Sydney Writers' Centre Podcasts

Podcast interviews with authors
At the Sydney Writers' Centre, we hope to inspire you to grab your pen - or your laptop - and start writing.

While our courses will equip you with the skills to achieve your writing goals, our podcasts will share insights from successful writers on how they've done it.

In our podcast series, Valerie Khoo interviews authors so you can find out why they write, what they write about and what keeps their creative juices flowing.

So take a seat, grab a coffee (or a glass of wine) and let these authors inspire you to get creative - and get published.

Every week, we'll add more interviews to our podcast series.
Here are the ones that are available now:

Michael Whelan is the author of The Other Country, a book about his son’s autism. He gave up his job to care for his son and made a discovery not only about his son, but about his family and himself along the way.

Tim Ferriss is author of The Four Hour Work Week - a book that debuted on the New York Times and Wall Street Journal best seller lists, has so far been published in 31 countries and made headlines around the world.

Pamela Freeman is an award-winning author and one of our creative writing teachers here at the Sydney Writers’ Centre. She is author of 19 books and her most recent, Blood Ties, is an epic fantasy. It’s the first in a trilogy, with the second and third books Deep Water and Full Circle coming soon.

Libby Gleeson has published over 30 books for children and teenagers. She has been shortlisted for the CBCA Awards twelve times and has won the Book of the Year for Younger Readers Award in 1997 with Hannah and the Tomorrow Room, and the Picture Book of the Year Award in 2002 for An Ordinary Day.

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Tristan Bancks' latest book The Rules of Cool was launched at the Byron Bay Writer’s Festival. He is a former actor on the iconic Australian series Home and Away and has also written two series of books called Dreamracers and Hollywood or Bust.

Anna Fienberg has written many award-winning books, short stories and junior novels including the Tashi series. The latest title is the fifteenth Tashi book Tashi and the Phoenix. Anna's most recent book for older readers is called Number Eight.

Garth Nix's fantasy books have sold over 4.5 million copies around the world and been translated into 36 languages. His books include the award-winning fantasy novels Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen and the young adult science fiction novel Shade’s Children.