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Alex, Amy and Sean (aka Dr Alex Vickery-Howe, Dr Amy T Matthews and Dr Sean Williams) are professional writers who also lecture full-time at Flinders University, South Australia. They’ve joined forces to cover topics of interest to new writers in a lively, conversational style that frequently segues to areas far from where they started. If you’ve ever wondered what writers talk about beyond the lecture theatre or festival circuit, here’s your chance to find out. Bios Dr Alex Vickery-Howe is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. In 2008 he made his writing debut with a bilingual, bicultural horror rock musical in Okinawa, Japan, where it opened the Kijimuna Festival (now Ricca Ricca Festival) and played to rave reviews and full houses, before selling out again at the Adelaide OzAsia Festival. He has subsequently written and published works for a number of Australian theatre companies. On screen, Alex has written and directed short films which have played to a variety of international festivals. He holds a PhD from Flinders University, where he specialises in writing internationally for younger audiences. Links: https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/alex.vickeryhowe Dr Amy Matthews is an award-winning novelist who publishes literary fiction under the name Amy T Matthews and historical fiction under the name Tess LeSue. She's published short stories in collections including Best Australian Stories and co-edited three anthologies of short fiction and poetry. Amy is a past chair and current board member of Writers SA and teaches creative writing at Flinders University. Her current research focusses on writing colonial historical fiction and the intersections of gender, race and power in romance. This makes it all sound very serious. It's actually ridiculously fun. Links: https://amytmatthews.com https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/amy.t.matthews https://tesslesue.com   Dr Sean Williams is an award-winning, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of forty-nine novels and over one hundred and twenty short stories for adults, young adults and children. As well as his original fiction, he has contributed to shared universes such as Star Wars and Doctor Who, collaborated with authors like Garth Nix, and lived on an Antarctica base in the name of research. His latest novel is Impossible Music, about a young heavy metal guitarist who loses his hearing. He teaches creative writing at Flinders University and writes music under the monicker “theadelaidean”. Links: www.seanwilliams.com https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/sean.williams

Episode Date
Episode 68: ‘Spam’ (Collaboration)
Feb 04, 2024
Episode 67: ‘Protect Your Groin’ (Action & Pacing)
Jan 28, 2024
Episode 66: ‘There Definitely Is Such A Thing As A Stupid Question’ (What People Ask Writers)
Jan 21, 2024
Episode 65: ‘The Substitute Alex’ (Satire with Alex Cothren)
Jan 14, 2024
Episode 64: ‘Don’t Touch My Dad’ (Instant Stories)
Jan 07, 2024
Episode 63: ‘The Alex Challenge’ (Dialectic Writing)
Dec 31, 2023
Episode 62: ‘More Has to be Going On’ (Bad Sex Awards)
Dec 24, 2023
Episode 61: ‘Writing Tips, The Sequel’ (More Advice)
Dec 17, 2023
Episode 60: ‘Inside the Giant Spiders’ (Immortality)
Dec 10, 2023
Episode 59: ‘The Ambivalent Casanova’ (Types of Writers, Part Two)
Dec 03, 2023
Episode 58: ‘The Ambivalent Casanova’ (Types of Writers, Part One)
