S6 Ep7: Imagining the Past—Summer/Autumn Season—2023— PAULA MORRIS IN CONVERSATION WITH JULIE JANSON AND CASSANDRA PYBUS
This session was recorded as part of the HNSA Conference 2021
1hr 2m May 30, 2023
1hr 2m
S6 Ep6: Imagining the Past—Summertime Season—2023— RICHARD LEE IN CONVERSATION WITH BEN KANE AND COLIN FALCONER
This session was recorded as part of the HNSA Conference 2021
1hr 2m Mar 17, 2023
1hr 2m
S6 Ep5: Imagining the Past—Summertime Season—2023—JACKIE BALLANTYNE IN CONVERSATION WITH ROSALIE HAM AND KAYTE NUNN
This session was recorded as part of the HNSA Conference 2021
1hr 2m Mar 07, 2023
1hr 2m
S6 Ep4: Imagining the Past—Summertime Season—2023— WRITING THE OTHER: REPRESENTATION, APPROPRIATION AND RESPECTFUL RESEARCH
This session was recorded as part of the HNSA Conference 2021
1hr 3m Feb 22, 2023
1hr 3m
S6 Ep3: Imagining the Past—Summertime Season—2023—Stephen Romei in conversation with Steven Carroll and Pip Williams.
This session was recorded as part of the HNSA Conference 2021
1hr 2m Feb 15, 2023
1hr 2m
S6 Ep2: Imagining the Past—Summertime Season—2023—Jenny Quinlan in conversation with Kate Forsyth and Kate Quinn.
This session was recorded as part of the HNSA Conference 2021.
1hr Feb 08, 2023
1hr
S6 Ep1: Imagining the Past—Summertime Season—2023—Geraldine Brooks
This session was recorded as part of the HNSA Conference 2021.
1hr 1m Jan 27, 2023
1hr 1m
S5 Ep6: Imagining the Past—2022—Kim Kelly
Kim Kelly discusses her latest novel, The Rat Catcher: A Love Story, with Greg Johnston, delving into technical decisions around Point of View and Voice, sensitivities required writing Australian History, and her long publishing history.
55m Oct 25, 2022
55m
S5 Ep5: Imagining the Past—2022—Stephanie Parkyn
Stephanie Parkyn discusses her latest novel, The Freedom of Birds with Greg Johnston, delving into research, technical decisions, and an antipodean writing about Europe.
38m Oct 18, 2022
38m
S5 Ep4: Imagining the Past—2022—Felice Arena
Felice Arena discusses with Greg Johnston his path to CYA Historical Fiction and his latest novel, The Unstoppable Flying Flanagan.
37m Oct 11, 2022
37m
S5 Ep3: Imaging the Past—2022—Anita Heiss
Anita Heiss discusses her landmark and groundbreaking novel, Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray—River of Dreams—shortlisted for the 2021 ARA Historical Novel Prize—with Greg Johnston.
44m Oct 04, 2022
44m
S5 Ep2: Imagining the Past—2022—Katrina Nannestad
Katrina Nannestad, winner of the 2021 ARA HISTORICAL NOVEL PRIZE—CYA CATEGORY, discusses We are Wolves with Greg Johnston, and the challenges of writing CYA Historical Fiction.
36m Sep 27, 2022
36m
S5 Ep1: Imagining the Past—2022—Jock Serong
Jock Serong, winner of the 2021 ARA HISTORICAL NOVEL PRIZE—ADULT CATEGORY, discusses The Burning Island with Greg Johnston, and some of the challenges of writing his series set in the Furneaux Group of islands.
42m Sep 20, 2022
42m
S4 Ep6: Imagining the Past—2021—Pip Williams
Pip Williams discusses The Dictionary of Lost Words with Greg Johnston and they gather up stories about her writing process and some of her choices.   
1hr 1m Oct 04, 2021
1hr 1m
S4 Ep5: Imagining the Past—2021—Steven Conte
Steven Conte speaks about planning and executing The Tolstoy Estate (2020), writing ‘behind the enemy lines’, the risks of shaking up a novel’s structure, and the Gurya Ghost and the Little Boy Lost with Greg Johnston.  
44m Sep 27, 2021
44m
S4 Ep4: Imagining the Past—2021—Susanne Gervey
CYA author Susanne Gervey discusses her new time-slip novel, Heroes of the Secret Underground, migration, sculpting stories from WWII for CYA, and Pálinka with Greg Johnston 
42m Sep 06, 2021
42m
S4 Ep3: Imagining the Past—2021—Julie Janson
Julie Janson is a Burruberongal woman of Darug nation.  She discusses her recent novel, Benevolence, the challenges of writing First Nation's Historical Fiction, and of First Nation's writers finding publishers with Greg Johnston. 
32m Aug 30, 2021
32m
S4 Ep2: Imagining the Past—2021—Sienna Brown
Shortlisted for the inaugural ARA Historical Fiction Prize 2020, author Sienna Brown discusses writing, multifaceted research, constructing Jamaican patois, and Master of My Fate with Greg Johnston.
