The 8 Best Sydney Writers' Festival Podcast Episodes
1) Krissy Kneen: On How Mushrooms Can Save Your Life
"I am not magically transformed by my relationship with mushrooms, but I am certainly on the right path." – Krissy Kneen Faced with the mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, award-win...Show More
2) Great Adaptations: Margaret and David Return
Greatly missed on TV screens, the nation’s favourite film critics Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton reunite in this special conversation on Australian movie adaptations of books. The famously...Show More
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Margret and David being the Australian film industry icons they are.
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.3) Sarah Krasnostein & Maria Tumarkin
After the runaway success of Sarah Krasnostein’s debut The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster, Sarah spent time in Australia and the US talking to six extraordin...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.4) Growing up Disabled in Australia
Although one in five Australians live with disability, people with disabilities remain under-represented in our literature. Growing Up Disabled in Australia is an urgent anthology of first-person stor...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.5) Blowing the Whistle: Government, the Law and Secrecy
Lawyer Bernard Collaery faces jail for allegedly helping his former client, intelligence officer Witness K, expose Australia’s bugging of the East Timorese government to gain the upper hand duri...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.6) Saga Land
ABC’s Richard Fidler and author Kári Gíslason are good friends connected by an unusual bond: a deep attachment to the sagas of Iceland. Saga Land is the account of their journey across the island nati...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.7) The Singular George Saunders
David Foster Wallace said that George Saunders was the most exciting writer in America. That kind of thing has been said a lot about George since then. For people who pay close attention to the state ...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.8) Jenny Zhang: Sour Heart
Jenny Zhang’s debut collection of short stories establishes her as a subversive interpreter of the immigrant experience, and one which New York calls “one of the knockout fiction debuts of the year”. ...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.9) Catherine Chidgey: The Book of Guilt
Commonwealth Writers’ Prize winner Catherine Chidgey’s 9th novel, The Book of Guilt, sparked an international bidding war. With undertones of Shirley Jackson and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nev...Show More
10) The Moriarty Sisters
This trio of Australian literary talents make writing a family affair. The Moriarty sisters, Jaclyn (the Kingdom and Empires series), Liane (Here One Moment, Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers...Show More