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Australian Shorts
A monthly podcast about short stories written by Australian authors. Hosted by Karen Hollands, each episode features a short story read by its author followed by a conversation about their story.
Episodes
10 episodes
Australian Shorts Episode 10 Melanie Cheng
Episode 10 of Australian Shorts features Melanie Cheng. Melanie is a writer and general practitioner based in Naarm, Melbourne. Her debut short story collection, Australia Day, won the 2018 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction and her...
Australian Shorts Episode 09 Alex Cothren
Episode 9 of Australian Shorts features Alex Cothren. Alex is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Flinders University. He is a winner of the Carmel Bird, William van Dyke, Griffith Review Emerging Voices and Peter Carey Awards for short fiction. ...
Australian Shorts Episode 08 Cate Kennedy
Episode 8 of Australian Shorts features Cate Kennedy. Cate writes across genres and is widely published but perhaps best known as a short story author. Her two collections, Dark Roots and Like a House on Fire have been ...
Australian Shorts Episode 07 Jane Rawson
Episode 7 of Australian Shorts features Jane Rawson. Jane is the author of six books, most recently the essay collection Human/Nature: On life in a wild world (New South 2025) and the speculative historical fiction novel A H...
Australian Shorts Episode 06 Kate Ryan
Episode 6 of Australian Shorts features Kate Ryan. Kate is an award-winning writer of fiction and non-fiction, manuscript assessor, writing mentor and writing teacher. Her work has appeared in various literary journals and anthologies an...
Australian Shorts Ep 05 Anne Casey-Hardy
Episode 05 of Australian Shorts features Anne Casey-Hardy. Anne began writing after a long career as a librarian and advocate for families of premature babies. In 2018, she won the Peter Carey Short Story Award for her story, Being the Moth...
Australian Shorts Ep 04 Laura Elvery
Episode 4 of Australian Shorts features Laura Elvery. Laura is the author of two short story collections: Trick of the Light and Ordinary Matter.She is a past winner of the Josephine Ulrick Prize for Literature, ...
Australian Shorts Episode 03 Laurie Steed
Episode 3 of Australian Shorts features Laurie Steed. Laurie’s short fiction has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and published in Best Australian Stories, Award Winning Australian Writing, The Age, Meanjin, Overland, Westerly, Island and e...
Australian Shorts Episode 02 Mirandi Riwoe
Episode 2 of Australian Shorts features Mirandi Riwoe. Mirandi’s short stories have appeared in Best Australian Stories, Meanjin, Review of Australian Fiction, Griffith Review and Best Summer Stories.Her collecti...
Australian Shorts Episode 01 Amanda O'Callaghan
Welcome to Episode 1 of Australian Shorts. This podcast series begins with Amanda O’Callaghan.Amanda has written and published many short stories and her fiction has been awarded and shortlisted in numerous contests in Australia, ...
