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Releasing in January
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Check out this chilling vision of Australia circa 2035 brought to you by an exciting collaboration between Spineless Wonders, Ear Candy and Echidna Audio. Based on a joanne burns' novella and written and directed by Ian Walker.
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Distributed via Acast. Find it on your favourite podcast platform.
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What is The Next 5 Minutes?
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Fiction Podcast: 5 episodes x 20-30 minutes
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It’s 2035 and things aren’t great. Pollution has ruined the beaches, corruption rules politics, teenagers face slave labour and everything, including euthanising the elderly, has been privatised by an uber-libertarian government in cahoots with a shadowy corporation called Empyrean Industries. Their secret lethal weapon for crowd control is a giant-sized all-singing robot kangaroo. An underground terrorist movement called Swag Sting are mobilising themselves via astral travel… but are wracked by infighting.
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Welcome to THE NEXT 5 MINUTES which follows the fortunes of four memorable characters whose dark and sometimes comical stories connect in strange ways in the dystopian Gondwanaland (the nation formerly known as Australia) of the near future.
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Click here to taken to the first two episodes released 24 Jan.
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Writer & Director - Ian Walker
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Ian (pictured below RHS) writes across print and online journalism, magazine features, narration scripting for tv documentary, radio reporting and true crime podcasts. He's a former Triple J newsreader, published author, father of two musician sons and canny at ukulele remakes of New Romantic classics. This is his audio drama debut work.
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What Ian says about The Next 5 Minutes:
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"THE NEXT 5 MINUTES is an adaptation and update of an unpublished sci-fi novella written in the 1990s by Kings Cross author and poet, joanne burns, imagining life in 2018. For this version, I've transposed her futuristic visions to Sydney 2035. The story is totally unique, with the tone of an Aussie Black Mirror and a world that is at once recognisable but nightmarish, as well as darkly funny. I've been lucky to work with such rich material, colourful characters and joanne's wonderful inventiveness with names and lingo. It's like nothing we've ever heard before."
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Imaginative Recreation Project - Update
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The Imaginative Recreation Project collects, curates and shares little-known stories from Sydney’s past and builds awareness about the art of crafting stories from archival material.
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In 2023, we offered a writing workshop and masterclass designed to inspire and support new, emerging and experienced writers to invent stories drawn from the archives. Our call-out for stories closed in December and curators, Ariella Van Luyn and Bronwyn Mehan are currently in the process of selecting submissions. Selected stories will be produced as audio-stories and added to the Sonic City website.
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In 2024, we will offer public talks about the art of finding stories in the archives as well as an exciting live performance.
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To stay tuned for more information.
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Calling emerging writers!
Are you a writer under 30 years of age? Slinkies is looking for your writing:
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- under 10,000 words
- of absolutely any genre or style
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to publish and promote in our annual anthology of carefully hand-selected submissions.
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What: Prose in any form under 10,000 words
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Who: Writers younger than 30*
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When: Submissions are due May 31, 2024
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*Please note we are looking for new voices, so all previous Slinkies winners please sit this one out, tx.
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For more info, check here
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COVER REVEAL!!!
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Remnant microlit anthology - out soon
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We are delighted to share a sneak peek of our forthcoming publication, Remnant. Artwork by Richard Holt and cover design by Bettina Kaiser.
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In this latest anthology of microlit, we feature over forty writers who reflect on the theme of remnant in contexts ranging from the natural world and the urban environment through to the personal and the political.
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Remnant includes pieces by well-known writers from Australia and abroad as well as new voices unearthed through the national Microlit Award named in honour of experimental poet, joanne burns and edited by Cassandra Atherton. Introduction by innovative writer and poet, Hazel Smith.
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Winners of the National and Hunter categories of the 2024 joanne burns Award will be announced on February 16 as part of the program launch for the Newcastle Writers Festival.
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Dates for Your Diary
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Wed, January 31 – The Next 5 Minutes Ep 3 release
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Wed, Feb 7 – The Next 5 Minutes Ep 4 release
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Wed, Feb 14 – The Next 5 Minutes Ep 5 (Season 1 final) release
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February 16 – 2024 NWF/ joanne burns Microlit Award winners announced
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March 1 – Remnant release
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