51m Aug 23, 2021
51m
S4 Ep1: Imagining the Past—2021—Mirandi Riwoe
Author and inaugural winner of the ARA Historical Fiction Prize 2020 Mirandi Riwoe discusses writing, research, gender-bending, sea-cucumbers and Stone Sky Gold Mountain with Greg Johnston. 
44m Aug 16, 2021
44m
S3 Ep14: Imagining the Past-HNSA2019-A French Affair: In conversation with Kate Forsyth and Natasha Lester
Imagining the Past’s new season features live recorded sessions from the 2019 HNSA conference brought to you by our host, Greg Johnston. Our  fourteenth episode explores the allure of France has often inspired historical novelists to conjure the romance and tumult of its history. Kate Forsyth’s latest novel, The Blue Rose, transports the reader to the perils of the French Revolution and the exo...
37m Oct 04, 2020
37m
S3 Ep13: Imagining the Past-HNSA2019-The Things We Don’t Know: research challenges across eras
Imagining the Past’s new season features live recorded sessions from the 2019 HNSA conference brought to you by our host, Greg Johnston. Our episode thirteenth explores the challenges faced in researching pre-history when there are no written records? How do you approach interpreting Middle Age chronicles? Or choose between a plethora of conflicting primary sources when delving into modern hist...
41m Sep 27, 2020
41m
S3 Ep12: Imagining the Past-HNSA2019-History and Mystery: weaving a web of truth and lies in detective fiction
Imagining the Past’s new season features live recorded sessions from the 2019 HNSA conference brought to you by our host, Greg Johnston. Our twelfth episode explores History and Mystery: weaving a web of truth and lies in detective fiction.  Writing historical crime fiction is like a treasure hunt for authors who dig up nuggets from the past to recreate old crimes and mysteries, both real and i...
38m Sep 20, 2020
38m
S3 Ep11: Imagining the Past-HNSA2019-The Silver Screen: scriptwriting and adaptations
Imagining the Past’s new season features live recorded sessions from the 2019 HNSA conference brought to you by our host, Greg Johnston. Our eleventh episode explores the silver screen: scriptwriting and adaptations.  More and more historical novels are being adapted for screen with lavish production values and high profile stars. What is the secret to writing scripts compared to books? How do ...
32m Sep 13, 2020
32m
S3 Ep10: Imagining the Past-HNSA2019-Walking Side by Side: collaboration between historical novelist and historian
Imagining the Past’s new season features live recorded sessions from the 2019 HNSA conference brought to you by our host, Greg Johnston. Our tenth episode explores Parramatta, the second penal settlement established in Australia. When Thomas Keneally and Meg Keneally decided to set their Monsarratt detective series there, Meg sought the assistance of local historian, Gay Hendrikson, to dig into...
43m Sep 06, 2020
43m
S3 Ep9: Imagining the Past-HNSA2019-Survival of the fittest: challenging interior and exterior landscapes
Imagining the Past’s new season features live recorded sessions from the 2019 HNSA conference brought to you by our host, Greg Johnston. Our ninth episode explores the survival of the fittest: challenging interior and exterior landscapes.  A stark Australian landscape is both menacing and beautiful in Rachel Leary’s Bridget Crack with a protagonist who must overcome physical and psychological t...
45m Aug 30, 2020
45m
S3 Ep8: Imagining the Past-HNSA2019-George and Georgette: Regency madness and inspiration
Imagining the Past’s new season features live recorded sessions from the 2019 HNSA conference brought to you by our host, Greg Johnston. Our eighth episode explores Regency madness and inspiration.  The Regency period lasted a mere nine years while Prince Regent George ruled as his temporarily mad father’s proxy. The glamour and charm of the era has lasted far longer with a plethora of novels s...
37m Aug 23, 2020
37m
S3 Ep7: Imagining the Past-HNSA2019-In conversation with Nicole Alexander and Ella Carey
Imagining the Past’s new season features live recorded sessions from the 2019 HNSA conference brought to you by our host, Greg Johnston. Our seventh episode is a personal history session: In conversation with Nicole Alexander and Ella Carey.  Nicole Alexander writes sweeping epics evoking the grandeur of Australian landscapes, the hardships of rural life, and the turmoil of historic events. Ell...
41m Aug 16, 2020
41m
S3 Ep6: Imagining the Past-HNSA2019-We Need to Talk about Bette and Joan: writing about famous figures
Imagining the Past’s new season features live recorded sessions from the 2019 HNSA conference brought to you by our host, Greg Johnston. Our sixth episode talks of Bette and Joan.  Elizabeth I and Joan of Arc have been the subjects of countless books, engendering myth, obsession, and various interpretations of their lives. Linda Funnell asks Jane Caro and Ali Alizadeh why they chose to investig...
43m Aug 09, 2020
43m
S3 Ep5: Imagining the Past-HNSA2019-The Feminine Mystique: Writing strong female protagonists
Imagining the Past’s new season features live recorded sessions from the 2019 HNSA conference brought to you by our host, Greg Johnston. Our fifth episode explores The Feminine Mystique.  Ensuring a female protagonist’s thoughts and actions remain true to the norms of by-gone eras and cultures causes headaches for writers – and readers. How does an author maintain immediacy if limited to second...
