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Vignettes: The EWF Podcast – Season 3

Vignettes is an audio reading series from the Emerging Writers’ Festival.

Welcome to Season 3: Spring. This season, we’ll be sharing brand new audio stories from emerging writers across the continent. With readings spanning genres, forms and themes, Vignettes will feature personal essays, poetry and short stories on everything from mothering to the politics of food.

Vignettes is produced by Millie Baylis and audio produced by Joe Buchan. Our theme music was created by Thu Care, and our artwork is by Molly Hunt.

This podcast was produced on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nations. We acknowledge that First Nations Peoples are the first storytellers of this land, and that their sovereignty has never been ceded. We pay respects to Elders past and present, and to the Elders of the lands that this podcast reaches.

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Or your favourite podcasting app, by searching for “Emerging Writers’ Festival”.

Listen back to previous seasons now:

Season 2: Autumn
Season 1: Summer

Podcast trailer.

EPISODE 1: LAND BACK. 

Sissy Austin and Dakota Feirer share readings on the theme Land Back, for our first episode of Vignettes Season 3: Spring.

As mentioned, we encourage you to check out Pay the Rent and the Dhadjowa Foundation. You can find Sissy Austin’s original piece on the destruction of the sacred Djab Wurrung tree in the Guardian here.

With Sissy Austin and Dakota Feirer
Audio production by Joe Buchan
Theme music by Thu Care
Episode artwork by Molly Hunt

EPISODE 2: BODY LANGUAGE.

In this episode, Oliver Reeson, Mia Nie and Tori Hobbs share readings on the theme Body Language.

These artists reflect on bodies in pain and bodies in pleasure; what it means to inhabit a body in transition and a body in illness. They will consider both the ordinariness and specialness, as well as the resistance, of living in their bodies.

You can read Oliver Reeson’s essay ‘Body Language: on Kylie Minogue, Cancer and Coming Back to Life’ here.

With Oliver Reeson, Mia Nie and Tori Hobbs
Audio production by Joe Buchan
Theme music by Thu Care
Episode artwork by Molly Hunt

EPISODE 3: MOTHERHOOD.

For today’s episode, Tabitha Lean, Ella Baxter and Gabriella Munoz will share readings themed around motherhood.

We’ll hear one mother reflect on the pain of being separated from her daughter while in prison; a mother trying to talk about the pandemic with her children, and a new mother’s first days after giving birth in lockdown.

With Tabitha Lean, Ella Baxter and Gabriella Munoz
Audio production by Joe Buchan
Theme music by Thu Care
Episode artwork by Molly Hunt

EPISODE 4: BLOOM.

Léa Antigny, Paige Clark and Laura Stortenbeker share their readings for today’s episode, Bloom. As we transition in more ways than one, out of lockdown and into warmer days, it’s a pleasure to hear from these talented emerging writers on the things changing and blooming in their lives.

With Léa Antigny, Paige Clark and Laura Stortenbeker
Audio production by Joe Buchan
Theme music by Thu Care
Episode artwork by Molly Hunt

EPISODE 5: SOVEREIGN FOOD.

Tarneen Onus Williams, Hasib Hourani and Muhib Nabulsi will share their personal food related stories for our final episode of Season 3.

The theme for today’s episode was first inspired by the piece ‘The Politics and Solidarity of Food’ which you can find in Overland online here.

With Tarneen Onus Williams, Hasib Hourani and Muhib Nabulsi.
Audio production by Joe Buchan
Theme music by Thu Care
Episode artwork by Molly Hunt