From a child to a teenager to an adult, Michael Mohammed Ahmad’s latest novel The Other Half of You completes his three coming-of-age novels, largely inspired by his own experience growing up as…

Overland co-editor Evelyn Araluen joins Beth AQ on The Glasshouse to talk about the literary journal's recently launched Kuracca Prize for Australian Literature. 

Honouring the late Wiradjuri writer, teacher and advocate for First…

Alice Pung’s latest novel, One Hundred Days, is a mother–daughter drama exploring the faultlines between love and control. The award-winning author joins Beth AQ on The Glasshouse to discuss the novel, how the…

Curiouser Magazine is a new literary journal that focuses on the paranormal and is fantastical with an emphasis on magical realism. Founder and Editor-in-Chief Thomas Bailey joins Beth AQ to chat about the…

Comedian Matt Okine talks about his debut novel ‘Being Black ‘n Chicken, & Chips’, and its adaptation for a younger audience; and visual artist Tai Snaith chats about her exhibition ‘A World of…

An elegy is a poem of reflection, often lamenting the dead. Anwen Crawford says her latest book – an elegy – is “trying to make up for an absence that can’t be, well…

Zoya Patel is an award-winning author, editor, founder of a feminist literary organisation and Chair of the 2021 Stella Prize judging panel. Discussing emerging themes in the stories shortlisted for the Stella Prize…

Denice Kickett, director at Books’n’Boots, speaks about re-housing books with First Nations communities in regional and remote Australia; and writer and performer Jess Knight joins writer, book reviewer and sensitivity reader Natalia Wikana…

Poet, cultural critic and Bundjalung woman Evelyn Araluen says her parents wanted to raise “politically aware and resilient Aboriginal kids with these textual influences'', such as Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, and Blinky Bill, “that…

Author and appearance activist Carly Findlay joins Breakfasters to share what she learnt from editing the new anthology Growing Up Disabled In Australia, the fifth book in the highly-acclaimed, best-selling series from…