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38. Afterlife Animals : Live from Addi Road Writers Festival
Aug 27, 2026
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37. What Books Know: Angela O'Keeffe
Aug 13, 2026
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36. What Makes a Writer: Live at the Sydney Writers Festival Paramatta
Jul 30, 2026
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35. Looking Closely: Lisa Gorton and Bella Li
Jul 16, 2026
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34. Celebrating NAIDOC week
Jul 9, 2026
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| 8/27/26 | 38. Afterlife Animals : Live from Addi Road Writers Festival | What remains after loss? How do we carry the people, places and versions of ourselves that are gone? And can art help us make sense of what endures?In this episode of Fully Lit, writer and broadcaster Sarah Runcie is joined by poet Vaughn Upward Garcia, musician Helen Franzmann, and writer and artist Judith Nangala Crispin for a wide-ranging conversation about grief, creativity and survival.Garcia reflects on recovery, reinvention and the journey behind his debut collection Poems from the Afterlife. Franzmann discusses the making of Jay Marie, Comfort Me, an album shaped by the death of her sister and the search for comfort in grief. And Crispin explores death, Country, memory and belonging through her remarkable verse novel Dingo’s Noctuary.Together, they consider what remains after loss, how art helps us navigate absence, and why love and grief are often inseparable. Along the way, they discuss sobriety, family, music, landscape, First Nations knowledge, and the stories we carry from one life into the next.At its heart, this is a conversation about transformation, and the ways creativity can help us make meaning from what endures.This episode was recorded live at the Addi Road Writers’ Festival.VoicesSarah Runcie is a writer, broadcaster and arts journalist whose work spans literature, music, theatre and cultural commentary.Judith Nangala Crispin is an award-winning poet, visual artist and conservationist, and the author of the verse novel Dingo’s Noctuary.Helen Franzmann is a singer-songwriter, musician and member of Mess Esque, whose work blends intimate lyricism with dreamlike, atmospheric soundscapes.Vaughn Upward Garcia is a Queanbeyan-based poet and performer whose debut collection, Poems from the Afterlife, explores class, recovery, mortality and belonging.CreditsThis episode of Fully Lit was recorded at the Addi Road Writers’ Festival on Gadigal land in Sydney.Fully Lit is brought to you by Impact Studios at UTS, the Sydney Review of Books, and the UTS Writing and Publishing Program, and is produced by Regina Botros.Executive Producers: Sarah Gilbert and James Jiang.Recorded and mixed by Daniel WigginsFurther ReadingPoems from the Afterlife by Vaughn Upward GarciaDingo’s Noctuary by Judith Nangala CrispinJay Marie, Comfort Me by Mess EsqueFor more conversations on poetry, storytelling and contemporary Australian literature, explore the Fully Lit back catalogue. | — | ||||||
| 8/13/26 | 37. What Books Know: Angela O'Keeffe | In conversation with Amy Sambrooke, Angela O’Keeffe discusses a book that asks an unusual and beguiling question: what if a book could think, feel and observe the world around it?Partly narrated by a sentient novel, Phantom Days follows a book as it moves between readers, witnessing intimate lives and uncovering secrets that its human characters cannot see. Along the way, the novel explores motherhood, memory, longing, truth and the strange relationship between writers, readers and the stories that connect them.O’Keeffe reflects on the novel’s origins, the challenge of writing from a book’s perspective, and the experience of returning to the manuscript after a cancer diagnosis and treatment. The conversation also touches on Virginia Woolf, Dostoevsky, Mark Rothko, faith, creativity and the mystery of where stories come from.Phantom Days is a novel about what survives after we let things go, and the lives books continue to live long after they leave their authors behind.This episode of Fully Lit was recorded