Adelaide Writers' Week Podcast
1) AWW25: No Place Like Home - Brooke Boland, Winnie Dunn and Lia Hills
With Carody Culver.There’s no place like home, although home isn’t always a place. It could be a feeling, an instinct, a language, a person, a memory; it could be somewhere we long to return to or can...Show More
2) AWW25: Leaps of Faith - Ceridwen Dovey and Zeynab Gamieldien
With Carody Culver.Whether it’s religious, political, societal, philosophical or spiritual in nature, the act of believing can be a lodestar, a comfort, a ritual, a guiding principle or a reason for l...Show More
3) AWW25: Putin’s War on Women - Sofi Oksanen
With Jo Case.Sofi Oksanen, librettist for Innocence, acclaimed Finnish playwright and bestselling novelist blends family history and journalistic rigour in Same River, Twice to reveal Russia’s history...Show More
4) AWW25: How Johnny Voghel Escaped a Dead-End Job - Leo Robson
With Lauren Oyler.Leo Robson is a well-known British essayist and critic who has just written his first novel, The Boys. He talks to Lauren Oyler about writing a comedy about confusion and loss – a ge...Show More
5) AWW25: Grief - Nova Weetman
With Jonathan Green.According to Marcel Proust, “grief develops the power of the mind.” Jonathan Green tests the proposition with Nova Weetman, who has written a memoir, Love, Death and Other Scenes, ...Show More
6) AWW25: "We Were Elsewhere People” - André Aciman
With Richard Buckham.Bestselling author André Aciman (live stream) shares with Richard Buckham his abiding preoccupation with the themes of exile, longing and memory – themes that inhabit his new memo...Show More
7) AWW25: What Will Survive of Us? - Howard Jacobson
With Georgina Godwin.Booker Prize–winning author Howard Jacobson (live stream) talks to Georgina Godwin about the questions at the heart of What Will Survive of Us? – whether love can survive marriage...Show More
8) AWW25: When Betty Turned One Hundred - Debra Oswald
With Helen Pitt.With One Hundred Years of Betty, Debra Oswald has written a ‘whole of life’ novel, the story of the determinedly curious Betty from 1928 to 2028. In conversation with Helen Pitt, Oswal...Show More
9) AWW25: Hazel Rowley Memorial Lecture 2025: Legend v Facts: A Biographical Dilemma - Matthew Lamb and Geordie Williamson
Australian writer Frank Moorhouse was legendary in Australian literary and cultural life.But what if the facts contradict the legend?Join Clare Wright in conversation with Matthew Lamb for this year’s...Show More
10) AWW25: From Publisher, to Agent, to Author - Deborah Callaghan
With Mark Dapin.Former publisher and literary agent extraordinaire Deborah Callaghan talks to Mark Dapin about The Little Clothes, her provocative new novel about the vicissitudes of middle age.Event ...Show More