Writing From Square One Georgia Cabelle & Sofia Marie

In the season finale of Writing from Square One 2, Sofia and Georgia give a run down of their accomplishments over the year, with an emphasis on celebrating both the big and little things, and comparing where you were a year ago to now. They also discuss their plans for next year - including plans for the podcast - and what special Christmas traditions they'll be partaking in this festive season!Huge thank you to everyone who has listened to even a minute of this podcast, without you it would...

Georgia and Sofia welcome another fabulous guest for episode 7 of Writing from Square One season 2: Boorloo (Perth)-based author David Allan-Petale! David published his debut novel, Locust Summer (Fremantle Press) in 2021 and is here to talk all about the tricky balance of creativity, work, family and the always-anticipated, sometimes-dreaded, book two. He graciously discusses his journey post-publication, the uncertainty that comes afterward and what he does to keep himself grounded. This is...

Sometimes life gets in the way of writing - and when Sofia and Georgia met up for this episode, it was one of those times. And while word counts may be low, the creativity juices were still high and alive! To scratch their creative itches, the girls have decided to do something special for this episode: a game of "which do you prefer?"Writing positions, fonts, first person vs third person, music or no music, the list goes on. This simple episode is designed to keep your creativity flowing eve...

In this very special episode, Sofia and Georgia speak to the marvellous Scott-Patrick Mitchell, a Boorloo (Perth)-based poet, writer and mentor, about their poetry collection "Clean," which was shortlisted for both Book of the Year at the 2023 WA Premier's Book Awards and in the poetry category at the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. We talk to Scott-Patrick about not only their experience of composing Clean, but what poetry means to them and how writing - and art as a whole - can bring o...

It's just Georgia and Sofia for this episode, and once again they're getting candid about something that bothers them - and many other authors, writers and artists around the world: envy.An extremely human emotion, envy can be very demoralising. Seeing other people succeed while you (supposedly) lag behind is usually a blameless situation, so the blame often comes back on you. Maybe you're not writing enough. Maybe you're not entering enough competitions, submitting to enough agents. Maybe yo...

Welcome to episode 3 of season 2! - where Sofia and Georgia welcome special guest, author Nadja Fernandes, to discuss everything to do with self-publishing. You may not know that there is more than one way to be published - and the self-publishing industry is getting more and more accessible as time marches on. Nadja tells the girls about her journey of self-publishing, and why, for her book, First Aid Seamstress, it appealed to her over traditional publishing. In this insightful episode, ple...