at Gleebooks on Gadigal land in Sydney.VoicesAngela O’Keeffe is the author of Night Blue, The Sitter and Phantom Days, novels that blend art, imagination and storytelling in strikingly original ways.Amy Sambrooke is CEO of Varuna, the National Writers’ House, and a passionate advocate for Australian writers and literatureCreditsFully Lit is brought to you by Impact Studios at UTS, the Sydney Review of Books, and the UTS Writing and Publishing Program, and is produced by Regina Botros.Executive Producers: Sarah Gilbert and James Jiang.Further ReadingPhantom Days by Angela O’KeeffeThe Sitter by Angela O’KeeffeNight Blue by Angela O’KeeffeCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskySelected writings of Virginia WoolfWorks by Mark Rothko referenced throughout the discussion. | — | ||||||
| 7/30/26 | 36. What Makes a Writer: Live at the Sydney Writers Festival Paramatta | In this episode of Fully Lit, we bring you a live recording from the Sydney Writers’ Festival in Parramatta.Hosted by James Jiang, editor of the Sydney Review of Books, the panel brings together Maxine Beneba Clarke, Yumna Kassab and Eda Gunaydin for a wide-ranging conversation on what makes a writer.From early reading habits and first attempts at writing, to questions of craft, the discussion moves across the genres of fiction, memoir and poetry — exploring how writers navigate the realities of sustaining a writing life on and off the page. Fittingly, given its setting, the conversation also centres Western Sydney as both place and influence. Thoughtful, candid and often funny, this is a rich discussion about storytelling and the impulses behind writing itself.VoicesMaxine Beneba Clark is an award-winning writer, poet and artist whose work explores race, identity, family and belonging.Yumna Kassab is a writer whose fiction explores memory, migration, identity and the complexities of human connection.Eda Gunaydin is a writer, critic and researcher whose sharp, insightful work examining class, culture, migration and identity in contemporary Australia.James Jiang is a writer, editor and critic, and the editor of the Sydney Review of BooksCreditsThis episode of Fully Lit was made on Gadigal land in Sydney.Fully Lit podcast is brought to you by Impact Studios at UTS, the Sydney Review of Books, and the UTS Writing and Publishing Program, and is produced by Regina Botros.Executive Producers: Sarah Gilbert and James Jiang.Recorded by the City of Parramatta | — | ||||||
| 7/16/26 | poetryvisual art+3 | Lisa GortonBella Li | Impact StudiosThe Sydney Review of Books+7 | — | poetryvisual art+7 | — | 44m 16s | ||
| 7/9/26 | NAIDOC WeekFirst Nations storytelling+3 | — | — | Gadigal landSydney | NAIDOC WeekFirst Nations+4 | Impact Studios | 2m 20s | ||
| 7/2/26 | Latin American literaturecontemporary writers+4 | Yumna KassabRosario Lázaro Igoa+1 | Fully LitImpact Studios+6 | Addison Road Writers’ FestivalGadigal land | Latin American literaturetranslation+7 | — | 37m 58s | ||
| 6/18/26 | griefmemory+4 | Erin Vincent | Gleebooks14 Ways of Looking | Gadigal landSydney | griefmemory+6 | — | 43m 06s | ||
| 6/4/26 | masculinityvulnerability+4 | George HaddadJet Williams | Losing FaceOff the Rails+2 | — | masculinityvulnerability+5 | — | 44m 56s | ||
| 5/21/26 | monster-fuckingromance literature+4 | Olivia Murphy | Impact StudiosThe Sydney Review of Books+3 | — | monster-fuckingromance+5 | — | 55m 56s | ||
| 5/7/26 | Australian literaturePatrick White+4 | Vrasidas Karalis | University of SydneyVoss+2 | — | Patrick WhiteVrasidas Karalis+8 | — | 53m 13s | ||
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| 4/22/26 | debut novelspsychological thriller+4 | Judi MorisonVerity Borthwick | UTSBundyi+4 | — | UTS Writers’ FestivalHollow Air+6 | — | 42m 10s | ||
| 4/9/26 | writingAustralian literature+4 | Felicity Castagna | Peaches | Western Sydney | Felicity CastagnaWestern Sydney+5 | — | 1h 11m 47s | ||
| 3/26/26 | literatureexile+4 | Mireille JuchauAnna Couani+1 | University of SydneyUniversity of New South Wales+5 | — | Antigone KefalaAustralian literature+5 | — | 1h 04m 57s | ||
