Anonymous Was A Woman Podcast

As we wait for Season 5 we are bringing back our highest rating episodes. This interview with Min Jin Lee was originally released on 15 June 2020. Min Jin joined Jamila and Astrid to discuss triumph in literature. The hero’s journey has shaped fiction since before we called it that. Is the heroine's journey different? Chapter 1: Min Jin Lee joins Jamila and Astrid from New York to discuss he...

As we wait for Season 5 we are bringing back our highest rating episodes. This interview with Tara June Winch was originally released on 20 August 2020. Tara joined Jamila and Astrid from her lockdown in France to discuss creativity and solitude. Tara was awarded the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2020 for The Yield , and the novel was also shortlisted for The Stella Prize. In thi...

As we wait for Season 5 we are bringing back our highest rating episodes. This interview with Brit Bennett was originally released on 4 February 2021. Brit is an American writer with a brilliant track record. Her debut novel  The Mothers  (2016) was a New York Times best-seller, as was her second novel,  The Vanishing Half  (2020). In this interview, Brit talks t...

Dr Norman Swan was one of the first medically qualified journalists in Australia, with a broadcast career spanning more than 30 years. He hosts Radio National's The Health Report  and co-hosts  Coronacast . 'So You Think You Know What Is Good For You?' is his first book. CHAT WITH US Join our discussion using hashtag  #AnonymousWasAWomanPod  and don't forget to follow Jami...

Chapter 1:  What will happen tomorrow? How do writers explore what may come through both fiction and non-fiction? Chapter 2:   Jamila explores the latest novel from Kazuo Ishiguro, 'Klara and the Sun'. Chapter 3:  Astrid takes a different approach and turns to non-fiction. She discusses two recent works from Stan Grant - 'Stan Grant on Thomas Keneally' and 'With the Falling of...

Bri Lee is an author and freelance writer. Her first book,  Eggshell  Skull , won Biography of the Year at the ABIA Awards, the People's Choice Award at the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, and was longlisted for the Stella Prize. Her latest work, Who Gets To Be Smart: Privilege, Power and Knowledge tackles the inequity in our eduction system. Her journalism has also appeared in publ...

Chapter 1: Changing things up this week, Jamila and Astrid throw the idea of a weekly theme away and talk about the novels they feel like. They also both confess their love for the humble street library (particularly during lockdowns). Chapter 2:   Jamila brings 'Fleishman Is in Trouble' by Taffy Brodesser-Akner to the table. Beware, there is a spoiler! Chapter 3: Astrid reflects on three nov...

Maria Lewis is an author, screenwriter and film curator, and she knows everything about women and representation in fantasy.  Her best-selling debut novel  Who's Afraid?  was published in 2016, followed by its sequel  Who's Afraid Too?  in 2017, which was nominated for Best Horror Novel at the Aurealis Awards.  Who's Afraid?  is currently being developed for tele...

Chapter 1: Many of the highest-selling novels of all time are fantasy. So, why is fantasy so popular? Who is reading it? And who is writing it? Chapter 2:   Astrid enters the 'Grishaverse' and explores the diversity in the ' Shadow and Bone' series from Leigh Bardugo. Chapter 3: Jamila admits to reading a fantasy book - ' The Once and Future Witches' by Alix E. Harrow - and liking it. Recomme...

Michael Mohammed Ahmad is the founding director of Sweatshop Literacy Movement. His debut novel, ' The Tribe' , won the 2015 Sydney Morning Herald  Best Young Novelists of the Year Award. His second novel, ' The Lebs' , won the 2019 NSW Premier's Multicultural Literary Award and was shortlisted for the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award. In 2021 he has release his third novel, ' The Other Hal...

Chapter 1: What is heartbreak? When have you felt it and where do you turn when you are heartbroken? Chapter 2:  Jamila recommends ' Heart Sick' , the new non-fiction work by Jessie Stephens. Chapter 3: Astrid also recommends a non-fiction work - 'The Mother Wound' by Amani Haydar. Recommendations: Jamila recommends ' Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation' by Rachael Cusk, and Astrid brings u...

Kavita Bedford is an Australian-Indian writer with a background in journalism and anthropology. Her first novel ' Friends and Dark Shapes' was released this year, and her short form writing has previously appeared in Guernica , the  Guardian  and  Griffith Review . She works and teaches in Sydney in media and global studies. CHAT WITH US Join our discussion using hashtag  #Anon...

