Welcome to the Writers Behaving Badly podcast—where writing sins are confessed, manuscripts get lightly roasted, and mayhem is inevitable.

In our very first episode, Lisa Ireland, Brooke Turnbull, and Annie Bucknall launch this chaos-fueled podcast with a toast 🍷, some questionable life choices, and a whole lot of literary hot takes.

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Make Brooke and Lisa feel better and let us know where it all went wrong (or right!) this week.

What’s inside this episode?

🔥 Sins & Wins – Confession time! Who wrote, who didn’t, and who’s getting assigned penance? (Spoiler: Lisa is drunk on power.)

✍️ Roast or Toast – Annie’s Till We Are Ghosts gets its first live critique—will she survive the feedback?

🎤 Meet Lisa Ireland – Our in-house mentor, eight-time published author, and former stalker-victim (thanks, Brooke).

🍵 Tea Time – Embarrassing publishing moments, featuring Kerryn Mayne and a networking disaster at Penguin HQ.

😂 Chaotic Sign-Offs – Who’s getting their manuscript roasted next? How can you submit your work? And why is Lisa overthinking taking us on?

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Lisa’s full critique of Annie’s work

If you’d like to read Annie’s full extract (including Lisa’s comments), you can access a Google Docs version below.

This is a brand new project and Annie is writing her way into it. Lisa was excited by the opening pages but still had a few words of advice. You can hear Lisa’s thoughts on the podcast.

To read our brilliant first guest, Kerryn Mayne’s latest book JOY MOODY IS OUT OF TIME click the button below!

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