Creative Momentum with Meg
Creative Momentum with Meg is a podcast hosted by creativity coach Meg Dunley. It features thoughtful conversations with writers, artists, musicians and performers about the realities of creative practice and process. Each episode explores the rhythms of creative life, including routine, doubt, momentum, rest, and persistence. The show aims to understand how creative work actually happens, with episodes ranging from short and focused to more expansive discussions. New episodes are released weekly in both audio and video formats.
Episodes
S2E30: Maddy Tyers, actor, writer and producer, on collaboration and creation
Maddy Tyers, actor, writer and producerHow do you keep creating when work, parenting and everyday life leave little spare time? Melbourne-based actor, writer and producer Maddy Tyers talks with Meg Dunley about making sketches and developing projects in the small pockets of time available, collaborating with her husband Jimmy, and finding creative inspiration in ordinary life. Maddy also shares ho
S2E29: Author Amy Coomer on cafés and the freedom to follow a story
Amy Coomer: Writing, self-publishing and finding creative focusIn this episode of Creative Momentum with Meg, author Amy Coomer talks about writing around part-time work, finding a routine that suits her natural energy and learning to trust her creative process.Amy shares her experience of self-publishing her debut novel, the unexpected success of a book trailer on TikTok and the importance of pro
S2E28: Ingrid J. Adams, author and the importance of finding your own way
Season 2: The Home SeasonEpisode 28: Ingrid J. AdamsAuthor Ingrid J. Adams joins Meg to talk about finding your own creative rhythm, writing around family life and discovering a creative process that actually works for you.Ingrid is the author of the four-book Descended series, a love story spanning lifetimes that explores reincarnation, fate, free will, soulmates and soul family.In this conversat
S2E27: Claire Zorn, author, artist and enthusiastic maker
Season 2: The Home SeasonEpisode 27: Claire Zorn, author, artist and enthusiastic makerIClaire Zorn is an Australian author and artist whose creative work moves between novels, picture books, drawing, painting, weaving and tapestry.In this conversation, Claire talks about why she prefers to discover rather than over-plan her creative work, how music feeds her writing, her experience of synesthesia
S2E26: Elizabeth Barnett on painting, writing and finding home in creative work
Season 2: The Home SeasonEpisode 26: Elizabeth Barnett: painter, printmaker and multidisciplinary artistIn this episode of Creative Momentum with Meg, I talk with Victorian artist Elizabeth Barnett about building a creative life around family, the seasons and the everyday things that inspire her.Elizabeth works from a studio in her home in the Macedon Ranges, where still life paintings are shaped
S2E25: Tim Pilgrim on gardens, creativity and learning to work with what you can't control
Season 2: The Home SeasonEpisode 25: Tim Pilgrim, GardenerTim Pilgrim is a gardener and garden designer based in Castlemaine, central Victoria. His work focuses on naturalistic, plant-led gardens designed for their particular site and climate.In this conversation, Tim talks about finding his way into horticulture, working at Wimbledon, developing his own garden maintenance business and eventually
S2E24: Megan Dalla-Camina on creativity, truth and making space for what wants to come through
Season 2: The Home SeasonEpisode 24: Megan Dalla-CaminaMegan Dalla-Camina is an author of four books, a PhD researcher in women's spirituality and feminine wisdom, and the founder of Women Rising. Her creative life began with dance, acting, poetry and writing, was interrupted by 18 years in corporate America, and later flourished through writing books and creating work that supports women.In this
S2E23: Samantha WL Lee on Building a 5am Writing Practice, Curiosity and Writing Bound
Season 2: The Home SeasonEpisode 23: Samantha WL Lee, AuthorSamantha Lee is the author of the historical novel Bound, as well as a poet, essayist and former English teacher. In this conversation she shares how a decade of waking before sunrise became the foundation of her writing life, why curiosity drives every story she tells, and what she's learned about trusting both the creative process and h
S2E22: Author Lynsey McDonnell on magic, momentum & writing Bailey Street in the spaces between
Season 2: The Home SeasonThe second season of Creative Momentum with Meg, The Home Season, features interviews with Australian writers and artists where I explore how and why people do their creative work.Episode 22: Lynsey McDonnell, AuthorLynsey McDonnell is a Perth-based CFO, mother of teenagers and debut author whose novel Bailey Street was published by Hawkeye Publishing on 23 July 2026. Born
S2E21: Author Anna Woods on Writing in the Dark, Discovery Drafting + Perseverance
