This is a picture book for young readers about how it is okay to be different. Scot is the author and illustrator and he wrote it for his own little boy.
Recorded at Storyfest 2022
Does your tween need some new reading material? Try these three writers. You can hear them reading from their books and the interviews are great too!
Two children are trapped in a mysterious house where the occupants remain in their rooms. Can they find their way out?
A girl’s best friend is her – pig! Particularly when there are mysterious ,magical things happening. And dangerous thin ice!
Milo finds $105 exactly on the footpath. Who does it belong to? Should he try to find the owner or keep it!
Recorded at Storyfest 2022
This is a beautiful book for any age about the origins of the Oxford English Dictionary. A young girl is raised in the Scriptorium, where all words are collected, defined, and written into the Great Dictionary. Some characters in the book are fictional and some are based on real people who undertook this enormous task. In the process of collection and definition, some words particular to women are lost.
Recorded at Storyfest 2022
As a young man Lech Blaine became every parent’s nightmare – he was the driver in a car that accidentally killed his friends.
In small community, there is nowhere to escape confronting the reality of this sort of tragedy. Lech Blaine reads from his memoir after the fatal crash scene has happened which claimed the lives of his friends.
Recorded at Stoyrfest 2022
A young woman’s world is turned upside down in the Second world War. She finds that even small acts can bring heart in an overwhelming situation.
Michelle reveals the depth of research she undertook to write effectively about a period that is is almost ‘ancient history’ to to today’s teenagers.
Recorded at Storyfest 2022
Joel has been performing his work for years and is passionate about introducing pole to the power and beauty of poetry and spoken word.
Here he delivers one of his crowd favourites ‘ Hollowed out Lungs’
Recorded at Storyfest 2022
Julie Bennett has first hand experience of the opera world . Her father was an opera singer, and as a child she also got to play in crowd scenes on the stage. For those at the very top it is a glamourous life, but the understudies are always hopeful in the wings. Although a work of total fiction, the descriptions of the impact of the Sydney Opera House are based on fact and well researched.
Broadcast on Arts Canvass Bay FM 99.9 March 3
Sally Warriner was chief cook, bottlewasher, nurse, mother, jillaroo, community leader, office administrator – the list goes on and on!
In short anything the general Manager (her husband) didn’t do – she did!
In addition to entertaining a host of important guests, she was organizing outings for politicians and hosting special dinners – everything that came along with the role of being the ‘wife of the General Manager’ on one of the biggest cattle stations in Australia. One day she just got tired of being taken for granted.
Recorded live at Studio 3 Bangalow April 2022
If you love the Gruen Report you’ll love this wonderful collection of short stories, pithy observations and poignant stories all centered around life in fictional advertising agencies. From the horror of office cubicles to the power of sheer imagination, Ennis covers it all.
Broadcast on Arts Canvass Bay FM 99.9 March 3
What happens when two activists set out to derail a train carrying coal then have second thoughts about the morality of the action?
Iain Finlay is a seasoned war correspondent and journalist who has spent his life reporting on injustices around the world. This book is totally a work of fiction, though the locations mentioned ni it are real and there are even maps in the book!
Recorded at Studio 3, Bangalow 2021.