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Hosted by Karen Hollands · fiction · EN-AU
A monthly podcast about short stories written by Australian authors. Hosted by Karen Hollands, each episode features a short story read by its author followed by a conversation about their story.
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Booking probability
35%
Guest openness
Selective
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Signup to Generate a PitchA monthly podcast about short stories written by Australian authors. Hosted by Karen Hollands, each episode features a short story read by its author followed by a conversation about their story.
Australian Shorts is hosted by Karen Hollands. The show has published 14 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Australian Shorts Episode 14 Inga Simpson" (30 September 2026, 58 minutes), "Australian Shorts Episode 12 Fiona Robertson" (2 August 2026, 59 minutes), and "Australian Shorts Episode 11 Laura Jean McKay" (30 June 2026, 73 minutes).
Australian Shorts publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 62 minutes across 14 episodes.
Booking probability for Australian Shorts is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Australian Shorts requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Australian Shorts's contact route on record: public web form.
Karen Hollands hosts Australian Shorts, a fiction podcast with 14 episodes published.
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Episode #14
Episode 14 of Australian Shorts features Inga Simpson. Inga is the author of six novels, including The Thinning , Willowman , and Mr Wigg , as well as the nature writing-memoir, Understory: a life with Trees and two...
Episode #12
Episode 12 of Australian Shorts features Fiona Robertson. Fiona’s short story collection If You’re Happy was shortlisted for the Richell Prize in 2018 and won the Glendower Award for an unpublished manuscript in the...
Episode #11
Episode 11 of Australian Shorts features Laura Jean McKay. Laura was the 2025 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Fellow to Cork, Ireland and is the author of two short story collections, Holiday in Cambodia and...
Episode #10
<p>Episode 10 of Australian Shorts features Melanie Cheng. Melanie is a writer and general practitioner based in Naarm, Melbourne. Her debut short story collection, Australia Day, won the 2018 Victorian Premier's...
Episode #9
<p>Episode 9 of Australian Shorts features Alex Cothren. Alex is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Flinders University. He is a winner of the Carmel Bird, William van Dyke, Griffith Review Emerging Voices and Peter...
Episode #8
<p>Episode 8 of <b>Australian Shorts</b> features Cate Kennedy. Cate writes across genres and is widely published but perhaps best known as a short story author. Her two collections, Dark Roots and Like a House on Fire...
Episode #7
<p>Episode 7 of <b>Australian Shorts </b>features Jane Rawson. Jane is the author of six books, most recently the essay collection Human/Nature: On life in a wild world (New South 2025) and the speculative historical...
Episode #6
<p>Episode 6 of <b>Australian Shorts </b>features Kate Ryan. Kate is an award-winning writer of fiction and non-fiction, manuscript assessor, writing mentor and writing teacher. Her work has appeared in various literary...
Episode #5
<p>Episode 05 of Australian Shorts features Anne Casey-Hardy. Anne began writing after a long career as a librarian and advocate for families of premature babies. In 2018, she won the Peter Carey Short Story Award for...
Episode #4
<p>Episode 4 of <b>Australian Shorts </b>features Laura Elvery. Laura is the author of two short story collections: Trick of the Light and Ordinary Matter.</p><p>She is a past winner of the Josephine Ulrick Prize for...
Episode #3
<p>Episode 3 of <b>Australian Shorts</b> features Laurie Steed. Laurie’s short fiction has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and published in Best Australian Stories, Award Winning Australian Writing, The Age, Meanjin...
Episode #2
<p>Episode 2 of <b>Australian Shorts </b>features Mirandi Riwoe. Mirandi’s short stories have appeared in Best Australian Stories, Meanjin, Review of Australian Fiction, Griffith Review and Best Summer...
Episode #1
<p>Welcome to Episode 1 of <b>Australian Shorts</b>. This podcast series begins with Amanda O’Callaghan.</p><p>Amanda has written and published many short stories and her fiction has been awarded and shortlisted in...
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