Season 2: The Home SeasonThe second season of Creative Momentum with Meg, The Home Season, features interviews with Australian writers and artists where I explore how and why people do their creative work.Episode 21: Anna Woods, AuthorAnna Woods is an Auckland-based author whose debut literary suspense novel LIT was published by Echo Publishing in June 2026. Anna has won the Sargeson Prize and bee
S2E20: Author Trish Bolton on writing into fear + making the invisible visible
Season 2: The Home SeasonThe second season of Creative Momentum with Meg, The Home Season, features interviews with Australian writers and artists where I explore how and why people do their creative work.Episode 20: Trish Bolton, AuthorTrish Bolton is a Melbourne writer whose debut novel Whenever You’re Ready was published by Allen & Unwin in January 2024. Trish came to the novel after decades of
S2E19: Author, dance teacher & choreographer Lorena Otes on writing memoir
Season 2: The Home SeasonThe second season of Creative Momentum with Meg, The Home Season, features interviews with Australian writers and artists where I explore how and why people do their creative work.Episode 19: Lorena Otes, Author & DancerLorena Otes is a Sydney-based author, dance teacher, choreographer and single mother by choice whose debut memoir Solo Mum by Choice was published by Hawke
S2E18: Author Lindsay Bartels on impossible decisions, starting with a big question & holding yourself lightly
Season 2: The Home SeasonThe second season of Creative Momentum with Meg, The Home Season, features interviews with Australian writers and artists where I explore how and why people do their creative work.Episode 18: Lindsay Bartels, AuthorLindsay Bartels is an American writer living on Sydney’s Northern Beaches whose debut memoir Imogen in Waiting: A Memoir of Modern Reproduction was published by
S2E17: Writer Melissa Sharman on writing the book you needed
Season 2: The Home SeasonThe second season of Creative Momentum with Meg, The Home Season, features interviews with Australian writers and artists where I explore how and why people do their creative work.Episode 17: Melissa Sharman, WriterMelissa Sharman is a Gold Coast-based writer, domestic and family violence specialist, and founder of Egg Donation Australia, who recently released her debut me
S2E16: Author Cassie Stroud on making things out of nothing, one row at a time
Season 2: The Home SeasonThe second season of Creative Momentum with Meg, The Home Season, features interviews with Australian writers and artists where I explore how and why people do their creative work.Episode 16: Cassie Stroud, AuthorCassie Stroud is a Sydney writer, editor and bookseller whose debut novel Iluka was published by HQ Fiction Australia in February 2026. A family drama set on the
S2E15: Author Sophie Stern on debut novels, pantsing it and making time for writing when life says otherwise
Season 2: The Home SeasonThe second season of Creative Momentum with Meg, The Home Season, features interviews with Australian writers and artists where I explore how and why people do their creative work.Episode 15: Sophie Stern, AuthorSophie Stern is a Sydney-based author whose debut novel What Is Left For Us (Penguin Random House, March 2026) centres on two estranged sisters forced to reunite w
S2E14: Author Lauren Novak on mum rage, debut books + journalism instincts that shape her writing
Season 2: The Home SeasonThe second season of Creative Momentum with Meg, The Home Season, features interviews with Australian writers and artists where I explore how and why people do their creative work.Episode 14: Lauren Novak, AuthorLauren Novak is an award-winning journalist at The Advertiser in Adelaide and the debut author of Meltdown: Why Motherhood Makes Us Angry and What to Do About It,
S2E13: Linda Atkins on writing the novel that was always waiting
Season 2: The Home SeasonThe second season of Creative Momentum with Meg, The Home Season, features interviews with Australian writers and artists where I explore how and why people do their creative work.Episode 13: Linda Atkins, AuthorLinda Atkins is a women’s health physician and writer based in Western Sydney who came back to writing in her fifties after stopping as a teenager, and has since w
S2E12: Author Susan Green on finishing the crap first draft
Season 2: The Home SeasonThe second season of Creative Momentum with Meg, The Home Season, features interviews with Australian writers and artists where I explore how and why people do their creative work.Episode 12: Susan Green, AuthorSusan Green is a children's and adult fiction writer with a career spanning nearly four decades. Best known for the Verity Sparks series, which began with The Truth
S2E11: Debut author Kerry Jewell on writing dark humour
Season 2: The Home SeasonThe second season of Creative Momentum with Meg, The Home Season, features interviews with Australian writers and artists where I explore how and why people do their creative work.Episode 11: Debut Author Kerry JewellKerry Jewell is a nuclear medicine physician and writer based in Melbourne whose debut novel, A Little Unwell, is a darkly funny look at life inside the Austr
