Season 3, Episode 4: Bloom

Crossings: The EWF Podcast

Léa Antigny, Paige Clark and Laura Stortenbeker share their readings for today's episode, Bloom. As we transition in more ways than one, out of lockdown and into warmer days, it's a pleasure to hear from these talented emerging writers on the things changing and blooming in their lives. Léa Antigny is a Sydney-based publicist and writer whose personal essays and non-fiction have been published in The Guardian, Kill Your Darlings, and The Lifted Brow. Paige Clark is a Chinese-American-Australian writer, researcher and teacher. Her fiction has appeared in Meanjin, and, in 2019, she was runner-up for the Peter Carey Short Story Award and shortlisted for the David Harold Tribe Fiction Award. She Is Haunted is her first book, keep hearing great things about, out now with Allen and Unwin. Laura Stortenbeker is a writer and editor. Her work has been published in Overland, Meanjin and Kill Your Darlings. In 2017 she was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. Also, just a reminder that the open artist call-out for the 2022 Emerging Writers’ Festival is closing soon on December 3rd. You can go to our website to get your application in to be part of the festival. This podcast was audio produced by Joe Buchan, and our theme music was created by Thu Care. You can find out more about the team behind this podcast and the artists featured in this episode on the EWF website. This podcast was produced on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation – EWF pays respect to their elders past and present, and to the elders of all lands that this podcast reaches.