| 3/12/26 | multilingualismpoetry+4 | Anne CaseyNadia Niaz | UTS Multicultural Women's NetworkUTS Careers+1 | AustraliaFiji+4 | multilingual homespoetry+5 | — | 29m 20s | ||
| 2/25/26 | fictionwork+4 | Gretchen ShirmAndrew Pippos | Impact StudiosUniversity of Technology Sydney+7 | — | fictionworkplace+5 | — | 54m 11s | ||
| 2/12/26 | Australian artscultural institutions+5 | Karen WyldAntionette Lattouf | Sydney Review of BooksState Library of NSW+2 | — | arts fundingcultural criticism+5 | — | 51m 13s | ||
| 1/29/26 | poetryreading+3 | Willo DrummondHasib Hourani | Sydney Review of BooksUTS Writing and Publishing Program+3 | — | poetrypanel discussion+3 | — | 53m 23s | ||
| 1/15/26 | Alexis Wrightliterary criticism+3 | Geordie WilliamsonIvor Indyk | GiramondoBlack Ink+4 | — | Alexis WrightGeordie Williamson+3 | Gleebooks | 50m 07s | ||
| 12/11/25 | decolonizationliterary theory+3 | Michael GriffithsBen Etherington+2 | The Death of the AuthorThe Death of the Author and Anticolonial Thought | Gadigal landUTS’ Centre for the Advancement of Indigenous Knowledges | Roland BarthesDeath of the Author+4 | — | 1h 15m 36s | ||
| 11/27/25 | poetryfeminism+3 | Anne CaseySarah Holland-Batt | University of Technology Sydney | — | poetQ&A+3 | — | 30m 23s | ||
| 11/13/25 | 18. Fully Lit Live: Yumna Kassab’s Dictionary of Parramatta | In December 2023, the Sydney Review of Books and Western Sydney University's Writing and Society Research Centre were delighted to announce renowned fiction writer, Yumna Kassab, as the inaugural Parramatta Laureate in Literature, a program delivered in partnership with the City of Parramatta. The program, now in its second iteration, recognises the unique and vital work of writers as contributors to narratives of place – through storying, remembering histories, and shaping a creative vision for our shared future.As the inaugural Laureate, Kassab has composed Parramatta: A Dictionary of Place and Memory. She writes in the introduction to her work: 'It was my idea that a dictionary could tell the story of a person (me) in connection with a place (Parramatta) with enough flexibility to take in detours, digressions, musings, and general quirkiness. I knew at the outset that the entries would be placed under titles and it would be fragmentary in spirit.' Extracts from the Parramatta Dictionary are free to read on the Sydney Review of Books website.Author note:Yumna Kassab is a Parramatta-based novelist and short fiction writer, a high school teacher, and a staunch supporter of the Western Sydney Wanderers. The Lovers (2023) was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction, and the Victorian Premier’s Award for Fiction. She has also authored The House of Youssef (2019), Australiana (2022), Politica (2024), and Theory of Everything (2025).GuestsHost: Kate Fagan - Director of the Writing and Society Research Centre Western Sydney UniversityInterviewer: James Jiang - Editor at The Sydney Review of BooksCreditsRecording engineer Sevan Dermelkonian recorded this episode on the 30th October, 2025 at PHIVE, Active Wellness Studios, Parramatta.Fully Lit is a collaboration between Impact Studios, UTS, and the Sydney Review of Books. Its producer is Regina Botros, and its executive producers are Sarah Gilbert and James Jiang. | — | ||||||
| 10/29/25 | 17. Fully Lit Friends: Send for Nellie! by History Lab | In this episode, we’re bringing you a story from our friends at History Lab.Historical novelist Sienna Brown brings to life the story of Nellie Small, a trailblazing performer whose life challenged the boundaries of race, gender, and identity in early 20th-century Australia. You'll hear actor Zahra Newman as Nellie, and an interview with playwright Alana Valentina, for whom Nellie has been a rich source of writerly inspiration. Head to History Lab and subscribe to hear all four episodes of this special series, Caribbean Echoes - and much more. History Lab is an Impact Studios podcast, made in collaboration with the Australian Centre for Public History. VoicesAlana Valentine is a librettist, playwright, and director who is an expert at working with real life subjects and stories, dramatizing them with respect. She has three plays on the NSW HSC Syllabus: Parramatta