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- 🇳🇿NZ · Fiction#171500 to 3K
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250 to 1.5K🎙 Weekly cadence·8 episodes·Last published 5d ago - Monthly Reach
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500 to 3K🇳🇿100% - Active Followers
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Australian Shorts Episode 10 Melanie Cheng
May 31, 2026
1h 02m 13s
Australian Shorts Episode 09 Alex Cothren
Apr 30, 2026
1h 00m 24s
Australian Shorts Episode 08 Cate Kennedy
Apr 1, 2026
1h 16m 47s
Australian Shorts Episode 07 Jane Rawson
Feb 28, 2026
54m 22s
Australian Shorts Episode 06 Kate Ryan
Jan 31, 2026
1h 00m 32s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | |
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| 5/31/26 |  Australian Shorts Episode 10 Melanie Cheng | 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 ... | 1h 02m 13s | |
| 4/30/26 |  Australian Shorts Episode 09 Alex Cothren | Episode 9 of Australian Shorts features Alex Cothren. Alex is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Flinders University. He is a winner of the Carmel Bird, William van Dyke, Griffith Review Emerging Voices and Peter Carey Awards for short fiction. His satirical story collection, Playing Nice Was Getting Me Nowhere, was published in 2025 by Pink Shorts Press. Alex lives and works on the traditional lands of the Kaurna people. In this episode, Alex reads The Juansons from his collection and explain... | 1h 00m 24s | |
| 4/1/26 |  Australian Shorts Episode 08 Cate Kennedy | Episode 8 of Australian Shorts features Cate Kennedy. Cate writes across genres and is widely published but perhaps best known as a short story author. Her two collections, Dark Roots and Like a House on Fire have been used as teaching texts on the Victorian Secondary School syllabus for several years and she works as a fiction advisor at Pacific University’s Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing program in Oregon. In this episode, Cate reads Little Plastic Shipwreck from her collection, Like... | 1h 16m 47s | |
| 2/28/26 |  Australian Shorts Episode 07 Jane Rawson | Episode 7 of Australian Shorts features Jane Rawson. Jane is the author of six books, most recently the essay collection Human/Nature: On life in a wild world (New South 2025) and the speculative historical fiction novel A History of Dreams (Brio 2022) which was longlisted for the Tasmanian Literary Awards. Her essays and short stories have been published widely. Jane is the Editorial Manager of Island magazine and lives in the Huon Valley in Lutruwita, Tasmania. In Episode 7 Jane reads... | 54m 22s | |
| 1/31/26 |  Australian Shorts Episode 06 Kate Ryan | Episode 6 of Australian Shorts features Kate Ryan. Kate is an award-winning writer of fiction and non-fiction, manuscript assessor, writing mentor and writing teacher. Her work has appeared in various literary journals and anthologies and her debut novel The Golden Book was published in 2021. Her latest novel HOUSE explores the intersection between families, architecture and emotion. In this episode Kate reads her story The Mighty have Fallen published in the Summer 2022 issue of Meanji... | 1h 00m 32s | |
| 11/30/25 |  Australian Shorts Ep 05 Anne Casey-Hardy | Episode 05 of Australian Shorts features Anne Casey-Hardy. Anne began writing after a long career as a librarian and advocate for families of premature babies. In 2018, she won the Peter Carey Short Story Award for her story, Being the Mother. Since then, her short stories and poetry have been published in Meanjin, Island, Overland, Westerly, Kill Your Darlings and several anthologies. Anne’s short story collection Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls was published by Scribner/Simon & Sch... | 51m 41s | |
| 10/31/25 |  Australian Shorts Ep 04 Laura Elvery | Episode 4 of Australian Shorts features Laura Elvery. Laura is the author of two short story collections: Trick of the Light and Ordinary Matter. She is a past winner of the Josephine Ulrick Prize for Literature, the Margaret River Short Story Competition, the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize and the Fair Australia Prize for Fiction. Ordinary Matter won the 2021 USQ Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection. The judges described it as ‘elegant, inventive, and often deeply touching’. The c... | 1h 03m 39s | |
| 9/30/25 |  Australian Shorts Episode 03 Laurie Steed | 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... | 1h 00m 08s | |
| 8/31/25 |  Australian Shorts Episode 02 Mirandi Riwoe | Episode 2 of Australian Shorts features Mirandi Riwoe. Mirandi’s short stories have appeared in Best Australian Stories, Meanjin, Review of Australian Fiction, Griffith Review and Best Summer Stories. Her collection of short stories and novellas, titled The Burnished Sun won the 2022 UQP Quentin Bryce Award. On selecting The Burnished Sun, Dame Quentin Bryce says: What a remarkable and skilful writer Mirandi Riwoe is … the sheer breadth of talent showcased across this collection of fiction is... | 1h 01m 43s | |
| 7/31/25 |  Australian Shorts Episode 01 Amanda O'Callaghan | Welcome to Episode 1 of Australian Shorts. This podcast series begins with Amanda O’Callaghan. Amanda has written and published many short stories and her fiction has been awarded and shortlisted in numerous contests in Australia, Ireland, and the UK. Her story collection, This Taste for Silence (UQP), was shortlisted for the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction and longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize (UK). It was described as “a stunning achievement” by Readings’ Ellen Cregan, with stori... | 58m 53s |
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1 placement across 1 market.
Chart Positions
1 placement across 1 market.