The Exophonic Writer Podcast

Send a text Hello friends and welcome to the last episode of the Exophonic writer Podcast of 2025. I have great company! Join me on my chat with Mages Ruiz Diaz from Acts of Imagination, as we discuss how we both brought our Argentinian cultural backgrounds to our work here in Australia. Also, we touched on particularly interesting topics such as Mages' branding work for an Azerbaijani client...

Send a text Hi exophonic friends, We are here again with yet another amazing guest!  Dr Gabriel García Ochoa is a Mexican-born academic and writer based in Melbourne, Australia. He teaches at Monash University, where his work explores cultural literacy, world literature, and translation. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University and is the author of the 2019 science fiction novel The Hy...

Send a text Hello Exophonics, As promised, here are the first few chapters (poems) of my debut novel Tango Masala. I tried my best and I hope you like it (but much respect for voice actors!)I read the first 46 pages, and the following poems: Comfort Zone  Hamster Palace  The Millers  Liam Micro  Lila and Rim  Pink House  Castle-hotel  Check Mate  Milan Hindi  Here to work  New Teacher  If you want...

Send a text Hi, exophonics! ✨ Let me share with you all that I'm learning as a newly self-published exophonic author. We'll talk about:  why your friends may not read your book stocking your book in real-life bookstores and libraries where is a good place to promote your indie-publish book. Plus, if you stick until the very end I'll tell you one surprising marketing technique I&apo...

Send a text Whether to reach a wider audience, or to detach yourself from saying hard things, or because your native language has a very complex writing system. Whatever the reason that brings you to write in a non-native language... this is a story that only you can tell, so write it! In conversation with author and book coach Karmen Spiljak , we talked about grammar skills, cultural expectations...

Send a text Once upon a time... when I was researching for exophonic resources (right before launching the very first episode of this podcast) I came across a website that was boasting exophonic poetry and short stories. I was surprised because honestly there wasn't much for and about exophonic writers other than a bunch of articles that were all recounting the same thing. Danae Spyrou is beh...

Send a text Hiiiii 🙃  The Exophonic Writer Podcast is back, baby!  💪 😎 And we have a great season ahead... In this season, we'll talk about early lessons of a self-published author, a website that's especially looking to publish exophonic writers, a book coach who works with exophonic writers, the relationship we have with our second language, the exophonic landscape of Melbourne, Exo...

Send a text Hi, exophonics.  I know... it's been a minute. But I have a really good excuse. I've been working on the publishing process of my first novel: TANGO MASALA!!! Tango Masala is a psychological coming-of-age drama written in verse, about Bianca, a language teacher living in Buenos Aires and Milan, an Indian businessman bearing a job proposal that will change Bianca's world....

Send a text Hello, Exophonics! In this episode I'll share with you a map of the milestones of my (still very young) trajectory in this writerly life. My aim is to inspire you to do the same with your own journey and, like that, beat IMPOSTER SYNDROME, once and for all!...Or at least try. 😉 Let's gooo!✨ Show notes: My Paris blog (in Spanish): https://unaciudadenelmundo.wordpress.com/ Sl...

Send a text Welcome,  exophonic friends! It's almost impossible to talk about exophony without talking about Identity , since it's such a  fundamental pillar  for this practice. Matters of Identity emerge during the phase of choosing to become an exophonic writer as well as during the phase after one has already been writing in a second language for a while (well, duh, matters of identit...

Send a text Hop, hop, hop 🐰 Look at what the Easter bunny brought...a brand new episode of the Exophonic Writer Podcast! In this episode I talk with Cher Chidzey who's an author from Singapore living in Australia. Cher wants to bring aspects from her culture to English speaking societies and what other way to do it if not writing in a language that they will understand, but how to be authent...

Send a text Hello exophonics and exophonic lovers! In this new episode of The Exophonic Writer Podcast I bring you a new exophonic guest. Meet... Madhuri Karra , who's from Vizag in India and came to Australia in 2013. She writes fantasy novels in English and was highly influenced by the literary tradition running in her family. Likewise, her mother tongue, Telugu , has a particularly rich li...

Send a text Hello friends, welcome. Omg, this novel of mine is a real challenging linguistic something! 🙀 It l includes English , Hindi and two varieties of Spanish . Oh, and it's also... written in verse ! And there are plenty of calligrams . (Watch this awesome video about calligrams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ0x1YOuMwQ ) Why did I enclose myself in this linguistic labyrinth, you a...

