Love writing? Looking to improve your writing? Or do you just love listening to writers talk about their craft? If yes, The Garret: Writers on Writing is for you.
The Garret is a podcast writers for writers about the craft of writing. It is hosted Astrid Edwards, and her goal is to interview the best writers in Australia (and perhaps some from abroad) about how and why they do what they do.
The Garret has ongoing partnerships with the State Library of Victoria, Writers Victoria and RMIT University. We held a series of live podcast events with the State Library of Victoria (which you can listen to here). We are supporting the next generation of review writers working with RMIT University to publish RMIT Reviews, which are written by writing students about new Australian works of fiction and non-fiction (you can read them here).
In 2019 and 2020 we were a media partner for the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in Bali Indonesia, and released three of the live events Astrid Edwards moderated at the festival through The Garret.
The Garret is educational in outlook. We received funding from The Copyright Agency to develop a series of interviews with diverse writers whose works should appear on the school curriculum. We have previously received two grants from the Australia Council for the Arts.
A defining feature of The Garret is our transcripts. Each interview is published with a complete transcript (so you don’t have to write anything down while you listen).
The Garret was shortlisted for Best Literature, Arts and Music Podcast in both the 2017 and 2019 Australian Podcast Awards. The podcast surpassed 422,000 downloads in October 2021.
The Garret is a labour of love on behalf of all emerging writers. The Garret is supported by grants and the time of Astrid Edwards. It does not operate for revenue or profit. If you would like to support The Garret, simply subscribe on Apple Podcasts (or wherever else you listen to your podcasts) and join the conversation on Instagram or Twitter.
You can also follow our host Astrid Edwards (including her published book reviews) at astridedwards.com.
