This year has been a corker for Spineless Wonders – thanks to the wonderful team of people and partner organisations who have made this year’s projects possible. Publisher and creative director, Bronwyn Mehan does a quick recap.
Podcasts
This year we released our first two fiction podcast, The Next 5 Minutes, courtesy of CreateNSW and Zorba The Buddha. Both are available for free on Spotify. And we made, inhouse, Eps 1 & 2 of the Behind The Wonders podcast (and video version on Youtube). Shout out to audio engineer extraordinaire, Marty Gallagher and our host Jess Morgan.
Imaginative Recreation
Thanks to a grant from the City of Sydney we produced eight new audio stories for the Sonic Sydney Sydney website and added all eighteen Sydney-based audio stories to the mobile app, GeoTourist. Shout out to the wonderful authors and sound designers, our curator Ariella Van Lunh, producer Zoe Hercus, and Bettina Kaiser and Karen Yoshimura for their great work.
We also partnered with Racreate Productions to produce RATS, a new theatrical work by Laneikka Denne inspired by scenes from Fiona Kelly McGregor’s novel Iris as part of this project. Huge congratulations to Laneikka, Director, Julia Robertson, Producer, Rachael Adamson and the wonderful performers Dominic Lui, Jim Williams, Craig Baldwin, Madelaine Osborn, Michael Sakinofsky and Shayne DeGroot.
Page to Screen
In November, we celebrated another screening and awards night at SF3 for the Microfiction Adaptation Awards. Huge thanks to Angela Blake for including Spineless Wonders in this amazing smart phone film festival.
Novellas R US
We were thrilled to partner with the Australasian Association of Writing Programs to offer an annual Novella Prize and to launch Espresso, an imprint dedicated to the form
Impressive, right!
Buy a SW book for xmas
If you want to support the work of Spineless Wonders, please drop by your local bookstore and ask about these wonderful titles which we published in 2024: The Most Famous Boy In Town by Bel Schenk and The Memory Library by Antonia Pont as well as the anthologies Remnant and Slinkies 2024.
Wishing everyone all the best over the summer break from
Bronwyn & the Spineless Wonders Team