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Australian Shorts is hosted by Karen Hollands. It's a podcast where you can hear Australian writers reading their stories and talking about the short story form.
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Australian Shorts Ep 14 Inga Simpson (opens the original)
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Episode 14 of Australian Shorts features Inga Simpson. Inga is the author of six novels, including The Thinning, Willowman, and Mr Wigg, as well as the nature writing-memoir, Understory: a life with Trees and two picture books for children, The Book of Australian Trees and The Peach King. Her latest, Once We Were Wildlife is a collection of stories exploring the boundaries between the human and more-than-human worlds. Inga has PhDs in creative writing and English literature and lives on the far
Australian Shorts Ep 13 Tony Birch (opens the original)
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Episode 13 of Australian Shorts features Tony Birch. Tony is the author of four novels: Women & Children, which won the 2024 The Age Fiction Book of the Year; The White Girl, winner of the 2020 NSW Premier’s Award for Indigenous Writing, and shortlisted for the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award; Ghost River, winner of the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing; and Blood, which was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2012. He has also publ
Australian Shorts Ep 12 Fiona Robertson (opens the original)
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Episode 12 of Australian Shorts features Fiona Robertson. Fiona’s short story collection If You’re Happy was shortlisted for the Richell Prize in 2018 and won the Glendower Award for an unpublished manuscript in the 2020 Queensland Literary Awards. The collection was published by UQP in 2022 and shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award in the Queensland Literary Awards. Fiona is a writer and doctor and lives in Magandjin (Brisbane), Australia.In this episode, Fiona reads Happy Hour from her collect
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