Newcastle Writers Festival Podcast
1) Helen Garner in Conversation - About a Boy
Helen Garner returns with her signature candour and wit in an exuberant new book The Season, an account from the sidelines of the highs and lows of her youngest grandson’s footy team. Helen spea...Show More
2) Thomas Mayo in Conversation - Always Was, Always Will Be
In his book Always Was, Always Will Be, Thomas Mayo investigates 'what's next?' for reconciliation and justice in Australia after the failed Voice to Parliament referendum. Thomas speaks with Clare Wr...Show More
3) Michelle de Kretser in Conversation - Theory & Practice
For 25 years, award-winning author Michelle de Kretser has been dazzling readers with her novels. Her new book, Theory & Practice, is set in 1980s Melbourne and is an exquisite blend of fiction, memoi...Show More
4) Jimmy Barnes in Conversation - Highways and Byways
From larger-than-life adventures to vivid and poignant tales of the imagination, no one tells a yarn quite like Jimmy Barnes. In his fourth memoir Highways and Byways, he takes readers on another enth...Show More
5) David Owen Kelly in Conversation - Host City
It’s the 1980s in Darlinghurst, Sydney, and strange rumours abound: that you can catch the ‘gay plague’ from kissing, or a mosquito bite. There’s talk of quarantines and army i...Show More
6) Courtney Collins, Hayley Scrivenor, and Jessie Tu - Second Book Syndrome
It’s a well-known phenomenon: the anxious, agonising process of releasing a second book after a successful debut. Is the new book too similar to the first, or maybe too dissimilar? Was the debut...Show More
7) Melanie Cheng, Raeden Richardson, and Molly Schmidt - On Love and Loneliness
In their most recent novels, Melanie Cheng, Raeden Richardson, and Molly Schmidt grapple with the turbulent relationship between love and loneliness, and the complexities of grief. They speak to Steph...Show More
8) Kate Grenville in Conversation
In her new book Unsettled, Kate Grenville grapples with what it means to descend from people who were ‘on the sharp edge of the moving blade that was colonisation’. Kate speaks with David ...Show More
9) Markus Zusak in Conversation
From his international bestseller, The Book Thief, to the recent memoir Three Wild Dogs and the Truth, Markus Zusak’s stellar writing career has taken him down unexpected paths. In his first New...Show More
10) Program for Saturday 5 April 2025
ABC Newcastle's Dan Cox reads the 2025 program for 5 April. This initiative is part of Newcastle Writers Festival's Disability Inclusion Action Plan and is funded by Create NSW. See omnystu...Show More