Episodes

  • Will Chuckie Raven Take Home the Fogarty Literary Award? Join the Buzz!

    Will Chuckie Raven Take Home the Fogarty Literary Award? Join the Buzz!
    Jun 2 2025
    In Glimmers in the Sea Glass Chuckie Raven shares the stories of Sarah and Owen, two queer characters existing two decades apart. In this podcast the Fogarty Shortlister tells Katherine Allum how they wrote two novels then wove them into one – discovering some important lessons about their writing in the process. Tune in here or on your favourite podcast app to find out more. Show notes About Chuckie Chuckie Raven (they/them) is a youth worker and craftsperson living in Nollamara, WA. They’re the founder and lead of the Perth Pride Shed, Perth’s first LGBTQIA+ community shed. They are passionate […]
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    14 mins
  • Fogarty shortlister Serena Moss on how to rebuild after the wreckage is cleared

    Fogarty shortlister Serena Moss on how to rebuild after the wreckage is cleared
    May 30 2025
    When she heard she’d been shortlisted regional writer Serena Moss said she’d been inspired to enter after seeing another ‘Gero’ writer, Holden Sheppard (also from Geraldton), build a writing career. The comparison is apt because this Waggrakine resident gives an equally unapologetic take on small town Australia: from the burn-outs to the booze and from the massive highs of living fast to the irreparable lows of being a young man making bad choices. In this conversation with Katherine Allum she shares that grief is messy – and while you must own your bad decisions, it is what you build from […]
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    16 mins
  • Fogarty shortlister Jessica Baker asks whether we can outrun our own minds

    Fogarty shortlister Jessica Baker asks whether we can outrun our own minds
    May 28 2025
    In Out There, In Here, Jessica Baker explores whether we can solve our internal problems by being ‘out there’. In this fascinating conversation she and Katherine Allum discuss the fantasy of escaping the day-to-day vs its reality, and bond over writing manuscripts in the in-between spaces of expat London. Tune in here or on your favourite podcast app to find out more. Show notes About Jessica Jessica Baker (she/her) is a writer based in Kununurra, WA. Her work explores abstract concepts like consent and love, and the intricacies of human emotion. She commenced her career as a journalist in 2020, […]
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    13 mins
  • Meet Seth Malacari, whose manuscript Boy Friends is a queer YA romance set against the backdrop of reality TV

    Meet Seth Malacari, whose manuscript Boy Friends is a queer YA romance set against the backdrop of reality TV
    May 16 2025
    Fremantle Press publisher Georgia Richter describes Boy Friends as a fun, heartwarming read with just the right amount of young adult angst, new love and hot characters. Fogarty shortlister Seth Malacari is one of four writers in the running to win a $20,000 cash prize, a publishing contract and a writing fellowship. Seth told host Katherine Allum they want to use the prize to encourage the trans community to keep writing and keep sharing stories. Tune in here or on your favourite podcast app to find out more. Show notes About Seth Seth Malacari (he/they) is a nonbinary trans masculine […]
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    14 mins
  • How to Avoid a Happy Life podcast – episode 6: Author Julia Lawrinson on the opposite of boredom

    How to Avoid a Happy Life podcast – episode 6: Author Julia Lawrinson on the opposite of boredom
    Jan 6 2025
    The life of beloved children’s author Julia Lawrinson is stranger than fiction – and she draws on all her power as a storyteller to turn a life of intense headlines into a wild, marvellous tale. Author Julia Lawrinson was always a creative kid with a knack for theatricality, and in this final episode of the […]
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    25 mins
  • How to Avoid a Happy Life podcast – episode 5: Author Julia Lawrinson on rootlessness

    How to Avoid a Happy Life podcast – episode 5: Author Julia Lawrinson on rootlessness
    Dec 10 2024
    The life of beloved children’s author Julia Lawrinson is stranger than fiction – and she draws on all her power as a storyteller to turn a life of intense headlines into a wild, marvellous tale. In the penultimate episode, memoirist Julia Lawrinson discusses the notion of rootlessness by taking a look at her peripatetic childhood […]
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    17 mins
  • Meet Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes, shortlisted for the 2024 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award

    Meet Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes, shortlisted for the 2024 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award
    Oct 20 2024
    In this fascinating podcast Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes talks about ‘Teret Teret’ – the ceremonial phrase for introducing stories in Ethiopian culture – and the importance of poetry to the act of storytelling itself. Yirga says, ‘I like to write about the sacred places, holy people and beautiful stories from my country. This for me is […]
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    19 mins
  • Meet Fiona Wilkes, shortlisted for the 2024 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award

    Meet Fiona Wilkes, shortlisted for the 2024 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award
    Oct 11 2024
    In this podcast Fiona Wilkes, who, unusually, doesn’t have a writing mentor, isn’t doing a creative writing degree and isn’t a member of a writing group, talks about how she wanted to challenge depictions of queer stories. Fiona says, ‘Honestly, part of the drive to write this novel was a dissatisfaction at the way queer […]
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    14 mins