The winners of the 2021 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced tonight by the Minister for Creative Industries, Danny Pearson. For the first time, the Awards ceremony was held as a free online digital event.

We spoke with writer and designer Michael Sun about tutoring, writing inspiration and how Twitter ruins viral essays.

We spoke with poet and editor Hannah Jenkins about working in communications, gaining inspiration from technological skills and the cruel comedy of The Sims.

We spoke with essayist, editor and critic Cher Tan about taste, online writing communities and the chaos magick of knowledge.

We spoke with writer and editor Lana Guineay about kindness, letting the brain run wild and using scent in the writing process.

We spoke with writer and radio-maker Sheila Ngoc Pham about crying over Philip Pullman, gravitating to documentary and writing complex family histories.