Words and Nerds: Authors, books and literature.

S3E6 Queer Writes Session: R.W.R. McDonald with Avi Duckor-Jones New Podcast Episode Alert!  In this episode Rob chats with Avi Duckor-Jones about his debut novel, Max, published by Affirm Press in May 2024. Join us as we chat with Avi about the experience between writing Max, a novel, and Swim, his award-winning novella. We dive deep into the concept of author identity and how it intertwines with...

Nikki Mottram and Dani Vee chat about her crime novel Killarney.

LIVESTREAM Dark Deeds Down Under 2 - Various authors

Date With A Debut - LIVE at #NWF2024! For the next episode of our news series of Date With A Debut, Nick Wasiliev hosts a special panel at the 2024 Newcastle Writers Festival, featuring debut authors Rosemary Lewis, John Morrissey and Megan Rogers.

TAKEOVER - Tim Harris and Adrian Beck on This is My Book

Date With A Debut is a podcast hosted by writer Nick Wasiliev: shines a light on debut authors, their incredible books and their journeys to publication. For the third episode of series two, Nick sits down with Trish Bolton, author of Whenever You’re Read. They discuss the book, writing compassionately and translating grief to the page, looking back on your life in your old age, and more. TRIGGER...

TAKEOVER: Writers On The Road with Adrian Beck and Adam Wallace

Date With A Debut - Phillippa Kaye and Nick Wasiliev on Girl Detectives Just Wanna Have Fun

Gabriel Evans and Adrian Beck - Listen Hippo

Creative Conversations James Layton and Dani Vee chat about creativity, publishing and the industry of publishing books.

Creative Conversations with Joel McKerrow and Dani Vee

Ky Garvey chats to Megan Daley and Jenny Stubbs on the important role Teacher Librarians have in our schools and how they inspire students to embrace the joy of reading.

Ashleigh Barton and Dani Vee chat about her new picture book Dinosaur In My Pocket. They talk about ideas, guilt, teachable moments and how we can all come back from mistakes. Ashleigh chats about the writing process an her experiences working in publishing.

TAKEOVER: Alex Dook and Vikki Wakefield - To The River

Adam Wallace has sold millions of books around the world, he writes everyday and last year received 100 rejections. We talk about a shared love of Bruce Lee, trying to be zen, authenticity and give some advice that you should definitely not take.

S3E5 Queer Writes Session: R.W.R. McDonald with Troy Hunter In this episode Rob chats with Troy Hunter about his debut YA novel, Gus and the Missing Boy, published by Wakefield Press in March 2024. They chat about Troy’s serendipitous pathway to publication, crime fiction, author identity, and Troy offers great writing advice. Troy Hunter’s shout out books this episode are: A Man and His Pride by...

Samantha-Ellen Bound returns with the third and penultimate book in her bestselling middle-grade series Seven Wherewithal Way, inspired by the spell-binding creatures and stories of world folklore.

Date With A Debut is a podcast hosted by writer Nick Wasiliev: shining a light on debut authors, their incredible books and their journeys to publication. For the second episode of series two, Nick sits down with Abra Pressler, author of Love and Other Scores. They discuss the book, the value of championing homegrown queer romance, what Abra would do if Rafael Nadal would appear in front of her, a...

Grace is a thief: a good one. She was taught by experts and she’s been practising since she was a kid. She specialises in small, high-value items—stamps, watches—and she knows her Jaeger-LeCoultres from her Patek Philippes. But it’s a solitary life, always watchful, always moving. It’s not the life she wants. Lying low after a run-in with an old associate, Grace walks into Erin Mandel’s rural anti...

• S3E4. Queer Writes Session: Jonathan Butler with Fiona Kelly McGregor In this episode Jono chats with Fiona Kelly McGregor, a multidisciplinary writer, artist and critic who has published eight books. When in Sydney, Fiona lives and works on Gadigal land. Her most recent book was Iris, Picador Pan Macmillan, (2022), shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, the ALS Gold Medal, the NSW Premier’s...

Maura Peirlot and Dani Vee - The Alphabetter Book

To celebrate the release of Liz Ledden's new picture book Everyone Wants an Octopus Book! illustrated by Makoto Koji, Liz is joined by two fellow authors published by Hardie Grant's Bright Light imprint, Dr Zewlan Moor and Sandhya Parappukkaran. They chat diversity and representation in kids' books, how they present tricky topics in kid-centric ways in their picture books, stories they want more o...

Creative Conversations is new chat designed to talk about the publishing industry, writing process, collaboration, comedic qualities and writing for kids. Join Kate Temple and Dani Vee for the first Creative Conversations.

Join Dani Vee on her journey from zero draft, right through to production and a publisher junior fiction title.

Belinda Murrell and Dani Vee chat about Belinda's new series Daredevil Princess, nineteen years of publishing with Penguin Random House, what makes a successful series and feminism.