Eighteen year old Aaron is creative, resourceful and addicted to heroin. Kicked out of home by his mum and living rough on the streets of South Melbourne, he dreams of getting straight and…

Join Mel for the debut episode of Literatti Glitterati in its new permanent time slot as they celebrate Women's International Day with an extraordinary salon of writers reading their work. International Women's Day…

Mel is joined by Melissa Lucashenko, a Goorie author of Bundjalung and European heritage to talk about her highly anticipated new novel, Edenglassie (University of Queensland Press). The story torches Queensland's colonial myths…

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…

In the final Radiothon instalment of Literati Glitterati for 2023, Mel takes a look at memoir, mental health, and the breadth and depth of neurodiverse writing. Roz Bellamy, editor of Archer magazine, swings…

This week, Mel is joined in the studio by Madison Griffiths, writer, artist and producer of critically acclaimed podcast Tender. Madison discusses her debut novel Tissue, which is a candid depiction…

Suzy Garcia is the editor of Kill Your Darlings, an online literary magazine. KYD's latest anthology ‘New Australian Fiction’ is their fifth annual collection of short fiction, featuring twelve stories from…

Writer and novelist Andrea Goldsmith joins Mel in the studios to talk about the legacy of legendary Australian poet Dorothy Porter, aka "Dot", who also happened to be her partner. She chats about…

How do we become who we are? In this edition of Literati Glitterati, Mel chats to the authors of two books consumed by precisely this question. 

The first is Where I slept…

Mel is joined by English writer, Max Porter.

Multi award-winning UK novelist and master of the tiny perfect book, Max Porter, joins Mel on the show this week. The pair riff on magic…