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This week Michelle and Dr James Mackenzie discuss the controversial, highly acclaimed, and highly divisive film, The Substance. Join them as they discuss intertextuality, body horror, and the universality of this phenomenal film. If you haven't seen the film yet, it is highly recommended that you watch the film first before listening to this podcast as James and Michelle will be discussing spoilers!
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Join Michelle as she talks Romance and writing with award-winning author and academic at Flinders University, Amy Matthews. Amy also writes as Amy T. Matthews and hosts two podcasts Word Docs and Love on Campus. As Amy Barry, she is also the author of the beloved Old West Romance series, The McBrides of Montana.
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Join Michelle as she talks with prize-winning author Katerina Gibson about her new novel The Temperature.
Katerina Gibson (1994) is a writer and bookseller living in Naarm. Her debut collection Women I Know won the 2023 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, the Steele Rudd Award, and was shortlisted for the Glenda Adams Prize for New Writing. Her stories have appeared in HEAT, Granta, Overland, The Griffith Review, the Lifted Brow, Meanjin, and New Australian Fiction, among other places. Her story ‘Fertile Soil’ was the Pacific region winner of the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and was later translated into Italian.
Katerina was named SMH 2023 Best Young Australian Novelist. Her debut novel The Temperature is forthcoming with Scribner in September 2024.
Katerina is represented by Caitlan Cooper-Trent at Curtis Brown:
https://www.katerinagibson.com/
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Join us today for a live recording of Dr Mykaela Saunders' Always Will Be Book Launch. Mykaela discussed her prize-winning book with Michelle, and the event was held at the Writers and Readers Lounge, Macquarie University, Wallumatta, Dharug Country.
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Join Michelle as she talks with prize-winning author, poet and theorist, Michelle Cahill. Daisy and Woolf was published to much critical acclaim in 2022 by Hachette. It's now on the cusp of publication in India. An anticolonial reframing of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, Michelle Cahill puts 'the dark, adorable' Eurasian side-character Daisy front and centre in this stunning novel.
For mroe information on Michelle Cahill, please visit her website: https://michellecahill.com/
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Join Michelle as she talks with author Kyra Geddes about writing and publishing The Story Thief, a novel about a young woman growing up in Sydney during the 1920s, and her connection to the iconic Henry Lawson short story, 'The Drover's Wife'.
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In this episode of From the Lighthouse, Michelle talks with Sam Twyford-Moore about his latest book, Cast Mates that delves into Australian cinema and the actors who made it at home and in Hollywood.
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As part of this year's MQ PACE project on Indigenous Australian Fiction, Jasmine Oke discusses Claire G. Coleman's Enclave with Indigenous artist and Macquarie University alumnus, Dylan Barnes.
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As part of this year's MQ PACE project on Indigenous Australian Fiction, Annie Paterson discusses Claire G. Coleman's The Old Lie as an example of Indigenous Speculative Fiction genre.
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Join Michelle as she interviews Clint Caward as he discusses his award-winning novel Love Machine.
Clint Caward is a novelist and freelance writer who has written for Overland, Meanjin, Southerly and reviews books for national publications. He has been awarded multiple domestic and international residences, been shortlisted for The Walter Stone Life Writing Award and won The Jim Hamilton Unpublished Manuscript Award. His novel Love Machine is published by Penguin. He currently teaches novel writing at Macquarie University.
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This week we celebrate the 175th Anniversary of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre! In this episode, Gothic Literature specialist Kirstin Mills is joined by Master of Research candidate Rachel Baldacchino to explore what makes this Victorian novel and its many adaptations so enduringly popular.
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Bruna Gomes, Australian-Brazilian poet, talks to Michelle about how to write poems and find inspiration, even during difficult times.
Bruna Gomes is an Australian-Brazilian novelist and poet. Her writing plants cultural and emotional history with new seeds. She is the author of How to Disappear (Encircle, 2021) and Triple Citizenship (Encircle, 2022). Her work is featured in various online journals, such as the Cordite Review, Dodging the Rain, The Pangolin Review, Paper Crane Journal, Cacti Fur, and The Quarry. In 2022, she was a writer in residence at The Museum of Loss and Renewal in Italy. Bruna was the winner of the 2020 Mosman Youth Awards in Literature. She was the recipient of the Fred Rush Convocation Prize (2022) and the Association of Heads of Independent Girls Schools Prize (2022). She was born in Boston, Massachusetts and lives on the Northern Beaches of Sydney.
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This week, Michelle talks with Kim Kelly about her latest book, The Rat-Catcher—long-listed for the Australian Historical Fiction Prize.
Kim Kelly is the author of twelve books, including the acclaimed novella Wild Chicory and bestselling novels The Blue Mile and Her Last Words. She is a book editor and reviewer as well, because too much narrative action is never enough. Her latest novella, The Rat Catcher: A Love Story, was shortlisted for Viva La Novella 2021, and longlisted for the 2022 Australian Historical Fiction prize. The Rat Catcher is published by Brio Books. Kim lives and writes on Wiradjuri Country, in central-western New South Wales.
The Rat Catcher is available in paperback and ebook and can be purchased from Booktopia here. The audiobook is available now. Find out more about Kim and her work here.
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Ned Bukarica interviews Emma Batchelor on her first novel Now That I See You.
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Tessa Lunney, author of the Kiki Button historical espionage series, talks with Michelle Hamadache about Paris, plotting and how the present can galvanise the past when writing historical fiction.
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Join Professor Hsu-Ming Teo as she explores the student perspective on reading Queer YA Romances, with special guests, Teyah Miller and Courtney Boulais.
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