On April 8th, Virtual War Memorial Australia awarded Megan a Champion Medal at the 2024 Schools Program Excellence Awards. The award recognises "Champions of the Virtual War Memorial Australia". Virtual War Memorial Australia is Australia's largest online war memorial, with 1.5 millions records in its collection. It's main mission "is to provide a worthy home, [...] The post Champion Medal award appeared first on Megan Spencer ..read more

A brand new wartime remembrance podcast from Megan Spencer WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners are advised that this podcast (and the text below) contains the voices of and references to people who have passed away. BRINGING HIS SPIRIT HOME is a seven-part audio podcast that explores the WWI story of Ngarrindjeri Anzac, Private [...] The post Bringing His Spirit Home podcast appeared first on Megan Spencer ..read more

Defending with Pride: Voices podcast wins at the 2023 MEAA SA Media Awards! Defending with Pride: Voices, the multi-part commemorative podcast series Megan made for the Shrine of Remembrance has won the 'Best Radio/Audio Journalism - Feature Based on a Single Story' Award at the 2023 MEAA SA Media Awards! The Media, Entertainment and Arts [...] The post Win for Defending with Pride: Voices! appeared first on Megan Spencer ..read more

A brand new commemorative podcast by Megan Spencer for the Virtual War Memorial Australia. WHEN THE WAR COMES HOME: THE BEACHPORT MINE TRAGEDY tells the powerful story of the Beachport Mine Tragedy, one of Australia’s least-known yet most significant stories of WWII. On the 14th of July 1941, a German sea mine exploded on a [...] The post When The War Comes Home podcast appeared first on Megan Spencer ..read more

A brand new wartime remembrance podcast from Megan Spencer WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners are advised that this podcast contains the voices of and references to people who have passed. WALKING IN TWO WORLDS is a seven-part audio podcast that explores the WWI story of Ngarrindjeri Anzacs, brothers Cyril and Rufus Rigney. Their [...] The post Walking In Two Worlds podcast appeared first on Megan Spencer ..read more

As a professional meditation teacher, Megan has also teacher-trained in Mindful Self-Compassion. Here she writes about her own experience with the practice, and how it helped her make it through a difficult bereavement process she experienced on her own. Her essay, Climbing the Mountain of Self-Compassion, was published on renowned MSC teacher Kristy Arbon's Heartworks [...] The post Mindful Self-Compassion appeared first on Megan Spencer ..read more

What is it about Berlin that attracts so many Australian artists? Megan Spencer goes to Europe's cultural hub to find out why they keep coming back. An article Megan wrote for Double J on a 'recce' to Berlin before she moved there for 3 years from 2015. It was published on the Double J website [...] The post Berlin Song appeared first on Megan Spencer ..read more

Meditation Australia is Australia's peak industry body for meditation teachers. In 2017, MA did an interview with Megan so she could she discuss her meditation teaching and personal practice. It's informative, emotional - and funny! Read it now, at this link.   The post Meditation Australia Q&A appeared first on Megan Spencer ..read more

A brand new wartime remembrance podcast from Megan Spencer. The Sudden Storm is a powerful six-part audio podcast that explores the extraordinary and tragic WWII story of Australian women in war, that of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) sisters, massacred on Bangka Island by members of the Imperial Japanese Army on the 16th of [...] The post The Sudden Storm podcast appeared first on Megan Spencer ..read more

Cuttings is a dynamic new play that grew out COVID and the beating red desert heart of Mparntwe/Alice Springs. It’s about to have its South Australian premiere at the 2023 Adelaide Fringe Festival. In 2020, long-time Alice resident, novelist Jo Dutton (From Alice With Love), received a Creative Fellowship from Arts NT. She had a [...] The post Scenes from real life: Cuttings appeared first on Megan Spencer ..read more