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…

Award-winning novelist and journalist Helen Garner has just released her second volume of diaries. She joins Mel Cranenburgh on Backstory’s last show for 2020 for a special hour-long, live-streamed conversation. Watch the…

Areej is joined by writer and Noongar woman Claire G. Coleman to discuss her essay for the Koorie Heritage Trust titled “COVID and Colonialism” as part of the KHT Voices series.

Plus, Dr…