{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/246b525e-24ae-578b-8975-4e6cbf3b5733/7b4224ac-7fa3-448f-9841-a1fa6d51f6fc?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"249 Ellen Van Neerven - A 30th Birthday","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/610bc19b748075188a971e24/610bc20dc9f05900130aeebf.jpg?height=200","description":"<p>After an encounter at their 30th birthday, Ellen considers friendship, connection and the colonial construct of gender.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Ellen van Neerven</strong> is an award-winning writer, editor and educator of Mununjali Yugambeh and Dutch heritage with strong ancestral ties to South East Queensland. They write fiction, poetry and non-fiction, and play football on unceded Turrbal and Yuggera land. van Neerven’s books, <em>Heat and Light</em>, <a href=\"https://ellenvanneervencurrie.wordpress.com/comfort-food/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Comfort Food</em> </a>and most recently <a href=\"https://ellenvanneervencurrie.wordpress.com/throat/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Throat</em></a> have won countless awards. They are the editor of three collections, including the recent <em>Homeland Calling </em>and are co-editing an upcoming collection of speculative fiction <a href=\"https://www.fremantlepress.com.au/c/news/11529-unlimitedfuturesanthology?utm_content=bufferada10&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Unlimited Futures</em></a> with Sudanese multilingual writer Rafeif Ismail.</p><p><br></p><p>Queerstories an award-winning LGBTQI+ storytelling project directed by Maeve Marsden, with regular events around Australia. For more information, visit <a href=\"https://create.acast.com/episodes/a9c981c1-4ad7-47c4-80ce-3fe927f205c7/www.queerstories.com.au\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">www.queerstories.com.au</a> and follow&nbsp;</p><p><a href=\"http://facebook.com/queerstoriesaus\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Queerstories on Facebook.</a></p><p><br></p><p>The Queerstories book is published by Hachette Australia, and can be purchased from your favourite independent bookseller or on <a href=\"https://www.booktopia.com.au/queerstories-maeve-marsden/prod9780733640728.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Booktopia.</a></p><p><br></p><p>To support Queerstories, become a patron at&nbsp;<a href=\"http://www.patreon.com/ladysingsitbetter\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">www.patreon.com/ladysingsitbetter</a></p><p><br></p><p>And for gay stuff and insomnia rants follow Maeve Marsden on <a href=\"http://twitter.com/maevemarsden/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"http://instagram.com/maevegobash\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram</a>.</p> ","author_name":"Queerstories"}