Cordite is chuffed to announce that Ella O’Keefe will be our inaugural Audio Producer, and lends a stack of audio production knowledge to the journal. We’re already beavering away on detail for our first 20-30 minute program. O’Keefe is a poet and doctoral candidate and tutor with experience in radio editing and production. In 2011 she was a director of Critical Animals Symposium an interdisciplinary forum for creative practice and research held annually as part of This Is Not Art Festival. She has been a broadcaster at community radio station 2SER FM presenting Tuesday Breakfast and contributing content, including a series of interviews and readers with Australian poets, to Final Draft the books and writing program. She has also produced audio pieces for The Night Air on ABC Radio National and a radio documentary about the special collections of the Mitchell Library for All The Best on FBI Radio. She works part-time as Resource Officer at the Audio and Language Content Resource Centre for SBS Radio.