PostMortem PreRaphaelite

Welcome to the website of PostMortem PreRaphaelite podcast.

PostModern PreRaphelite is a magazine style podcast exploring horror, the uncanny, the speculative, weirdness and dark aesthetics in film, literature, music and beyond. This is a new podcast, so stumble into the darkness with your host Talie Helene.

A sister podcast, Postmodern Preraphaelite, is also in pre-production.

About your host:

Talie Helene works with words, sound and music to tell stories.

TALIE HELENE is a composer and writer, from Melbourne, Australia. She publishes poetry, fiction, music journalism, arts copywriting, and other critical writing; she creates music for media and interdisciplinary arts, sound design, as well as crafting her own songs.

In addition to presenting compositions live or as interactive experiences, she has performed with many artists including Wendy Rule, The Tenth Stage, Saba Persian Orchestra, Maroondah Symphony, Eden, and others in extreme metal genres. She performed an original underscore to accompany novelist Jason Nahrung reading a scene from his horror novel ‘Salvage’ at the Twelfth Planet Press Showcase at the Melbourne Writers’ Festival.

Talie was horror editor for the anthology The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror (Ticonderoga Publications); she was news editor for the Australian Horror Writers’ Association for four years (2006-2010). She has served as a short fiction judge and jury chair for the Bram Stoker Awards for Excellence in Horror Genre. She is a member of the SuperNova writers’ group. She has been nominated for twenty one publishing awards, and with her co-editor Liz Grzyb she has won an Aurealis Award for Best Anthology and a Tin Duck Award for Best West Australian Publication, and a Tin Duck Award for Best West Australian Professional Short Work (with Martin Livings).

Talie is gaffer taping her arts career back together (like everyone else in the creative industries in “post-Covid” Melbourne); she is studying toward the prestigious Associate Degree in Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT, and she is undertaking an enigmatic Bachelor of Music degree in Interactive Composition at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music – Victorian College of the Arts and Melbourne Conservatorium of Music at The University of Melbourne. Talie holds an Advanced Diploma in Music Industry (Sound Production) and a Certificate IV in Music Industry (Technical Production). She can sometimes be spotted doing tech stuff at Toyland Recording Studio in Northcote and The Substation Gallery in Newport.