Jess Hill is an investigative journalist, and she has been writing about domestic abuse since 2014. See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse (2019) is the culmination of that work and represents a new way of thinking about and acting on domestic abuse in Australia. It is also an example of exceptional research and the power of storytelling in non-fiction.
Ubud Writers and Readers Festival is on again in 2019, with a program of more than 200 events with 180 storytellers from 30 countries. This year, The Garret is a Media Partner of the festival, and our host Astrid Edwards will be participating in five events. We hope to see you in Ubud from 23-27 October... and if you are planning on going, listen to The Garret for your discount code.
Our host Astrid Edwards is a writer, teacher, podcaster and director.
Astrid is also a bibliophile. Astrid is a writing teacher and coordinator at RMIT University. She has also judged the Aurealis Awards each year since 2016. She is a former Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow.
You can read Astrid's work in The Age, The Saturday Paper, Future Women and Australian Book Review.
Astrid joined the Board of Melbourne Writers Festival in 2019. She previously served as the Deputy Chair of Writers Victoria.
Love writing? Looking to improve your writing? Or do you just love listening to writers talk about their craft? If yes, The Garret is for you.
We interview the best writers writing today and discuss how they start, draft, edit, publish and market their work.
Our goal is to interview the best writers in Australia, including all of winners of the Miles Franklin Literary Award. We are well on our way there. Each interview is published with a complete transcript and interactive show notes (so you don’t have to write anything down while you listen).
