This week, we step inside the colourful, questioning and ecstatically wild mind of debut author and Melbourne-based cartoonist Sarah Firth, whose illustrated essay collection Eventually Everything Connects: Eight Essays On Uncertainty is out now through Joan Press. She swings by the studio to chat about seeking delight in the everyday, drawing in order to think, and the mating habits of tiger slugs – among other things. 

Plus, author and playwright Elise Esther Hearst dishes the dirt on her debut coming-of-age story One Day We’re All Going To Die: her character’s Saturn Returns era, why we’re all so eager to please, and how her Grandmother gives her permission to push for what she wants.