voicesofwomen's podcast

Wart (aka Jen Waterhouse) plays with text like it's paint. She has lived as an artist working in the visual and performing arts in Sydney since 1980. She has consistently exhibited and worked as an illustrator, designer, cartoonist, painter and performer.

In a comedic take on ordering a coffee with her blind/vision impaired friend, Australian Paralympic medallist Danae Sweetapple fesses up about living with an 'inconvenient' disability.

'Flesh and fat were luxuries of childhood, in that window before starvation was understood.' On the road out of Auschwitz after liberation, a woman examines the state of her body.

'I lean close to breathe in the scent of her, to smell that private place where only a mother should nuzzle her child.' Sissy has just one hour to connect with her baby daughter.

Alex takes a walk into that shaky space just outside the world, where we think we're alone and we avoid cracks in the sidewalk and odd numbers. Alex Smee worked as West Kimberley ABC Open Producer writing creative content for online, radio and TV platforms for over a decade, and helped establish Broome's first writers' festival. Now living on Moa Island in the Torres Strait she publishes a regular...

By Rowena Wiseman. Read by Meg Clarke. 'Be grateful. You're special, but you're easy to replace.' A 15-year old girl is lured into a rich man's playground. Rowena Wiseman writes contemporary fiction, young adult, micro fiction and poetry, is the author of The Replacement Wife (HarperCollins, 2015), Bequest (Tenebris Books, 2014) and Searching for Von Honningsbergs (longlisted for the 2007 Australi...

'Christopher, Christopher! I told you not to leave the playground.' Alison is a Darwin-based blog and podcast writer who often draws on her educational background working with First Nations, refugees and migrant communities for her writing.

Poetry written and read by Wart. Wart (aka Jen Waterhouse) plays with text like it's paint. She has lived as an artist working in the visual and performing arts in Sydney since 1980. She has consistently exhibited and worked as an illustrator, designer, cartoonist, painter and performer.

By Anna Lea Luna-Raven. Read by Meg Clarke. 'Because you were bad‐mouthing me not in the most discreet of ways but by being oh‐so‐unbelievably‐fake‐plastic‐boobs‐charming while you're at it.' What happens when Chloe's friendship with her girlfriend disintegrates? Anna Leah Luna - Raven's works include: "…oh, i don't know…"published on an online literary journal, Lite Lit One, and "cab thoughts: EM...

'Please look for me … and when you find me … please be my friend.' A young woman is obsessed with the likes and followers on her social media account. Adele is excited to have her work presented for the first time at Voices of Women.