Michelle de Kretser’s award-winning novels include The  Rose Grower, The Hamilton Case, The Lost Dog, Questions of Travel and  The Life to Come. She has won or been shortlisted for many major  national and international literary awards and is the twice-winner of  both the Miles Franklin Literary Award and Christina Stead Prize for  Fiction.

In her latest novel, Scary Monsters, Michelle has  experimented with form to create a novel in two halves, printed  back-to-back and upside down, disorienting the reader just as migration  has disrupted and disoriented her characters' lives. She speaks with  Jason Steger about Scary Monsters and the necessity of 'playing' with  writing and storytelling.

Children’s Laureate Gabrielle Wang, Yuin First Nations author Gary  Lonesborough, and disability advocate Eliza Hull, discuss the importance  of diversity and representation in writing for children and young  people. Author and academic Yves Rees chats with them about their recent  books, including themes of cultural diversity, sexuality and  disability. They also discuss genre and stylistic choices and what  inspires them to write for young people.

As long-established writers and teachers of writing, Patti Miller and  Lee Kofman have amassed a wealth of experience, knowledge and craft  throughout their careers. They have also honed an emotional honesty and  generosity reflected in their recent non-fiction works, True Friends and  The Writer Laid Bare. Eliza Henry-Jones opens up a rich conversation  with them about creativity, memory, truth and storytelling that will  inspire writers and enrich the experience of readers.

Author and playwright Margaret Hickey, chats with screenwriter Keir  Wilkins, novelist Michelle de Kretser, and author, screenwriter and  performer Amal Awad, about writing for different mediums. In getting at  the heart of what’s essential to story, they discuss commonalities and  distinctions, freedoms and constraints, and industry challenges and  opportunities, within and between their chosen forms of storytelling.

Outback noir, coastal noir, domestic noir, sunshine noir. We love good  crime fiction in this country and we’re not short on ways to categorise  it. Jock Serong talks to Margaret Hickey and T.R. Napper about  Margaret’s ‘rural noir’, Stone Town, and Tim’s ‘hard-boiled cyberpunk  noir’, 36 Streets. Together they shine some light into the dark corners  of crime fiction’s subgenres to find out what makes noir so wide-ranging  and compelling.

Delia Falconer and Rick Morton discuss personal, planetary and cultural change with host Ailsa Piper. 

Seismic Shifts was part of the Write Around the Murray program for 2021

Recorded 18/09/2021

Anita Heiss, Dorothy Simmons and Jock Serong discuss historical fiction with Jason Steger.

HIstorical Fiction was part of the Write Around the Murray program for 2021

Recorded 18/09/2021

Lisa Walker, Rick Morton, Judy Horacek and Fiona Scott-Norman discuss the role of humour in their work.

Humour & Heart was part of the Write Around the Murray program for 2021.

Recorded 18/09/2021

Leigh Hobbs, Ursula Dubosarsky, Sofie Laguna and Lisa Walker discuss the art of Creating Captivating Children's Books

Creating Captivating Children's Books was part of the Write Around the Murray program for 2021

Recorded 18/09/2021

Sofie Laguna, Emily Maguire and Campbell Mattinson discuss the complications of love, with Jason Steger.

Complicated Love was part of the Write Around the Murray program for 2021

Recorded 18/09/2021