The Storymakers Institute with Joel Carnegie

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🎙️ This week on The Storymakers Institute podcast, I’m coming to you LIVE from the Dunkeld Writers Festival on the lands of the Djab Wurrung and Gunditjmara people.

In this episode, we’re pulling back the curtain on biography, imagination and memoir, and the highs and lows of writing about people. Joining me on stage is the Australian actor and writer, Louise Le Nay, and multi-award-winning writer and critic, Sarah Krasnostein.

Sarah Krasnostein is the best-selling author of The Trauma Cleaner (2017), The Believer (2021/22), Not Waving, Drowning (2022) and On Peter Carey (2023). The Believer was named by The New Yorker as a Best Book of 2022.

Louise Le Nay studied dramatic art at NIDA and has worked as an actor in films, TV and theatre, and as a TV writer and script editor. She’s also taught professional writing and editing at various tertiary institutions. Her latest novel, Edenhope, published by Text, was released in June 2024.

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🎙️ This week on The Storymakers Institute podcast, say hello to career listener, audio executive, thinker, innovator, encourager, champion of story + sound, Julie Shapiro.

I met Julie around a decade ago, when I roped her into agreeing to work with me on a chaotic radio musical about musicals [which I’m sure you can still find in some deep dark edge of the internet, message me for details].

Since then, we’ve been orbiting in adjacent audio circles, so its a real joy to have Julie on the show this week. Alongside her day job, making podcasts at Canadaland, Julie Shapiro co-founded a new home for independent audio, new voices, and big ideas in podcasting, with fellow audiophile, John DeLore, called Audio Flux.

Audio Flux is a space for all, first-timers, longtime producers and audio fans alike -who believe deeply in audio culture and community, and the transformative power of sound + story. And who loooove to listen.

I sit down with Julie to talk about the stories that really pushed her as a storymaker, where she finds creativity beyond the day job, and why she spends her finite time on this planet, listening to tape.

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As we celebrate NAIDOC Week on The Storymakers Institute, say hello to Bundjalung author, Sharlene Allsopp. How long can you run from a lie, if that lie is what your life is founded on? That’s one of the central questions in her new book “The Great Undoing” out now.

In this uplifting conversation, Sharlene shares her very personal, multi-dimensional approach to storytelling; we talk about the impacts (and responsibilities) of imagining “the future” as storytellers; and ponder how storytelling can hold competing agendas, interests and truths.

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🎙️ This week on The Storymakers Institute podcast, say hello to the widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist, and author, Báyò Akómoláfé who “once lived on the tarred lonely highways of truth”, and instead is now “learning to live in the meantime... where we must… make do with partial answers.”

I sit down with Báyò to discuss why he believes this decade is the “decade of the fugitive”, how we navigate the “global bin fire” doom story being fed to us (or made by us), and what these times demand of us storytellers.

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This week, say hello to Bruce Pascoe and Lyn Harwood, who recently joined me live-on-stage at Wurdi Youang, Geelong Library and Heritage Centre (The Dome) which you can now find on Substack.

Bruce Pascoe is the best selling author of ‘Dark Emu’ - which ignited a conversation about the 'hunter-gatherer' tag given to pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians, as it rebutted colonial myths that justified dispossession of land.

When Dark Emu was adopted by Australia like a new anthem, Bruce found himself at the centre of a national debate that often focussed on the wrong part of the story. In their new book Black Duck: A Year At Yumburra, Bruce Pascoe and Lyn Williams describe what happened next…

In this SOLD OUT and LIVE conversation, Bruce and Lyn sit down with me to talk about the consequences and responsibility of disrupting Australia’s history with a new (ancient) story.

Presented in partnership with The Book Bird.

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This week on The Storymakers Institute, say hello to award-winning Turkish journalist, novelist, author, political thinker, and public speaker, Ece Temelkuran who left Turkey in 2016 “exhausted from fear and paralysed with anger” when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s “purge of the opposition began”.

In her 2019 book "How to Lose a Country” Ece documented the seven steps she observed about the transition from democracy to dictatorship both at home and abroad.

As she works on her new book “Nation of Strangers” , I sit down with Ece to ask: has the future been as bad as she expected it to be? Does the pursuit of a culturally cosmopolitan, globally informed, worldly life unhinge us? And what is home for storymakers like Ece, when home becomes a dictatorship?

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Welcome to Story Insider 📖 A new series of found long reads, unheard interviews, and curated analysis from The Storymakers Institute.

This week, say hello to longtime American radio and podcast maker and editor, Julia Barton. Julia is one founder of Pushkin Industries who's worked with Malcolm Gladwell, Michael Lewis, Tim Harford, Jill Lepore and others, to develop their narrative shows - and I had the absolute joy of working with Julia on one of my ABC audio documentaries, some years ago.

As a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, Julia has been investigating the history of radio and podcasting from the very beginning to today. I sit down with her to tackle this monster piece of research: where do we even begin? With the sinking of the Titanic.

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This week on The Storymakers Institute, say hello to Editor in Chief at Zan Times, journalist, and writer from Afghanistan, Zahra Nader. In August 2021, the world watched on when the Taliban took Afghanistan back. For many, it was a death sentence. For most, a return to a life of oppression. But the resistance is beginning.

In this episode, meet the woman behind a syndicate of female journalists working undercover and risking their lives to publish stories from inside Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. Listener discretion advised.

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This week on The Storymakers Institute, we are celebrating our one year anniversary on Substack 🎉 recently teaming up with our friends at The KO, The Book Bird, and Allen and Unwin to host a SOLD OUT live edition of the podcast with multi-award-winning Australian author, Bri Lee - who can also be found on Substack as creator/editor of News & Reviews.

As you can imagine, we talk about all the topics: Art, Power, Love, Money, and Bri’s new novel, The Work (buy here) which dives into the biggest intersections of life: of art and commerce, of intimacy and distance, of talent and entitlement, and of labour and privilege. If love costs and art takes, what price do we pay for wanting it all?

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This week, we’re diving back into the archives to say hello to Tim Winton AO.

According to the 2023 IPCC Report, we have (now) six years left to cut carbon emissions by 50% before climate damage to the planet is irreversible. How can “story” influence, affect or alter this trajectory, if at all?

In this episode of The Storymakers Institute, Tim and I sit down to mull over how story has propped up fossil-fuelled capitalism (whilst creative folk scramble for crumbs off the boardroom floor), and why we need to ignore “bread and circuses” … and start breaking some shit.

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