Alice Vincent: On How Women Listen Season 2, Episode 1
What happens when you lose your connection to music, to sound, and to yourself?
In this episode, Jessie Huth speaks with Alice Vincent about her book Hark: How Women Listen, and the experience of burnout, motherhood and identity shift that led her to explore listening in a completely new way.
Utopia, Silence and Finding Your Voice
What does it mean to grow up in a utopian commune, and how do you find your voice afterwards? Jessie Huth speaks with Susanna Crossman about masking, silence and identity.
Tara Menon on Under Water and Writing Grief and Friendship
A conversation with Tara Menon on her debut novel Under Water, exploring friendship, grief, ecological loss and the challenge of moving from literary criticism to writing fiction.
Sarvat Hasin on Strange Girls, Female Friendship and Creative Rivalry
Jessie Huth speaks with novelist Sarvat Hasin about her novel Strange Girls, a powerful story about intense female friendship, creative ambition and the complicated emotions between admiration and rivalry.
They discuss friendship breakups, the ethics of storytelling, and the question at the heart of the novel: who owns a story when two people have lived it together?
Ngaio Anyia on Voice, Joy and Creative Power.
What happens when you lose your voice, both literally and metaphorically? Ngaio Anyia on silence, creative reinvention, and the road back to creative expression.
Nikita Gill on Hekate, Female Rage and Justice
Poet and bestselling author Nikita Gill on Hekate, myth, female rage, and the power of stories.
Sally Magnusson on Myth, Memory & Finding Your Voice
Jessie Huth speaks with Sally Magnusson about Norse myth, memory, and learning to trust your imagination through writing fiction later in life.
Sonia Purnell on Writing Women Back Into History
Jessie Huth speaks with Sonia Purnell about biography, women’s stories, and finding voice through historical and personal storytelling.
Lily Dunn on the Radical Craft of Memoir
Jessie Huth speaks with Lily Dunn about memoir, voice, and the courage it takes to tell the truth through writing.