Creative Momentum with Meg

Jem Splitter, writer, director and producer on letting ideas take their time Writer, director and producer Jem Splitter joins Meg Dunley on Creative Momentum with Meg to explore the less visible parts of creative work: mind wandering, letting ideas develop, finding a creative career path and learning to trust the stories we want to tell. Jem shares how one musical spent around five years in the dr...

Maddy Tyers, actor, writer and producer How do you keep creating when work, parenting and everyday life leave little spare time? Melbourne-based actor, writer and producer Maddy Tyers talks with Meg Dunley about making sketches and developing projects in the small pockets of time available, collaborating with her husband Jimmy, and finding creative inspiration in ordinary life. Maddy also shares h...

Amy Coomer: Writing, self-publishing and finding creative focus In this episode of Creative Momentum with Meg, author Amy Coomer talks about writing around part-time work, finding a routine that suits her natural energy and learning to trust her creative process. Amy shares her experience of self-publishing her debut novel, the unexpected success of a book trailer on TikTok and the importance of p...

Season 2: The Home Season Episode 28: Ingrid J. Adams Author Ingrid J. Adams joins Meg to talk about finding your own creative rhythm, writing around family life and discovering a creative process that actually works for you. Ingrid is the author of the four-book Descended series, a love story spanning lifetimes that explores reincarnation, fate, free will, soulmates and soul family. In this conve...

Season 2: The Home Season Episode 27: Claire Zorn, author, artist and enthusiastic maker IClaire Zorn is an Australian author and artist whose creative work moves between novels, picture books, drawing, painting, weaving and tapestry. In this conversation, Claire talks about why she prefers to discover rather than over-plan her creative work, how music feeds her writing, her experience of synesthe...

Season 2: The Home Season Episode 26: Elizabeth Barnett: painter, printmaker and multidisciplinary artist In this episode of Creative Momentum with Meg , I talk with Victorian artist Elizabeth Barnett about building a creative life around family, the seasons and the everyday things that inspire her. Elizabeth works from a studio in her home in the Macedon Ranges, where still life paintings are sha...

Season 2: The Home Season Episode 25: Tim Pilgrim, Gardener Tim Pilgrim is a gardener and garden designer based in Castlemaine, central Victoria. His work focuses on naturalistic, plant-led gardens designed for their particular site and climate. In this conversation, Tim talks about finding his way into horticulture, working at Wimbledon, developing his own garden maintenance business and eventual...

Season 2: The Home Season Episode 24: Megan Dalla-Camina Megan Dalla-Camina is an author of four books, a PhD researcher in women's spirituality and feminine wisdom, and the founder of Women Rising. Her creative life began with dance, acting, poetry and writing, was interrupted by 18 years in corporate America, and later flourished through writing books and creating work that supports women. In th...

Season 2: The Home Season Episode 23: Samantha WL Lee, Author Samantha Lee is the author of the historical novel Bound , as well as a poet, essayist and former English teacher. In this conversation she shares how a decade of waking before sunrise became the foundation of her writing life, why curiosity drives every story she tells, and what she's learned about trusting both the creative process an...

Season 2: The Home Season The second season of Creative Momentum with Meg, The Home Season, features interviews with Australian writers and artists where I explore how and why people do their creative work. Episode 22: Lynsey McDonnell, Author Lynsey McDonnell is a Perth-based CFO, mother of teenagers and debut author whose novel Bailey Street was published by Hawkeye Publishing on 23 July 2026. B...

Season 2: The Home Season The second season of Creative Momentum with Meg, The Home Season, features interviews with Australian writers and artists where I explore how and why people do their creative work. Episode 21: Anna Woods, Author Anna Woods is an Auckland-based author whose debut literary suspense novel LIT was published by Echo Publishing in June 2026. Anna has won the Sargeson Prize and...

Season 2: The Home Season The second season of Creative Momentum with Meg, The Home Season, features interviews with Australian writers and artists where I explore how and why people do their creative work. Episode 20: Trish Bolton, Author Trish Bolton is a Melbourne writer whose debut novel Whenever You’re Ready was published by Allen & Unwin in January 2024. Trish came to the novel after decades...

