winey writers
Arts & Culture Podcasts
two writers, phd students, and friends talking about everything from current reads, romance fiction, life in your early twenties, writing your first novel, and more — featuring occasional guest speakers, including industry professionals, authors, fellow academics and friends. Join our conversations about the books we love and hate, the ups and downs of being an emerging writer, what it’s like to be a phd student in writing, and everything else in between. This podcast embraces the messiness of conversations, and engages in a lot of — as Harry likes to call it — Fuckidiness™.
Location:
Australia
Genres:
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Description:
two writers, phd students, and friends talking about everything from current reads, romance fiction, life in your early twenties, writing your first novel, and more — featuring occasional guest speakers, including industry professionals, authors, fellow academics and friends. Join our conversations about the books we love and hate, the ups and downs of being an emerging writer, what it’s like to be a phd student in writing, and everything else in between. This podcast embraces the messiness of conversations, and engages in a lot of — as Harry likes to call it — Fuckidiness™.
Language:
English
Episodes
very strict about the wine consumption. — Season One Finale
10/15/2024
...and that's a wrap on winey writers, season one !!
this episode, we reflect on a year of podcasting: how our friendship has changed and improved through this process, why we are taking a break now, our favourite parts of the podcast, and what our (vague) plans are for the future.
a huge thank you to our listeners who have made it this far with us! we love and appreciate all of you, and hope that you'll tune back in for season two, 2025. <3
Duration:00:55:07
yes, Harry's gay. yes, Abby's sad. — Book Covers
10/8/2024
this episode, we discuss everything book covers: which covers are our favourites, which covers do we hate, what are our book cover pet peeves (movie editions, stickers, short covers, hardbacks), and how do we feel about AI art used on book covers?
Duration:01:08:42
it's sad to be heterosexual. — Music As Inspiration
10/1/2024
this episode, we challenge each other to a new writing task where we create characters, plots, and settings to match the songs we have selected for one another. This turned into conversations about our favourite artists (incl. Chappell Roan, Billie Eilish, Noah Kahan, etc.) and the use of music as inspiration.
Duration:01:00:59
a bandaid over an arterial wound. — Writing a Novel is Hard
9/24/2024
this episode, we sit down to chat about our writing progress and the challenges we are running into as we shape our debut novels. We discuss separating the critic from the author, a characters emotional journey, the cycles of imposter syndrome, and the urge to chase after new, shiny things instead of finishing the task at hand.
Duration:00:55:36
I don't care about Will Turner, only Elizabeth Swann. — 5 Star Books
9/17/2024
this episode, we discuss books that we thought would be 5 star reads but were not, and then books that we expected to be flops but were actually 5 star reads. Without spoiling which are which, our lists included: Assassins Blade by Sarah J. Maas; When The Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker; One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig; If We Were Villians by M. L. Rio; and more.
Duration:01:02:25
surprise mother fuckers, it's book club. — The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren
9/10/2024
it is such a rare thing for both of us to rate a book 5 stars, so when we each read The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren and fell equally in love with Anna and Liam...we HAD to record our thoughts.
The Paradise Problem is like Succession meets The Proposal and will single-handedly convince forced proximity haters that the trope is 100/10 when done right (and boy is it done right here).
Join us as we discuss what we loved, what we disliked, and our fancast picks for the Paradise Problem movie that we desperately need.
Duration:00:55:37
fuckin top that glass up, bucko. — RWAus Conference
9/3/2024
have you ever wanted to attend a giant three day party dedicated to romance novel obsessed individuals? RWAus might just be for you.
this episode, we have a conversation about the Romance Writers of Australia (RWAus) annual conference which we attended this August 2024. This includes discussions about networking, how under-appreciated the romance genre is, and just how welcoming the romance community can be.
(...and wine drinking, but that should be obvious by now.)
Duration:00:57:30
if my heart had a dick you would kick it. — Gideon the Ninth
8/27/2024
Welcome to #3 of the WineyWriters Book Club!
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir follows a sword-wielding, lesbian ginger with an undercut and aviators—what else could you possibly need in a novel, really? Join us as we rave about all things necromancer and cavalier, the brilliant mind of Muir, and our predictions for the rest of the Locked Tomb series.
Spoiler Alert: we are OBSESSED.
