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Omar Sakr_2023
June 1, 2023June 1, 2023

Omar Sakr on poetry, fiction and the perception of both

Omar Sakr is the author of three poetry collections, […]

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Overland: Natalia Figueroa Barroso and EJ Clarence
May 25, 2023May 29, 2023

Overland Literary Journal: Natalia Figueroa Barroso and EJ Clarence

Overland Literary Journal Issue 249 features several essays, including […]

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Ellen van Neerven _The Garret_Throat_2020
May 18, 2023May 22, 2023

Ellen van Neerven on racism and misogyny in sport

Ellen van Neerven is an award-winning writer of Mununjali […]

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Pip-Williams
May 15, 2023May 17, 2023

Pip Williams on best-selling historical fiction

Pip Williams was born in London, grew up in […]

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Zoya Patel_2023
April 27, 2023April 28, 2023

Zoya Patel on moving from memoir to fiction

Zoya Patel is the author of No Country Woman, a […]

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Eloise Grills for The Stella Shortlist
April 21, 2023April 22, 2023

Eloise Grills for The Stella Shortlist

Eloise Grills is an award-winning essayist, comics artist and […]

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Adriane Howell_The Stella
April 19, 2023April 19, 2023

Adriane Howell for The Stella Shortlist

Adriane Howell is a Melbourne-based writer and arts worker. […]

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Louisa Lim_The Stella_The Garret_2023
April 17, 2023April 17, 2023

Louisa Lim for The Stella Shortlist

Louisa Lim is an award-winning journalist, podcaster and author. […]

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Debra Dank_The Stella Shortlist
April 14, 2023April 16, 2023

Debra Dank for The Stella Shortlist

Debra Dank is a Gudanji/Wakaja woman. Her memoir We […]

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  • 💫Listen to @omarsakrpoet talk poetry, fiction and the differing perceptions of both in our latest interview.

🗣️ He performs the poem ‘Iris' at the 6:30 mark.

🎤 Omar is the author of three poetry collections, 'Non-Essential Work' , 'The Lost Arabs' and 'These Wild Houses'. His first novel, 'Son of Sin' was shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards. ‘The Lost Arabs' won the 2020 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry and was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Award, the John Bray Poetry Award, the Judith Wright Calanthe Award, and the Colin Roderick Award. Omar is a widely published essayist and editor whose work has been translated into Arabic and Spanish.

🎧 Listen on your favourite podcast app or read the transcript at thegarretpodcast.com/omar-sakr-on-poetry-fiction-and-the-perception-of-both.

📓#thegarretpodcast #garretpodcast #thegarret #auslit #literarypodcast #omarsakr #sonofsin #nonessentialwork #poetry
  • 📖 'Every time I go to an editor... we have this conversation around language. Sometimes after my pieces are published the language that an editor has chosen to use... has been challenged'.

🎤 EJ  Clarence’s essay 'Dovetails' appeared in @overlandlitmag Issue 249. The essay deals with forced adoption and the language we use when we speak about it. And we should say, EJ was very complimentary about Overland’s editors!

🎧 Listen on your favourite podcast app or read the transcript at thegarretpodcast.com/overland-natalia-figueroa-barroso-ej-clarence.

📓#thegarretpodcast #garretpodcast #thegarret #auslit #literarypodcast #ejclarence #nataliafigueroabarroso
  • 📝 @overlandlitmag Issue 249 features several essays, including 'A guide to the colonisation of my mother tongues' by Natalia Figueroa Barroso and 'Dovetails' by EJ Clarence.

🎤 @ms_figueroa_barroso is an Uruguayan-Australian poet and storyteller and a member of @sweatshop.ws. Her work has appeared in the collections 'Racism: Stories on Fear, Hate and Bigotry'; 'Any Saturday, 2021: Running Westward' and 'Between Two Worlds' and various literary magazines.

🎤 EJ is an emerging writer exploring the long narrative arc of Forced Adoption through Own Voices fiction, poetry, prose and personal essays which acknowledge the tenth anniversary of Julia Gillard’s National Apology.

🎧 Listen on your favourite podcast app or read the transcript at thegarretpodcast.com/overland-natalia-figueroa-barroso-ej-clarence.

📓#thegarretpodcast #garretpodcast #thegarret #auslit #literarypodcast #overlandliteraryjournal #ejclarence
  • 📖 'That is my approach to writing. It is hard, and it hurts. You are thinking about whether it is worth it, and you are having conversations with other people about whether it is worth it'.

🎤 Ellen van Neervenreflects on writing 'Personal Score', their fourth long form work (but first work of creative non-fiction).

🎧 Listen on your favourite podcast app or read the transcript at thegarretpodcast.com/ellen-van-neerven-racism-misogyny-in-sport.

📓#thegarretpodcast #garretpodcast #thegarret #auslit #literarypodcast #ellenvanneerven #personalscore
  • 🎤 Ellen van Neerven is an award-winning writer of Mununjali Yugambeh and Dutch heritage. To date they are best known for their poetry, but in 2023 they have moved into creative non-fiction with 'Personal Score'.

Ellen’s first book, 'Heat and Light', was the recipient of the David Unaipon Award, the Dobbie Literary Award and the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Indigenous Writers Prize. They have written two poetry collections: 'Comfort Food', which was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize, and 'Throat', which was shortlisted in 2021 for the Queensland Literary Awards and the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, and won the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, the Multicultural NSW Award and Book of the Year in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards.

🎧 Listen on your favourite podcast app or read the transcript at thegarretpodcast.com/ellen-van-neerven-racism-misogyny-in-sport.

📓#thegarretpodcast #garretpodcast #thegarret #auslit #literarypodcast #ellenvanneerven #personalscore #comfortfood #throat #heatandlight

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