On The Pod: Madeleine West, Megan Albany & Kids Month!

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This week, we close off Kids Month with a chat with authors Nina Kenwood and Dani Vee, and jump into the world of adapation from page to stage with Madeleine West and Megan Albany!

Kids Month – Nina Kenwood & Dani Vee

This September, we’ll be celebrating the best new children’s books for all ages and reading levels: this is Kids Month! This week, Sarah McDuling chats with Nina Kenwood and Dani Vee!

Nina Kenwood is an award-winning author living in Melbourne. Her debut YA novel, It Sounded Better in My Head, won the Text Prize and was a finalist for the American Library Association’s William C Morris Award, a CBCA notable book, as well as being shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, the Queensland Literary Awards, the Russell Prize for Humour Writing, the Indie Book Awards and the Australian Book Industry Awards. It Sounded Better in My Head has been published in six languages, and optioned for film.

Dani Vee is host of the popular literary podcast Words and Nerds. With over 52,000 listeners every month and more than 500 episodes, the podcast has become a significant part of the Australian literary community. She has interviewed Matthew Reilly, Trent Dalton, Jackie French, Tara Moss, Andy Griffiths and many many more. Dani also works in publicity and acquisitions at Larrikin House. You can find her facilitating panels or presenting at literary festivals such as Somerset Storyfest, BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival, Kids YA Festival and The Sutherland Shire Writers’ Festival, as well as podcasting at literary events.

From Page To Stage – Madeleine West & Megan Albany

Actor, author, activist, and star of Neighbours Madeleine West takes over our podcast to chat with Megan Albany around the forthcoming stage adaptation of her bestselling debut novel, The Very Last List of Vivian Walker! 

Megan Albany is a proud First Nations woman of Kalkadoon and European heritage who lives with her son, husband and moodle in the Northern Rivers of NSW. As an author and songwriter, she has experienced pretty well everything life has to offer from city living in New York and Europe, to car accidents, suicides and helping a friend fulfil an eight-year quest to become terminally ill. She now lives an exceptionally normal existence and enjoys nothing more than sitting at her desk and using whatever wisdom she has garnered to write about how little she has learned along the way.

Madeleine West is an Australian actress. She is known for her television roles, having played Dee Bliss and Andrea Somers on the soap opera Neighbours from 2000 to 2003 and on-off 2017 to 2020, high-class escort Mel from Satisfaction from 2007 to 2010, Dimity on House Husbands in 2013, Danielle McGuire in Underbelly and later Fat Tony & Co. She has also written a parenting book called Six Under Eight. She played Sarah the wife of Stone Cold Steve Austin in the WWE produced film The Condemned in 2007.

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About the Contributor

Nick Wasiliev

Nick is one of Booktopia's Senior Content Producers. He spends his days running Booktopia's Podcast and YouTube channel, 𝑻𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝑴𝒆 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑻𝒐 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒅. Known as the '𝘗𝘰𝘥𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘎𝘶𝘺', he also spends his time embarassing himself on TikTok, writing novels, and chatting sport on Twitter under @Nick_Wasiliev. His debut novel, WHEN MEN CRY, was published in 2019 and reissued in 2020 through Breathe Art Holdings.