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Creative Momentum with Meg Dunley PodcastS1E23: Tatyana Anderson, Textile Artist & CouturierSeason 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 starts with fabric rather than ideas because she knows immediately what a fabric wants to become. She shares a memorable story about a fabric that insisted on being a corset when she wanted it to be a dress, and after thre...
2026-01-2814 min
Creative Momentum with Meg Dunley PodcastS1E22: Steve Capone, Writer and PublisherSeason 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 studying political philosophy and ethics. He writes primarily horror with a social commentary bent – sardonic, Kafkaesque stories that explore how systems (government, HOAs, social expectations) fail to meet the needs of...
2026-01-2141 min
Creative Momentum with Meg Dunley PodcastS1E21: Sam Moe, Visual Artist and WriterSeason 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 Move Clouds by Ingrid Rojas-Gonzalez about an indigenous Colombian basket weaver who wove her memoir together like weaving a basket, Sam realised ‘I do that but I don’t know what to call it’.She tak...
2026-01-1317 min
Creative Momentum with Meg Dunley PodcastS1E20: Naomi Elizabeth Montoya, Multidisciplinary Artist, and Su Hudson, FilmmakerSeason 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, began dance in middle school, and has taught for 27 years – two decades of which have been at a performing arts school teaching contemporary dance. She's also performed with an Afro-Cuban, Afro-Brazilian dance company.Su is...
2026-01-0822 min
Creative Momentum with Meg Dunley PodcastS1E19: Michael Manning, Visual ArtistSeason 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 things that people collect and finding serendipity in those moments – always focused on cooperation, collage, collections, and fascinated with words. Michael’s creative process is built around asking questions – he believes it’s all about collecti...
2025-12-3013 min
Creative Momentum with Meg Dunley PodcastS1E18: Mary Powell, Multidisciplinary ArtistSeason 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 glass, mixed media printmaking, and photography. She’s tried pretty much any medium that’s out there, at least once or wants to add it to her list. Her creative process is spontaneous and me...
2025-12-2312 min
Creative Momentum with Meg Dunley PodcastS1E17: Maddie Kimber, Children's book illustratorSeason 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 crazy visuals to grab children's attention, instead focusing on more mundane but impactful stories using animal characters. Her creative process is deeply informed by her own childhood experiences with undiagnosed ADHD, thinking about the difficult feelings and bi...
2025-12-1614 min
Creative Momentum with Meg Dunley PodcastS1E16: Laura Wagner, WriterSeason 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 streets, where she might see a word that becomes her creative spark. She expresses her creativity through writing, and shares an example of how hearing a wo...
2025-12-1015 min
Creative Momentum with Meg Dunley PodcastS1E15: Kent Curtis-Weakley, Artist and DesignerSeason 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 silverpoint – a centuries-old technique that predates graphite. He describes drawing as a meditation for him and shares his discovery from figure drawing sessions that he can draw with great focus for ab...
2025-12-0314 min
Creative Momentum with Meg Dunley PodcastS1E14: Katherine Greer, Visual Artist/Singer-SongwriterSeason 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 for creating art is to give viewers the feeling of love – she wants people to see and feel loved through her work, or to have an attachment to a piece that brings back good me...
2025-11-2612 min
Creative Momentum with Meg Dunley PodcastS1E13: Kate Bang, Visual ArtistSeason 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 translating it into paint.She’s drawn to surrealist artists like Giorgio de Chirico, though she finds her own work tends to stay more in the realm of realism even as she dabbles with pushing fu...
2025-11-1909 min
Creative Momentum with Meg Dunley PodcastS1E12: Jon Emm, WriterIn 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 think of, or relationships that intrigue him. He shares insights from his current screenplay project about a relationship between two men, explaining how he’s discovered that the two main characters are actually differen...
2025-11-1114 min
Jayant Kashyap: PoetryJayant Kashyap: 'Pyre'‘Pyre’ first appeared in The Bombay Literary Magazine’s 54th issue, in April 2023, and was praised for “an immersive experience.” It later appeared, in a slightly different form, in Kashyap’s New Poets Prize-winning third pamphlet Notes on Burials (smith|doorstop, 2025).The poem has Meg Dunley’s post from X (formerly Twitter) as epigraph: “Do birds always fly with purpose or also just for fun[?]”
