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Australian Shorts

by Karen Hollands
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  • Australian Shorts Episode 14 Inga Simpson

    September 30, 2026 · 58 min

    Episode 14 of Australian Shorts features Inga Simpson. Inga is the author of six novels, including The Thinning, Willowman, and Mr Wigg, as well as the nature writing-memoir, Understory: a life with Trees and two picture books for…

  • Australian Shorts Episode 13 Tony Birch

    August 31, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

    Episode 13 of Australian Shorts features Tony Birch. Tony is the author of four novels: Women & Children, which won the 2024 The Age Fiction Book of the Year; The White Girl, winner of the 2020 NSW Premier’s Award for Indigenous Writing…

  • Australian Shorts Episode 12 Fiona Robertson

    August 2, 2026 · 59 min

    Episode 12 of Australian Shorts features Fiona Robertson. Fiona’s short story collection If You’re Happy was shortlisted for the Richell Prize in 2018 and won the Glendower Award for an unpublished manuscript in the 2020 Queensland…

  • Australian Shorts Episode 11 Laura Jean McKay

    June 30, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min

    Episode 11 of Australian Shorts features Laura Jean McKay. Laura was the 2025 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Fellow to Cork, Ireland and is the author of two short story collections, Holiday in Cambodia and Gunflower. Her novel…

  • Australian Shorts Episode 10 Melanie Cheng

    May 31, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min

    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…

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  • Australian Shorts Episode 09 Alex Cothren

    April 30, 2026 · 1 hr 0 min

    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…

  • Australian Shorts Episode 08 Cate Kennedy

    April 1, 2026 · 1 hr 17 min

    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 used as teaching…

  • Australian Shorts Episode 07 Jane Rawson

    February 28, 2026 · 54 min

    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 History of…

  • Australian Shorts Episode 06 Kate Ryan

    January 31, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

    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 and…

  • Australian Shorts Ep 05 Anne Casey-Hardy

    November 30, 2025 · 52 min

    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…

  • Australian Shorts Ep 04 Laura Elvery

    October 31, 2025 · 1 hr 4 min

    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, the Margaret River Short…

  • Australian Shorts Episode 03 Laurie Steed

    September 30, 2025 · 1 hr 0 min

    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…

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About the show

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.