Begins with a performance of Racheal Oak Butler's moving monologue, My Calling, followed by Debra Dank delving into her multi-award-winning memoir, We Come With This Place, with host Michelle Evans.

Paul Dalgarno, Rijn Collins, and Gina Perry talk to Irma Gold about the themes in their novels and the personal and familial secrets and taboos that propel their stories. * Please note that this session included a Yarnbomb from Ruth Davys which is not included in this recording. Recorded 15/09/23

Grace Chan and T.R. Napper discuss science fiction, AI, virtual reality and what it means to be human, with Kate Mildenhall. Recorded: 16/09/23

Kate Mildenhall talks to authors Kathryn Heyman, T.R. Napper and Irma Gold about their first and subsequent publishing experiences. Recorded: 17/09/23

Sher Rill Ng, Jordan Gould and Richard Pritchard talk to YA author Karen Ginnane about illustration, collaboration and superpowers. Recorded: 16/09/23

Debra Dank and Kathryn Heyman speak with author Gina Perry about their personal stories and how they approached writing them. Recorded: 16/09/23

Liz Duck-Chong talks to Paul Dalgarno about his newly released non-fiction work, Prudish Nation. Recorded: 16/09/23

Jason Steger talks to local authors Shelley Burr and Margaret Hickey about their latest crime fiction novels. Recorded: 17/09/23

Kate Mildenhall chats with Paul Dalgarno about combining historical and speculative fiction and how her fears and hopes for the future informed her new novel. Recorded: 17/09/23

Pip Williams, in conversation with The Age Literary Editor and perennial WAM favourite, Jason Steger. Recorded: 17/09/23

Dr Yves Rees’ timely memoir, All About Yves, grants  readers access to a deeply personal journey of transition and  re-becoming, beyond the gender binary. As an historian, Yves has layered  their memoir with wider historical, social, linguistic, and cultural  contextual research, to piece together a wider and nuanced understanding  of the gender diverse and trans community. Yves speaks with  Psychology Lecturer and researcher, Matthew Ruby, about what it’s like  to discover who you really are, beyond dominant gender narratives and  stereotypes, and how it feels to come out on the other side and live the  life you always wanted to. Recorded: 18/09/22

Yves Rees talks to Jeff Sparrow about climate change, capitalism, and  the power of people just like you and me to change the tide of history. Recorded: 16/09/22

Nardi Simpson’s Song of the Crocodile, and hot-off-the-press novels,  Salt & Skin by Eliza Henry-Jones and The Settlement by Jock Serong,  explore past atrocities and their lingering effects through time. They  discuss their creative process of writing stories connected to  historical violence, trauma and spirit of place with Jason Steger. Recorded: 18/09/22

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

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

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

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

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

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