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• S2 E8 Bonny Cassidy: On Monuments, Truth Telling and Glitches in Writing

  Bonny Cassidy is the author of three poetry collections and one book of nonfiction, as well as a book critic and internationally recognised scholar of Australian literature. Formerly an academic, she is now an independent creative writing mentor and psychology student. In 2025 she was shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal, Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and won the AAALS Creative Prose Prize. Bonny lives in the bush on Dja Dja Wurrung Country. In this episode, Mia and Bonny discuss the creative research and writing process of her literary memoir, Monument.  

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• S2 E7 Isobelle Carmody: On Keeping Track of Worlds

  Isobelle Carmody is one of Australia's most well-known and prolific writers. In this episode, she chats to Bethany about how the industry has changed throughout her career, how she keeps track of the worlds she creates, and what it’s like to have other people write PhDs about your work.

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• S2 E6 Nicole Crowe: On Crime, Structure and Sh*t First Drafts

  Crime writer Nicole Crowe joins Tenille to talk about her funny and thrilling debut novel The Washup, along with first book jitters, the mysteries of the publication process, writing place, and her best advice for aspiring writers.

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• S2 E5 Jessica Mansour-Nahra: On the Ongoing Relevance of the Gothic

  Join us for episode five! Jessica Mansour-Nahra chats with Bethany about her debut novel The Farm, which remasters 18th century gothic for the 21st century. Jessica shares her writing process and discusses scene setting, international rights, and the ongoing relevance of gothic literature.Pleasebe advised this interview discusses pregnancy loss and fertility and medical issues.

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• S2 E4 Khin Myint: On Writing as a Way to Compassion

  In our fourth episode of the season, 2025 winner of the Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award Khin Myint joins Tenille to speak about finding compassion in writing, the complicated intersections of class, race, and gender, and his stunning debut memoir, Fragile Creatures.

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