For as long as I can remember I have been obsessed with magazines - seriously - from the age of about 8,9 or 10 - I used to save all my pennies to buy hoards of magazines, it started as Australian geographic and then morphed into Girlfriend and Dolly, then Cosmopolitan, the Harpers Bazaar and Country Style and Vogue and now Graziher and Galah and UK Homes and Garden - and on the weekends i always buy the SMH for the Good Weekend and the Spectrum.

So to sit down with two women who have edited two of my favourite publications to talk about the world of magazine writing and story selection - is pure indulgence.

Katrina Strickland is the former editor of the Good Weekend Magazine and Annabelle Hickson is the editor of Galah.

The reason we came together was to to speak about Galah's Regional Photography Prize of which Katrina is a judge - and which is cued up to feature in Good Weekend magazine this weekend. Keep a look out.

But wow - this conversation is so much than that.

It paddles from conversation to masterclass to part counselling session and back again -

it's a long episode and I dont take that lightly I know your time is [resciosu but I really struggled to cut it down.

For you - I hope you're able to sense the intensity of commitment to getting stories from your lives into the mainstream.

Company is a Manson Podcasting production in partnership with Rabobank Australia.