Girls, Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah, and Cyberbile. Her play, Letters to Lindy, has seen hundreds of amateur and school productions. Valentine is particularly distinguished in her skills as a co-collaborator, notably with Barbara and the Camp Dogs, which won the 2019 Helpmann Award for Best Musical and Best Original Score. She has chronicled her practice in Bowerbird and published the memoir Wed By The Wayside. Professor Cassandra Pybus FAHA specializes historical narratives about people who have been marginalized, forgotten or written out of history. An award-winning author she has published 13 books including Black Founders: The Unknown Story of Australia's First Black Settlers and the bestselling biography, Truganini. She has held research professorships at the University of Sydney, Georgetown University in Washington DC, the University of Texas and King's College London. She is descended from a colonist who received the largest free land grant on Truganini's traditional country of Bruny Island. Vanessa Cassin is Education Manager at Society of Australian Genealogists with extensive experience in providing training and assessment in the trustee industry, both as an in-house trainer for the NSW Trustee & Guardian and as an assessor for Western Sydney University the College’s Registered Training Organisation. Vanessa holds a Diploma in Family Historical Studies from the Society of Australian Genealogists and has been researching her own family history for over 20 years. Zahra Newman was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica, and moved to Australia at age 14. A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, Newman has an extensive list of credits in theatre, television, and film. Her notable works include her performance as Nabalungi in the original Australian cast of The Book of Mormon, and her lead role in the play The Hate Race and in the film Long Story Short. She has received a Green Room Award, a Sydney Theatre Award, and multiple Helpmann Award nominations. Newman played all 23 characters in the Sydney Theatre Company’s recent one-person production of Dracula. Graeme Rhodes’ acting career spans over 30 years and includes numerous theatre, film, television and radio credits. Most recently he has been working as a writer and director for Forum theatre based Industrial safety programs. When he’s not acting he sings with a jazz trio and builds electronic noise making machines. Credits This series was produced on the lands of the Gadigal people of the Eeora Nation and Burramatagal people of the Dharug nation. Narrator, writer, and producer: Sienna Brown Sound recordist, writer, and producer: Ben Etherington Supervising producer: Jane Curtis, UTS Impact StudiosExecutive producer: Sarah Gilbert, UTS Impact StudiosSound designer and engineer: John Jacobs SupportThe research for this series was funded by the Australian Research Council Discovery Project Creole Voices in the Caribbean and Australia: Poetics and Decolonisation (DP220101256). We are also grateful to the Writing and Society Research Centre and School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University for their generous support in the production of this series. More reading about Nellie SmallNellie Small on WikipediaNellie Small: the trailblazing, cross-dressing cabaret star who Australia forgot The Guardian AustraliaFrom the Archives: The great live music war of 1954 Sydney Morning HeraldZoe Coombs Marr on Queerstralia Sydney Morning Herald A letter to the editor about soup Sydney Morning HeraldSend for Nellie in the 2024 Sydney Festival and article by Alana Valentine on the State Library of NSW website | — | ||||||
