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Stories and reflections on life, work, study and creativity by Australian Writers, Storytellers and yarn-spinners
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Margaret O'Neill is currently conducting research into the area of strong sexual drive in women and is seeking potential participants in the study. In this interview we discuss how Margaret came to be interested in this area, the emerging research and the myths surrounding the idea of strong female sexual desire and more broadly, the process of undertaking a PhD in retirement. For those interested in participating in the study, or getting in touch to discuss, Margaret's email is: mloneil0@our.ecu.edu.au
In this episode I also mention that this podcast is listed in the top 25 Baby boomer Podcasts. You might be interested in checking it out. Here is the link: Best 25 Baby Boomer Podcasts
Vivien Stuart's novel was shortlisted for the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards and has received praise by award-winning authors and writers including Author Susan Midalia, Poet, editor and literary essayist, Dennis Haskell and Emeritus Professor Brenda Walker. Susan Midalia writes that it is "a searingly honest, deeply humane and beautifully written novel about the daily challenges and meaning of palliative care." Dennis Haskell writes: "The clarity of the writing and Stuart's empathy shine through in a dramatic story that might startle our present, sometimes locked down lives."
To read more and to purchase the book go to Vivien Stuart's website.
Vivien Stuart's website
In this penultimate episode of a series of interviews with Dr Janni Lloyd, we discuss the role of spiritual practice in promoting healthy longevity. At their best, many religious traditions incorporate aspects of meditation, compassion, forgiveness, and other practices that help promote a healthy body and mind. Again, Janni's story is a jumping off point for our discussion, and at the end of the episode we invite you to send in your questions for the final episode that we hope to publish in a couple of months' time.
This is the second part of the previous interview with Dr Janni Lloyd in which the social implications of people living longer is explored. Listeners are invited to consider the possibility of how life for society might change if a significant proportion of the population were to live in health well past the current average human life span. A thought-provoking episode.
Lancet Article on The Longevity Society
This is the second episode where I discuss the very real possibility of healthy longevity jumping off from the speculative fiction writing of Dr Janni Lloyd who has taken an active interest in the research for the past thirty years. Another episode on this topic will be posted in January 2024.
Here is a link to Australian- based research in the area:
Fortuna
The Map of William is a beautifully realized novel set in Western Australia in 1909. Historical fiction, coming of age story, a treatise on all that is the best in men as they struggle against the darker elements in an uncompromising landscape. I enjoyed chatting with Michael about this, the first of a trilogy that will follow the most likeable protagonist through his life's adventures.
What would you do if you had decades more to live a healthy life than you had expected? How would you use that extra time? A new career? Travel? Dedicate it to making the world a better place?
We are now on the cusp of a world where the mechanisms for a significant extension of healthy lifespan are not only known but are beginning to be implemented by many around the world.
This is the first of a series of interviews with Dr Janni Lloyd, a retired General Practitioner who has studied the research for the past thirty years. For young and old.
My guest today is my dear friend and author of the moving memoir, Unheard Voices, Dawn Mauldon.
Dawn Mauldon is the first-born child of Deaf adults. Her first language was tactile, visual, physical and theatrical, teaching her to be aware of details, accept differences and informing her understanding of how stories are told.
Her poignant and powerful memoir is published by Fremantle Press.
More about Dawn and the book HERE
Gatluak Puoch is a South Sudanese born Australian with quite a story to tell. During the war that resulted in the separation of the South from the North of Sudan, his family was obliged to hand him over to the army at age fourteen. From there he persuaded his commanding officer to allow him to walk to a refugee camp in Ethiopia, and seven long years after this, he was able to migrate to Australia.
This is his story. I hope to share more from him in the coming weeks.
Laurie Steed's latest book, Love Dad, is a moving portrayal of how one new father navigates the ups and downs of early parenthood. It is a heart-warming and uplifting story of resilience, reconnection and self-discovery. In this interview, Laurie talks about the joys of parenthood and its challenges in navigating the path between being a present father and a committed writer.
Find out more about Laurie, the book, and his writing career here.
Love Dad is published by Fremantle Press. To go to Laurie's author page, follow this link; https://fremantlepress.com.au/?s=Laurie+Steed
Follow this link to check out Writing WA https://www.writingwa.org/
In 1845 twenty-eight mismatched Catholic missionaries arrive in what is later to become Western Australia. Some go on to establish a monastery at New Norcia, which continues to this day. This interview with author and Perth GP, Dr Peter Burke, explores his new novel; his third work of historical fiction. To discover more go to his website Peter Burke Writer or to The Fremantle Press site where you will find his book The Silk Merchant's Son
Novelist Joanna Morrison discusses her new book and writing process in this latest episode of The Australian Baby Boomer Podcast.
Joanna Morrison is a talented writer with a big future in crime and mystery writing. In this, her debut novel, three university friends, Robyn, Cohen and Sam are divided by the tragic death of their friend, Gracie Flynn. Eighteen years later, chance reunites them. But death rocks their lives again when Sam's body is found in mysterious circumstances.
And the ghost of Gracie Flynn has a story to tell about the night that changed their lives forever.