S2E10: Co-Authors Graeme Simsion & Anne Buist on a shared writing life
Season 2: The Home SeasonThe second season of Creative Momentum with Meg, The Home Season, features interviews with Australian writers and artists where I explore how and why people do their creative work.Episode 10: Co-Authors Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistGraeme Simsion and Anne Buist have been creative collaborators for their entire relationship. They have now written five books together, includ
S2E9: Author Emma Hardy on writing memoir
Season 2: The Home SeasonThe second season of Creative Momentum with Meg, The Home Season, features interviews with Australian writers and artists where I explore how and why people do their creative work.Episode 9: Emma Hardy, AuthorEmma Hardy is a writer who works across fiction and non-fiction. Her debut book Periodic B***h is a literary memoir of menstruation, madness, and monsters. It is a hy
S2E8: Author Toni Jordan on the importance of training the mind
Season 2: The Home SeasonThe second season of Creative Momentum with Meg, The Home Season, features interviews with Australian writers and artists where I explore how and why people do their creative work.Episode 8: Toni JordanToni Jordan is the author of several much-loved novels including Addition, Tenderfoot, and The Fragments, and was my first writing teacher at RMIT. In this conversation, Ton
S2E7: Painter Stacey McCall on a creative life
Season 2: The Home SeasonThe second season of Creative Momentum with Meg, The Home Season, features interviews with Australian writers and artists where I explore how and why people do their creative work. Episode 7: Stacey McCall, PainterStacey McCall studied gold and silversmithing at RMIT, raised five daughters, and somewhere in between all of that, discovered that the things sitting around her
S2E6: Creative Couple, Alice Garner & Dave Bowers
Season 2: The Home SeasonWelcome to the second season of Creative Momentum with Meg. This season is features interviews with Australian writers and artists where Meg Dunley talks to them about their processes, routines, inspiration and more to explore how and why people do their creative work.Episode 6: Alice Garner and Dave Bowers, a creative coupleAlice Garner and Dave Bowers have been together
S2E5: Melissa Manning, Author
Season 2: The Home SeasonWelcome to the second season of Creative Momentum with Meg. This season is features interviews with Australian writers and artists where Meg Dunley talks to them about their processes, routines, inspiration and more to explore how and why people do their creative work.Episode 5: Melissa Manning, AuthorMelissa Manning has been writing for close to 18 years, and her practice
S2E4: Amanda Hewitt, Debut Author
Season 2: The Home SeasonWelcome to the second season of Creative Momentum with Meg. This season is features interviews with Australian writers and artists where I talk to them about their processes, routines, inspiration and more to explore how and why people do their creative work. Episode 4: Amanda Hewitt, Debut AuthorWhat does it look like to write a debut novel while working three days a week
S2E3: Sally Darlison on artmaking & exploring the world through maps and plant life
Season 2: The Home SeasonWelcome to the second season of Creative Momentum with Meg. This season is features interviews with Australian writers and artists where I talk to them about their processes, routines, inspiration and more to explore how and why people do their creative work.Episode 3: Sally Darlison, Multidisciplinary ArtistWhat does it really mean to treat art-making like a job? How do y
S2E2: Claire Mosley on art and creativity
Season 2: The Home SeasonWelcome to the second season of Creative Momentum with Meg. This season is features interviews with Australian writers and artists where I talk to them about their processes, routines, inspiration and more. I will be talking with established authors, artists, debut writers and people who create for themselves to explore how and why people do their creative work.Episode 2:
S2E1: Author Helen Garner on her writing life
Season 2: The Home SeasonWelcome to the second season of Creative Momentum with Meg. This season is features interviews with Australian writers and artists where I talk to them about their processes, routines, inspiration and more. I will be talking with established authors, artists, debut writers and people who create for themselves to explore how and why people do their creative work.Episode 1:
S1E24: Teylor B Bonner, Entrepreneur
Season 1: The Chateau SeasonEpisode 24: Teylor B Bonner, EntrepreneurIn this final episode of The Chateau Season, I interview Teylor Bonner, a photographer and filmmaker from Houston, Texas, who works across multiple creative mediums including clay sculpting, painting, writing, and jewellery making. Teylor’s approach to creativity is deeply connected to her human design as a manifesting generator
S1E23: Tatyana Anderson, Textile Artist & Couturier
