The Whole Truth: Motherhood and the Writing Life

School holidays and the festival of chocolate means that this week is a BEST OF episode, but I am so happy to share this chat I had with Kate Kruimink, multi award winning author of Heartsease (Pan McMillan 2024) and A Treacherous Country (Allen and Unwin) last year - in light of the fabulous news that Kate took out the biggest prize at the Tasmanian Literary Awards - The Premiers Award For Fictio...

Todays episode is with author Lisa Tirreno , whose debut novel Prince of Fortune was released earlier this year by Simon and Schuster. In this novel we discuss the inspiration for the homo-normative and trans normative world creation in her novel and also consider how she manages to get it all done alongside juggling motherhood and chicken wrangling! WHO IS YOUR HOST?? Nadia Mahjouri is the author...

Todays episode is with Edita Mujkić author of award winning memoir Between Before and After, published by Hawkeye Books Editas share the story that inspired her memoir - namely her journey to escape besieged Sarajevo with her children in 1992 - a journey that eventually led to her settling in Australia with her family. Edita is a National Ambassador for the Refugee Council of Australia. You can fi...

Todays interview guest is the luminous Alice Robinson, author of If You Go , as well as two previous novels - Anchor Point, longlisted for the Stella Prize and the Indie Book Awards and The Glad Shout, shortlisted for an Aurealis Award and The Colin Roderick Literary Award and winner of the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. Alice and I chat about separation, grief and how time changes our...

Today's episode is with the wonderful Lauren Keegan , author of All The Bees In The Hollows, Lauren has two kids and works as a perinatal psychologist, and is finishing her second novel! Don't miss this gorgeous chat with the lovely Lauren all about choosing to write even when it means others may miss out!______ And for Melbourne Friends - Good news! I will be in Melbourne for three events...

Melbourne Friends! I am finally launching Half Truth in Melbourne at the end of March and early April. Please see my bio on instagram or tickets are links are available from the ⁠⁠⁠Penguin Events⁠⁠⁠ page. Today's episode is with the lovely Leesa Ronald - author of Special Delivery - published by Allen and Unwin. You can find out more about Leesa on her website www.leesaronald.com.au or follow...

Today is a special episode where I turn the tables and become the guest!! Thanks to the wonderful Arianne James from Tas Writers for allowing me to share this interview she did with me last week on Edge Radio The Book Shelf program with you all. And watch out for her debut novel Second Skin out with HQ next year! And for Melbourne Friends - Good news! I will be in Melbourne for two events in the c...

Todays episode is with poet and spoken word artist Lily Redwood. Lily writes about the everyday extraordinary from the political to the poetical. Lily combines spoken word with tender verse, which comes alive through her live performance. Most of her poems are written on the notes app hiding in the toilet from her 2 children, or scribbled on the back of an old envelope, whilst burning the dinner. ...

My Debut Novel ⁠Half Truth⁠ is OUT NOW! Thank you to everyone who has come out to support me in Hobart, Sydney, Brisbane and Launceston - my heart is so full and I am feeling overwhelmed by all the lovely words and messages. I am so lucky!! Melbourne dates are not yet set but when they are tickets will be available from the ⁠⁠⁠Penguin Events⁠⁠⁠ page. Today's episode is with author and psychotherap...

Eeek! My Debut Novel Half Truth is OUT NOW! Please join me at my launch as my personal literary midwives to birth my book baby into the world!!! Ticket links are available from the ⁠⁠Penguin Events⁠⁠ page. Today's episode is with the lovely Camille Booker! Camille is an award-winning author and creative writing teacher at the University of Wollongong. She is the author of What If You Fly? and the...

Today's episode is with the wonderful author Kylie Orr - who is also the mother of FOUR children - NONE of whom slept as babies! Needless to say, this woman is a wonder of nature! You can find Kylies books The Eleventh Floor and Someone Else's Child here: Kylie Orr Also - my debut novel Half Truth is released on Feb 11!! So soon!! Please join me at the launch events in Hobart, Feb 6, Brisb...

Woohoo! We are back for Season 2! Thank you so much for still being here and listening in - I am so ridiculously grateful to you! And in even more incredible news (to me at least!) my very own debut novel Half Truth will be out super soon - on Feb 11! Eeeeek!!! Yay! My exciting pre-launch day launch will be in my hometown of Hobart at the best bookshop in Australia - Fullers~ on Feb 6 - then in Br...

