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The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. Chris is the award winning author of Mammoth - the story of a loquacious fossil, The Glass Kingdom - a drug fueled romp through outback...

The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. Ann Dombroski is a writer whose prize-winning short fiction has appeared in literary journals and anthologies. Ann’s debut novel is Afte...

The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. Caro Llewellyn is the author of the Stella Prize shortlisted memoir Diving into Glass, and has worked with writers in publishing and as...

Naima Brown’s essays have appeared in Vogue, the Guardian, and more. She wrote, along with Melissa Doyle, the non-fiction book How to Age Against the Machine and is the author of The Shot.  Mother Tongue is her second novel. Ever since the birth of her daughter Jenny, Brynn’s life has been ruled by The Schedule; a clockwork routine that means Jenny will love her and Brynn will be the mother she kn...

The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. Rachael Johns was an English teacher before making her dreams of becoming a novelist come true. Her book The Patterson Girls won the ABI...

The days are about to get shorter and the cold is already creeping in. So for today’s book club I’m taking us back to warmer times with Karina May’s That Island Feeling. Karina is the author of Duck a l’Orange for Breakfast (April 2023), which was longlisted in the Indie Book Awards for Best Debut Fiction, and Never Ever Forever. Karina, alongside her friend and author Clare Fletcher, is the found...

The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. Eileen  Chong is an award winning poet.  You’ve met her on Final Draft with her last collection A Thousand Crimson Blooms and today she...

Andrea Goldsmith is the award winning author of novels including the Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlisted The Prosperous Thief and the 2015 Melbourne Prize for Literature, The Memory Trap. Her new novel is The Buried Life. Adrian’s colleagues affectionately call him Doctor Death. As a renowned scholar of death in the modern age he has surprisingly little insight into the impacts death has wro...

The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. Steve MinOn is the winner of the Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer 2023. First Name Second Name is his first novel Steph...

Diana Reid is the Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist in 2022. Her debut, Love & Virtue, won the ABIA Book of the Year Award, and the ABA Booksellers’ Choice Fiction Book of the Year Award. Diana’s new novel is Signs of Damage. How could everything have gone so wrong? In the summer of 2008 the Kelly family are enjoying a holiday in the south of France. Bruce, Vanessa, their daught...

The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. Zane Lovitt is the award winning author of The Midnight Promise and Black Teeth Jamie’s back on Carnation Way. It was a mostly conscious...

Steve MinOn is the winner of the Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer 2023. Stephen Bolin lies in a coma in a Brisbane hospital.  In the hours before his death Stephen awakens long enough to write a cryptic message to his sisters. They are to carry his body north to the town of their birth. Stephen’s sisters ignore this bizarre request and so some time later Stephen awakens in a mortu...

The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. Vanessa McCausland is author of DREAMING IN FRENCH and THE BEAUTIFUL WORDS. Paige White's beautiful life is documented closely for her t...

The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. Catherine Jinks is the award winning author of more than forty books. You’ve met her on Final Draft when we discussed her novel The Atta...

Eileen Chong is an award winning poet.  You’ve met her on Final Draft with her last collection A Thousand Crimson Blooms and today she’s joining us with her new collection We Speak of Flowers. We Speak of Flowers comprises 101 interconnected fragments that can be read in any order, attempting to make sense of grief in the face of great pain. Loved this review? You can get more books, writing and l...

Catherine Jinks is the award winning author of more than forty books. Her new novel is Panic. Katoomba’s a small community. There’s not a lot of places to hide when people know your name and Bronte’s gone viral in the worst possible way. Getting social media drunk and angry is never a good idea and now Bronte’s been doxed by her YouTube famous ex and she needs to get out of town, fast. Fortunately...

The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. Sean Wilson is a writer, playwright and communications professional. Sean is the author of Gemini Falls. He has been shortlisted for the...

This week we've checked out the first episode of Holden Sheppard's Invisible Boys. Invisible Boys is the award winning debut novel from Holden Sheppard and is now a smash hit series on Stan. Holden even pops by to talk about pioneering queer storytelling and adapting his show for the screen. Loved this review? You can get more books, writing and literary culture every week on the Final Draft Great...

The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. Ashley Kalagian Blunt is the author of Dark Mode, shortlisted for the 2024 ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year. Her new novel is Cold...

In a special, bonus episode, Andrew welcomes Felix Shannon as a regular on the Final Draft podcast. Felix is the renowned host of Death of the Reader and joins us with fresh ideas and a unique way of reading and discovering books.

The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. Karina is the author of Duck a l’Orange for Breakfast (April 2023), which was longlisted in the Indie Book Awards for Best Debut Fiction...

Sean Wilson is the author of Gemini Falls. He has been shortlisted for the Patrick White Playwrights Award by Sydney Theatre Company.  Sean’s new novel is You Must Remember This. On a warm autumn evening Grace decides to go for walk. It must be autumn judging from the temperature, and Grace was going to… she’s well, surely it will come back to her. Hours later, and with her family panicked Grace w...

The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. Lech Blaine is the author of the memoir Car Crash and the Quarterly Essays Top Blokes and Bad Cop. His new work is Australian Gospel. Au...

The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. Esther hails from Cork, Ireland and lives in the North West of Tasmania. Esther is the author of Leaving Ocean Road and The House of Sec...

Here are my End of Year Picks and a few recommendations for buying Xmas Gifts for the book lover in your life! Lech Blaine’s Australian Gospel ‘A Family Saga’. Australian Gospel tells the story of Lech’s siblings. It’s a big family and Lech’s mum and dad Tom and Lenore fostered five children in the years before Lech was born. Three of those children, Lech’s brothers and sisters, happen to be the b...