Duration:01:14:19
did you mean creepy pasta or creepy pastor? — Weird Fiction
8/20/2024
this week we're discussing Weird Fiction — often described as a liquid genre that seeps between the cracks of horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and mystery. It appears we were on a very different side of the internet than creepy pastas and Cthulhu and so we wrestle with internet definitions and articles to discover the conventions of Weird Fiction, discuss our own reoccurring nightmares, and question whether weird fiction can really be understood at all.
Duration:00:49:47
kind-of-disconcerted-by-eachothers-presence to lovers. — Book Tropes
8/13/2024
this week, we are attending a trope themed cocktail party, and so we're taking this opportunity to discuss everything book tropes! Our favourite tropes, least favourite tropes, how we feel about books being marketed by their tropes, which tropes we are absolutely sick of, and which tropes we use in our own writing.
Duration:00:55:09
it starts with the heart and it ends in space. — FUTURES anthology
8/6/2024
did you know we're published in a book?!
A local South Australian publisher, Glimmer Press, just published their most recent anthology: FUTURES, and our very own winey writer hosts made the cut. This episode, we review and discuss FUTURES including conversations about our own stories, how difficult it is to write short form, what it's like to attend a book launch you're part of, and which stories in this collection really touched our hearts.
interested in owning a copy? you can purchase through the link below <3
https://www.glimmerpress.com.au/product/futures/
Duration:00:46:51
murder your darlings. — How To Torture Characters
7/30/2024
TW: discussions of trauma, injury, illness, and death.
this episode, we discuss the craft of writing in terms of torturing characters — how to torture your characters, the importance of internal torturing, how to write emotion and trauma that you are unfamiliar with, and how much trauma is too much trauma?
Duration:00:59:42
how many toddlers could you take in a fight? — Monsters and Villains
7/23/2024
what makes the perfect villain? This episode we're chattin' monsters and villains, which includes discussions about how to write a convincing villain, how to keep readers invested in your monsters, and our favourite monsters/villains from books and media.
Duration:01:11:28
a believer in the woo woo. — Book Tarot
7/16/2024
this episode, Harry has cooked up some f*ckin' wild way for us to do tarot readings with books, and we put aside our pessimism to try our hand at reading fortunes. Can our (extremely) random assortment of novels tell us how successful are careers are? And what does the future say about our love lives?
Duration:00:50:01
we're on schedule for a menty b. — PhD Check In
7/9/2024
is a PhD in Creative Writing really worth it?
this episode is a PhD check in, in which we discuss what it looks like to be 18 months into a doctorate degree for Creative Writing. We chat about the drastic changes in our research topics, what we're working on now, what a PhD schedule looks like for us, and whether the PhD is worth it for aspiring writers.
Duration:01:00:22
i'm in a lot of debt to know what a sentence should look like. — Editing
7/2/2024
this episode we discuss how we feel about editing a novel, including what it's like to edit your own work, the different stages of a draft, and receiving constructive criticism. We also dedicate a significant amount of this conversation to which grammar choices make a sentence hotter (spoiler, a correctly used semi-colon is hot as hell and the em-dash is rising in popularity).
Duration:00:47:24
the queerness of it. — Happy Pride Month!
6/25/2024
Happy Pride Month!!
this episode, we celebrate Pride Month by having an open conversation about what it means to be queer, the definition of queerness, and queer politics. We apply these discussions of the LGBTQIA+ community to recent debates about Bridgerton, drag queens, and Gen Alpha activism while also recommending a range of fictional and academic readings.
Duration:01:09:07
fuck The Rings of Power?? — Series Review
6/18/2024
Harry is a fanatic of everything J.R.R. Tolkien, and Abby (who knows very little) finally watched The Rings of Power. This episode, we review Amazon Prime Video's adaption of the history of the Middle-earth, as detailed in the appendices of The Lord of the Rings. We discuss character, plot, predictability, and our opinion on book to film adaptions.
Duration:01:02:28
a time travelling sexaholic in search of the ultimate dinogasm. — Fake Book Titles
6/11/2024
this episode, we play a self-invented game/plotting exercise called 'Fake Book Titles' or 'These Books Do Not Exist' in which we exchange fabricated book titles and must brainstorm a relevant plot, characters, setting, etc. according to the book title alone. Listen in to hear all about a book with a burning sea, a budding romance between a bronco and his pickup rider, boys who fall in love over penne pasta, and more.
Duration:01:02:32
the absolute piggiest of stys. — How to Rot Consciously
6/4/2024
this episode, we discuss the importance of mental health days, regardless of where you sit on the rotting scale — from slightly bruised banana to wholemeal sandwich that has been in the bottom of a child's backpack for a week.
Duration:00:52:42