Books+Publishing columns
In 2020, Veronica was the book industry columnist for Books+Publishing magazine.
- From inertia to action: Zeitgeists, decolonisation and structural change in publishing – 9 December 2020
- Rewriting the Long Lunch – 21 October 2020
- Sensitive subjects: The value of sensitivity reading – 8 July 2020
- Will Covid-19 permanently change the book industry? – 29 April 2020
- The bookseller’s dilemma: What bookstores won’t stock – 26 February 2020
Sisteria
Veronica co-founded the podcast Sisteria, about women & non-binary creatives’ experiences as creators & consumers of arts & culture. She co-hosted the podcast from 2016-2019 with Stephanie Van Schilt, interviewing guests including Hannah Kent, Mojo Juju, Julie Koh, Candy Bowers, and Evelyn Ida Morris. All episodes are available through iTunes, SoundCloud and on the Sisteria website.
Selected Writing
- How I Got Here: The Wheeler Centre’s Head of Programming on the hidden “emotional care” of her job interview with Fashion Journal – 28 September 2023
- Love and Squalor: Sarah Krasnostein’s The Trauma Cleaner for Kill Your Darlings – 16 October 2017
- ‘Speculative fiction is a powerful political tool’: from War of the Worlds to Terra Nullius for the Guardian – 22 August 2017
- Queer, working-class noir: debut novelist on Australian narcissism and suburban masculinity for the Guardian – 24 February 2017
- 8 Great New Books By Young Australians You Should Read Over The Summer for Junkee – 15 December 2016
- Your Sex Life is Incredible: On Doing It and reclaiming desire for Kill Your Darlings – 28 September 2016
- Freeing the Female Gaze for Overland – January 27 2016
- Out of Print, Not Out of Reach for The Wheeler Centre – 23 April 2015
- Sex and desire in the writing of Christos Tsiolkas for Archer – 15 December 2014
Selected Video and Audio
- Introducing Spring Fling: Above and Beyond for the Wheeler Centre – 7 August 2023
- World of Words interview for 3RRR’s Literati Glitterati – 19 April 2023
- Lost Gems Uncovered for Melbourne Jewish Book Week – 29 May 2022
- Let Me Be Brief: An interview with Melissa Manning and Adam Thompson for the Melbourne Writers Festival podcast – 11 October 2021
- Animals Like Us: An interview with Laura Jean McKay and Jo Lennan for the Sydney Writers’ Festival podcast – 25 July 2020
- New books by John Boyne and Rainbow Rowell with ABC Radio National Books and Arts – 19 November 2015