A guide for editors and writers on editing for sensitivity, diversity and inclusion Editing for Sensitivity, Diversity and Inclusion: A Guide for Professional Editors, by Dr Renée Otmar published by Cambridge University Press. Podcast Notes: When Dr Renée Otmar could not find the editing resources she needed to support her work, she turned to the […]
Poetic comment on class, plant-life ecologies and procreant journeys “How to Order Eggs Sunnyside Up” by Lisa Collyer Podcast Notes: Western Australia: Beachcombing her way from rice paddies to Perth’s Crystal Palace to the Bibbulmun Track, the seamstress becomes an arborist and a luscious contemporary poet. Collyer explores episodes in fertility as her breasts become […]
There is room in the laundry for Frankie. Or there’s room for her sister Jussie. Any house in the 1980s would be too small for them both. Ravenous Girls, by Rebecca Burton Winner of the 20/40 Publishing Prize Podcast Notes South Australia, 1980s: As Frankie returns to the growing pains of her teenage life, she […]
Lizzie, Alice and Margot. Three women torn between the past and the future. Whenever You’re Ready, by Trish Bolton Podcast Notes: : Whenever You’re Ready by Trish Bolton Trish Bolton’s remarkable debut, Whenever You’re Ready had a well attended launch at Readings Carlton in Melbourne in February, and I was not the only interstate traveller to […]
One missing girl. No suspects. A town about to ignite. The Cane, by Maryrose Cuskelly Maryrose Cuskelly won the 2016 Thunderbolt award for true crime writing. CLICK TO LISTEN TO PODCAST Podcast notes Far North Queensland, 1970: It could be murder. It could even be something supernatural lurking in the smoky wisps of the crop. A girl […]
A Story of Legacy, Land and a Killing at Croppa Creek, by Kate Holden. Kate Holden won the 2021 Walkley Book Award and the 2022 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Douglas Stewart Prize for Nonfiction. The Winter Road is an astonishing assessment of the Australian landscape through the lens of contemporary and historical agricultural practices, and […]