An extract from Hot Desk Fellow Shannan Lim's Nenek – a horror-comedy centering on two siblings who, over the course of one night with their grandmother, realise that there is more to her and the family than they know.

An extract from Hot Desk Fellow Bella Green's Committed – a series of autobiographical comedic non-fiction essays about sex work.

We spoke with author Garry Disher about the magic of blue ballpoints, avoiding teams and using the senses in writing.

This past weekend, the Wheeler Centre presented the inaugural Broadside festival of feminist ideas – with a blockbuster line-up of speakers and discussions. Complicated questions were posed. Difficult issues were surfaced. Creativity was celebrated. Graphic recorder Sarah Firth captured the discussion in real-time.

We spoke with Senior Research Curator at Mona, Jane Clark, about avoiding heffalump traps, looking at what makes humans human and the unreliability of memory.

We spoke with art critic Eugene Yiu Nam Cheung about tween blogs, subjective criticism and the lessons he learned working front-of-house at his parents' restaurant.