From Borneo's ancient rainforest to the windswept beaches of the English coast, Laura and Rachel are writers on a journey, but they’re not sticking to the path. Join them on their wayward ramble through the narrative arts with nothing but a capricious compass and occasional guests along the way.
For this month's Two Wayward Writers South, we take a look at Hemingway's Iceberg Theory with the help of a special guest, Anya. We talk about Han Kang's The Vegetarian, Alan Bennett's Talking Heads, buffalo, headhunting and funeral parties up North. Please note that some parts were somehow recorded underwater…
25 Sept 2026
Where to Shelve Lessing?
This episode is all about Doris Lessing because Rachel read The Golden Notebook and Laura read The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five. Does writing about women have to be feminist or can it be humanist? Should writers stay in their genre lane? And was hers the best ever…
28 Aug 2026
Sonder - The Vivid Worlds of Strangers
In this month's episode of Two Wayward Writers South, Rachel and I discuss Sonder, a term coined by John Koenig in 2012. It refers to the realisation that strangers' lives are as vivid and complex as our own. Along the way, we also talk about the perspectives and experiences of…
6 Aug 2026
Exploring Kishotenketsu
Laura and Rachel discuss Kishotenketsu, an Asian storytelling sensibility. If you find the first half of your story dragging towards a midpoint reveal, then you might be a natural Kishotenketsu writer, meaning this podcast is for you! SPOILERS for the Bong Joon Ho's Parasite... and Bambi.
3 Jul 2026
The Yellow Wallpaper
Laura and Rachel discuss Charlotte Perkins Gilman's gothic feminist short story "The Yellow Wallpaper", first published in 1892. Has it stood the test of time? Does it need that many exclamation marks? What is a rest cure and why don't you want to be prescribed one?
3 Jun 2026
Two Wayward Writers (South) Episode One – Narrative Voice
Can the writer's voice alone make you keep reading? In the first episode of Two Wayward Writers to be hosted from the Equator, Laura and Rachel explore narrative voice, that invisible quality that makes every writer's work uniquely theirs. With help from Joseph Conrad, John Irving, and a thirty-five-year struggle…
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