Karena Wynn Moylan Author Interviewer Broadcaster public
[search 0]
More
Download the App!
show episodes
 
Artwork

1
Narratives Library National Edition

Karena Wynn-Moylan author interviewer broadcaster

Unsubscribe
Unsubscribe
Monthly
 
Each week award winning radio presenter Karena Wynn-Moylan interviews different authors and asks them to read their own work . The website www.narrativeslibrary.com gets over 200,000 hits per month and contains over 500 authors reading for just 5 minutes. This 28 minute podcast allows slightly longer reads and interviews, together with carefully selected musical tracks. 'Quickpods' is the Narratives Library short and sweet edition lasting up to 15 minutes, featuring one new author each week. ...
  continue reading
 
Loading …
show series
 
Jess Kitching's book is fiction but based on her own experience and that of other women who have felt the fear of being stalked by a serial killer. Jess tries to get right into the mind of one such character in her book -'Lucky Number 11'; In her book 'A Question of Age' Jacinta Parsons is concerned that society is stacked against women when it com…
  continue reading
 
Dinuka McKenzie - The Torrent Dinuka McKenzie is an Australian Indigenous novelist who writes Crime novels. "It’s hard enough being a female detective without being pregnant, exhausted and with a competitive and ambitious, new partner in tow .Detective Sergeant Kate Miles is counting down the days until her maternity leave when not one but two new …
  continue reading
 
Two very different authors , but both wonderful storytellers with deep messages. Suzanne Gervay – Heroes of the Secret Underground Suzanne Gervay OAM is also a lifetime Social Justice Literature Award winner. Suzanne’s family were Holocaust survivors who escaped to Australia after the war. In this read we witness the start of the oppression of the …
  continue reading
 
As always on the Narratives Library National Edition, our authors will read for a about 5 minutes then discuss their work. Always illuminating! DENNIS ALTMAN – Death in the Sauna A crime story that leads us from a gay sauna, to the intrigues of of an international AIDS conference. This is celebrated gay activist Altman's 17th book and draws on his …
  continue reading
 
This edition, a crime thriller and a fantasy novel. Just to keep you balanced! ANNE BUISST- Locked Ward A psychiatrist with a bipolar disorder suspects the police have arrested the wrong person in a murder case. An insightful story about how women are often more vulnerable than men when it comes to mental health issues, written by an author who has…
  continue reading
 
It was Youth Book week so I have featured these two outstanding Young Adult Authors. As always on Narratives they read fromtheir own work and then discuss the book, their lives and being a writer. NAT AMOORE - WE RUN TOMORROW Nat Amoore hosts a podcast on kidslit, rides a skateboard and had very cool sneakers which matched the illustrations in her …
  continue reading
 
The Second podcast of three authors featured at the BAD Crime Writers Festival in Sydney in 2022. These three authors will also be featured in this years festival - Margaret Hickey, Suzanne Leal and Rae Cairns. Held annually in the glorious atmosphere of the Mitchell State Library of NSW, BAD features more than 60 top crime writers with fascinating…
  continue reading
 
BAD Crime Writers Festival is Australia's premier crime writers gathering. Over 5 days of special guests, authors reads, top crime experts, lawyers, barristers , and more get together and discuss all things criminal, dramatic and mysterious. Held in the historic Mitchell Library in Sydney it is a fun event for lovers of crime novels and authors. In…
  continue reading
 
Michael Sharmon left Australia in 2010 for Hong Kong to pursue a career in musical theatre. What followed was 12 amazing years of writing, producing, directing and performing around the country - sometimes 5 shows in one day! He looks back very fondly on this time and the opportunities it afforded him. Four original tracks of music.…
  continue reading
 
George Smilovici was a highly successful comedian who is now a musician who divides his time between Cuba ( where he grew up) and Byron Bay Australia. He is a guitarist and composer with a 14 piece band in Cuba and says he sometimes puts a few jokes in his solo shows just for old times sake. This interview with Karena Wynn-Moylan was first broadcas…
  continue reading
 
Melbourne singer/songwriter, multi instrumentalist and choir leader Phia has a brand new self titled album. Karena Wynn-Moylan talks to her about the songs on the album, motherhood and music, and coming back to Australia after success overseas. Four songs from the Album - Someone Out There, All My Friends, Coffee After 3, and Full Circle.…
  continue reading
 
Irish born, Berlin based singer/songwriter Wallis Bird has released a new album 'Hands' - 91/2 songs for 91/2 fingers. In production and arrangements it is a fresh take on her material. Here she talks with radio presenter of Arts Canvass Karena Wynn-Moylan. Contains four tracks from the album: What's Wrong with Changing, I Lose Myself Completely, D…
  continue reading
 
Benjamin Gilmour is a writer and director and also poet and paramedic. His film 'Jirga' is a powerful statement about war and the destruction of innocent people on both sides. In this interview he discusses with broadcaster Karena Wynn-Moylan about the calculating of risk involved in making this film in Afghanistan and the importance of cinema.…
  continue reading
 
Karena Wynn-Moylan chats to Gareth Koch about his beautiful new album 'Saladin's Dream'. This album reflects many of Gareth's accomplishments as a musician and obsessions with history. Taking his cue from a number of medieval and middle eastern styles, Gareth plays a range of instruments based around the the idea of the dreams of this historic figu…
  continue reading
 
This was the first interview Steve gave on the release of his latest and newest musical offering 'The Hall of Counterfeits'. Steve is a musician who is always striving to challenge himself and explore new ways of presenting his musical ideas. Working freely in a two day studio session with musicians Gareth Koch, Barton Price and Roger Mason (The Wi…
  continue reading
 
