Not the Plot
Conversations about books, art and living a creative life.
Episodes
46 episodes
Lellie Lopter - Writing about big feelings and tricky topics
Kellie Coff, writing as Lellie Lopter, is an international award-winning children’s author, illustrator, and creator who isn’t afraid to write about big feelings and tricky topics. Her stories encourage children to think big,...
Sharon Giltrow - Writing for young readers with humour and heart.
Sharon Giltrow is an award-winning author of humorous and heartfelt picture books and speculative, adventure-filled middle grade books. Sharon grew up in South Australia, the youngest of eight children in a one-hundred-year-o...
Liv Lorkin - A heart-led path to creativity
Liv Lorkin is a heart-led children's book author, illustrator and visual storyteller.Since packing books underneath her bed as a child, she’s loved reading, writing and colouring outside the lines. With a blended background in sci...
Alan Fyfe - Putting place and poverty on the page
Alan Fyfe is a maker of stories and poems who lives on unceded Noongar country. Alan’s poetry and prose fiction has received recognition with a number of awards and listings in Australia and internationally. His latest release, The Cross Th...
Brenton Cullen - On writing, reading, and staying the distance
Brenton Cullen is a Queensland writer, bookseller and passionate advocate for children’s literature. He writes stories from the heart for all ages, with a particular love for picture books and middle-grade fiction.He has written articles, i...
Marlene Rattigan - Inspiring children through words and music
Marlene Rattigan is an early childhood teacher with an extensive background in music. She’s the author of the kidz-fiz-biz series of music and movement books and has conducted training workshops for teachers, children, and parents at sch...
Christine Read - Sharing the joy of circle dancing
Christine Read found circle dance about 22 years ago and has been teaching for the past 18 years. Her love for this form of dance turned her into a dancing nomad and led to major lifestyle changes. In 2016 she retired from paid employment, sold...
Michelle Worthington - Sharing stories on page and screen
Michelle Worthington is an International award-winning author, scriptwriter, playwright and producer. Michelle has twice taken out the International Book Award and been shortlisted for the Australian Speech Pathology Award. In 2018 she received...
Dianne Wolfer - Writing across genres
Award-winning author Dianne Wolfer is a bookworm who reads and writes every day and can’t imagine a world without books. Dianne writes across genres, from picture books for pre-schoolers to fantasy novels for young adults, and historical fictio...
Renae Hayward - Creating space for creativity
Children’s author and poet Renae Hayward was born during a cyclone in Western Australia’s Pilbara region, but grew up by the beaches of Perth’s northern suburbs. Renae now lives near Fremantle with her author/illustrator husband James, their tw...
Carolyn Wren - Tales of romance and suspense
Carolyn Wren was born in London and lives in Western Australia with a husband she adores and a very neurotic cat named Lucky. Carolyn doesn’t like to limit herself to one genre, preferring to let her characters take control. The res...
Stephen Crabbe - A focus on historical fiction
Stephen Crabbe’s ancestors were among the first colonists of South Australia, where he lived for most of his life. From his earliest years he loved language and music in many forms, and this led to formal study and qualifications in both. He wa...
Kym Langfield - A venture in creativity
Kym Langfield is an author, illustrator, teacher and counsellor. She has illustrated a range of picture books, including my picture book Solo Dan about a foster child finding his forever home. Her artwork, stories and poems have featured in ant...
Juliet Marillier - Folklore, fantasy and stories that heal
Juliet Marillier is an award-winning historical fantasy author who grew up surrounded by Celtic music and stories. Her own Celtic-Gaelic roots inspired her to write her first series, the Sevenwaters Trilogy, a reimagining of The Six Swans fairy...
Deb Fitzpatrick - Weaving real-life stories into fiction
Deb Fitzpatrick writes books for readers of all ages, especially adventurous kids with big hearts. Her books have received awards in Australia, been published in the US and optioned for film. She lives in Fremantle, Western Australia, and loves...
Melissa Min - Sharing the wisdom in ancient stories
Melissa Min is one of Western Australia’s most prominent professional Storytellers. She is a published poet, author, and psychotherapist who works with language, myth and story to evoke a deep sense of connection and belonging. Melissa is a pas...
Libby Iriks – At the heart of romance
Libby Iriks fell in love with story as an eight-year-old when her teacher read Charlotte’s Web to the class. She developed a fondness for the romance genre soon after, and in 2018, combined her passions when she became the Commissionin...
Stuart Everly-Wilson - Back to the page
Stuart Everly-Wilson is an Australian writer living in Bundjalung country in New South Wales with his partner and the ghost of Aspro the dog. His first published work, Low Expectations, was short-listed for the 2022 New South ...
Celia Berrell - Inspiring curiosity through science poems
Celia Berrell is an England-born Australian writer and poet who is best known for her Science Rhymes, which have been published by the CSIRO and in textbooks for Australian, Irish and Canadian high school students. Celia taught maths and...
Danni Line - Redemption through Romance
Danni Line has been hooked on reading since childhood and fell in love with writing in her senior year, thanks to a crush on her English teacher. She writes Romantic Suspense and Paranormal Romance where her characters find redemption through r...
Bonnibelle Angelica - Creating a dystopian world
Bonnibelle Angelica is a debut author from rural Australia. Growing up with a love for creativity, she has done everything from sculpting to painting to costume design, but nothing has held her attention quite like writing. After a burst of pop...
Riley Merigan - Taking to the Stage
Riley Merigan is a Perth-based performer, actor, dancer and singer who has appeared in a range of community theatre productions since taking a lead role in his high school performance of the musical Grease as a fifteen-year-old. The bu...
Holly Cardamone - Inspired by real-life shenanigans
Holly Cardamone is an award-winning Australian author and communications specialist. Her writing has appeared in publications as diverse as bridal tomes and in fashion magazines, in trade publications and in the large dailies. Her debut novel, ...
William Lane - A personal perspective
Australian author William Lane lives in a quiet, rural corner of the Hunter Valley, New South Wales. When he is not writing, he loves to read, play vinyl records or make up songs while looking out his window at the Brokenback Range...
Steve Heron - Affirmative vandal and hooligan of hope
Steve Heron is an award-winning children’s book author and champion of wellbeing in children. When he’s not hanging out with the local cheeky magpies, or reminiscing about his puppetry and TV presenter days, he’s crafting stories that touch and...