You can purchase the book here
Possibly best known as WAMi Rock'n'Roll of renown recipient (Dave Warner's from the Suburbs) Dave Warner has had an equally impressive career as a novelist. He has now published 11 novels and has previously won the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction (for Before it Breaks), and the Western Australian Premier's Book Award for his Debut novel City of Light. As if this is not enough, he has had a successful career as a musician and has written around 600 songs. He is also a writer for screen and television, and theatre.
His new novel After the Flood has been described by the Sunday Times as "sophisticated crime fiction with a WA flavour", by the Herald Sun as "gripping", and Books and Publishing has described it in the following terms: "Warner's tone is laid-back and laconic, but with sentences as snappy as a nutcracker."
This link will take you to his website: https://davewarner.com.au/
And this link will take you to his Author Page at Fremantle Press: Fremantle Press
He will be giving talks at various places around Perth this week and will be appearing at the Big Sky Festival in Geraldton on Saturday, October 1. The link is HERE
A couple of weeks ago, Read Write Now contacted me to ask if I could interview Ray Bekeris, a remarkable man who has worked hard on recovering his functional abilities after experiencing a significant stroke. Read Write Now is celebrating its 45th anniversary of delivering free tutoring to adults who want to improve their literacy. Ray chose to contact them as part of his quest to be able to read and write again, and not only to read and write, but, as it turned out, to write books. He began with writing down what had happened to him on the way home from work that fateful day.
The interview begins with Ray and his tutor, Marny, talking about Ray's involvement with Read Write Now. It then branches out as Ray reflects on the journey from a point of not being able to walk or talk, to where he is today, someone who can walk, talk, drive a car, and write a compelling story.
His book can be obtained through his website: raybekeris.com or this link: Ray's Website
To find out more about Read Write Now follow this link: Read Write Now
I was recently invited to appear on an episode of Strange Reads - a YouTube channel hosted by a friend, David Wildsmith. The channel offers summaries and commentary on unusual stories by some of the most canonical writers, and is well worth a visit. David does an excellent job of introducing (or re-introducing) these works and providing some background to the writer and context in which the story arises. My choice was The Machine Stops by the great E.M. Forster. He wrote this science fiction short story in 1909 and it beats Nostradamus hands down in its predictions. The link to the episode is HERE
The link to the YouTube Channel is HERE
My guest for this episode is Portland Jones. Portland is a writer, lecturer and horse trainer who lives and works in the Swan Valley. She has a PhD in Literature and her first novel, Seeing the Elephant, was shortlisted for the City of Fremantle Hungerford Award. Only Birds Above is her second novel. She has also co-authored a non-fiction book, Horses Hate Surprise Parties. Portland is currently working on a third novel and another non-fiction book.
Only Birds Above is a beautifully realised work of historical fiction which spans the years just prior to WWI to the end of WWII.
Dr Sharron Booth discusses her debut novel, The Silence of Water. Based on the the true story of Edwin Salt, a convict sent out to Australia in the mid 1800s, this novel explores the lives of those who surrounded him and were impacted by him. In this interview, Sharron talks about the comprehensive research process, and what compelled her to take the direction that she did.
The Silence of Water is published by Fremantle Press and due for release in May, 2022.
About Sharron Booth
The link to the book
Michael Levitt is a surgeon and health bureaucrat, the author of numerous scientific articles and medical textbook chapters, as well as three medical books for the general public. In 2003 he was awarded the Centenary Medal for services to public education about colorectal cancer. He also has a considerable understanding and knowledge about art and art collection. He is an art collector himself, and an exhibition of selected works from his and his wife's art collection was held at Ellenbrook Gallery in 2021. In The Gallerist, his fascinating debut novel, Michael Levitt has drawn on his passion for, and deep understanding of, art and art collection.
Where to buy the novel
Dr Michael Levitt Author Page
Today's episode features an interview with Dr Rosemary Stevens.
Rosemary has a doctorate in creative arts from Curtin University, where she teaches creative and professional writing. She enjoys running memoir, fiction and travel writing workshops in the community, and previously worked as a travel writer in S.E. Asia, and in London for an international publisher and literary agency. Her fiction and non-fiction works have been published throughout Australasia.
This episode begins with a prose poem of Rosemary's, and she goes on to speak of her early experiences working for a major publishing house in London.
Rosemary Stevens Centre for Stories
Life Writing
This discussion with Poet and Novelist, PJ Johnson, explores ideas of life and death, and the mysterious place between the two, as imagined in her novel, Isla Rising.
In Nineteenth Century Edinburgh (Scotland) the festival of Samhain was celebrated as a liminal time between the death of summer and the birth of winter, when the threshold of the other world was felt to be nearest to this world - at a time outside of ordinary time.
PJ Johnson's novel is set in Edinburgh, 1833, Samhain, when the spirits were thought to walk amongst the living. Around this period in history, too, the most desperate of the poor might be driven to overcome their fear of the spirit world and turn to grave-robbing. Their customers were medical men eager to study the human body in the hope of finding cures for its ills. The episode ends with the author reading an excerpt from her novel in a chapter that deals with just this subject.
Isla Rising can be purchased from the following sites:
Lane Bookshop Claremont
Planet Books Information
Isla Rising Website
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