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Updated 04/20/2022
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Updated 07/13/2022

12/08/2022

The winning competition entry that took 20 years to write

Tessa Piper shares the incredible story behind her winning SBS Emerging Writers' Competition entry, and how she mustered the courage to share the ‘heaviest of secrets’. Find out why judge Alice Pung described Tessa’s story as 'like a punch to the face and guts with a stolen, diamond-studded glove'. Also joining her is competition runner up Monikka Eliah, who reveals how digging deep took her writing to new places.

12/08/2022

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31 min
07/03/2022

The New Writer's Room: Dr Larissa Behrendt and Jazz Money

In this special NAIDOC edition of the New Writer's Room exploring 'Literature as Resistance', Dr Larissa Behrendt and Jazz Money discuss how literature can be used to re-centre Black experiences, capture forgotten histories, assert sovereignty, and how writing and truth telling is such a vital part of their work. The episode will also take a deep dive into their latest literary works, Dr Behrendt's After Story and Jazz Money's how to make a basket, and features a special poetry reading from Money.

07/03/2022

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35 min
09/13/2021

The New Writer's Room Episode 8: Behrouz Boochani

In this special episode Caitlin and Candice speak to journalist and SBS Emerging Writers’ Competition judge Behrouz Boochani. The author of 'No Friend but The Mountains' shares his thoughts on this year’s competition theme, Between Two Worlds, and the power in telling your own story.

09/13/2021

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18 min
07/12/2022

I am honouring the legacy of my Indigenous Nan

What do you do when you discover something life changing about yourself later in life? This is what happened to Linda Augusto. In this episode Linda speaks to Sarah and Caitlin about trying to piece together the puzzle of her life, looking back on the unsaid moments of her life with her beloved Nan. It's a reminder that our histories and family secrets can inform our lives in ways we can't perceive.

07/12/2022

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24 min
07/13/2022

I was raised by 'tiger parents' and I'm trying to undo it

If you were raised in a strict environment, how do you break that cycle and adopt a gentler approach with your children? In this episode Raidah Shah Idil reveals how after growing up feeling terrified of failure, being dux of her school and on track to being a doctor, her life turned out very different from what her parents had planned. She speaks to Caitlin and Sarah about how she learned to 'untiger' herself.

07/13/2022

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25 min
12/08/2022

Writing from pain: the whys and the hows

How do you write about mental health and class in a way that is tempered by time but still raw? Should you even go there? SBS Writers' Competition highly commended winners Gemma Tamock, Sidney Norris and Alexander Burton discuss how the competition theme of 'emergence' led them to unpack real life experiences in a way that was both cathartic and compelling.

12/08/2022

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35 min
08/16/2022

Listen to our Sydney Writers' Festival panel, 'What If My Mum Reads This?'

In a special episode of The New Writer's Room, listen to an exclusive stream of our memoir panel from Sydney Writers' Festival. Co-hosted by Sarah Malik and Benjamin Law, the panel, called 'What If My Mum Reads This?', discusses the perils and pitfalls of using your life as a literary canvas. Listeners will also hear from SBS Emerging Writers' Competition alumni Cat Yen, Alana Hicks and Jackie Bailey. Yen and Hicks are the 2021 and 2020 competition winners, respectively, while Bailey's shortlisted entry was developed into her debut novel The Eulogy.

08/16/2022

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58 min
08/09/2022

The New Writer's Room: Being published and the writer-editor relationship

The latest episode of The New Writer’s Room looks at what it’s like being published in a book and the writer-editor relationship. Listeners will hear from Emily Hart, an editor at publisher Hardie Grant, and Nancy Huang, a 2021 SBS Emerging Writers’ Competition entrant whose memoir piece, ‘Mini Moke’, was featured in Between Two Worlds: 30 Power Voices from the SBS Emerging Writers’ Competition.

08/09/2022

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29 min
07/12/2021

Trailer: The New Writer's Room

Good writing begins with questions. What does it take to write a good story? How do you get your readers to connect with a character? Each week, co-hosts Caitlin Chang and Candice Chung will speak to writers and authors all about storytelling, and hopefully inspire you to get writing.

07/12/2021

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2 min
12/08/2021

The New Writer's Room Episode 11: Our favourite books of 2021

In this episode of The New Writer's Room, Caitlin Chang is joined by Candice Chung and Sarah Malik to discuss their favourite books of the year. Listen here: https://pod.fo/e/fd14e Consider this your holiday reading list: 7 ½ by Christos Tsiolkas, Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner, One Hundred Days by Alice Pung, The Mother Wound by Amani Haydar, No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood, She Is Haunted by Paige Clark, The Republic of Motherhood by Liz Berry, Brown Baby by Nikesh Shuka, The Luminous Solution by Charlotte Wood, A Swim in the Pond In the Rain by George Saunders, Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason, and The Pisces by Melissa Broder.

12/08/2021

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38 min

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