Write Around the Murray

Write Around the Murray

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Write Around the Murray episodes

  • Scary Monsters - Michelle de Kretser

    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.

    Recorded: 18/09/22

    1 hr 8 min
  • Creating Culture: Perspectives on Identity & Belonging-Gabrielle Wang, Gary Lonesborough, Eliza Hull

    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.

    Recorded: 17/09/22

    1 hr 1 min
  • Truth and Storytelling - Patti Miller and Lee Kofman

    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.

    Recorded: 17/09/22

    1 hr 1 min
  • Storytelling: the essentials - Michelle de Kretser, Keir Wilkins and Amal Awad

    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.

    Recorded: 17/09/22

    1 hr 2 min
  • Shades of Noir - Margaret Hickey and T.R. Napper

    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.

    Recorded: 18/09/22

    1 hr

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Write Around the Murray is a literary-based festival in Albury that brings together some of Australia’s best authors and storytellers in a friendly and accessible forum. The diverse program includes…