The second annual Australian Publisher's Association conference, BookUp, took a look at what’s next in Australian publishing.

I had the pleasure of chatting to Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh about Ashley Goldberg’s new novel, Abomination, on the latest episode of The Bookshelf.

As part of the Sydney Writers Festival, Bernadette Brennan and I discuss her latest biography.

These two podcast partners discuss the highs and lows of their working relationship and what it truly means to collaborate.

A colourful conversation for the Sydney Writers Festival, about finding meaning and connection.

As part of the Sydney Writers Festival I sat down with Miles Allinson and Emily Bitto, two Australian authors who both penned great novels last year, each with a protagonist looking for meaning in a fractured reality.

Christine Leunens and I discussed her new book, In Amber’s Wake, the story of the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior.

I hosted this conversation with Holly Ringland as part of The Marion Taylor Gala for the Brisbane Writers Festival.

As part of the Brisbane Writers Festival, Michelle de Krester and I sat down to discuss her latest novel Scary Monsters and its themes of family disruption through immigration and an unsettling dystopian future.

I had the pleasure of hosting a post-premiere Q&A with Sydney couple Oscar Shub and Ilan Buchman - Australia’s first same-sex couple to be legally married in a religious ceremony and the subjects of the documentary Past Continuous.

As part of the Ideas Exchange series, I moderated this panel featuring Kate McClymont, Dr Melissa Kang and Rudi Bremer on how we can break biases about women and gender in the world around us.

I interviewed Esther Takac, director/producer/writer of the documentary The Narrow Bridge. I also spoke to two of the people featured in the film - Bassam Aramin and Rami Elhanan.

I interviewed British historian/author Anne Sebba about her new book, focusing on the trial and execution of American housewife Ethel Rosenberg in 1953, at the height of McCarthyism in America.

I interviewed award-winning artist Ben Quilty about his latest series of paintings and the accompanying book in an online chat for Waverly and Randwick libraries.

In the last Ideas Exchange discussion for 2021 I co-produced and moderated this forum about we use storytelling to make sense of our world and our lives.

I had the privilege of hosting the Q&A at the end of this insightful discussion between Lucy Adlington and Aviva Lowry, as part of my role as Program Director of the Sydney Jewish Writers Festival this year.

A wonderful conversation about creativity and the inner life.

In this important instalment in the Ideas Exchange series for Woollahra Library, I facilitated a discussion about racism in Australia today, especially in light of new tensions that have grown from the pandemic, and what we can do to combat it.

Lily Brett, one of Australia’s most accomplished writers, joined me for Melbourne Jewish Book Week to talk about her latest work ‘Old Seems to be Other People’. You can watch the full interview here.

I had the honour of putting together the program for ABC Radio National's second annual Big Weekend of Books.