Write & Seek

Write & Seek is the podcast exploring how writers get writing done, and their journey to publication. debutbooks.substack.com

Write & Seek is a arts podcast hosted by Debut Books, with 16 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Debut Books hosts Write & Seek, a arts show with 16 episodes published.

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  Episode 15 | Katherine Larsen & Sarah Sasson

  Nov 26, 202457 minS0

  <p>Welcome to Write & Seek!</p><p>Meet my guest.</p><p>Sarah Sasson is an immunologist, academic and writer living on Gadigal and Bidjigal land. </p><p>Her debut novel Tidelines was longlisted for the Queensland Writers' Centre Publishable Program, shortlisted for the Varuna House Publisher Introduction Program and released by Affirm Press in January 2024. </p><p>In 2021 Sarah edited Signs of Life (MoshPit Publishing) an international anthology themed on first- and second-hand experiences of illness and caregiving. Signs of Life was profiled by Kirkus Reviews and featured on their 2022 Indie Books Worth Discovering list. </p><p>Sarah's work has appe...

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  Episode 14 | Katherine Larsen & Emily Tsokos Purtill

  Oct 23, 202452 minS0

  <p>Welcome to Write & Seek!</p><p>Meet my guest.</p><p>Emily Tsokos Purtill is a Western Australian writer of Greek heritage living in Perth/Boorloo on the lands of the Whadjuk Nyoongar people. She has also lived in the UK, Vancouver, Paris and New York. Her creative non fiction, short fiction, flash fiction and poetry has been awarded and published in anthologies and journals in Australia and the United States. </p><p>Her short fiction can be found in Westerly and Griffith Review. After being awarded for her short fiction as a young writer, including winning the Tim...

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  Episode 13 | Katherine Larsen & Rhianna King

  Oct 17, 202458 minS0

  <p>Welcome to Write & Seek!</p><p>Meet my guest.</p><p>Rhianna King spent 20 years working in strategic communications for state government environment agencies. During this time, she developed a love of the natural world and learned everything she’ll ever need to know about cane toads. She now works for a not-for-profit Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation.</p><p>When she’s not spending time with her husband, two kids and dog Rosie, Rhianna is reading, chasing her next marathon PB or sending apologetic messages to friends and family about it being too long between catch ups.</p><p>Webs...

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  Episode 12 | Katherine Larsen & Marie O'Rourke

  Oct 14, 202456 minS0

  <p>Welcome to Write & Seek!</p><p>Meet my guest.</p><p>Entranced by the power of words from birth, Marie O’Rourke spent many years reading, analysing, and teaching the stories of others before working up the nerve to start shaping her own. </p><p>That story culminated in a PhD from Curtin University, where her research and writing pushed against the tradition of first-person, past-tense, chronological, narrative memoir, hoping to capture the shape-shifting nature of memory and identity. </p><p>Marie’s memoir was shortlisted for the 2022 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award and her essays have been published in m...

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  Episode 11 | Katherine Larsen & Martine Kropkowski

  Oct 10, 202450 minS0

  <p>Welcome to Write & Seek!</p><p>Meet my guest.</p><p>Martine was born in Canberra, raised in Sydney, and now lives and works in Brisbane. She has worked as a soldier, a journalist and an academic, and her essays and short fiction have appeared in journals such as Griffith Review, The Conversation, The ABC, Overland and Crackle Anthology. </p><p>Martine teaches professional and creative writing at The University of Queensland as well as in the community, and she is a regular speaker and in-conversation partner at literary events.</p><p>Website: martinekropkowski.com</p><p>Instagram: instagram.c...

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