| 10/15/25 | 16. Fully Lit Live: The Poets Speak at Parramatta's Lit | In this special live episode of Fully Lit, we head to Parramatta for The Poets Speak, an evening of powerful readings and conversation presented by Giramondo Publishing.Recorded as part of Parramatta’s Lit Festival and the Sydney Fringe Festival, the event features acclaimed poets Eunice Andrada (Kontra), Kate Fagan (Song in the Grass), Hasib Hourani (rock flight), Šime Knežević (In Your Dreams), and Suneeta Peres da Costa (The Prodigal). With host Giramondo Publisher Ivor Indyk, the poets share their work and reflect on its origins, themes, and provocations.Eunice Andrada's first poetry collection, Flood Damages, won the Anne Elder Award and was a finalist for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award and the Dame Mary Gilmore Award. Her second collection, TAKE CARE, was a finalist for the Judith Wright Calanthe Award, Stella Prize, Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, and two NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. Her third volume, KONTRA, will be published in October 2025. Kate Fagan is a writer, musician and scholar. Her book First Light was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and Age Book of the Year Award. Kate is an internationally esteemed songwriter, and is currently Director of the WSU Writing and Society Research Centre. Her most recent book is Song in the Grass. Hasib Hourani is a Lebanese-Palestinian writer, editor, arts worker and educator. His work has been published in Meanjin, Overland, Australian Poetry and Cordite, among others. He is a 2020 recipient of The Wheeler Centre’s Next Chapter Scheme. His debut book is rock flight. Šime Knežević is a poet and playwright from Sydney with Croatian heritage. His poems have been published widely in Australian and international literary journals. His first book-length poetry collection is In Your Dreams.Suneeta Peres da Costa was born in Sydney and is of Goan heritage. She writes fiction, non-fiction, plays and poetry. Her novella Saudade was shortlisted for the 2019 Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. Her first book of poetry, The Prodigal, was published in 2024. Presented by Giramondo Publishing.This event was recorded live on September 25, 2025.Fully Lit is an Impact Studios podcast. | — | ||||||
| 10/1/25 | 15. Fully Lit live: Gail Jones on writing at a slant | Explore the poetic, philosophical, and genre-defying world of Gail Jones’s latest novel, The Name of the Sister, in this episode of Fully Lit Live. In conversation with fellow author Debra Adelaide, Jones reflects on the difference between a crime novel and a novel with a crime in it, and asks how a novel might bear witness to suffering, honouring rather than exploiting it. Jones's work - always deeply visual, filled with images that linger in the mind's eye - invites listeners to consider how literature shapes our inner worlds. In this episode, she reminds us that we are made up of all we have read. The Name of the Sister is Gail Jones' 11th novel, and it was published this year by Text. This episode is brought to you in partnership with our friends at Gleebooks. Head to the Gleebooks events page to discover more great literary events featuring some of Australia’s best and best known authors. GuestsGail Jones is a celebrated and prolific Australian writer, as well as a researcher and academic. Debra Adelaide is the author or editor of 17 books, including novels, nonfiction, and reference works. CreditsFully Lit is made by Impact Studios, a media production house based on Gadigal land at UTS, Sydney. This episode was recorded at Sydney's Gleebooks, also on Gadigal land. Fully Lit is made by producer Regina Botros and its executive producers are Sarah Gilbert of UTS Impact Studios, and James Jiang, editor of the Sydney Review of Books. | — | ||||||
| 9/18/25 | 14. Critics Rejoice Live: at Parramatta's Lit | In this spirited discussion, three critics—Max Easton, Eda Gunaydin, and Lucy Van—join Sydney Review of Books editor, James Jiang, to explore the evolving role of the critic. Together, they delve into how they each came to criticism, the influences that shaped their voices, the ethics and implications of writing negative reviews, and whether we are truly living in a post-literate culture.This episode was recorded live as part of the Parramatta Lit Festival, held within the Sydney Fringe Festival on 6 September 2025 at Western Sydney University – Parramatta City Campus.Host: James Jiang — Editor, Sydney Review of BooksPanelists: Max Easton, Eda Gunaydin, Lucy VanRecording Engineer: Sevan Dermelkonian | — | ||||||
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