welcome to the second episode of our new interview series, Pub Talk, where we chat to some of Australia’s most experienced and influential publishers, editors and agents. During these conversations you’ll receive insiders’ information about the industry, as well as...

  
• 10.26.2021

  Gary Nunn on ‘The Psychic Tests’: First Book Club

  Each month we celebrate an Australian debut release of fiction or non-fiction in the Kill Your Darlings First Book Club. For October that debut is The Psychic Tests by Gary Nunn, out now from Pantera Press. In The Psychic Tests award-winning...

  
• 09.28.2021

  Allee Richards on ‘Small Joys of Real Life’: First Book Club

  Each month we celebrate an Australian debut release of fiction or non-fiction in the Kill Your Darlings First Book Club. For September that debut is Small Joys of Real Life by Allee Richards, out now from Hachette. The night Eva shared a smile...

  
• 09.14.2021

  Pub Talk: Brigid Mullane from Ultimo Press

  Welcome to the first episode of our new interview series, Pub Talk, where we chat to some of Australia’s most experienced and influential publishers, editors and agents. During these conversations you’ll receive insiders’ information about the industry, as well as...

  
• 08.31.2021

  New Australian Fiction 2021

  We’re thrilled to bring you this special podcast episode celebrating the publication of our third print anthology, New Australian Fiction 2021. New Australian Fiction 2021 collects a number of brilliant short stories from authors from around the country, and in...

  
• 08.17.2021

  Clem Bastow on ‘Late Bloomer’: First Book Club

  ‘When you don’t understand something that important about yourself, [diagnosis is] almost a kind of cheat code to go back and understand things that you’ve been through.’ Each month we celebrate an Australian debut release of fiction or non-fiction in the Kill...

  
• 07.22.2021

  Amani Haydar on The Mother Wound: KYD First Book Club

  Editor’s Note: This conversation includes discussion of family violence. ‘We’ve got an ongoing conversation happening about violence against women in Australia, and I felt that it was important to contribute what I had learnt from my perspective as a Muslim woman,...

  
• 06.24.2021

  Lisa Emanuel on ‘The Covered Wife’: First Book Club

  Each month we celebrate an Australian debut release of fiction or non-fiction in the Kill Your Darlings First Book Club. For June that debut is The Covered Wife by Lisa Emanuel, out now from Pantera Press. Sarah is a smart, young lawyer...

  
• 05.13.2021

  Lech Blaine on ‘Car Crash’: First Book Club

  ‘I wanted to dig into the complexity of an event like that, and allow people to see not just the humanity of the people involved, but also the negative aspects of how these events play out.’ Each month we celebrate an...

  
• 04.29.2021

  Madeleine Ryan on ‘A Room Called Earth’: First Book Club

  ‘Conversations can be really dull compared to our inner lives, and I find that fascinating. The book was, for me, a real exploration of that difference.’ Each month we celebrate an Australian debut release of fiction or non-fiction in the Kill Your...

  
• 03.30.2021

  Evelyn Araluen on ‘Dropbear’: First Book Club

  “Particularly after the hellish year we’ve just had, poetry makes the burden of existence a lot nicer.” Each month we celebrate an Australian debut release of fiction or non-fiction in the Kill Your Darlings First Book Club. For March that debut is Dropbear by Evelyn...

  
• 03.17.2021

  ‘The Shape of Sound’ and ‘Why Are You Like This’

  KYD’s Hayley May Bracken, Alan Vaarwerk and Suzy Garcia discuss Fiona Murphy’s new memoir The Shape of Sound (available 30 March from Text Publishing) and its exploration of how her deaf experience has been shaped by the social and structural...

  
• 02.23.2021

  Sam van Zweden on ‘Eating With My Mouth Open’: First Book Club

  “I started to interrogate my own relationship with food and realise that it wasn’t so simple.” Each month we celebrate an Australian debut release of fiction or non-fiction in the Kill Your Darlings First Book Club. For February that debut is Eating...

  
• 02.01.2021

  ‘The Imitator’ by Rebecca Starford

  In this special episode we’re talking to KYD publishing director Rebecca Starford about her new historical fiction novel, The Imitator, out now from Allen & Unwin. The Imitator is a page-turning World War II spy thriller set among London’s aristocracy,...

  
• 12.01.2020

  Earthlings and Voxdocs

  The KYD team get together once again to discuss acclaimed Japanese author Sayaka Murata’s experimental, compelling and disturbing new novel Earthlings, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori and published by Granta. We also compare notes on Voxdocs, a series of eight short films...

