S2 E8 Bonny Cassidy: On Monuments, Truth Telling and Glitches in Writing

11/12/2025 43 min Temporada 2 Episodio 8

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Episode Synopsis

Bonny Cassidy is the author of three poetry collections and one book of nonfiction, as well as a book critic and internationally recognised scholar of Australian literature. Formerly an academic, she is now an independent creative writing mentor and psychology student. In 2025 she was shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal, Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and won the AAALS Creative Prose Prize. Bonny lives in the bush on Dja Dja Wurrung Country. In this episode, Mia and Bonny discuss the creative research and writing process of her literary memoir, Monument.