From Rome, Claudia joins Māori writer from Aotearoa, Michelle Rahurahu, to talk about families and the myths that families make, translating Ocean Vuong and F. Scott Fitzgerald, writing about being a CODA, and how language makes and unmakes us.

From Melbourne, Paige joins Aotearoa author Emma Sidnam to talk about short and long fiction, unnamed narrators, working on a book-length project without knowing what it will turn out to be, and other similarly heady things about being debut authors.

From Brisbane, Trent Dalton joins Melody Thomas to talk about the experience of collecting Brisbane’s love stories, the exuberant optimism of his characters against all odds, the propulsive nature of violence in his narratives, toxic masculinity and writing larger-than-life characters.

From Cork, Ireland, Sara Baume joins Catherine Chidgey for a conversation on writing, how they wrestle language on the page, what keeps a book going, and the radical possibility of ‘looking closely at the sublime’.

From Chicago, the author of Severance and Bliss Montage, Ling Ma, joins Aotearoa writer and creative producer Rosabel Tan, to talk about craft, identity and the genre-bending nature of her work.