• The New Writer's Room

  • By: SBS
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The New Writer's Room

By: SBS
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  • Good writing begins with questions. What does it take to write a good story? How do you get your readers to connect with a character? Each week we'll speak to different writers about memoir writing. Hosted by Caitlin Chang and Sarah Malik.
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Episodes
  • The winning competition entry that took 20 years to write

    The winning competition entry that took 20 years to write
    Dec 8 2022
    Tessa Piper shares the incredible story behind her winning SBS Emerging Writers' Competition entry, and how she mustered the courage to share the ‘heaviest of secrets’. Find out why judge Alice Pung described Tessa’s story as 'like a punch to the face and guts with a stolen, diamond-studded glove'. Also joining her is competition runner up Monikka Eliah, who reveals how digging deep took her writing to new places.
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    31 mins
  • Writing from pain: the whys and the hows

    Writing from pain: the whys and the hows
    Dec 8 2022
    How do you write about mental health and class in a way that is tempered by time but still raw? Should you even go there? SBS Writers' Competition highly commended winners Gemma Tamock, Sidney Norris and Alexander Burton discuss how the competition theme of 'emergence' led them to unpack real life experiences in a way that was both cathartic and compelling.
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    35 mins
  • Listen to our Sydney Writers' Festival panel, 'What If My Mum Reads This?'

    Listen to our Sydney Writers' Festival panel, 'What If My Mum Reads This?'
    Aug 16 2022
    In a special episode of The New Writer's Room, listen to an exclusive stream of our memoir panel from Sydney Writers' Festival. Co-hosted by Sarah Malik and Benjamin Law, the panel, called 'What If My Mum Reads This?', discusses the perils and pitfalls of using your life as a literary canvas. Listeners will also hear from SBS Emerging Writers' Competition alumni Cat Yen, Alana Hicks and Jackie Bailey. Yen and Hicks are the 2021 and 2020 competition winners, respectively, while Bailey's shortlisted entry was developed into her debut novel The Eulogy.
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    58 mins

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