Season 1: The Chateau SeasonEpisode 23: Tatyana Anderson, Couturier & Textile ArtistIn this episode, I interview Tatyana Anderson, a textile artist and third generation couturier from Melbourne. Tatyana’s work spans bespoke couture fashion, realistic silk flowers, beading, embroidery, and pattern-making. What stands out most about her approach is her philosophy of listening to materials – she star
S1E22: Steve Capone, Writer and Publisher
Season 1: The Chateau SeasonEpisode 22: Steve Capone, Writer and PublisherIn this episode, I interview Steve Capone, a writer and publisher from Utah in the United States who lives near the Rocky Mountains. Steve has been teaching for 18 years but has been writing his whole life, getting serious about fiction writing about a dozen years ago after leaving graduate school where he spent seven years
S1E21: Sam Moe, Visual Artist and Writer
Season 1: The Chateau SeasonEpisode 21: Sam Moe, Visual Artist and WriterIn this episode, I interview Sam Moe, a visual artist and writer from Massachusetts who now lives in Huntsville, Alabama. Sam creates illustrations, paintings, and writes novels using a method called ‘braiding’ – something she was already doing intuitively before discovering the name for it. After reading The Man Who Could Mo
S1E20: Naomi Elizabeth Montoya, Multidisciplinary Artist, and Su Hudson, Filmmaker
Season 1: The Chateau SeasonEpisode 20: Naomi Elizabeth Montoya, multidisciplinary artist, and Su Hudson, FilmmakerIn this episode, I interview the collaborative duo from Albuquerque, New Mexico Naomi Elizabeth Montoya, multimedia artist, and filmmaker Su Hudson. They have been creating site-specific dance films together for the past 20 years.Naomi started with painting and visual art in her youth
S1E19: Michael Manning, Visual Artist
Season 1: The Chateau SeasonEpisode 19: Michael Manning, Visual ArtistIn this episode, I interview Michael Manning, a collage artist from Boston, Massachusetts, also known as Westwood. Michael has been doing collage art since he was about 14 years old and took it professional right out of college in 2013. His creative work focuses on piecing together elements of modern-day identity, exploring the
S1E18: Mary Powell, Multidisciplinary Artist
Season 1: The Chateau SeasonEpisode 18: Mary PowellIn this episode, I interview Mary Powell, a multi-disciplinary artist from California who describes herself as someone who can get her hands on pretty much anything and everything – a jack-of-all-trades, master of as many trades as possible. Mary has technical training in oil painting, sculpture, and drawing, and over time has explored stained gla
S1E17: Maddie Kimber, Children's book illustrator
Season 1: The Chateau SeasonEpisode 17: Maddie Kimber, Children's book illustratorIn this episode, I interview Maddy, a 25-year-old children's book illustrator, graphic designer, and screen printer from Illinois who now lives in Savannah, Georgia. Maddy's work focuses on telling stories to kids in a respectful and creatively fulfilling manner – avoiding the tendency to just use bright colours and
S1E16: Laura Wagner, Writer
Season 1: The Chateau SeasonEpisode 16: Laura Wagner, WriterIn this episode, I interview Laura Wagner, a writer from New York who was born in Brooklyn, raised on Long Island, and has been a Manhattan resident for the past 30-plus years. Laura explains that she doesn’t have a specific discipline – instead, inspiration hits her sometimes in the middle of the night or while walking down the busy city
S1E15: Kent Curtis-Weakley, Artist and Designer
Season 1: The Chateau SeasonEpisode 15: Kent Curtis-Weakley, In this episode, I interview Kent Curtis-Weakley, an artist and designer originally from a small farming town in central Illinois who has been living in New York City for almost 16 years, working in Chelsea, Manhattan. KC, as he is known, works primarily in graphite and charcoal, with some work in sepia or walnut ink, and is practising s
S1E14: Katherine Greer, Visual Artist/Singer-Songwriter
Season 1: The Chateau SeasonEpisode 14: Katherine Greer, Visual artist, Singer-SongwriterIn this episode, I interview Katherine Greer, known as Katie, a visual artist from the Santa Ynez Valley in Santa Barbara County, California. Katie works across multiple mediums including oil painting, charcoal, soft and oil pastels, and pencil work, and she also writes songs and stories.Her driving purpose fo
S1E13: Kate Bang, Visual Artist
Season 1: The Chateau SeasonEpisode 13: Kate Bang, Visual artistIn this episode, I interview Kate Bang, a visual artist and acrylic painter originally from South Korea who emigrated to Canada at age eight. Kate describes her creative process, which involves creating visual collages on the computer using photographic references in Photoshop, constructing the pictorial space she needs before transla
S1E12: Jon Emm, Writer
