Award-winning Tasmanian novelist and all-round good bloke Robbie Arnott and I sat down together in Craig Farrell’s office studio in New Norfolk to talk about knowing what you want to say before you say it, editing hacks (drink the revolting tea), writing masculinity and resisting publishing trends that you know will be bad for you.

Robbie’s essays that I mention in this episode are ‘Best Man in a Crisis’ in Kill Your Darlings, and ‘Birds and Knives’ in Meanjin, both of which come highly recommended. His most recent novel is The Rain Heron, which you can buy here.