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Writeopolis!

Writeopolis!

By: RJ Barker Scott K Andrews Kit Power
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 What is Writeopolis? Writeopolis is a fortnightly (or, for US listeners, twice a month) conversation between writing professionals (and Kit Power). The conversation happens live every other Sunday evening via Discord, with live text chat accompanying the voice discussion (no video; RJ and Kit don't have that kind of time to sort their hair out every weekend). The resultant conversation is later released in podcast form via this feed. Who is Writeopolis? Writeopolis is BFS Award winner RJ Barker, author and playwright Scott K Andrews, and BFA finalist author, blogger, podcaster and procrastinator (and the one who does all the work) Kit Power, in conversation every fortnight with professionals from across the writing industry. The aim is to recreate the conversational vibe of chatting at the bar of a really good con with the guest of honour. Without the stale chips and having to yell to be heard. Though if you want stale chips, that's fine, we guess. But they are not provided. When and where is Writeopolis? Every other Sunday - 8:30pm to 9:30(ish)pm on Discord - https://discord.gg/SxBWXrbnWp , with recordings appearing here the following Friday for Patreon backers - https://www.patreon.com/writeopolispodcast , and FREE the Friday afterwards for all. We're incredibly grateful for your financial support, but we will never charge for access to the Writeopolis live show or podcast. Why is Writeopolis? Because writing is a lonely profession, and cons didn't come around often enough even before Covid. Because the best bit of any con is the chat you have at the bar on the Sunday evening. Because we're passionate about every single aspect of writing, and we love to talk about it with fellow misfits.2021 Art Literary History & Criticism
Episodes
  • Writeopolis S8 E2 - Eliza Chan

    Writeopolis S8 E2 - Eliza Chan
    Sep 30 2025

    Unfortunately, Craig, the ever-fickle recording bot, decided to do an update 6 minutes into James Worrad’s episode so there is no recording of the first episode of Season 8. Don’t worry, James will return!!

    Craig knew better than to misbehave for Eliza Chan though and so here we have episode 2 of season 8 in all its glory! Including:

    - Some egregious spreadsheet slander

    - Scott attempting to communicate through morse code

    - Anime makes an unexpected appearance

    - Eliza talks mermaid tales, delightful murderous children’s mascots in Japan and hopping vampires

    - RJ announces we’re ten minutes from the end a full twenty minutes before the actual end. Very on brand.

    - Eliza gives an excellent ur text answer

    - And the playlist descends into utter chaos
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    1 hr and 44 mins
  • Writeopolis S7 E4 - Host only

    Writeopolis S7 E4 - Host only
    Sep 16 2025

    Season 7 continues with another host only episode in which:

    - RJ is sad his favourite sweet has been discontinued
    - RJ then proceeds to offend everyone with his opinion on Die Hard (and no, it has nothing to do with whether or not it’s a Christmas movie)
    - Scott goes into a deep dive of what the Fast and the Furious actually is (spreadsheets at the ready!)
    - Kit gives spoilers for WW2
    - Kit and Scott discuss the psychology and ableism inherent in The Traitors
    - Scott is vexed by a greenhouse. Repeatedly.
    - There’s an unusual amount of actual craft talk as well as lots of talk about upcoming writing
    - There’s an exciting first where a citizen gets to put an entry into the Sandwich Shop of Dreams! And immediately makes the hosts hungry
    - And then the very simple task of the playlist goes wildly off-topic, to the surprise of no one.

    Apologies for the technical issues during this episode, Discord was having a tantrum, but we hope you enjoy it anyway!
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    1 hr and 42 mins
  • Writeopolis S7 E3 - Adrian Tchaikovsky

    Writeopolis S7 E3 - Adrian Tchaikovsky
    Sep 2 2025

    Next up in Season 7 we had the delightful Adrian Tchaikovsky!

    Amongst discussions of Adrian’s prolific writing we encounter:

    - RJ attempting some rapping in the intro

    - Scott telling a delightful anecdote about Buxton

    - The long lost Bosch is mentioned purely for bingo purposes

    - Segue rears its head again and almost annoys the guest. Almost.

    - We took a deep dive into two of Adrian’s books

    - And actual writing advice was discussed! (mostly to say how it’s generally useless)

    Listen in for all this and more delightfully entertaining nonsense
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    1 hr and 53 mins
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