Chapter 1:  Literature used to equate adulthood with parenthood, as did society. But what counts as 'growing up' these days? Is literature changing? Chapter 2: Astrid introduces ' The Other Half of You', the new novel by Michael Mohammed Ahmed that reads as something of a love letter from a father to a son. Chapter 3: Jamila takes us through 'The Smash Up' by American author Ali Benjamin. Rec...

Jessica Townsend is the ridiculously talented author behind the middle grade fantasy series ' The Chronicles of Morrigan Crow'. The series began in 2017 with ' Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow '. Jessica followed up that record-breaking first instalment with ' Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow ' and ' Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow '. Best of all, there are six more books on t...

Chapter 1: Jamila and Astrid dive into the books that first made them feel ‘grown up’ and the ones that represented their shifts into adulthood. Regular listeners won’t be surprised that Astrid says her coming of age read was Stephen King’s 'It'. Jamila brings us back to the world of appropriate teenage reading by reminiscing about Melina Marchetta’s 'Looking for Alib...

Dr Anita Heiss  is an award-winning author of non-fiction, historical fiction, commercial women’s fiction, children’s novels and blogs. Her latest work is ' B ila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray ', and it is the first commercial work published with only Aboriginal language on the cover in Australia. Anita is a proud member of the Wiradjuri Nation of central New South Wales and an...

Chapter 1: Jamila and Astrid consider why the past still matters, and why women and girls are all too often left out of the history books written by the victors. Chapter 2: Jamila brings her favourite musical - Hamilton - to life and discusses ' Hamilton: The Revolution' by Lin Manuel Miranda and Jeremy Carter. Astrid is completely out of her depth for this one. Chapter 3: Astrid reminisces about...

Kate Ellis represented Adelaide in the Australian House of Representatives for Labor from 2004 until 2019. In the timely 'Sex, Lies and Question Time' , she explores the good, the bad and the ugly of life as a woman in Australian politics. CHAT WITH US Join our discussion using hashtag  #AnonymousWasAWomanPod  and don't forget to follow Jamila (on  Instagram  and  Twitter...

Jamila Rizvi and  Astrid Edwards  are back for the fourth season of Anonymous Was a Woman . Chapter 1: Changing it up, Jamila and Astrid explore time, rather than emotions, in each episode. To begin, they consider the clear and present issues of our day through the books they are reading. Chapter 2: Jamila brings 'How Good Is Scott Morrison?' by Peter van Onselen and Wayne Errington to t...

Anonymous Was A Woman  with  Jamila Rizvi  and  Astrid Edwards is a conversation on books by, and about, women. Season 4 will start on Monday 31 May 2021. CHAT WITH US Join our discussion using hashtag #AnonymousWasAWomanPod , and don't forget to follow Jamila (on Instagram and Twitter ) and Astrid (also on Instagram and Twitter ). This podcast is brought to you by Future Women...

Glyn Davis AC is CEO of the Paul Ramsay Foundation, which works to end intergenerational poverty. He was previously Vice Chancellor of the University of Melbourne and remains Distinguished Professor of political science at the Australian National University. With one in eight adults and one in six children living below the poverty line in Australia, in On Life's Lottery Glyn Davis asks the questio...

Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are back for the third season of Anonymous of a Woman. Chapter 1: Jamila and Astrid consider what freedom means to them - and it is the freedom to read and the freedom to write. Chapter 2: Jamila brings Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad - a Pulitzer Prize winning novel - to the podcast. Chapter 3: Astrid considers Eating With My Mouth Open , the debut coll...

Sarah Krasnostein is the best-selling author of The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay and Disaster, as well as her 2021 work  The Believer: Encounters with Love, Death and Faith. The Trauma Cleaner  was awarded the Victorian Prize for Literature, the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Non- Fiction, the Australian Book Industry Award for General Non-Fict...

Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are back for the third season of Anonymous of a Woman. Chapter 1: After weeks considering the harder topics, Jamila and Astrid strike a more positive note and look to the possibilities that may be just around the corner. Chapter 2: Astrid introduces On Hope by Daisy Jeffrey.  Chapter 3: Jamila discussed Yumiko Kadota’s Emotional Female. Recommendations: A...

Nadia Owusu  is a Brooklyn-based writer and memoirist. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times , the  Washington Post’s   The   Lily ,  Literary Review ,  Electric Literature ,  Epiphany  and  Catapult. Aftershocks  is her first book.  CHAT WITH US Join our discussion using hashtag  #AnonymousWasAWomanPod  and don't...