*** Pre-order Nadia Mahjouri's debut novel Half Truth NOW!!!⁠ *** In this episode of The Whole Truth: Motherhood and the Writing Life, Nadia Mahjouri chats with Casey Nott, a contemporary fiction author and mother of three. Her debut novel, Forgotten, is out now and tells the story of Ava, a forty year old woman who wakes up after an accident with amnesia - she has forgotten the last 10 years, in...

In this episode of The Whole Truth: Motherhood and the Writing Life, Nadia Mahjouri chats with the lovely and talented Anne Freeman, mother of two, publicist, copywriter and author of two novels ME THAT YO⁠ ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠U SEE⁠ ,  and ⁠RETURNING TO ADELAIDE⁠, both contemporary fiction books about women who are stuck in life and the extraordinary ways they shake themselves loose. In this conversation we dis...

In this episode of The Whole Truth: Motherhood and the Writing Life, Nadia Mahjouri chats with Dr Lucy Christopher, author of Release, Stolen and many other works, including Adult, YA, Middle Grade and Children's literature, both fiction and non fiction. She is a Senior lecturer in Creative Writing at University of Tasmania and is currently on maternity leave with her first baby, now six months ol...

In the first ever two part episode, Maxine returns after a week's girls trip to Bali, where she (finally!) had some time to think. And she decided she had more to say. About the hard stuff, like parenting neurodiverse kids and struggling with infertility. And how writing helped. Dont miss this chat where the masks come off and the chat gets real. Buy⁠ ⁠ Everything is Perfect Here⁠ You can follow M...

In this episode of The Whole Truth: Motherhood and the Writing Life, Nadia Mahjouri chats with Maxine Fawcett about her book Everything is Perfect, and how the character of Cassie Prince is all of us trying to keep our head above water whilst simultaneously looking insta-worthy and actually getting stuff done. In this conversation, we discuss how Maxine's morning pages turned into a novel and how...

In this episode of The Whole Truth: Motherhood and the Writing Life, Nadia Mahjouri chats with Kate Kruimink, mother of two, fiction editor of Island Magazine and author of two award winning novels, and a newly released novella. In this conversation, we discuss how Kate wrote her first novel with her newborn baby on her boob, and how it ended up being a Vogel Award Winner! We also discuss Heartsea...

In this episode of The Whole Truth: Motherhood and the Writing Life, Nadia Mahjouri chats with Liz Evans - author, psychotherapist, academic, ex-rock journalist (and friend of 90s icons Eddie Vedder and Kurt Cobain among others) and mother of 3, including twins.  We discuss Liz’ feminist psychological thriller Catherine Wheel and the ways her characters navigate through rage, maternal ambivalence,...

In this episode of The Whole Truth: Motherhood and the Writing Life, Nadia Mahjouri chats with Katherine Collette, author, cartoonist, ex-sewage engineer, mother of two, ex-podcast host of The First Time Podcast and The Next Step, and writing coach for debut authors. Katherine and Nadia discuss her newly released first book in a series of Middle Grade Fiction books called The Too Tall Tales of Alm...

In this episode of The Whole Truth: Motherhood and the Writing Life, Nadia Mahjouri chats with Ariane Beeston, psychologist, mother, former child protection worker and author of Because I’m Not Myself You See - a memoir of her experience and recovery from postpartum psychosis.  
 In this chat we discuss how sleep deprivation and vicarious trauma from her time as a child protection worker led her t...

In Episode 1, Nadia Mahjouri chats with Jane Tara, debut novelist, author of over 100 children’s and nonfiction books, ex-general manager of Better Reading Australia and mother/stepmother of 4 adult boys. In this chat we discuss the moment Jane found herself standing in her kitchen, seemingly invisible to her own family, and how this led her to create the incredible character of Tilda -who, in mid...

In this episode of The Whole Truth: Motherhood and the Writing Life, introduces herself and invites you to follow and subscribe so that you don't miss the start of Season One, where Nadia interviews Australian writers who are managing to create beautiful work in the midst of the madness and mental load of family life. Follow to make sure you don't miss anything!