Writing For Work

Published: Sept. 3, 2020, 10 p.m.

Tom takes a step back for a conversation that veers into a discussion about representation and diversity in the writing, editing, and publishing industry - featuring a powerhouse of guests, including Kirli Saunders, Alice Grundy, Jessie Tu, and Emily Stewart. ||\n\nVisit the Creative Dialogues page on the Wollongong City Council website for a list of books mentioned in this podcast, and recommended by the guests.\n|| \nBook recommendations from panellists: \nJessie Tu recommends: \nRevenge - S.L Lim, The Astonishing Colour of After - Emily X.R Pan, \nCleanness - Garth Greenwell, Kim Ji-Young, Born 1982 - Cho Nam-Joo, Hot Little Hands Abigail Ulman || \nAlice Grundy recommends: \nThe Swan Book - Alexis Wright, Living on Stolen Land - Ambelin Kwaymullina, Blakwork - Alison Whittaker, Dhuuluu-Yala: To Talk Straight - Anita Heiss, Tracking Our Country in Settler Literature - Jeanine Leane || \nKirli Saunders recommends: \nThe White Girl - Tony Birch, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World - Tyson Yunkaporta,The Yield - Tara June Winch,Throat - Ellen van Neerven, Fire Front: First Nations Poetry and Power Today (UQP) - Edited by Alison Whittaker, Guwayu, for All Times: A Collection of First Nations Poems - Edited by Jeanine Leane,\n Aunty Kerry Reed, Ali Cobby Eckermann and Bruce Pascoe's works || \nEmily Stewart recommends: \nMinor Detail - Adania Shibli (trans. Elisabeth Jaquette), The Cherry Picker's Daughter Aunty Kerry Reed-Gilbert, \nWayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome\nWomen and Queer Radicals - Saidiya Hartman