The Garret: Writers on Writing (thegarretpodcast.com) is a podcast writers for writers about the craft of writing. It is hosted Astrid Edwards, and her goal is to interview the best writers in Australia (and perhaps some from abroad) about how and why they do what they do.
The Garret is educational in outlook. We received funding from The Copyright Agency to develop a series of interviews with diverse writers whose works should appear on the school curriculum. We have previously received two grants from the Australia Council for the Arts.
A defining feature of The Garret is our transcripts. Each interview is published with a complete transcript (so you don’t have to write anything down while you listen).
In 2019 and 2020 we were a media partner for the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in Bali Indonesia, and released three of the live events Astrid moderated at the festival through The Garret.
Listen to one of our most popular interviews, with the phenomenal writer Charlotte Wood:
As a podcast, The Garret: Writers on Writing has:
* Reached #86 overall on the Australian Apple Podcasts charts and #11 on the Australia Arts Apple Podcast charts
* Was shortlisted for Best Literature, Arts and Music Podcast in the 2017 and 2019 Australian Podcast Awards
* Surpassed 440,000 downloads.
