Tag: Words on the Waves 2025

Ed and Amanda chat with 2025 Words on the Waves Writers Festival board member and prolific short story writer, Robert Wilcher. Robert shares his experience creating and running the collaborative writing website, The Moving Pen, and expounds on the importance of building and sustaining a community of writing friends.

Ed and Amanda chat with prolific Australian author, journalist and cricket aficionado, Gideon Haigh, ahead of the Blood Lines panel at the 2025 Words on the Waves Writers Festival. We talk about Gideon’s memoir, My Brother Jaz, and how in just 72 hours of drafting, he came to reckon with the death of his teenage…

Ed and Amanda sit down with wanted men, Peter Greste and Sean Turnell, following the Wrongfully Imprisoned panel at the 2025 Words on the Waves Writers Festival. The “terrorist and the spy,” imprisoned in Egypt and Myanmar respectively, share what it was like to face trial on trumped-up charges, their battles for freedom, and the…

Ed and Amanda chat with author, journalist and book critic, Jessie Tu, ahead of the Power and Privilege panel at the 2025 Words on the Waves Writers Festival. We asked Jessie how her role as a critic impacts her own work.

Ed and Amanda chat with influential Australian literary figure, Nikki Gemmell, ahead of the Power and Privilege panel at the 2025 Words on the Waves Writers Festival. We talked about writing as a day job, what it looks like to ‘do menopause badly,’ and of course about Nikki’s latest book, Wing, a contemporary thriller in…

Ed and Amanda chat with debut author, Natasha Rai, in the lead up to the Power and Privilege panel at the 2025 Words on the Waves Writers Festival. Natasha is a podcaster in her own right, co-hosting The Book Deal podcast, offering motivation and inspiration for emerging writers. Natasha shared with us details of her…

If you think the world is going to pot, you’re not alone! Ed and Amanda chat with US/Australian political expert and commentator, Bruce Wolpe, about his book, What Trump’s Second Term Means for Australia. Bruce featured in the 2025 Words on the Waves Writers Festival’s, New World Order panel, and shared with us his thoughts…

Ed and Amanda chat with critically acclaimed poet and inaugural Poet in Residence at The University of Melbourne, Maxine Beneba Clarke. Maxine featured in a range of poetry events at the 2025 Words on the Waves Writers Festival, including a live performance at the Saturday night Poetry Slam. Maxine shared with us her thoughts on…

Ed and Amanda sit down with award-winning investigative journalist, Quentin McDermott, following the Australia’s ‘Most Hated Woman’ session at the 2025 Words on the Waves Writers Festival. Quentin’s book, Meadow’s Law, chronicles the notorious Kathleen Folbigg case, and calls into question the law’s presupposition that, “one sudden infant death is a tragedy, two is suspicious…

Ed and Amanda chat with newly minted spicy crime fiction author, Blanche d’Alpuget, following The Bunny Club with Blanche d’Alpuget session at the 2025 Words on the Waves Writers Festival. Blanche is best known as the second wife of the late Australian Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, but we take a broad look at Blanche’s extensive…

Ed and Amanda chat with renowned Australian psychologist, social researcher and writer, Hugh Mackay AO, following The State of Australia Today with Hugh Mackay session at the 2025 Words on the Waves Writers Festival. Hugh brings his analytical eye to the state of Australian mental health today, and offers uplifting insights into the simple ways…

Ed and Amanda chat with Aboriginal Australian author and academic, Debra Dank, ahead of the Do you Know Stella and Historical Amnesia panels at the 2025 Words on the Waves Writers Festival. Debra offers insight into Australia’s oldest form of written storytelling, and why Aboriginal iconography should be seen as far more than just ‘art’.