Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Podcast
If you missed a moment of enlightenment or entertainment at this year’s Anniversary Festival, we’ve got you covered. Our 2023 festival highlights program brings a collection of captivating conversations by local and international Festival guests directly to your home. With lively talks and reflections aimed at understanding the past, our present, and how our words and actions shape the future.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 57 minutes
- Episodes
- 140
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
UWRF21 Podcast | New Spaces
The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the creative behaviour of artists, including writers and readers. Digital-based writing media are increasingly emerging, as is the presence of literacy appreciation a…
00:59:15 |
Mon 14 Feb 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | Homo Irrealis
Irrealis moods are not about the present, past, or future, they are about what might and could have been but never was. In his latest work, Homo Irrealis, André Aciman explores what time means to art…
00:45:12 |
Mon 14 Feb 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | Generational Poems
The literary ecosystem changes over tie, especially during the pandemic, where literary pages were reduced in the media. Listen to three poets across generations: Joko Pinurbo, Ni Wayan Idayati, and …
01:05:56 |
Mon 14 Feb 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | Beyond the Barriers
In the midst of accelerating the flow of information, there are still barriers that hinder our understanding of humanity. In the patriarchal socio-cultural system, women are one of the groups affecte…
00:53:01 |
Mon 14 Feb 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | Joseph Conrad's Eastern Voyages
In his latest book, Joseph Conrad’s Eastern Voyages, Ian Burnet shares his account of Joseph Conrad’s adventure in Singapore and East Borneo River where his first books are all set. Ian speaks to Vir…
00:53:32 |
Mon 14 Feb 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | Stone Sky Gold Mountain
Set during the gold-rush era in Australia, Stone Sky Gold Mountain is a poignant novel full of unforgettable characters that deal with issues of identity, belonging, racism, and sexual violence. Join…
00:49:27 |
Mon 14 Feb 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | Gods of the Upper Air
From the outspoken Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict to Ella Deloria, the Dakota Sioux activist who preserved the traditions of Native Americans on the Great Plains, their revolutionary findings gave b…
00:45:48 |
Mon 14 Feb 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | Lives Between the Lines
Lives Between the Lines is a family story of Michael Vatikiotis’s grandparents and parents in the Levant, spanning from the mid-1800s to the end of the Second World War in 1945. Once a place of ethni…
00:44:38 |
Mon 14 Feb 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | The Book of Form and Emptiness
How do we endure loss and find meaning in our lives? Ruth Ozeki’s The Book of Form and Emptiness is a heart-breaking and humane tale, considered as a powerful meditation that contains the chaos of th…
00:51:23 |
Mon 14 Feb 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | Autobiography of Death
Greatly affected by the tragic Sewol Ferry incident of 2014, when more than 300 Koreans, mainly schoolchildren, lost their lives, Kim Hyesoon composed Autobiography of Death, a cycle of forty-nine po…
00:29:35 |
Mon 14 Feb 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | Redefining Ubud
Known as the world’s village, Ubud has shifted its image throughout the years. For decades, everything local and traditional has been fused with a cosmopolitan and international perspective. So, what…
01:11:55 |
Mon 14 Feb 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | A Picture is Worth A Thousand Perspectives
Since 2007, Mayank Austen Soofi has been documenting Delhi’s everyday life. During the city’s most desperate COVID-19 moments, he collected images and heartfelt stories of the people’s collective gri…
00:56:53 |
Mon 14 Feb 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | Talking to the Trees
The leading authority of forest medicine in Japan, Dr. Qing Li, shares stories with a world-renowned tree scientist, ecologist, educator, and conservationist, Meg Lowman ‘Canopy Meg’. The two experts…
01:05:40 |
Mon 14 Feb 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | The Secrets of the Magdalena and the Colombian Amazon
In his latest book, Magdalena: River of Dreams, Davis tells of his travels on this magnificent river, the source of Colombian music, literature, poetry, and prayer and, in doing so, tells the epic st…
00:48:43 |
Mon 14 Feb 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | Poetry and Politics
Poets Emily Sun and Felix K. Nesi are powerful emerging voices in the literary communities of Australia and Indonesia, respectively. Their poetries consider the personal and political impacts of impe…
00:43:31 |
Mon 14 Feb 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | Roads Less Travelled, Travel Writing in the Time of COVID-19
When a global health crisis closes borders between and within countries, does literature’s potential to transport people to new places take on greater significance? David Allan-Petale, whose debut no…
00:41:43 |
Mon 14 Feb 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | First Nations Poets
Australia’s First Nations people are the country’s first memory holders and storytellers. However, their stories are often left unheard. Join three First Nations writers, Elfie Shiosaki, Jarrad Trave…
00:42:00 |
Mon 14 Feb 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | Navigable Ink
Jennifer Mackenzie’s collection of poetry, Navigable Ink, is based on her contact with the famous Indonesian author, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, in 1993, when his works were banned and he was under house …
00:42:11 |
Mon 14 Feb 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | We Have a Dream
In her new book, We Have a Dream, Mya-Rose Craig looks at issues from wildlife conservation to clean water and plastic waste, to climate justice and climate strikes, reinforcing that the time has com…
00:45:00 |
Mon 14 Feb 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | Fury
At the age of twenty, after a traumatic sexual assault trial, Kathryn Heyman ran away from her life and became a deckhand on a fishing trawler in the Timor Sea. The power of words became her salvatio…
00:45:29 |
Mon 31 Jan 2022
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