Nigel Featherstone is an award-winning novelist, librettist and now playwright based in Goulburn. While he grew up in Sydney, it is the landscapes and characters of the Canberra region that have often inspired Nigel’s creative works.

Canberra-based actor and theatre maker Craig Alexander spoke with MARION during rehearsals for Dylan Van Den Berg’s powerful stage adaptation of Barbara Baynton’s iconic Australian gothic short story, The Chosen Vessel.

Australian crime author Hayley Scrivenor sat down recently to chat with Natasha Seymour about her second novel, Girl Falling, out now with Pan Macmillan.