  
• 11.24.2020

  First Book Club: Lucky’s (with Andrew Pippos)

  “I wanted to write about how someone changes over the course of a life, and how a culture changes.” Each month we celebrate an Australian debut release of fiction or non-fiction in the Kill Your Darlings First Book Club. For November that debut is Lucky’s by...

  
• 10.21.2020

  First Book Club: Hysteria (with Katerina Bryant)

  “My illness is not a metaphor. Any amount of self-reflection in the world will not make it go away.” Each month we celebrate an Australian debut release of fiction or non-fiction in the Kill Your Darlings First Book Club. For October that debut...

  
• 09.28.2020

  First Book Club: The F Team (with Rawah Arja)

  “I love to tell the story of my rejection and put it out there in the world because I know that so many emerging writers are facing the same dilemmas that I was.” Each month we celebrate an Australian debut release...

  
• 09.23.2020

  Having and Being Had & Hungry Ghosts

  This month the KYD team are discussing Eula Biss’s latest genre defying work ‘Having and Being Had’, a series of linked essays in which Biss explores her lived experience of capitalism, along with SBS’s new supernatural drama ‘Hungry Ghosts‘, in...

  
• 08.31.2020

  New Australian Fiction 2020

  We’re thrilled to bring you this special podcast episode celebrating the publication of our second print anthology, New Australian Fiction 2020. New Australian Fiction 2020 collects a number of brilliant short stories from authors from around the country, and in...

  
• 08.26.2020

  First Book Club: The Fogging (with Luke Horton)

  “We’re living in increasingly anxious times…I think it’s bubbling away in the backdrop of every contemporary novel in some way.” Each month we celebrate an Australian debut release of fiction or non-fiction with the Kill Your Darlings First Book Club. For August that...

  
• 08.04.2020

  The Vanishing Half and Stateless

  In this episode, the KYD team get together (remotely) to discuss Brit Bennett’s expansive, multi-generational saga The Vanishing Half (Dialogue Books), and the six-part ABC drama Stateless, which explores the overlapping stories of staff and detainees at an Australian immigration...

  
• 07.21.2020

  First Book Club: A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing (with Jessie Tu)

  “I honestly think that the root of racism is a lack of empathy. If you grew up only watching movies where the central character is a white dude you’re only ever going to learn how to empathise with white dudes.” Each...

  
• 06.17.2020

  First Book Club: ‘Fathoms’ (with Rebecca Giggs)

  ‘I suddenly realised that all these environmental problems—consumer culture, plastic pollution, animal welfare—they all came together inside the whale.’ Each month we celebrate an Australian debut release of fiction or non-fiction with the Kill Your Darlings First Book Club. For June that...

  
• 06.04.2020

  The Octopus & I and Normal People

  In this month's podcast, the KYD team get together remotely once again to discuss human–animal relationships and Erin Hortle's stunning Tasman-soaked debut novel The Octopus & I (Allen & Unwin), and what we thought about the human–human relationships in the new small...

  
• 05.21.2020

  KYD First Book Club: ‘Please Don’t Hug Me’ (with Kay Kerr)

  'I would love young autistic girls to find this book, first and foremost…there’s not a lot of books out there where they would see themselves reflected back.' Each month we celebrate an Australian debut release of fiction or non-fiction with the...

  
• 04.21.2020

  KYD First Book Club: ‘The Adversary’ (with Ronnie Scott)

  'We’ve all had that feeling where the ground has shifted when you weren’t quite paying attention.' Each month we celebrate an Australian debut release of fiction or non-fiction with the Kill Your Darlings First Book Club. For April that debut is...

  
• 04.14.2020

  Silicon Valley Book Club

  This episode of the KYD Podcast is coming straight to you from our respective bunkers—though we can’t promise we look as stylish as Ira Glass while doing it. In the episode we use tech to discuss Anna Weiner’s time in Silicon...

  
• 03.26.2020

  KYD First Book Club: Shirl (with Wayne Marshall)

  “I see no reason why short stories have to be small. I think they can be large. I think they can be big experiences.” Each month we celebrate an Australian debut release of fiction or non-fiction with the Kill Your Darlings First Book...

  
• 02.20.2020

  KYD First Book Club: Cherry Beach (with Laura McPhee-Browne)

  Content Warning: This recording contains discussion relating to mental illness and suicide. ‘Most of us have had a chaotic relationship or two…the experience of loving someone is rarely not dramatic.’ Each month we celebrate an Australian debut with the Kill Your Darlings First Book...

  
• 12.15.2019

  New Australian Fiction at the Australian Short Story Festival

  In October we were thrilled to join the Australian Short Story Festival for a special event celebrating our first print anthology. New Australian Fiction 2019 collects a number of brilliant short stories from local authors, and in this live recording...

