Dan Buhagiar from Double J talks about getting into radio as a career, and how you can continue on making audio stories after you've completed our Blocast project.

Writers Bloc Makes Noise #4

Oct 30th, 2014 7m 42s

Phill English explains how Tim and Phill Talk about Games gets made for week 4 of our podcasting series. Find him at www.timandphill.comMusic: Beautocracy by Podington Bear.

WB Makes Noise #3

Oct 23rd, 2014 1m 45s

This week we look at a template and how we went recording a piece of text. The recording apps worked well, the length of the piece did not. Read our evaluation here: http://www.thewritersbloc.net/writers-bloc-makes-noise-podcasting-part-iii

Sound Check For WB Makes Noise

Oct 16th, 2014 2m 11s

As part of our podcast series with All the Best, Writers Bloc will be chatting to radio makers and giving tips on how to turn your beautiful prose into a quick audio story. This is a snapshot of the sound quality you'll get if you choose to r

Writers Workspace Series ‖ Patrick Lenton

Sep 12th, 2014 9m 49s

Patrick Lenton is a playwright, fiction writer and blogger, based in Sydney Australia. He blogs at The Spontaneity Review. He was a Finalist in the 2013 SOYA Awards. His plays have names like ‘Sexy Tales of Paleontology’ and ’100 Years of Lizar

Writers Workspace Series ‖ Zoe Norton Lodge

Jul 1st, 2014 9m 7s

Zoe Norton Lodge is a writer/presenter on The Checkout (ABC1). She is writing her first book with Giramondo Publishing. Zoe is the co-creator of Story Club, a monthly storytelling night which is also currently being developed for ABC2.

Writers Workspace Series ‖ David M Henley

Jun 30th, 2014 9m 40s

David M Henley has worked in Australian trade publishing for many years and grown a successful design and publishing studio. He is the author of the Pierre Jnr trilogy and has written and illustrated two esoteric novellas (The Museum of Unnatur

Writers Workspace Series ‖ Oliver Mol

Jun 4th, 2014 10m 21s

Oliver Mol is a Sydney-based writer. He is 26. He grew up between America and Australia. He has lived in Houston, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. He was the recipient of a 2014 ArtStart Grant, the co-winner of the 2013 Scribe Nonfiction Prize f

Writers Workspace Series ‖ Cathy Petőcz

May 23rd, 2014 9m 44s

Cathy Petőcz is an emerging Canberra-based theatre practitioner; a playwright, performer, animateur, and pop musician. She makes miniature installation theatre works, pop-up girl bands, and is currently finishing her first major play, Galaxies,

Writers Workspace Series ‖ Jono Lineen

May 11th, 2014 15m 34s

Jono Lineen was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and his family emigrated to Canada where, in his teens, he developed into a world class ski racer. The month before the 1988 Olympics, in which he was hoping to compete, his brother Gareth trag

Writers Workspace Series ‖ Ellie Malbon

Apr 23rd, 2014 9m 57s

Ellie Malbon writes poetry and performance pieces, and conducts research into ecological sustainability.She is based in Canberra where she works as a tutor and research assistant at the Australian National University.

Writers Workspace Series ‖ Christie Thompson

Apr 10th, 2014 10m 36s

Christie Thompson is an Phd candidate at ANU, tattoo apprentice, and self-confessed 'try-hard artist'. Her first novel, Snake Bite is published by Allen and Unwin, & is available in bookstores/ as an eBook.

Writers Workspace Series ‖ Summer Land

Mar 27th, 2014 7m 19s

Summer Land is an American blogger and author of Summerlandish: Do As I Say, Not As I Did. She is a contributor for FlamingoPink.com.au, Quarter Life Conversations and Ladybits on Medium. She currently lives with her husband, Paul, daughter, Da

Writers Workspace Series ‖ Roshelle Fong

Mar 14th, 2014 7m 9s

Roshelle is a filmmaker and performer who tries to experience life as ‘Play School: The Glitch Opera’ whenever possible. She is a Leap Year baby who moved to Canberra in 2012, and is currently in the passionate throes of a romance with ‘Bad!Sla

Rhyme Zone by Roshelle Fong

Mar 13th, 2014 4m 16s

Slam poet Roshelle Fong performs one of her poems for Writers Bloc.What would happen if www.rhymezone.com went down for a day?

Writers Workspace Series ‖ Nigel Featherstone

Feb 26th, 2014 8m 30s

Nigel Featherstone is an Australian writer of contemporary adult fiction and creative journalism. He is the author of the novellas I’m Ready Now (Blemish Books 2012), which was short-listed for the 2013 ACT Writing and Publishing Award for Fic

Writers Workspace Series ‖ Peter Taggart

Feb 11th, 2014 5m 56s

Peter Taggart is a Brisbane-based writer and theatre critic for ArtsHub. He writes about his family and occasionally Meryl Streep's family on his blog On The Verge of Compassion and co-hosts the fortnightly pop culture podcast Bring A Plate.

Writers Workspace Series ‖ Rosanna Stevens

Jan 29th, 2014 9m 8s

Rosanna Stevens' latest story -- Interviews with the Other Three Quarters -- is available through Seizure. Her essay on what we don't know about music will appear in The Griffith Review later this year. If you'd like to say hi or talk bed desks

Writers Workspace Series ‖ Broede Carmody

Jan 15th, 2014 5m 2s

Broede Carmody is writer, journalist and editor. Originally from north-east Victoria, he currently studies journalism at RMIT University. He is the editor of Catalyst magazine and poetry editor forVoiceworks. His poetry and fiction has appeared

Writers Workspace Series ‖ Isabel Roper

Dec 17th, 2013 5m 24s

Isabel Roper is a (finally) fifth-year ANU student who writes so she can avoid doing the washing up. She won the 2012 Mardi Gras Festival Short Story Competition (Under 26 division) and placed 3rd in the 2013 John Marsden Prize for Young Austra

To the Flight Attendant on QF11 to LA by CJ Bowerbird

Dec 4th, 2013 2m 29s

CJ Bowerbird is a spoken word artist and the 2013 Australian Poetry Slam Champion. He explores what it is to be human, taking audiences on flights through despair and salvation without ever losing his sense of humour. He has been a featured per