The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love.
These are the stories that make us who we are.
Chris Ames is a writer from California, who now lives in Melbourne. He is the 2025 winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. And we now are the beneficiaries as we discover his short story collection I Made This Just For You.
Final Draft is produced and presented by Andrew Pople
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22 Aug 2026
Christy Anne Jones’s Theodora's Tea Shop
The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love.
These are the stories that make us who we are.
Christy Anne Jones is an author, illustrator and content creator. Her debut novel is Theodora’s Tea Shop
Dorothy has always dreamed of magic, but across Calleum magic has been banned and only the most privileged can obtain a license for its use.
In desperation Dorothy flees to the capital Alliaster in search of a fabled Tea Shop, said to be the home of a grand witch Theodora. Dorothy dreams that Theodora will help her learn magic, never dreaming of the vast and dangerous world she is about to enter.
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15 Aug 2026
Mirandi Riwoe’s A Short History of Longans
The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love.
These are the stories that make us who we are.
Mirandi Riwoe is the author of Sunbirds, The Fish Girl, and Stone Sky Gold Mountain, which won the Queensland Literary Award – Fiction Book Award and the inaugural ARA Historical Novel Prize, and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award.
Mirandi joins us with her new novel A Short History of Longans
Across four generations A Short History of Longans tells the story of a family.
In the near future Daniel lives a solitary life; trapped by his past.
In the year 2000 Wendy tries to connect to her family even as her memory is gradually stripped away.
In post war America, Ruby fears she may never get back to Australia.
And in the mid nineteenth century, Maria and Ah Yang are drawn together to begin the whole saga.
Final Draft is produced and presented by Andrew Pople
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