  
• 11.26.2019

  KYD First Book Club: Being Black ‘N Chicken & Chips (with Matt Okine)

  “There are certain ingredients in every dish that you eat that you don’t necessarily love, but other people do, and that creates the whole flavour of the meal.” Each month we celebrate an Australian debut with the Kill Your Darlings First...

  
• 10.22.2019

  KYD First Book Club: ‘White Tears/Brown Scars’ (with Ruby Hamad)

  Each month we celebrate an Australian debut in the Kill Your Darlings First Book Club. For October we’re thrilled to focus on Ruby Hamad’s book, White Tears/Brown Scars, out now with MUP. White Tears/Brown Scars blows open the inconvenient truth that when...

  
• 10.15.2019

  Handmaids & Influencers

  From Handmaids to influencers, KYD‘s Meaghan Dew, Alan Vaarwerk, Ellen Cregan and Alice Cottrell get together in the studio to unpack Margaret Atwood’s (newly joint Booker Prize-winning) The Testaments (00.50), and the inventive new ABC web series taking on influencer culture, Content (24.00). Despite best...

  
• 10.02.2019

  KYD First Book Club: ‘The House of Youssef’ (with Yumna Kassab)

  For our September First Book Club, Ellen Cregan sits down with Yumna Kassab to discuss reading, editing and the process of writing her debut short fiction collection ‘The House of Youssef’. The post KYD First Book Club: ‘The House of Youssef’...

  
• 09.09.2019

  KYD First Book Club: ‘It Sounded Better In My Head’ (with Nina Kenwood)

  For our August First Book Club, Ellen Cregan sits down with Nina Kenwood to discuss her debut YA noval ‘It Sounded Better In My Head’, recorded live at Readings St Kilda on 22 August. The post KYD First Book Club: ‘It...

  
• 08.07.2019

  MIFF 2019: Adaptations and ‘Animals’ (with Sophie Hyde)

  To celebrate the Melbourne International Film Festival, the KYD team shares their favourite book to film adaptations, and we chat to director Sophie Hyde about her film 'Animals'. The post MIFF 2019: Adaptations and ‘Animals’ (with Sophie Hyde) appeared first on...

  
• 07.29.2019

  KYD First Book Club: A Constant Hum (with Alice Bishop)

  For our July First Book Club, Ellen Cregan sits down with Alice Bishop to discuss her debut collection ‘A Constant Hum’, recorded live at Readings State Library Victoria on 18 July. The post KYD First Book Club: A Constant Hum (with...

  
• 07.08.2019

  KYD First Book Club: ‘Little Stones’ (with Elizabeth Kuiper)

  For our June First Book Club, Ellen Cregan sits down with Elizabeth Kuiper to discuss her debut novel 'Little Stones’, recorded live at Bargoonga Nganjin North Fitzroy Library on 25 June. The post KYD First Book Club: ‘Little Stones’ (with Elizabeth...

  
• 06.18.2019

  KYD First Book Club Event: ‘Stop Being Reasonable’

  Ellen Cregan sits down with Eleanor Gordon-Smith to discuss her debut book 'Stop Being Reasonable’, recorded live at Readings Carlton on 23 May. The post KYD First Book Club Event: ‘Stop Being Reasonable’ appeared first on Kill Your Darlings.

  
• 06.03.2019

  Don’t Be A Stranger (with Melanie Cheng)

  Melanie Cheng joins Alice Cottrell, Alan Vaarwerk and Ellen Cregan in the studio to discuss her new novel Room For A Stranger and her recent work as a guest-curator at the Sydney Writers Festival. The post Don’t Be A Stranger (with...

  
• 05.07.2019

  Speculative Fiction Showcase Sampler

  Hear readings from our first ever Speculative Fiction/Fantasy Showcase, read by Jane Rawson, J.R. Hennessy, J.A. Haigh, Angela Meyer and Claire Corbett. The post Speculative Fiction Showcase Sampler appeared first on Kill Your Darlings.

  
• 04.10.2019

  KYD First Book Club Event: ‘Witches: What Women Do Together’

  For our March First Book Club, Ellen Cregan sits down with Sam George-Allen to discuss her debut book 'Witches: What Women Do Together’, recorded live at Bargoonga Nganjin North Fitzroy Library on 27 March. The post KYD First Book Club Event:...

  
• 03.28.2019

  Stella Shortlists and Sparking Joy

  Summer seems like a distant memory, but we here at Kill Your Darlings are just getting around to updating you on our summer reading goals. More importantly, we chat about the Stella Prize shortlist, and the ways we eternal book...