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Hi, exophonics. I know... it's been a minute.

But I have a really good excuse. I've been working on the publishing process of my first novel: TANGO MASALA!!!

Tango Masala is a psychological coming-of-age drama written in verse, about Bianca, a language teacher living in Buenos Aires and Milan, an Indian businessman bearing a job proposal that will change Bianca's world.

It's available on hardback and paperback, Kindle and Kindle Unlimited. In this episode of The Exophonic Writer Podcast I want to share three valuable lessons I learnt in the process:

1. Don't overcomplicate things.
2. Give yourself plenty of time.
3. Have realistic expectations.

That's a bit generic advice, isn't it? Tune in to find out how these three lessons were relevant in my publishing process. :)

SEE YOU SOON IN SEASON 2! XoXo

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Hello, Exophonics!

In this episode I'll share with you a map of the milestones of my (still very young) trajectory in this writerly life. My aim is to inspire you to do the same with your own journey and, like that, beat IMPOSTER SYNDROME, once and for all!...Or at least try. 😉

Let's gooo!✨

Show notes:

My Paris blog (in Spanish):
https://unaciudadenelmundo.wordpress.com/

Sleeping Beauty of Melbourne (my first ever published short-story):
https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/65633600/lots-wife-edition-3-2021

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Welcome, exophonic friends!

It's almost impossible to talk about exophony without talking about Identity, since it's such a fundamental pillar for this practice.

Matters of Identity emerge during the phase of choosing to become an exophonic writer as well as during the phase after one has already been writing in a second language for a while (well, duh, matters of identity govern almost everything we do, don't they?)

In this episode, I'm posing a lot of questions about the expectations surrounding identity and literary voice of exophonic writers and even though they are questions I don't necessarily know the answer to, I think they are important questions to start asking.

✨ SHOW NOTES ✨

Check out my recently created website:
www.zoegomezcass.com

Read my recently published short stories in multilingual online magazine, Puentes Review:

ENG version "Tale Trapped in a Little Jar of Salt"

SPA version "Cuento Atrapado en un Frasquito de Sal"

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Hop, hop, hop 🐰
Look at what the Easter bunny brought...a brand new episode of the Exophonic Writer Podcast!

In this episode I talk with Cher Chidzey who's an author from Singapore living in Australia. Cher wants to bring aspects from her culture to English speaking societies and what other way to do it if not writing in a language that they will understand, but how to be authentic?

Click here, if you want to know more about Cher and her work:
https://cherchidzey.weebly.com/

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Hello exophonics and exophonic lovers!

In this new episode of The Exophonic Writer Podcast I bring you a new exophonic guest. Meet... Madhuri Karra, who's from Vizag in India and came to Australia in 2013. She writes fantasy novels in English and was highly influenced by the literary tradition running in her family.

Likewise, her mother tongue, Telugu, has a particularly rich literary tradition which she tells us about in this episode. Also, tune in to find out what's her own personal reason to choose exophony!

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Hello friends, welcome.

Omg, this novel of mine is a real challenging linguistic something! 🙀

It l includes English, Hindi and two varieties of Spanish.

Oh, and it's also... written in verse! And there are plenty of calligrams.

(Watch this awesome video about calligrams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ0x1YOuMwQ )

Why did I enclose myself in this linguistic labyrinth, you ask?

Short answer: because I'm a rebel.

Long answer: listen to the episode to find out! 😉

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Hello friends, please join me in my conversation with our first guest to the podcast.
(Woohoo!)

His name is Fabio Motta and he's an award-winning, Italian-born Australian actor and educator who kindly joined us to chat about the importance of bringing our first language selves to the stage (or the page, or the canvas, etc.)

We also talked about his language-related struggles when he first moved to Australia at 8 years old and he even taught us a cool new word: Grammelot. ✨

I say we really started off with the right foot in the 'having guests' arena, I'm so happy and inspired by our chat! ☺️

You can connect with Fabio at:
https://www.fabiomotta.org/
https://www.theclowningworkshop.com/


Also, thanks so much to my friend Josh for linking me to some awesome exophonic creators. Josh is an amazing writing coach, so if you feel you can use a little companionship in the writing process, he is your guy.
Connect with him at: https://www.joshsamuels.com.au/

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Hi, friends!

In this mini teaser episode, I'll tell you what I have planned for this year (spoiler alert: plenty of awesome stuff).

You can expect some episodes about:

✨ Writing a novel in 3 languages
✨ A chat about Identity when being an exophonic writer
✨A chat about Translation VS. Exophonic Writing
✨More cool literary stuff, such as Constricted Writing

...aaaaand, what I'm most excited of all:

✨EXOPHONIC CHATS! A section in which I'll have exophonic or exophonic-related guests so we can slowly but surely create a space where our exophonic struggles and joys get shared and talked about.

And this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Don't miss out, click on SUBSCRIBE so you're notified when I upload new content.

it'll be an awesome year! :D

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