Seasons change. An actor prepares. A birthday is removed from the calendar. A hypnotist causes chaos on a cruise ship. A new life awaits at a petrol station. A grieving granddaughter finds a surprising stowaway. A dog makes yakisoba. The sun rises in the west.
We’ve all read stories that changed our lives. We’ve all imagined places that feel like home. We’ve all met characters who feel like family.
Now, we’ll hear the stories, then go to the source. We’ll speak with the authors, to find out what makes a story great, where they come from, and why they connect.
These are stories: Unpacked. Understood. Unfolded.
Join us for season 2 of Unfolded as Seth Robinson (https://sethrobinson.com.au/) and Tony Birch (https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/13630-tony-birch) speak with authors Melanie Cheng, Bri Lee, Dominic Amerena, Briohny Doyle, Helena Pantsis, Jumaana Abdu, Scott Limbrick and Romy Ash, or travel back through the archive to hear the incredible stories from season 1.
Unfolded is produced with support from the Melbourne Public Humanities Initiative, on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Eastern Kulin Nation.
The producers would like to pay their respects to the traditional owners, to their Elders past and present, and to acknowledge their history, which go back tens of thousands of years.
Hosts: Seth Robinson and Tony Birch
Creator and Executive Producer: Seth Robinson
Recording: Gavin Nebauer, Horwood Recording Studio, University of Melbourne
Editing and Sound Design: Nick King and Courtney Carthy, Nearly Media
Artwork: Marty O'Meara
Dominic Amerena joins Seth and Tony from Athens to discuss writing place with an outsider's perspective, the nature of having a great conceit within a story, and how writing short fiction compares to longer works, such as his award winning debut novel, I Want Everything.
Listeners are advised that this episode of Unfolded comes with a language and content warning.
About Dominic Amerena
I Want Everything is Dominic Amerena's first novel. It has been published in four territories and recently won the Readings Prize the MUD Literary Award.
dominicamerena.com (https://dominicamerena.com/)
Unfolded is produced with support from the Melbourne Public Humanities Initiative (https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/public-humanities-initiative), on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Eastern Kulin Nation.
The producers would like to pay their respects to the traditional owners, to their Elders past and present, and to acknowledge their storytelling history, which goes back tens of thousands of years.
See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.
6 Oct 2026
Chapter 13: A Dog's Life, by Dominic Amerena
A dog makes yakisoba.
A Dog's LIfe by Dominic Amerena
Read by Nathan Wright
Synopsis
Porcini has an enviable lifestyle in Tokyo, 7.7 million Instagram followers, and a film deal with Adam Driver. His owner has ... a lot less going on.
A Dog’s Life takes a good long sniff at social media and celebrity culture, and what it’s like to exist on the fringes of that kind of life.
Originally published in Kill Your Darlings New Australian Fiction (https://www.killyourdarlings.com.au/article/a-dogs-life/).
Listeners are advised that this episode of Unfolded comes with a language and content warning.
About Dominic Amerena
I Want Everything is Dominic Amerena's first novel. It has been published in four territories and recently won the Readings Prize the MUD Literary Award.
dominicamerena.com (https://dominicamerena.com/)
Unfolded is produced with support from the Melbourne Public Humanities Initiative (https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/public-humanities-initiative), on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Eastern Kulin Nation.
The producers would like to pay their respects to the traditional owners, to their Elders past and present, and to acknowledge their storytelling history, which goes back tens of thousands of years.
See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.
1 Sept 2026
Chapter 12: In conversation with Scott Limbrick
Scott Limbrick has done it all. He’s an accomplished screen and fiction writer, comedian, marketer, and now he’s completing his PhD. It’s a portfolio career that has clearly influenced his work. Now, he takes Seth and Tony inside the process, literary influences, and what it’s like working across such varied media.
Listeners are advised that this episode of Unfolded comes with a language and content warning.
About Scott Limbrick
Scott Limbrick is a writer and PhD candidate at the University of Sydney. His short stories have appeared in Electric Literature, Griffith Review, Going Down Swinging, The Big Issue, Kill Your Darlings’ New Australian Fiction and elsewhere. He has previously been the recipient of the Frank Moorhouse Fellowship and the Felix Meyer Scholarship, won the Griffith Review Emerging Voices Competition and been shortlisted for the Richell Prize. He currently has multiple screenplays in development with funding from VicScreen and Screen Australia.
scottlimbrick.com (https://www.scottlimbrick.com/)
Unfolded is produced with support from the Melbourne Public Humanities Initiative (https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/public-humanities-initiative), on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Eastern Kulin Nation.
The producers would like to pay their respects to the traditional owners, to their Elders past and present, and to acknowledge their storytelling history, which goes back tens of thousands of years.
See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.
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