Mel chats with author Nina Kenwood, whose debut novel It Sounded Better in My Head won the 2018 Text Prize of YA and Children’s Writing. Self-describing it as a ‘book with no villains’…

Celebrating The Big Issue’s 15th Fiction Edition, deputy editor Kathrine Smyrk chats to Backstory host Mel about the curating of another bumper issue of short stories penned by established and emerging writers.

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Women’s reproductive rights are still varied throughout Australia, with little discussion, information and education available to women about abortions. A new book, Choice Words, hopes to shed light on abortion through a collection…

Mark Rubbo OAM (and partners) purchased Readings in 1976, the same year Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started Apple Computers. Since then the publishing and bookselling industries have been somewhat ‘under threat’. But…

Matters Journal, an eclectic literary nonfiction print publication that tells interconnected stories about design, art, the environment, and technology, is one year young and three issues in. Editor Megan Anderson visits Mel…

Melissa Cranenburgh is joined by Christos Tsiolkas to talk about his extended essay on Australian novelist Patrick White.