2023—

The Melbourne City of Literature Office and RMIT Culture present Tramlines: A Love Letter to Melbourne, April 26, 2023.
Join us for a night of storytelling and a deep dive into the craft of creating audio stories.

Celebrating Naarm/Melbourne’s unique tram network, ‘Tramlines’ is a new Broadwave podcast produced by Melbourne’s City of Literature Office and curated by a multitude of creative participants, producers, writers and musicians. Making use of the location, time and sounds from the tramline to create a work which is part audio book, part spoken word and part locative literature, this unique event will change the way you think about public transport – and what you listen to while riding.

Join host Mel Cranenburgh in conversation with award-winning podcast producer Beth Atkinson-Quinton, The Age’s Arts Editor Elizabeth Flux and beloved YA author Nova Weetman for a night of storytelling and a deep dive into the craft of creating audio stories.

Tramlines – the podcast series will be launched weekly, from 8 May 2023

ACMI and Kurian Production Screening Present: Behrouz – screening + Q&A, February 10, 2023.
After being detained on Manus Island for over six years and after three years in New Zealand as a free man, Behrouz Boochani was finally granted a visa to visit Australia.

At this special screening of Behrouz, Behrouz Boochani and the film’s director Simon V. Kurian will join in-person for the post screening Q&A hosted by Beth Atkinson-Quinton.

Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) - Soundwaves: Anatomy of an Audio Scene, March 7, 2023.
Crafting audio documentaries is a unique skill that requires layers of story, interviews, archival and music to build unique auditory worlds that take the listener on a journey into the heart of the story.

Soundwaves – Anatomy of an Audio Scene, unpacks how award-winning audio storytellers such as Patrick Abboud (The Greatest Menace: Inside the Gay Prison Experiment); Laura Nagy (Pillow Talk); and Bethany Atkinson-Quinton (Tender), harness the unique powers of audio documentary, in play-by-play breakdowns of scenes from their work. This session looks at intimacy, safety of subjects, world building and first person storytelling through the scope of sound.

2022—

Creative Directions—Independent Media: Urgent Stories with Modest Means, October 6, 2022.
In a complex world, citizens need independent sources of news and information. As Australia’s mediascape consolidates, independent voices are more important than ever. Monolithic media empires aren’t dead yet, but independent journalists and authors are finding new ways to investigate, report and document – not just at the margins, but increasingly from the corridors of power.

Emerging Writers’ Festival—Writers’ Night School: Intro to Narrative Audio, June 20, 2022.
This workshop will explore how to find a good story for audio, as well as the specifics of writing audio stories, getting the most out of your interviews and what to do with a pile of tape. Plus, get industry insider tips on how to successfully pitch your audio story or podcast idea.

The Wheeler Centre—Red Light/Green Light, June 4 and 18, 2022.
We all know the importance of teaching consent and respect in the classroom. But what does the language of consent actually sound like? In these special incursions, producers of Tender, Beth Atkinson-Quinton and Madison Griffiths, will lead two 90-minute workshops in each participating school. Teens will have the chance to share their stories and ideas in audio recordings that will be edited by Beth and Madison to make up a special episode of Tender, which will be released through Tender and the Wheeler Centre.

The National Editing and Writing Students Conferences (NEWS)—Can You Hear Me Now? Introduction to Podcasting, May 20, 2022.
Join broadcaster and audio-producer Beth Atkinson-Quinton for an introductory workshop on audio storytelling. This will cater to those wanting to tell non-fiction stories through sound but with no idea where to start. Beth will introduce you to the craft of audio producing with a focus on structuring your stories for podcasts.

2021—

Melbourne Writers Festival—Jacinta Parsons: Unseen, September 11, 2021.
Jacinta Parsons speaks with Beth Atkinson-Quinton about her memoir Unseen, and the profoundly complex relationships between the chronically ill and their own bodies.

Emerging Writers’ Festival—Writers’ Night School: Narrative Audio, June 22, 2021.
This workshop covers everything from how to find a good story and knowing whether it will be good for audio, the specifics of writing and structuring audio stories, getting the most out of your interviews, what to do with a pile of tape and get industry insider tips on how to successfully pitch your audio story or podcast idea.

previously—

I have hosted and presented panels with Melbourne Writers Festival, Audiocraft Podcast Festival, Emerging Writers Festival, The Wheeler Centre, The Walkley Foundation, Australian Centre for Moving Image, Arts Centre Melbourne, among others; one of my very favourite speaking opportunities was sharing the stage with Uncle Jack Charles for a Change The Date event in 2017. I have also been a guest on radio for Triple R, FBi Radio, 3CR, JOY and PBS 106.7, and have guest lectured at RMIT University, Deakin University, Collarts and Monash University.