Edits & Annotations
By Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing
A podcast from the Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing. Season 2 now releasing!
Latest episode
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Bonus episode: Introducing Exhume
Join Tenille on this special bonus episode as she chats to Bianca Martin and Johanna Wiggers, the founders and editors of Exhume, about curation, editing, and the future of literary criticism in Australia. -
S2 E10 Jane Rawson: On Writing and Thinking About Nature
In our final episode of the season, Mia talks to Jane Rawson, Island magazine editor and author of Human/Nature, about how to find nature everywhere and to write for joy even when everything seems doomed. -
S2 E9 Mykaela Saunders: On Speculative Fiction and Sovereignty
In the penultimate episode of season two, writer, critic, and editor Mykaela Saunders joins Tenille to discuss writing Goori futures, colonisation and sovereignty in speculative fiction, and the necessity of hope. -
S2 E8 Bonny Cassidy: On Monuments, Truth Telling and Glitches in Writing
Bonny Cassidy is the author of three poetry collections and one book of nonfiction, as well as a book critic and internationally recognised scholar of Australian literature. Formerly an academic, she is now an independent creative writing me… -
S2 E7 Isobelle Carmody: On Keeping Track of Worlds
Isobelle Carmody is one of Australia's most well-known and prolific writers. In this episode, she chats to Bethany about how the industry has changed throughout her career, how she keeps track of the worlds she creates, and what it’s… -
S2 E6 Nicole Crowe: On Crime, Structure and Sh*t First Drafts
Crime writer Nicole Crowe joins Tenille to talk about her funny and thrilling debut novel The Washup, along with first book jitters, the mysteries of the publication process, writing place, and her best advice for aspiring writers.… -
S2 E5 Jessica Mansour-Nahra: On the Ongoing Relevance of the Gothic
Join us for episode five! Jessica Mansour-Nahra chats with Bethany about her debut novel The Farm, which remasters 18th century gothic for the 21st century. Jessica shares her writing process and discusses scene setting, international rights… -
S2 E4 Khin Myint: On Writing as a Way to Compassion
In our fourth episode of the season, 2025 winner of the Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award Khin Myint joins Tenille to speak about finding compassion in writing, the complicated intersections of class, race, and gender, and his stunn… -
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S2 E2 Emily Maguire: On Writing, Religion and Rapture
What insight can writing give into religion? How does a character emerge from a draft? And what's the connection between Frida Kahlo and a 9th-century female pope?Award-winning writer and 2025 Roderick Centre Visiting Fell…