Creative Force: A podcast with exceptional women
When COVID 19 moved our world’s inside, perceptions about where we live and work changed forever.
The luxury of online connections seeded the evolution of this podcast exposing me to a global community of incredible women – artists, writers, cultural activists, and Indigenous leaders.
I asked them "What are the creative forces that drive you?" Every single one of them said “Where I live”.
From the forests of Ireland, a tiny village in Scotland, the mountains, vast farming plains and lush sub-tropical north in Australia. For these women landscape – sea, sky, rock and river is the muse that inspires them to make their mark on the world.
I can't wait for you to meet them.
Creative Force: A podcast with exceptional women
Creative Force Ep 3 Courtney Collins
Today we travel to the lush hinterland of Gumbaynggirr – country in Bellingen to meet creative force writer/producer/podcaster Courtney Collins.
Courtney's stunning new novel, BIRD will be published in July 2024 by Hachette Australia.
Her first novel, The Burial, was published in ten countries and shortlisted for the Nita B Kibble Literary Award, NSW Premier's Literary Award and the Stella Prize.
She created the Ngukurr Story Projects when living in the remote Northern Territory in collaboration with Ngukurr Language Centre and Ngukurr Art Centre, to support local Indigenous storytellers to "tell the stories they want to tell in the language they want to tell it in”.
Her podcast produced by Lisa Madden, “Are you still working? How to take your creative ideas seriously" is available now!
Courtney holds a Master of Creative Writing and is completing a PhD titled 'Working Against Whiteness in Creative Literary Production'. She is at work on her third novel. Courtney is an Asialink Fellow and Sidney Myer Creative Fellow,
I can’t wait for you to meet her.
#creative force was recorded on Wiradjuri Country in Bathurst, New South Wales.
Hosted by Kate Smith with Audio Engineer Tim Roebuck. Music by the magnificent Smith and Jones was recorded at Shelter Studios with Audio Engineer Rick Turnock.
Thanks for listening.