2025-11-0801 min
Creative Momentum with Meg Dunley PodcastS1E11: Georgia King & Mark Storen, Whiskey & BootsIn 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 interviewing locals, editing those stories, collaborating with musicians to create original scores, and then performing these stories back to the community using headphone verbatim technology – what’s been called ‘slow touring’ in Australia.In this interview Georgia and Mark share insights into their...
2025-11-0522 min
Creative Momentum with Meg Dunley PodcastS1E10: Genevieve Childers, WriterIn 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 music, movies, books, and art – particularly from her favorite band Lord Huron and the artists she follows on social media. She describes her process of letting ideas build in her mi...
2025-10-2911 min
Creative Momentum with Meg Dunley PodcastS1E9: Gayatri, ArtistEpisode 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 become her way of processing everything in life, whether that’s joy or sadness or needing to let go. During our conversation she shares her belief of the...
2025-10-2211 min
Creative Momentum with Meg Dunley PodcastS1E8: Forrest, Multidisciplinary ArtistWelcome 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, verbatim storytellers and more. Each episode gives you insight into the creative mind, taking you behind the studio doors to hear about process, routine, inspiration and wisdom. These pocket-sized episodes are to encourage you on your creative pathway....
2025-10-1407 min
Creative Momentum with Meg Dunley PodcastS1E7: Emily Collins, WriterWelcome 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, verbatim storytellers and more. Each episode gives you insight into the creative mind, taking you behind the studio doors to hear about process, routine, inspiration and wisdom. These pocket-sized episodes are to encourage you on your creative pathway....
2025-10-0812 min
Creative Momentum with Meg Dunley PodcastS1E6: Diane Rakocy, Intuitive Artist and PainterWelcome 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, verbatim storytellers and more. Each episode gives you insight into the creative mind, taking you behind the studio doors to hear about process, routine, inspiration and wisdom. These pocket-sized episodes are to encourage you on your creative pathway....
2025-10-0112 min
Creative Momentum with Meg Dunley PodcastS1E5: Coral Noel Yang, Visual ArtistWelcome 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, verbatim storytellers and more. Each episode gives you insight into the creative mind, taking you behind the studio doors to hear about process, routine, inspiration and wisdom. These pocket-sized episodes are to encourage you on your creative pathway....
2025-09-2413 min
Creative Momentum with Meg Dunley PodcastS1E4: Colleen Flynn, journalist and writerWelcome 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, verbatim storytellers and more. Each episode gives you insight into the creative mind, taking you behind the studio doors to hear about process, routine, inspiration and wisdom. These pocket-sized episodes are to encourage you on your creative pathway.
2025-09-1708 min
Creative Momentum with Meg Dunley PodcastS1E3: Caroline BeuleyWelcome 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, verbatim storytellers and more. Each episode gives you insight into the creative mind, taking you behind the studio doors to hear about process, routine, inspiration and wisdom. These pocket-sized episodes are to encourage you on your creative pathway.
2025-09-1009 min
Creative Momentum with Meg Dunley PodcastS1E2: Beulah van Rensburg and Ziggy AttiasWelcome 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 mind, taking you behind the studio doors to hear about process, routine, inspiration and wisdom. These episodes are pocket sized to encourage you on your creative pathway.Episode 2: Beulah van Rensburg and Ziggy Attias
2025-09-0321 min
Creative Momentum with Meg Dunley PodcastS1E1: Amy Ann GoelzWelcome 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 the studio doors to hear about process, routine, inspiration and wisdom. These episodes are pocket sized to encourage you on your creative pathway. I struggled to decide the order of the twenty-plus interviews, so I...
2025-08-2908 min
Writing ConnectionsWriting Retreats in Victoria, Australia with Meg DunleyIn this episode, author and writing retreat host Meg Dunley shared her writing retreat success story. After hosting just one writing retreat, she booked a venue for 6 more in 2025 - and filled them all!Please note that there are some audio issues during this interview. We were 15 hours apart on the other side of the world from each other so the connection wasn't great. But Meg shares so much great information and has an inspiring story so it's worth the listen.She also shares why she decided to host her first writing retreat and gave...
2024-04-2434 min