Show Notes
Episode 3 of Australian Shorts features Laurie Steed. Laurie’s short fiction has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and published in Best Australian Stories, Award Winning Australian Writing, The Age, Meanjin, Overland, Westerly, Island and elsewhere. Laurie edited the short story anthology Shibboleth and Other Stories, published in 2016. His debut novel You Belong Here was published in 2018 and shortlisted for the Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards. His memoir, Love, Dad, was publishe...
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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 f...
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 published tw...
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short story collection If You’re Happy was shortlisted for the Richell Prize in 2018 and won the Glendower Award for an unpublished manuscript in the 2020 Queensland Literary Awards.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 h...
Episode 11 of Australian Shorts features Laura Jean McKay. Laura was the 2025 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Fellow to Cork, Ireland and is the author of two short story collections, Holiday in Cambodia and Gunflower. Her novel The Animals in That Country won the prestigious Arthur C Clarke Award, The Victorian Prize for Literature, the ABIA Small Publishers Adult Book of the Year and co-winner of the Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel 2021. The French translation, Les an...
Episode 10 of Australian Shorts features Melanie Cheng. Melanie is a writer and general practitioner based in Naarm, Melbourne. Her debut short story collection, Australia Day, won the 2018 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction and her novel, Room for a Stranger, was longlisted for the 2020 Miles Franklin Award. Her latest novel, The Burrow, has been translated and published internationally in North America, Hungary, Spain and Turkey. It was shortlisted for several Australian awards ...