Oct 22, 202613 min
This week on The ABR Podcast , Nadia Wheatley reviews Sisters in Arms by Sarah Cochrane Ridout, the ‘powerful’ story of two Australian women who worked tirelessly to campaign for constitutional change in the...
About this Podcast:
Welcome to The ABR Podcast, produced by Australian Book Review. Released every Thursday, The ABR Podcast features a range of literary highlights, such as reviews, poetry, fiction, interviews, and commentary. Subscribe on iTunes, Google, or Spotify Podcasts, or whichever app you use to listen to your favourite podcasts.For more information about ABR, visit our website, www.australianbookreview.com.au
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What is The ABR Podcast about?
Welcome to The ABR Podcast, produced by Australian Book Review. Released every Thursday, The ABR Podcast features a range of literary highlights, such as reviews, poetry, fiction, interviews, and commentary. Subscribe on iTunes, Google, or Spotify Podcasts, or whichever app you use to listen to your favourite podcasts.
What has The ABR Podcast covered recently?
Recent episodes include "‘Fact and fiction: A story of two legendary women’ by Nadia Wheatley" (22 October 2026, 13 minutes), "‘Sphinx and her double: A Woolfian celebration of the moment’ by Anthony Macris" (15 October 2026, 9 minutes), and "‘Fierce ground: Laying down songline’ by Cheryl Leavy" (30 September 2026, 11 minutes).
How often does The ABR Podcast publish?
The ABR Podcast publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 16 minutes across 100 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on The ABR Podcast?
Booking probability for The ABR Podcast is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The ABR Podcast requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The ABR Podcast's contact route on record: verified email.
Who should pitch The ABR Podcast?
The strongest fits for The ABR Podcast are News, Magazine & Book Publishing. The ABR Podcast has a society audience.
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Recent episodes
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- Oct 15, 20269 min
This week on The ABR Podcast , Anthony Macris reviews Rachel Cusk’s fictional autobiography, Life of M , finding it ‘particularly strange and compelling’. Interrogating the uncomfortable relationship...
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‘Fierce ground: Laying down songline’ by Cheryl Leavy
Sep 30, 202611 minThis week on The ABR Podcast , Cheryl Leavy reviews Julie Janson’s ‘unsettling and powerful’ poetry collection, My Kaathi Sister , calling it a brand of truth-telling that is ‘embodied, tactile...
- Sep 23, 202610 min
This week on The ABR Podcast , Peter Goldsworthy shares a poignant account of writing sonnets by a Brisbane poolside in 1987 with the late poet Gwen Harwood and author Vikram Seth. One of Australia’s greatest...
Episode #292
The Nature Conservancy’s Nature Writing Prize
Sep 18, 202620 minToday’s episode marks a collaboration between ABR and The Nature Conservancy’s Nature Writing Prize as ABR becomes Media Partner of the prize. Today’s episode considers the notion that the way we write...
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Episode #291
‘Peach’ by Ursula Brunetti
Sep 3, 202635 minThis week on The ABR Podcast , we feature the third-place winner of the 2026 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, ‘Peach’ by Ursula Brunetti. In Brunetti’s riveting coming-of-age story, an exchange...
- Aug 27, 202612 min
This week on The ABR Podcast , Virginia Haussegger reviews Women Who Win by Antoinette Lattouf, a book that is not about ‘the anatomy of winning’, but rather about ‘the impact of fighting’. Using...
Episode #289
‘Backflip’ by Sam Keenan
Aug 20, 202616 minThis week on The ABR Podcast , we feature ‘Backflip’ by New Zealand author Sam Keenan, which placed second in the 2026 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. Set in a small New Zealand town in the 1980s...
- Aug 13, 202611 min
This week, on The ABR Podcast , we feature WA Senator Varun Ghosh’s essay, ‘Literary critic as democratic role model’, which discusses the relationship between literary criticism and politics. Ghosh...
Episode #287
‘C.Q.D.’ by Laura Elvery
Aug 6, 202627 minThis week on The ABR Podcast , we feature the winner of the 2026 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, ‘C.Q.D.’ by Laura Elvery. The young narrator of ‘C.Q.D.’ is on board the Carpathia...
Episode #286
‘The architecture of erasure’ by Elise Westin
Jul 30, 202619 minThis week on The ABR Podcast , we feature Elise Westin’s essay, titled ‘The architecture of erasure’. The third-place winner of the 2026 Calibre Essay Prize, ‘The architecture of erasure&rsquo...
- Jul 23, 202612 min
This week on The ABR Podcast , Lucy Sussex reviews The Stained Man by Patrick Mullins, a biography of the first Labor Lord Mayor of Sydney, Richard Meagher. Mullins’s book is a ‘genuinely riveting and...
- Jul 16, 202613 min
This week, on The ABR Podcast , Jessica White reviews Crip Stories: An anthology of disabled writers that attempts to ‘represent as wide a variety of multiply marginalised disabled experiences as possible&rsquo...
- Jul 5, 202611 min
This week on The ABR Podcast , Lisa Gorton reviews Tomorrow by Peter Goldsworthy. A poetic companion to Goldsworthy’s ‘expansive, thoughtful’ memoir The Cancer Finishing School , Tomorrow braids the...
- Jun 27, 202611 min
This week, on The ABR Podcast , we feature Killian Quigley’s review of Plotting the Oceans: Stories of powerful maps and their makers by Sarah Hamylton. Hamylton’s sharp insights emerge from her deeply...
- Jun 25, 202611 min
This week, on The ABR Podcast , we feature Killian Quigley’s review of Plotting the Oceans: Stories of powerful maps and their makers by Sarah Hamylton. Hamylton’s sharp insights emerge from her deeply...
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‘Tumbleweed: How the West was lost’ by Maria Takolander
Jun 18, 202631 minThis week on The ABR Podcast , we feature the runner-up in the 2026 Calibre Essay Prize, titled ‘Tumbleweed: How the West was Lost’, by Maria Takolander. Wide-ranging and delightfully digressive...
Episode #279
‘“One of our rarest gifts”: David Malouf in the pages of Australian Book Review’ by Carissa Chye
Jun 17, 202611 minThis week on The ABR Podcast , we feature Carissa Chye’s essay on David Malouf, titled ‘One of our rarest gifts’. A retrospective piece on ABR ’s rich, generative relationship with Malouf...
- Jun 4, 202616 min
This week on The ABR Podcast , we feature Marjon Mossammaparast’s essay, titled ‘When people ask me about the “situation” in Iran’. She traces the complicated...
- May 28, 202614 min
This week on The ABR Podcast , Katherine Wilson reviews ‘ Fed Up: A chef’s adventures in food, farming and feminism ’ by Lucy Ridge. Partially a memoir of Ridge’s disillusionment with a food...
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Jessica White
Associate Professor in Creative Writing and Literary Studies at Adelaide University, Royal United Services Institute
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Kevin Hart
Director of Bye Bye Birdie at the Hoogland Center for the Arts, Jo Rae Wright University Divinity School
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Sara Webb
Associate Dean, Innovation & Engagement, School of Science, Computing and Emerging Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology
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Stuart Kells
Adjunct Professor
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