Send a text Hello friends, please join me in my conversation with our first guest to the podcast. (Woohoo!) His name is Fabio Motta and he's an award-winning, Italian-born Australian actor and educator who kindly joined us to chat about the importance of bringing our first language selves to the stage (or the page, or the canvas, etc.) We also talked about his  language-related struggles when...

Send a text Hi, friends!  In this mini teaser episode, I'll tell you what I have planned for this year (spoiler alert: plenty of awesome stuff). You can expect some episodes about: ✨ Writing a novel in 3 languages ✨ A chat about Identity when being an exophonic writer ✨A chat about Translation VS. Exophonic Writing ✨More cool literary stuff, such as Constricted Writing ...aaaaand, what I&...

Send a text If you only think poetry is rhyming short texts about love or heartbreak... well, you may be missing out! Listen to today's episode to find out some cool sides of poetry. ✨ SHOW NOTES 📜What is poetry? https://poets.org/glossary/poetry#:~:text=The%20following%20definition%20of%20the,language%3B%20an%20experience%20through%20words. 📜Infrathin: an experiment in micropoetics -Marjo...

Send a text Here are some titles and resources explored in this episode, enjoy! ✨ What is Science Fiction Writing? https://www.masterclass.com/articles/what-is-science-fiction-writing-definition-and-characteristics-of-science-fiction-literature 8 Sci-fi sub-genres: Fantasy fiction. Supernatural fiction. Utopian fiction. Dystopian fiction. Space opera. Space western. Cyberpunk. Steampunk. My favou...

Send a text Welcome and I hope you enjoy the topic of today: fiction that is playful and magical and interactive and fun. 🌈✨ As I mention in the episode, this is not a category that already exists in libraries and bookstores, but a rather personal mix of my own. These are the books and authors mentioned: 🪄Alice in Wonderland - By Lewis Carroll 🪄The Jabberwocky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...

Send a text This is a tiny one, just to chat a bit about our favourite November writing challenge: Nanowrimo! Nano website: https://nanowrimo.org/dashboard Redy, Set, Novel! - writer's workbook https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12590721-ready-set-novel?ac=1&from_search=true Author Sarah Crossan, from whom I discovered the amazing free verse novel writing technique  😍 https://www.goodre...

Send a text Happy Halloween and welcome to spooky episode 8! 👻🎃🧟 These are some of the things mentioned on the episode: 💀Zombie Teenagers on a Train https://www.instagram.com/p/CkXI3YRPOz9/?img_index=1 💀Edgar Allan Poe's lesser know story 'Berenice' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berenice_(short_story) 💀Julio Cortazar's story 'CASA TOMADA' (has Fall of The House...

Send a text What´s Bizarro Fiction?  Bizarro is like:  Franz Kafka meets John Waters Dr. Seuss of the post-apocalypse Takashi Miike meets William S. Burroughs Alice in Wonderland for adults Japanese animation directed by David Lynch Read more at:  https://www.bizarrocentral.com/about/ 👽 Favourites Authors/ Stories: Candy-coated - by Carlton Mellick III https://carltonmellick.com/2009/07/02/candy-...

Send a text Hello! 👋 It's been a minute... This minisode is about 2 things mainly: -The podcast passing from being weekly to biweekly (sort of,  consider subscribing if you don't want to miss any episode). -Introducing a BONUS series on genre. These especial episodes are going to be: Ep #7 BIZARRO FICTION Ep #8 SCI-FI Ep#9 MAGICAL/PLAYFUL FICTION  Ep#10 HORROR/GOTHIC Ep# 11 POETRY They...

Send a text SHOW NOTES  In this episode I share a bit of how my seeking publication looks like and also I share (as always) some pretty cool resources related to this. Future Me (write a letter to your future self!) https://www.futureme.org/ Hannah Lee Kidder (check her self-publishing course on SkillShare) https://www.youtube.com/@HannahLeeKidder My first ever publication 💕 Sleeping Beauty of Me...

Send a text Welcome to episode 5, where I'll talk about my (messy) writing routine, plus the software (or lack thereof) that I use, my favourite places to write, and much more. This episode is packed with inspiration triggers and curated resources that you can find listed down below (they obviously make much more sense if you listen to the episode). SHOW NOTES: ✨ Writers' Routine. https...

Send a text To write exophonically, first you need to read lots in the language you're seeking to write in. In this episode I talk about: -How I wasn't a reader growing up and became one only recently. -Changing schools mid-first grade and having to quickly adapt to cursive (when all I new was printed letters). -The first book I ever read on my own and liked: Dailan Kifki by María Elena...