Ben Walter is a Tasmanian author of fiction, essays, poetry and experimental prose, whose writing has recently appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, The Saturday Paper and Griffith Review. His most recent book is the short story collection What Fear Was. We caught up at his home in the Huon Valley to talk about sources of inspiration, and following your nose into your prose.

The stories we discuss in this episode are It’s all happening here, published in Overland in 2016; For the perishable body, published by the Saturday Paper in 2020 (behind a paywall), and The Bridge, published in the Griffith Review also in 2020.

You can find out more about Ben, including where to buy his new book, at his website.