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York Festival Writers Program is over for this year but you can't shut us up that easily! This week, we talk to one of our festival guests, WA-based crime fiction author Karen Herbert, about her beautifully crafted if somewhat disturbing debut novel, The River Mouth.

Will Yeoman meets author, educator and entertainer Cristy Burne, another of our wonderful guests at this year's York Festival Writers Program (Saturday October 2). Like all our children's sessions, Cristy's are free! So see you there: yorkfestival.com.au

In this episode of York Festival Writers Program's official podcast, WA author David Allan-Petale discusses Locust Summer, his powerful debut novel set in the WA Wheatbelt, with host and Writers Program director Will Yeoman.

WA poet Rose van Son’s extraordinary range of passions and registers is on display in her collection Cloak of Letters, which reconciles art and nature, history and the ineffable. But these poems are not grand statements; rather, they are accessible, intimate and above all musical bearings of witness to a life well lived. Here, she talks to host Will Yeoman about the centrality in her life of poetry, nature, art and human relationships.

It’s Father Brown in the Australian Outback! Well, almost. Alexander Thorpe’s homage to the Golden Age of Crime Fiction, Death Leaves the Station,  is set between the wars and follows the trails and travails of four unlikely bedfellows as they try to track down a murderer – and a corpse – from in and around Geraldton to Fremantle, Western Australia. Hosted by Will Yeoman.

Many Maps: Two Cultures – First Nations and Europeans in Western Australia doesn’t just tread the well-worn paths of previous histories of two opposing world views. Instead, authors Bill and Jenny Bunbury use the idea and the reality of maps to “chart understandings and misunderstandings between two cultures over two centuries of European occupation of Australia”. Here, Bill Bunbury chats with host Will Yeoman about some of the ideas behind the book, ahead of Bill and Jenny's York Festival Writers Program sessions on Saturday October 2.

In this al fresco edition of POD FICTION, York Festival Writers Program curator Will Yeoman catches up with WA author Amanda Curtin, who is chairing three Writers Program sessions with authors and poets as diverse as Monique Mulligan, Cristy Burne and Rose van Son.

In our first episode, we meet acclaimed travel writer, novelist and spoken word performer Stephen Scourfield, who will be presenting as part of the York Festival Writers Program on Saturday 2 October. Hosted by York Festival Writers Program curator Will Yeoman.