Season 2: The Home Season The second season of Creative Momentum with Meg, The Home Season, features interviews with Australian writers and artists where I explore how and why people do their creative work. Episode 19: Lorena Otes, Author & Dancer Lorena Otes is a Sydney-based author, dance teacher, choreographer and single mother by choice whose debut memoir Solo Mum by Choice was published by Ha...

Season 2: The Home Season The second season of Creative Momentum with Meg, The Home Season, features interviews with Australian writers and artists where I explore how and why people do their creative work. Episode 18: Lindsay Bartels, Author Lindsay Bartels is an American writer living on Sydney’s Northern Beaches whose debut memoir Imogen in Waiting: A Memoir of Modern Reproduction was published...

Season 2: The Home Season The second season of Creative Momentum with Meg, The Home Season, features interviews with Australian writers and artists where I explore how and why people do their creative work. Episode 17: Melissa Sharman, Writer Melissa Sharman is a Gold Coast-based writer, domestic and family violence specialist, and founder of Egg Donation Australia, who recently released her debut...

Season 2: The Home Season The second season of Creative Momentum with Meg, The Home Season, features interviews with Australian writers and artists where I explore how and why people do their creative work. Episode 16: Cassie Stroud, Author Cassie Stroud is a Sydney writer, editor and bookseller whose debut novel Iluka was published by HQ Fiction Australia in February 2026. A family drama set on t...

Season 2: The Home Season The second season of Creative Momentum with Meg, The Home Season, features interviews with Australian writers and artists where I explore how and why people do their creative work. Episode 15: Sophie Stern, Author Sophie Stern is a Sydney-based author whose debut novel What Is Left For Us (Penguin Random House, March 2026) centres on two estranged sisters forced to reunit...

Season 2: The Home Season The second season of Creative Momentum with Meg, The Home Season, features interviews with Australian writers and artists where I explore how and why people do their creative work. Episode 14: Lauren Novak, Author Lauren Novak is an award-winning journalist at The Advertiser in Adelaide and the debut author of Meltdown: Why Motherhood Makes Us Angry and What to Do About I...

Season 2: The Home Season The second season of Creative Momentum with Meg, The Home Season, features interviews with Australian writers and artists where I explore how and why people do their creative work. Episode 13: Linda Atkins, Author Linda Atkins is a women’s health physician and writer based in Western Sydney who came back to writing in her fifties after stopping as a teenager, and has sinc...

Season 2: The Home Season The second season of Creative Momentum with Meg, The Home Season, features interviews with Australian writers and artists where I explore how and why people do their creative work. Episode 12: Susan Green, Author Susan Green is a children's and adult fiction writer with a career spanning nearly four decades. Best known for the Verity Sparks series, which began with The Tr...

Season 2: The Home Season The second season of Creative Momentum with Meg, The Home Season, features interviews with Australian writers and artists where I explore how and why people do their creative work. Episode 11: Debut Author Kerry Jewell Kerry Jewell is a nuclear medicine physician and writer based in Melbourne whose debut novel, A Little Unwell , is a darkly funny look at life inside the A...

Season 2: The Home Season The second season of Creative Momentum with Meg, The Home Season, features interviews with Australian writers and artists where I explore how and why people do their creative work. Episode 10: Co-Authors Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist have been creative collaborators for their entire relationship. They have now written five books together, inc...

Season 2: The Home Season The second season of Creative Momentum with Meg, The Home Season, features interviews with Australian writers and artists where I explore how and why people do their creative work. Episode 9: Emma Hardy, Author Emma Hardy is a writer who works across fiction and non-fiction. Her debut book Periodic B***h is a literary memoir of menstruation, madness, and monsters. It is a...

Season 2: The Home Season The second season of Creative Momentum with Meg, The Home Season, features interviews with Australian writers and artists where I explore how and why people do their creative work. Episode 8: Toni Jordan Toni Jordan is the author of several much-loved novels including Addition, Tenderfoot, and The Fragments, and was my first writing teacher at RMIT. In this conversation,...

Season 2: The Home Season The second season of Creative Momentum with Meg, The Home Season, features interviews with Australian writers and artists where I explore how and why people do their creative work. Episode 7: Stacey McCall, Painter Stacey McCall studied gold and silversmithing at RMIT, raised five daughters, and somewhere in between all of that, discovered that the things sitting around h...