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Not Too Busy To Write

By: Penny Wincer
  • Summary

  • Penny Wincer is not too busy to write. Except of course, sometimes she is too busy to write as much as she would like. Join Penny as she has conversations with other writers about writing, publishing and creativity whilst juggling all the demands on them such as motherhood, caring and other paid work. Penny Wincer is the author of Tender (Hodder, June 2020), a mother of two, a non-fiction writing coach and an Australian and long-term resident of London. She’s currently writing her second narrative non-fiction book, Home Matters (July 2024) and working on her first novel.
    Copyright 2024 Penny Wincer
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Episodes
  • Stacey Heale on writing about death and life
    Mar 27 2024

    Stacey Heale is a fashion academic and writer whose husband Greg was diagnosed with terminal cancer when their youngest daughter was just a baby. Greg died 5 years later. In her memoir Now Is Not The Time For Flowers, Stacey writes about the big conversations that arise from imminent death. In this epsiode Stacey and I talk about writing about the dead, abandoning the typical memoir structure and the very funny side of a very dark experience. Now Is Not The Time For Flowers is out March 28th

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    Now Is Not The Time For Flowers - Stacey Heale

    Stacey Heale on Instagram @stacey_heale

    Not Too Busy To Write on Substack - pennywincer.substack.com

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    48 mins
  • Jesse Sutanto on writing a best selling series
    Mar 20 2024

    Jesse Sutanto is the best selling author of Dial A for Aunties and Vera Wang's Unsolicited Advise for Murders and the winner of the Comic Writer in Print Award 2021. Jesse and I chat about her latest book in her very funny Aunties crime series The Good, The Bad and The Auntie, about her journey from Oxford MFA in Creative Writing, to leaning into her irreverent funny side and the success it led to. We also talk about writing drafts in 5 weeks (yes 5 weeks!!), the joy of sharing her Indo-Chinese culture with the rest fo the world and her favourite funny authors.

    Links

    The Good, The Bad and The Aunties - Jesse Sutanto

    Dial A For Aunties - Jesse Sutanto

    Vera Wang's Unsolicited Advice for Murders - Jesse Sutanto

    Jesse Sutanto on Instagram @jesseqsutanto

    Not Too Busy To Write on Substack pennywincer.substack.com


    Write Your Non-Fiction Book Proposal with Penny Wincer is at 7pm March 27th Book you place here - pennywincerwrites.com/workshops

    Podcast listeners can use the code TOOBUSY at checkout to receive £5 off


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    34 mins
  • Charlotte Wood on writing craft and Australian fiction
    Mar 13 2024

    Charlotte Wood is an award winning Australian author of 10 books including the 2016 Stella Prize winner The Natural Way of Things and the 2020 international bestseller The Weekend. Her latest novel Stone Yard Devotional is about a woman who abandons her life, her marriage, her career and retreats to a religious community in a remote area of Australia, where she grew up. Charlotte and I talk about the themes that come up in her work, how her craft has changed over the course of her career, why it's so important to her to not over explain to the reader and of course, her favourite Australian fiction writers.

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    Stone Yard Devotional - Charlotte Wood

    The Weekend - Charlotte Wood

    The Natural Way of Things - Charlotte Wood

    The Writers Room - Charlotte Wood

    The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas

    The Golden Age - Joan London

    The Good Parents - Joan London

    The Conversion - Amanda Lohrey

    Charlotte Wood's Substack - charlottewood.substack.com

    charlottewoodauthor.com.au

    Not Too Busy To Write on Substack - pennywincer.substack.com

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    42 mins

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