An excerpt from Amanda Anastasi's 2042, a futuristic, research-based collection of poems spanning the socio-political, the personal, and the domestic events and observations impacting everyday Melbourne life.

Tom Lee is an academic and the author of Coach Fitz. He spoke with us about growing up on a farm, the ill effects of 1984 and the joy of writing in busy places.

An excerpt from Thuy On's Turbulence, a suite of loosely arranged and themed poems, which she worked on as part of the Wheeler Centre's Hot Desk Fellowship programme.

Novelist Ilka Tampke talks secret passions, spring onions and Madeleine St John.

Joseph Chetcuti is a barrister and author. He spoke with us about training as a priest, the agendas of historians and writing on impulse.

An excerpt from Laura Jean McKay's speculative literary fiction manuscript, The Animals in That Country, which she worked on as part of the Wheeler Centre's Hot Desk Fellowship programme.