The Storymakers Institute with Joel Carnegie

This is your front row pass to the world’s most intriguing storytellers, as powered by you. 🎙️ This week on The Storymakers Institute podcast, I’m coming to you LIVE from the Dunkeld Writers Festival on the lands of the Djab Wurrung and Gunditjmara people. In this episode, we’re pulling back the curtain on biography, imagination and memoir, and the highs and lows of writing about people. Joining m...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thestorymakersinstitute.substack.com This is your front row pass to the world's most intriguing storytellers, as powered by you. As we celebrate NAIDOC Week on The Storymakers Institute, say hello to Bundjalung author, Sharlene Allsopp. How long can you run from a lie, if that lie is what your life is founded on? That’s one of the centr...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thestorymakersinstitute.substack.com This is your front row pass to the world’s most intriguing storytellers, as powered by you. 🎙️ This week on The Storymakers Institute podcast, say hello to the widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist, and author, Báyò Akómoláfé who “...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thestorymakersinstitute.substack.com This is your front row pass to the world’s most intriguing storytellers, as powered by you. This week, say hello to Bruce Pascoe and Lyn Harwood, who recently joined me live-on-stage at Wurdi Youang, Geelong Library and Heritage Centre (The Dome) which you can now find on Substack. Bruce Pascoe is th...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thestorymakersinstitute.substack.com This is your front row pass to the world’s most intriguing storytellers, as powered by you. This week on The Storymakers Institute, say hello to award-winning Turkish journalist, novelist, author, political thinker, and public speaker, Ece Temelkuran who left Turkey in 2016 “exhausted from fear and p...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thestorymakersinstitute.substack.com This is your front row pass to the world’s most intriguing storytellers, as powered by you. This week on The Storymakers Institute, say hello to Editor in Chief at Zan Times , journalist, and writer from Afghanistan, Zahra Nader. In August 2021, the world watched on when the Taliban took Afghanistan...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thestorymakersinstitute.substack.com This is your front row pass to the world's most intriguing storytellers, as powered by you. This week on The Storymakers Institute, we are celebrating our one year anniversary on Substack 🎉 recently teaming up with our friends at The KO , The Book Bird , and Allen and Unwin to host a SOLD OUT live e...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thestorymakersinstitute.substack.com This is your front row pass to the world's most intriuging storytellers, as powered by you. This week on The Storymakers Institute, say hello to Jonathan Hirsch, an award-winning producer, host, writer, and journalist based in Los Angeles. His acclaimed podcasts include: Dear Franklin Jones (Stitcher...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thestorymakersinstitute.substack.com This is your front row pass to the world’s most intriguing storytellers, as powered by you. This week, say hello to Spanish-Australian writer, documentary maker, journalist, and anthropologist Belinda Lopez who embeds herself deep into the world of her stories, from Indonesia, Australia, Europe and L...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thestorymakersinstitute.substack.com This is your front row pass to the world's most intriuging storytellers, as powered by you. This week on The Storymakers Institute, say hello to author, journalist, and storyteller, Shannon Molloy . Optioned for a major film and now adapted for the stage, Shannon’s acclaimed novel " Fourteen " is tou...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thestorymakersinstitute.substack.com This is your front row pass to the world’s most intriguing storytellers, as powered by you. This week on The Storymakers Institute, say hello to Nsah Mala - Cameroonian poet, writer, author of children's books, and researcher-scholar who writes in English, French, and Mbesa. The Congo Basin in Centra...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thestorymakersinstitute.substack.com This is your front row pass to the world's most intriguing storytellers, as powered by you. This week on The Storymakers Institute, say hello to the uproarious Australian writer, director, performer, and investigative humorist, Dan Ilic from A Rational Fear podcast - who tells me how to find the funn...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thestorymakersinstitute.substack.com We’re back. With a whole new series of The Storymakers Institute - powered by you. This is your front row pass to the world’s most intriguing storytellers. This week on the show, say hello to multiple Walkley Award winning author, journalist and broadcaster, Tracey Spicer AM. In the last year, we’ve...