In this episode, I interview Jon Emm, a writer from the United States currently living in Chicago who has been writing short stories for years and has recently transitioned to screenwriting, including screenplays and TV pilots. Jon describes his creative process as being ‘all over the place’ – sometimes starting with an idea he wants to explore, sometimes with a perspective or characters he can th
S1E11: Georgia King & Mark Storen, Whiskey & Boots
In this episode, I interview Georgia King and Mark Storen, the performance-making duo behind Whiskey and Boots from Perth, Western Australia.They discuss how they’ve evolved from traditional theatre backgrounds into creating unique community-based verbatim performance work that combines storytelling, music, and interactive elements. Their process involves spending three weeks in a community interv
S1E10: Genevieve Childers, Writer
In this episode, I interview Genevieve, a writer from Houston, Texas, who has recently lived in Spain teaching English and, at the time of the interview which was conducted while we were at our writing residency in France, was preparing to move back to Portland while balancing her creative work with a new full-time job.Genevieve discusses how her story ideas come from other creative sources like m
S1E9: Gayatri, Artist
Episode 9: Gayatri, ArtistGayatri is a mixed-media painter. She’s originally from India and now lives in Burnaby in Canada where she creates vibrant paintings that are inspired by nature and animals and birds. She comes from a family of artists and she found her deepest connection to art after losing her dad in 2020.She says that he was her greatest teacher and inspiration. Since then art has beco
S1E8: Forrest, Multidisciplinary Artist
Season 1: The Chateau SeasonThis season of the podcast, The Chateau Season, features creatives Meg Dunley interviewed while at a writing residency the Chateau d’Orquevaux Artist and Writers Residency in France. The episodes feature writers, filmmakers, visual artists, verbatim storytellers and more. Each episode gives you insight into the creative mind, taking you behind the studio doors to hear a
S1E7: Emily Collins, Writer
Welcome to my podcast Creative Momentum with Meg Dunley where I interview creatives about their process, routines and inspiration.Season 1: The Chateau SeasonThis first season of the podcast, The Chateau Season features creatives I interviewed during my writing residency the Chateau d’Orquevaux Artist and Writers Residency in France. The episodes feature writers, filmmakers, visual artists, verbat
S1E6: Diane Rakocy, Intuitive Artist and Painter
Welcome to my podcast Creative Momentum with Meg Dunley where I interview creatives about their process, routines and inspiration.Season 1: The Chateau SeasonThis first season of the podcast, The Chateau Season features creatives I interviewed during my writing residency the Chateau d’Orquevaux Artist and Writers Residency in France. The episodes feature writers, filmmakers, visual artists, verbat
S1E5: Coral Noel Yang, Visual Artist
Welcome to my podcast Creative Momentum with Meg Dunley where I interview creatives about their process, routines and inspiration.Season 1: The Chateau SeasonThis first season of the podcast, The Chateau Season features creatives I interviewed during my writing residency the Chateau d’Orquevaux Artist and Writers Residency in France. The episodes feature writers, filmmakers, visual artists, verbat
S1E4: Colleen Flynn, journalist and writer
Welcome to my podcast Creative Momentum with Meg Dunley where I interview creatives about their process, routines and inspiration.Season 1: The Chateau SeasonThis first season of the podcast, The Chateau Season features creatives I interviewed during my writing residency the Chateau d'Orquevaux Artist and Writers Residency in France. The episodes feature writers, filmmakers, visual artists, verbat
S1E3: Caroline Beuley
Season 1: The Chateau SeasonThis first season of the Creative Momentum with Meg podcast, The Chateau Season features creatives I interviewed during my writing residency at Chateau d'Orquevaux Artist and Writers Residency. The episodes feature writers, filmmakers, visual artists, verbatim storytellers and more. Each episode gives you insight into the creative mind, taking you behind the studio door
S1E2: Beulah van Rensburg and Ziggy Attias
Welcome to my Creative Momentum with Meg Dunley podcast.Season 1: The Chateau SeasonThis first season of the podcast, The Chateau Season features creatives I interviewed during my writing residency the Chateau d'Orquevaux Artist and Writers Residency in France. The episodes feature writers, filmmakers, visual artists, verbatim storytellers and more. Each episode gives you insight into the creative
S1E1: Amy Ann Goelz
Welcome to my new podcast Creative Momentum with Meg Dunley.I’m thrilled to release this first season of the podcast, The Chateau Season. Each episode features a creative I interviewed during our shared time at the Chateau d'Orquevaux residency in France – writers, filmmakers, visual artists, verbatim storytellers and more. Each episode gives you insight into the creative mind, taking you behind t
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