Nov 26, 2023
Episode 57: ‘Alex's Manly Clap’ (Playlists and Musical Musings)
Nov 19, 2023
Episode 56: ‘Every Human Being Has A Pinch Point’ (Beat Sheets)
Nov 12, 2023
Episode 55: ‘The Secret is...’ (Dead Blokey Gasbags)
Nov 05, 2023
‘It’s Good to be Back’ (All About Us)
Jun 19, 2023
‘Shades of Great’ (Interculturalism)
Jun 12, 2023
‘Happily Never After’ (Tropes)
Jun 05, 2023
‘Beware the Broccoli’ (Someone Else’s Advice)
May 29, 2023
‘All the Feels’ (Popular Romance Studies)
May 22, 2023
‘Of Course It's a Sex Romp’ (Dead Tomes)
May 15, 2023
‘Let's Stress Heat’ (Cli Fi)
May 08, 2023
‘Rise of the Word Docs’ (Balancing Commitments)
May 01, 2023
‘Deadwood Doughnuts’ (The Word Docs Challenge)
Apr 24, 2023
‘Scrambled Legs’ (Nerding Out With Sean)
Apr 17, 2023
‘That Sense of Magic’ (Dirty Craft)
Apr 10, 2023
‘A Little Sidebar’ (The exegesis)
Apr 03, 2023
‘Amy Didn’t Like It’ (Endings)
Mar 27, 2023
‘The End is the Beginning’ (A Non-Linear Finale)
Mar 22, 2023
EXTRA - Introducing: Fool Me Twice: All About Diamonds
Jun 16, 2021
“You Know Alex” (Watchlist) - Word Docs
Jun 10, 2021
'My Medium Career (Ego)' - Word Docs
Feb 08, 2021
“There Will Be Nudity” (Pilgrimages) - Word Docs
Feb 01, 2021
'Too Much Busyness and Noise' (Downtime) - Word Docs
Jan 18, 2021
'Ho Ho Ho: Word Docs find the Sanity Clause'
Dec 28, 2020
'The Avengers Season Finale (interview with Dr Piri Eddy and Dr Peter Beaglehole)'
Dec 21, 2020
"Here’s to Brutality" (Editing and Publishing Live!)
Dec 14, 2020
"Warts and All" (Living with Art and Artist) - Word Docs
Nov 30, 2020
“What Did the ’80s Bring Us?” (Coping with the Unexpected)
Nov 16, 2020
'Kiss, Date, Marry' (Submitting Your Work) - Word Docs
Nov 09, 2020
‘I’ll Find a Way’ (Research) - Word Docs
Nov 02, 2020
"Happy Halloween Birthday, Amy" (Outtakes) - Word Docs
Oct 26, 2020
“Settle Down, Tiger” (Juggling) - Word Docs
Oct 19, 2020
“We Can Do This” (Return of the Heroes) - Word Docs
Oct 12, 2020
“Welcome to Thunderdome” (Theme)
Oct 05, 2020
“Kevin Bacon's Shorts” (Guilty Pleasures) - Word Docs
Sep 28, 2020
“Stimulating and Unnerving” (Teaching Online) - The Word Docs
Sep 21, 2020
“I Am Norman Bates!” (What Are We Doing?) - The Word Docs
Sep 14, 2020
“The Book of Sean” (The 10.5 Commandments) - The Word Docs
Sep 07, 2020
“The Punk Rock of Literature” (Interview with Dr Jonny Zweck)
Aug 17, 2020
“Could Do Better” (Savaging Notting Hill)
Aug 10, 2020
“I Want the Buns!” (Genre)
Aug 03, 2020
“It's the Science Fiction Writers' Fault” (Interview with Garth Nix)
Jul 28, 2020
“Masters of Procrastination” (Procrastination)
Jul 06, 2020
“Strange Magic” (Lisa L Hannett Interview)
Jun 29, 2020
“Bring It On” (Criticism)
Jun 22, 2020
“A Bit Like Stalin” (Killing Characters)
Jun 15, 2020
“Before They Were Infamous” (Odd Jobs)
Jun 08, 2020
"When Technology Meets Hubris" (Failures)
Jun 01, 2020
“The Secret, Part One” (Publishing)
May 25, 2020
"Welcome to the FOMO Food Court" (Acclaim vs Popularity)
May 18, 2020
“Space Kittens, Attack!” (Heroes & Villains)
May 11, 2020
“Meet the Gremlins” (ABC Interview)
May 04, 2020
Bonus Book Launch Episode
Apr 29, 2020
Where’s Harry? (Characters)
Apr 27, 2020
Being Medium (How do you know when you’re a writer?)
Apr 20, 2020
On Your Bike (Networking)
Apr 12, 2020
Hell is Other People (The Writing Environment)
Apr 06, 2020
That’s Weird (Creativity)
Mar 30, 2020
Special COVID Episode
Mar 25, 2020
Happy Writing (Deadlines)
Mar 23, 2020
Podvertise - What is it?
Jan 17, 2020