Marija Peričić in her first flush of fame.

When no studio wanted to touch Fight Club, producer Ross Grayson Bell fought hard to get the film green-lighted. Now, he’s back home in Australia and pulling no punches with budding storytellers.

Sarah Goffman on finding art among other people’s rubbish.

“We meet at his apartment block in Manly, from where he can hear the sea. It’s early evening, and the light is softened by a dense, salty haze. Restaurants and cafes on the street front are beginning to fill, the surf slowly emptying of people. Norfolk …”

A visit to writer and activist Eva Cox's house.

Free-diver Kathryn Heyman, author of Storm and Grace.

Redfern Wiradjuri woman Donna Ingram

Pakistani filmmaker and journalist Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy on devoting her life to exposing violence against women.

Small Acts of Disappearance author Fiona Wright on the strange relationship between hunger and writing.