Fully Lit
Episodes
20. Fully Lit Live: Author, arise! Decolonising Barthes
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we return to Roland Barthes’ famous 1967 essay, The Death of the Author. This influential text is often taught as an anti-authorita...
19. Fully Lit Live: Rebel Daughters - a UTS Writer's Festival event
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded at the UTS Writers’ Festival on Friday, 7 November 2025, this episode of Fully Lit Live brings you Rebel Daughters, where you’ll hear acc...
18. Fully Lit Live: Yumna Kassab’s Dictionary of Parramatta
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In December 2023, the Sydney Review of Books and Western Sydney University's Writing and Society Research Centre were delighted to announce reno...
17. Fully Lit Friends: Send for Nellie! by History Lab
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we’re bringing you a story from our friends at History Lab.Historical novelist Sienna Brown brings to life the story of Nellie Smal...
16. Fully Lit Live: Poets Speak at Parramatta Lit
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this special live episode of Fully Lit, we head to Parramatta for The Poets Speak, an evening of powerful readings and conversation presented by...
15. Fully Lit live: Gail Jones on writing at a slant
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Explore the poetic, philosophical, and genre-defying world of Gail Jones’s latest novel, The Name of the Sister, in this episode of Fully ...
14. Critics Rejoice Live: at Parramatta's Lit
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this spirited discussion, three critics—Max Easton, Eda Gunaydin, and Lucy Van—join Sydney Review of Books editor, James Jiang, to explore the ...
13. Surveying the scene: poet tasting, poet eating and poetry criticism today
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Poetry month has been and gone, but we have plenty more to say about poetry and poetry criticism!So we're bringing you a 2024 episode of 'Poetry Says,...
12. Fully Lit Live: The Poet in the Public Arena
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hear what poet and critic Sarah Holland-Batt has to say about Australia's as-yet-uncrowned Poet Laureate. She takes a close look at the tradition and ...
11. Fully Lit live: sound and fury as we talk podcasting in the pub
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This special edition of Fully Lit Live was recorded at the Abercrombie Hotel in Sydney, on beautiful Gadigal land. It was a night of celebration, conv...
10. Blackfella Book Club on Firefront
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode Teela Reid and Merinda Dutton, the co-founders of Blackfulla Bookclub, talk about the online community they’ve built around First Na...
9. Fully Lit live: the 2025 Miles Franklin Award
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In an engaging, though-provoking and moving conversation, Winnie Dunn, Julie Janson and Siang Lu - all shortlisted for the 2025 Miles Franklin Literar...
8. Behind the paper curtain: the business of books
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Writer, editor and producer Charle Malycon (Penguin Random House and Overland literary journal) and co-founder and director of Amplify bookstore, Jing...
7. Sovereign Stories: First nations publishing
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anita Heiss, Wiradjuri woman, author and editor at large at Bundyi, a First Nations imprint at Simon & Schuster, shares her insights into the Aust...
6. The Language of Poetry
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Award-winning poets Bella Li and Ellen Van Neerven join fellow poet Lisa Gorton for a discussion on poetry, responsibility and poetry’s place in Aus...
5. The Poet and the Bulldozer
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How can poetry act upon the world? Hear John Kinsella hold up a bulldozer with a poem, and take a tour through his life as a reader, poet and activist...
Introducing... The Secret Life of Books podcast
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you're enjoying this podcast, here's a podcast we think you'll like too!The Secret Life of Books is made by Sophie Gee, an academic and a writer, a...
4. ‘Cognitive Imperialism:’ losing the colonial baggage
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Who gets to critique First Nations literature — and how should it be taught?Novelist Melanie Saward and critic Ben Etherington join writer and acade...
3. ‘Cultural Rigour:’ First Nations writing and its critics
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it really take to read and review First Nations writing with integrity?Wiradjuri poet and critic Jeanine Leane joins Graham Akhurst for a po...
2. The Australian novel now
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is the Australian novel today? Is it even a novel? And what remains of the idea of a national literature once we eschew nationalistic ...
1. The Australian novel and the world
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What makes a novel uniquely Australian? How do our stories stack up on the world stage? Writer, critic and former diplomat Nick Jose joins Lynda Ng—...
0. Welcome to Fully Lit: a podcast about Australian writing
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is Australian literature today? How does it connect to its roots in our recent and ancient pasts? And where is it headed? Welcome,...
Blackfulla Bookclub on Fire Front
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode Teela Reid and Merinda Dutton, the co-founders of Blackfulla Bookclub, talk about the online community they’ve built around Firs...
Pat Grant on getting The Grot to readers
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, graphic novelist Pat Grant explains what happened during the seven years it took him to make his second book, The Grot. We’ll a...
Climbing the Hill – poet Eileen Chong on writing and place
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the SRB podcast is an audio essay: ‘Climbing the Hill’ by Eileen Chong. We are fascinated by the ways the places we live s...
An Introvert’s Guide To Surviving An Arab Family of Extroverts
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
‘It’s not a document that anyone can see or get hold of, rather, it’s the way I’ve broken things down to guide me and my anxie...
Award Rate – Andrew Brooks and Laura Elizabeth Woollett on writing, money, work and prizes
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In recent years there’s been a trend of writers publicly giving away prize money to charity or sharing it with other shortlisted writers. But wh...
Welcome to the Sydney Review of Books Podcast
22 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Sydney Review of Books podcast, a show about Australian books and writers. Each week we publish criticism and essays by Australia&rsquo...