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.

We spoke with literary journalist Helen Elliott about writing against the clock, burning diaries and her primary-school adventures in plagiarism.

Melanie Dimmitt is a freelance arts, lifestyle and business journalist living in Sydney. She spoke with us about discovering stories, becoming a full-time creative and how she might not notice the apocalypse.