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Hi, I'm Zoe! 🙋‍♀️ I'm a Visual Linguist and Exophonic Writer based in Melbourne, Australia. Join me each episode while I podcast my quest to understand how exophony is changing the world. Exophony (or the art of creative writing in a non-native language) is an old practice that's getting more and more prominence in recent years. Some questions that keep me awake at night (which fuel this podcast) are: ✨Why do writers choose to write in a non-native language over their mother tongue? How does this choice impact their work? ✨Is the world welcoming the works of exophonic writers? Or are they treated as less good than native authors? ✨Are exophonic writers embracing our own imperfect styles or are we trying to appear as close to native as possible? ✨ What will normalising exophonic practices mean for global readers and literature? If that sounds like what you need to hear right now, press play and embark with me in an exophonic creative journey! 🎧 SEASON 2, COMING AUGUST 1ST 2025! 🎧

Recent Episodes

28 - Exophonic Storytelling for Brands and Transcreation - A chat with Mages Ruiz Diaz

Send us Fan Mail Hello friends and welcome to the last episode of the Exophonic writer Podcast of 2025. I have great company! Join me on my chat with Mages Ruiz Diaz from Acts of Imagination, as we discuss how we both brought our Argentinian cultural backgrounds to our work here in Australia. Also, we touched on particularly interesting topics such as Mages' branding work for an Azerbaijani client, changing names after migration and some pondering on the Spanish language. This one is a ...

43 MIN

27 - Cultural Literacy and Exophonic Writing - with Dr Gabriel García Ochoa

Send us Fan Mail Hi exophonic friends, We are here again with yet another amazing guest! Dr Gabriel García Ochoa is a Mexican-born academic and writer based in Melbourne, Australia. He teaches at Monash University, where his work explores cultural literacy, world literature, and translation. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University and is the author of the 2019 science fiction novel The Hypermarket. Join me in my conversation with Gabriel as we discussed cultural lit...

34 MIN

26 - Hand out a sample of your work (my novel "Tango Masala" read aloud)

Send us Fan Mail Hello Exophonics, As promised, here are the first few chapters (poems) of my debut novel Tango Masala. I tried my best and I hope you like it (but much respect for voice actors!)I read the first 46 pages, and the following poems: Comfort Zone Hamster Palace The Millers LiamMicro Lila and Rim Pink House Castle-hotel Check Mate MilanHindi Here to work New Teacher If you want to see more, head to my website www.zoegomezcass....

22 MIN

25 - Early and surprising lessons from self-publishing my book

Send us Fan Mail Hi, exophonics! ✨ Let me share with you all that I'm learning as a newly self-published exophonic author. We'll talk about: why your friends may not read your bookstocking your book in real-life bookstores and librarieswhere is a good place to promote your indie-publish book.Plus, if you stick until the very end I'll tell you one surprising marketing technique I'm deploying 🙃 In the episode, I mentioned Creative Pep talk Podcast (which is pretty famous), but just ...

27 MIN

24 - Recognising what you're doing right as a writer - a chat with book coach Karmen Spiljak

Send us Fan Mail Whether to reach a wider audience, or to detach yourself from saying hard things, or because your native language has a very complex writing system. Whatever the reason that brings you to write in a non-native language... this is a story that only you can tell, so write it! In conversation with author and book coach Karmen Spiljak, we talked about grammar skills, cultural expectations, opportunities for exophonics in the publishing world and her own trajectory in being an e...

39 MIN