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thestorymakersinstitute.substack.com Do you lead a good enough Life? And what even is that? This week on The Storymakers Institute, say hello to writer, Avram Alpert. In Avram’s new book “The Good-Enough Life”, he argues the case that no one truly benefits from a world oriented towards greatness - and reveals how another way of life is...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thestorymakersinstitute.substack.com Have you turned off the news? This week on The Storymakers Institute, say hello to freshly Walkley awarded ABC Senior Presenter, Geraldine Doogue. It would be fair to say that 2023 hasn’t exactly been “light” - there’s been plenty of heavy issues to grapple with this year, wherever you may be across...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thestorymakersinstitute.substack.com Think you know AI? This week on The Storymakers Institute, say hello to Canadian novelist, essayist and enemy of boredom, Stephen Marche. In 2023, Stephen collaborated with Artificial Intelligence on the first AI-generated novel reviewed in The New York Times called Death of an Author - a groundbreak...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thestorymakersinstitute.substack.com This week on The Storymakers Institute, say hello to 5 x ARIA, AWMA, AIR and APRA award winning musician, Katie Noonan. Her latest album, “A Small Shy Truth” with Elixir, draws inspiration from the works of Michael Leunig, a Melbourne-based cartoonist, writer, painter, philosopher and poet. Michael’s...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thestorymakersinstitute.substack.com This week on The Storymakers Institute, say hello to author, Tim Winton AO. According to the 2023 IPCC Report, we have 7 years left to cut carbon emissions by 50% before climate damage to the planet is irreversible. How can “story” influence, affect or alter this trajectory, if at all? Tim Winton is...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thestorymakersinstitute.substack.com This week on The Storymakers Institute - say hello to the award-winning global podcast creator, Eric Nuzum. Eric makes iconic podcasts that routinely top the charts, appear in yearly “best of” lists, win awards, and generate hundreds of millions of downloads. As VP Programming at National Public Radi...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thestorymakersinstitute.substack.com This week on The Storymakers Institute, say hello to Palestinian peace builder, National Geographic Explorer, Cultural Educator, Author, Co-founder of Mejdi tours and TED Fellow, Aziz Abu Sarah. These past several weeks have seen the temperature rapidly climb in the conflict/war between Israel and Ha...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thestorymakersinstitute.substack.com This week on The Storymakers Institute, say hello to writer, music teacher and fellow ABC broadcaster, Ed Le Brocq. Ed was born on the White Cliffs of Dover and began playing violin when he was eight years old. He studied music in Manchester, Berlin and London, played professionally in the UK and Hon...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thestorymakersinstitute.substack.com This week on The Storymakers Institute, say hello to Josh Szeps: a self described ne'er-do-well, (now former) ABC Broadcaster, Professional Fellow at UTS and Host of Uncomfortable Conversations podcast. It’s become pretty clear in recent years that the public square has descended (at least on some le...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thestorymakersinstitute.substack.com This week on The Storymakers Institute, say hello to Dr Tyson Yunkaporta, Aboriginal scholar, founder of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab at Deakin University in Melbourne, and author of Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World and Right Story, Wrong Story: Adventures in Indigenous T...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thestorymakersinstitute.substack.com This week on The Storymakers Institute, say hello to multi-New York Times bestselling author, activist, podcaster , minimalist and former news journalist, Sarah Wilson. She started the I Quit Sugar movement, hosted Masterchef Australia, was the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan and lived “on the road”...

This week - Mayu Kanamori joins The Storymakers Institute - a Tokyo born artist living on Eora Country, Sydney. She take photographs, makes collages, films and edits art documentaries, writes plays, performances, and poems. In this episode, she shares her doubts about storytelling, her frustrations about happy endings and dinner parties, and about breaking out of the mould of your own biography. U...