LUKA BLOOM -BITTERSWEET CRIMSON Luka Bloom’s latest album ‘Bittersweet Crimson’ is actually his 22nd- that’s a lot of song writing, a lot of stories, and a lot of touring. But as he tells Arts Canvass’s Karena Wynn-Moylan in this revealing interview, he now writes different material to the those first albums, more outward looking, and ironically, h…
  continue reading
 
It seems the podcast world is fascinated with reopening cold cases at the moment and the book ‘Shark Arm’, is the re-examination of an infamous incident in 1935 in Sydney Australia in which a shark, in an aquarium, regurgitated a human arm. Author Kevin Meagher tells broadcaster Karena Wynn-Moylan a little of the secrets he and fellow author, Phill…
  continue reading
 
The prospect of an ever increasing drying and inflammable countryside is one Australians are having to come to terms with. No longer just a ‘dry year’, 2019/2020 has brought an awareness to Australia and the rest of the world of what climate change is going to wreak upon our lives. Historically, fire has always been present in the Australian landsc…
  continue reading
 
Australian Musician and keen surfer Ash Grunwald has produced a book of interviews with people who he admires who are 'double trouble' - multi skilled musicians who also surf well, and vice-versa. Narratives interviewer Karena Wynn-Moylan turns the tables on him by interviewing him about his book but first he gives a short read from one chapter.…
  continue reading
 
Radio Zid was a community radio station that continued broadcasting throughout the Bosnian war. Its presenters were snipered, bombed, starved and dehydrated ( no water or electricity for nearly 3 years) but they continued broadcasting. driven by the knowledge that the community needed them and they needed to tell the community and the world what wa…
  continue reading
 
‘Eventual Poppy Day’ by Libby Hathorn, is based around letters a young man sent home from the warfront in WW1, and ‘A Soldier, a Dog and a Boy’ is a children's picture book story about a young man adopting a homeless dog he befriended in the warzone. Both tales are based on true stories Libby read or researched from actual wartime reporting. TM Cla…
  continue reading
 
Romance fiction is a multimillion dollar industry in Australia and also has some of the highest paid and most popular authors in the country from the number of authors who have international publishing deals. So, have you got a heart tugger lurking in the bottom drawer? How would you go about getting it published? Is it bettert o self publish? what…
  continue reading
 
‘Position doubtful’ is an old surveyors map term used for areas where it is almost impossible to get a landmark for bearing. In her memoir , Kim Mahood uses this term to apply to her memories of the history of a homestead that used to belong to her family and her deep attachment to the land and its indigenous peoples that surround this place. Here …
  continue reading
 
Luc SAnte is an author and critic. He is frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books. ‘The Other Paris’ is actually a walk through the history of Paris from 200 hundred years ago to the 20 century The Paris we know today was, in Napoleon’s time, a city surrounded by a slowly destroyed rural life, where the fringes of the cities inhabitants…
  continue reading
 
Hear author Jeneveive Chang as she recounts an exciting but also dangerous time she spent as a young dancer in Shanghai in The Good Girl of Chinatown , and Nadja Spiegelman will enter that fraught area of the relationship between a highly strung mother and her daughter in her memoir ‘I’m supposed to protect you from all this’. Music tracks : ‘I lov…
  continue reading
 
Nick earls is an Australian novel writer who has written over twenty books for both adults and children. He has won numerous awards internationally and nationally for his writing and two of his books ( 48 shades of brown and Perfect Skin )have been adapted into feature films, and five into stage plays. ‘Wisdom Tree; is actually a series of five nov…
  continue reading
 
Today our edition has a science fiction theme . In ‘Spark’ Rachel Craw has a group of teenagers, fumbling with their own emerging feelings and identities caught up in a tale of genetic engineering and superheroes, James Bradley explains the title of his work ‘Clade’ and reads from the opening chapter when the hero has elected to go on a mission to …
  continue reading
 
Today our edition has a serious theme as two authors give us very different accounts of the horrors of war. Australian Artist George Gittoes has been present at so many wars I actually lost count and he corrected me when I was interviewing him. As a public speaker he is riveting His book ‘Blood Mystic’ is an account of just a few of the warzones he…
  continue reading
 
JESSE BLACKADDER – 60 SECONDS; ASHLEY HAY – 100 SMALL LESSONS Our two authors today have set their work in tropical areas, and it is this ‘sense of place’ that imbues their characters trajectory. In Jesse Blackadder’s ‘ 60 Seconds’ – a move from Tasmania to the Northern rivers of NSW provides the backdrop to a family tragedy, while in Ashley Hay’s …
  continue reading
 
Lance Balchin ‘Mechanica’ ; Jack Heath – ‘The Cut Out’ ; Fleur Ferris – ‘Black’. This week three fabulous authors who are classed as ‘Young Adult’- which means really, anyone over the ages of 14 will enjoy them. Lance Balchin reads from ‘Mechanica’ – of a world without insects and animals, Jack Heath’s ‘The Cut Out’ , his protagonist also inhabits …
  continue reading
 
Keenan Malik- ‘From Fatwah to Jihad’ Keenan Malik is an Indian-born British writer, lecturer and broadcaster, trained in neurobiology and the history of science . he is also a writer, lecturer and broadcaster and a presenter of Analysis, BBC Radio 4's flagship current affairs programme and a panelist on the Moral Maze. It is 20 years since the late…
  continue reading
 
Lesley Truffle –‘The Fabulous Hotel du Barry and 'The Scandalous Life of Sacher Torte' with Cassandra Dean –‘Silk and Scars’ Two fabulous romance/adult/fiction writers to while away the holidays. Lesley Truffle's heroines are feisty and lusty, and never say die no matter how grim the situation. Cassandra Dean's heroine is a poor scribe who becomes …
  continue reading
 
Loading …

Quick Reference Guide