Write Around the Murray

Margaret Hickey talks to Pip Williams about her much loved debut novel.

Dymocks presents Pip Williams was part of the Write Around the Murray program for 2021

Recorded 15/09/2021

Both searing yet beautiful, the poetry and prose of Ellen van Neerven traces the continuing dispossession and violence that are our country’s uneasy inheritance. Exploring love, language and land, Ellen shines a light on Australia's unreconciled past and precarious present with humour and heart. Ellen speaks with Dr Jeanine Leane about their powerful new poetry collection, Throat.

Present Tense. Our Uneasy Inheritance was part of the Write Around the Murray program for 2020

Recorded 13/09/2020

In Bedlam at Botany Bay, historian James Dunk looks at how mental illness surfaced in colonial New South Wales. Weaving a narrative of freedom and possibility, unravel and collapse, he traces the path of people who found themselves at the edge of the world and at the edge of sanity. Dunk’s research ranges from the eighteenth century to the present, exploring how internal disorder has helped to shape the exterior world we live in. With Jenni Munday.

Bedlam was part of the Write Around the Murray program for 2020

Recorded 12/09/2020

Respected journalist Paddy Manning tells stories of tragedy, loss, heroism and resilience, in a book that is both monument and warning in his account of the human toll of climate change. With Jane Rawson.

Body Count was part of the Write Around the Murray program for 2020

Recorded 13/09/2020

A Room Made of Leaves turns historical fiction inside out. It is a stunning sleight of hand that gives the past the piercing immediacy of the present and reveals its urgent implications for our future. Kate Grenville in conversation with Jason Steger about her first novel in almost 10 years.

A Room Made of Leaves was part of the Write Around the Murray program for 2020

Recorded 12/09/2020

Jason Steger chats with Emma Viskic and Nick Gadd about font crimes, typomania and a P.I. who is many things, including deaf.

Criminal Types was part of the Write Around the Murray program for 2020

Recorded 13/09/2020

With Professor Clare Wright at the helm, we hear from Megan Davis, Tony Birch, Lucy Treloar, Chris Flynn and James Dunk responding to the NSW History Week theme, History: What is it good for?

Past Tense. History: What is it good for? was part of the Write Around the Murray program for 2020

Recorded 12/09/2020

Working in various mediums including film, theatre and podcast, our panellists showcase recent projects and discuss the delicate art of working with the stories of others, working regionally, and working through Covid. With Alyson Evans, Helen Newman, Aimee Chan and Karla Conway.

Somebody's Story was part of the Write Around the Murray program for 2020

Recorded 12/09/2020

Prehistoric animals, a pandemic and climate catastrophe are at the pointy ends of a three-way conversation between the latest novels of Chris Flynn, Laura Jean McKay and James Bradley. Jane Rawson explores an uncanny confluence of science, imagination and world events with our panellists.

Animal Magnetism was part of the Write Around the Murray program for 2020.

Recorded 13/09/2020

Interview with Emilie Zoey Baker, poet, by Jocelyn Ceccanti for Write Around the Murray 2020. This interview was first aired on Monday 7 September on Indigo FM.

Special thanks to Indigo FM for the recording.