41m Aug 02, 2020
41m
S3 Ep4: Imagining the Past-HNSA2019-Intertwining Lives Revealed: the mystery in parallel narratives
Imagining the Past’s new season features live recorded sessions from the 2019 HNSA conference brought to you by our host, Greg Johnston. Our fourth episode explores parallel narratives.  Interlocking stories crossing different eras have been used to great effect in historical novels. What plot devices do authors use to trace the connections between their characters? Do writers use the same tech...
38m Jul 26, 2020
38m
S3 Ep3: Imagining the Past-HNSA2019- I am a Camera: exploring the nuance of point of view
Imagining the Past’s new season features live recorded sessions from the 2019 HNSA conference brought to you by our host, Greg Johnston. Our third episode explores point of view.  When starting to write, deciding which type of point of view will be exploited is a significant decision with far-reaching consequences. Who knows what? Who sees what? How much do you want the reader to know?  And whe...
41m Jul 19, 2020
41m
S3 Ep2: Imagining the Past-HNSA2019-It’s Academic: the value of writing degrees
Imagining the Past’s new season features live recorded sessions from the 2019 HNSA conference brought to you by our host, Greg Johnston. Our second episode explores Creative writing postgraduate degrees which have become increasingly popular in the last decade. Associate Professor Sara Knox (WSU) talks to Dr Jesse Blackadder, Dr Rachel le Rossignol and PhD candidate, Joshua Mostafa, about the b...
37m Jul 11, 2020
37m
S3 Ep1: Imagining the Past-HNSA2019-Dispossession and Betrayal
Imagining the Past’s new season features live recorded sessions from the 2019 HNSA conference brought to you by our host, Greg Johnston. Our first episode explores Dispossession and Betrayal: Recovering the Erased history of First Nations. Indigenous writers, Madison Shakespeare and Lisa Chaplin, discuss with Maori writer and academic, Dr Paula Morris, why Aboriginal history has been suppressed...
40m Jul 02, 2020
40m
S2 Ep6: Imagining the Past - Alison Goodman
Our final episode for this season features a queen of historical fantasy, Alison Goodman, author of seven novels including her award-winning Lady Helen Regency supernatural trilogy. Alison talks with host Kelly Gardiner about combining fantasy elements in a meticulously researched historical story.
44m Oct 21, 2019
44m
S2 Ep5: Imagining the Past - Nicole Alexander
Our interview with best-selling author Nicole Alexander on writing about rural Australia: the challenges, the research, the histories, and the people.
38m Sep 28, 2019
38m
S2 Ep4: Imagining the Past - Catherine Jinks
In this episode, we speak with Catherine Jinks, award-winning author of this year's Shepherd, and the Theophilus Grey and Pagan series - on voice, character, and writing for readers of all ages.
29m Sep 15, 2019
29m
S2 Ep3: Imagining the Past - David Whish-Wilson
Kelly Gardiner talks to David Whish-Wilson, author of The Coves, about the wild years of the American gold rush, fascinating people from the past, and the allure of crime writing.
40m Sep 08, 2019
40m
S2 Ep2: Imagining the Past - Pamela Hart
Award-winning author Pamela Hart on research, writing, and telling the stories of real people from the past.
41m Aug 26, 2019
41m
S2 Ep1: Imagining the Past - Jackie French
Author Jackie French discusses research, writing about the past and the future, reading, and the power of stories.
45m Aug 03, 2019
45m
Imagining the Past - Catherine Padmore & Kelly Gardiner
Kelly Gardiner and Catherine Padmore chat about the craft of writing Historical Bio-Fiction.
30m Aug 13, 2017
30m
Imagining the Past - Ngahuia te Awekotuku & Deborah Challinor
Kelly talks to Ngahuia and Deborah about the challenges of reinterpreting C19 narratives of first contact and colonisation #HNSA #NgahuiateAwekotuku #DeborahChallinor #historicalfiction
33m Jul 30, 2017
33m
Imagining the Past - Lucy Treloar
Kelly Gardiner chats with Lucy Treloar about specific issues encountered writing Australian colonial fiction #historialfiction #writing #history #fiction #LucyTreloar
33m Jul 09, 2017
33m
Imagining the Past - Kate Forsyth
Kelly Gardiner chats with Kate Forsyth about her passion for history, fairy tales and writing stories that combine both. #writing #history #historicalfiction #fiction #kateforsyth
33m Jul 06, 2017
33m
Imagining the Past - Sulari Gentill and Robert Gott
Kelly Gardiner chats to Sulari Gentill and Robert Gott about their fictional detectives and the challenges of co-writing an historical mystery play. #writing #history #historicalfiction #fiction #Sularigentill #robertgott
40m Jun 29, 2017
40m
Imagining The Past - Sophie Masson
Kelly Gardiner talks with publisher and novelist Sophie Masson about aspects of publishing and writing historical fiction for children and young adults.#writing #history #historicalfiction #fiction
31m Jun 16, 2017
31m