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21/11/2024

In our latest ep direct from the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival Bora Chung talks about how the Booker Prize has changed her life in both good and bad ways, and why a small Indian prize means a whole lot more to her.

Listen here on Apple (or wherever you get your pods): https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/secrets-from-the-green-room/id1540540062

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19/11/2024

In a special series direct from the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival Bora Chung chats with Irma about how she wrote her first short story solely for prize money but it eventually led to a short fiction collection that was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, why her publisher thought an approach from Anton Hur to translate her collection into English was a scam, what it was like to be at the Booker Prize ceremony and the strange thing every judge said to her, how the Booker has impacted her career, why she doesn’t translate her own work into English even though she is a translator herself, the future of AI in terms of both writing and translation, why she translates books just for fun without the promise of a publishing contract, and why her Indian publisher recently submitting Your Utopia for a small Indian prize has meant more to her than shortlisting for the Booker.

Listen here on Apple (or wherever you get your pods): https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/secrets-from-the-green-room/id1540540062

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15/11/2024

In our latest ep direct from the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival Laura Jean McKay talks about how she’s been repeatedly urged by others to quit her books. But nevertheless she’s persisted. Great advice on how to keep going in the face of doubt and discouragement. And how to respond to the haters.

Listen on Apple here (or wherever you get your pods): https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/secrets-from-the-green-room/id1540540062

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14/11/2024

In our latest ep live from the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, Laura Jean McKay talks about the often painful process of bringing her published works into being. The award-winning Animals in that Country took her seven years to write so she’s not going to calculate a dollar value! Who else can relate? We’re putting our hands up!

Listen on Apple here (or wherever you get your pods): https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/secrets-from-the-green-room/id1540540062

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07/11/2024

In our latest ep live from Ubud Writers and Readers Festival we talk with the wonderful Aube Rey Lescure who sent her debut novel out too early because she was seeking external validation. As she discovered, there was still much work to be done. That book eventually went on to be shortlisted for the prestigious Women’s Prize for Fiction. She has great advice for writers on the process, including being kind yourself about the first draft.

Listen on Apple here (or wherever you get your pods): https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/secrets-from-the-green-room/id1540540062?i=1000675671152

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05/11/2024

In a special series direct from the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival Aube Rey Lescure chats with Irma about how she initially followed a friend’s advice not to become a writer but then ditched law to pursue it anyway, how being multilingual impacts the way she writes, why she refused to follow the career trajectory her creative writing course advised, why she got fixated on publishing a book before she was 30 – and then was forced to let go of it, how her mum’s April Fool’s joke led to an important plot line in her debut novel, how she approached writing from different POVs, why she let go of the need for external valuation – and was then shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the pressure of writing the second novel, the impact of her essay on women’s safety, what she learnt from the publication day disappointment of not finding her book in stores, and the phone call that made her squeal on the streets.

Photos are of the space we recorded in (and loved so much!) This will all make sense when you listen!

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02/11/2024

We chat to Nam Le at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival about publishing versus writing and how everything is part of our development as writers. Nam talks about his Novel Zero, which will never see the light of day, and what he learnt from writing it. So much wisdom in this ep.

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31/10/2024

In our special season direct from the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, Nam Le talks about ditching law for the Iowa Writers Workshop, which is like announcing to the world that you intend to be A Writer. Irma chats to Nam about the ups and downs of his career and Nam is so generous in his answers. Tune in wherever you get your pods.

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29/10/2024

In a special series direct from the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, Nam Le chats with Irma about why his first unpublished novel was a spectacular failure but still worthwhile, why for a long time he was a secret writer and the renowned Iowa Writers Workshop was him ‘coming out’ to the world, how he naively thought the crazy success of The Boat was what all writers experienced, why Nam made a pact with himself that he would find the good in every publicity question, how his publisher felt about him wanting to publish a poetry collection – notoriously the smallest selling genre – and why he had to fight for the book in the US market, the ways in which he is wrestling with his cultural identity and the notion that he must represent a particular voice, why he puts so much pressure on himself as a writer, the good and the bad of the writers’ room on film and TV projects, and how self-doubt can become damaging.

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22/10/2024

Or more! But JP has published so many books in such a short space of time. We talk to him about how he’s done it!

Listen here on Apple (or wherever you get your pods): https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/secrets-from-the-green-room/id1540540062

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19/10/2024

Such an interesting chat with crime writer JP Pomare in our latest ep, including the responsibility of crime writers.

Listen here on Apple (or wherever you get your pods): https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/secrets-from-the-green-room/id1540540062

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16/10/2024

We love the idea of crime fiction as a trojan horse! In our latest ep bestselling author JP Pomare talks all things crime, but there’s gold here for writers in every genre.

Listen here on Apple (or wherever you get your pods): https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/secrets-from-the-green-room/id1540540062

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11/10/2024

In our latest ep JP Pomare talks about why he fact checks instead of researching. And how this led to an attempt to break into prison, a stay in New Zealand’s worst motel and the most frightening midnight walk. JP has so many great stories!

Listen here on Apple (or wherever you get your pods): https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/secrets-from-the-green-room/id1540540062

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07/10/2024

💚NEW EP💚

Irma and Karen chat about writers festivals they’ve recently attended, as well as the joys and challenges of being a panel moderator and interviewing other authors.

Then Karen talks to JP Pomare about how he didn’t know he was writing crime until it was marketed that way, why his goal is to transcend the genre, how he’s managed to publish seven books in six years, why we’re so fascinated with crime fiction, how writing an Audible original taught him valuable lessons about writing, why research can be a trap and so he fact-checks instead, how he finds expert consultants, why an announcement over the loudspeaker at a library event was the lowest point of his career, and why he tried to break into a prison as research.

Listen here on Apple (or wherever you get your pods): https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/secrets-from-the-green-room/id1540540062

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29/09/2024

So great to both be able to catch up with our fabulous sponsor, Peter of The Book Cow in Kingston, Canberra. Without him we wouldn’t be able to bring you conversations with so many incredible writers.

Today we were at The Book Cow for the launch of JP Pomare’s latest crime novel, 17 Years Later, with Karen as interviewer. (Look out for our ep with JP coming soon.)

Without even thinking we both coordinated with The Book Cow signage!

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28/09/2024

In our latest ep Kylie Needham talks about the vulnerability of publishing her debut novel.

Listen here on Apple (or wherever you get your pods): https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/secrets-from-the-green-room/id1540540062

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25/09/2024

In our latest ep Irma and Karen chat about the forthcoming Ubud Writers and Readers Festival which Irma will be attending on official podcast business! She’ll be bringing you five interviews with some of the incredible authors on the line-up. Tune into this ep to find out who!

As you can see from this pic, Irma is thrilled about going, Karen is not thrilled about missing it 😆

Listen here on Apple (or wherever you get your pods): https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/secrets-from-the-green-room/id1540540062

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17/09/2024

☀️NEW EP☀️

Irma and Karen chat about the upcoming Ubud Writers and Readers Festival.

Then Karen talks to Kylie Needham about how a short story turned into her debut novel, the joys and challenges of writing for television and the screen, the collaboration of the writers’ room and the vulnerabilities of the process, what writing scripts taught her about moving the narrative forward, whether authors should get involved with screen adaptions of their work, the inequality and sexism of television in the 2000s, and a beautiful moment with a literature high school teacher decades later.

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