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margaretmorgan.bsky.social
My letter to the Adelaide Festival Board (cc'ing the SA Premier) about the revocation of the invitation to Randa Abdel-Fattah.

#Auspol
#Auslit
Dear Adelaide Festival Board, I write in regard to the rescinding of Dr Abdel-Fattah's invitation to appear at the upcoming Adelaide Writers' Week. As a novelist who has previously appeared as a panelist at Writers' Week, a librettist whose works have been performed at the Adelaide Festival, and indeed, an enthusiastic audience member since the early 1980s, I am outraged that you have chosen to censor this Palestinian Australian over her expressed views on Israeli genocide. To conflate criticism of Israel in Gaza with antisemitism and the recent horrors of Bondi is disingenuous and irrational. This is not the Adelaide Festival I have long held in the highest esteem for its respect for diverse voices and ideas. Censorship is the enemy of creativity. Your foolish action threatens to destroy Adelaide Writers' Week and ravage the reputation of the Adelaide Festival globally. I urge you to reverse your decision. Yours sincerely, Margaret Morgan, BA LLB BAdvSc Author & screenwriter Rotterdam, Netherlands
January 11, 2026 at 10:48 AM
ajsadauskas.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy
Look what I found at Parra Library earlier today...

#book #books #ronnisalt #VanBadham #auslit #ausbooks #authors
November 23, 2025 at 6:24 AM
wyld.bsky.social
2024 ended badly for me, and most of 2025 can get in the 🗑 of time.

2025 is ending on a high for me, so 2026 better not give me any trouble.

Anyway, I've signed a contract with UQP for book number 4.

And book number 5 is in progress.

#AmWriting #mobsky #auslit
wyld.bsky.social Ren Wyld @wyld.bsky.social · Dec 10
Some good news, for a change: I signed a book contact with UQP in late October, and resisted the urge to do a happy dance until they did the official announcement >

www.uqp.com.au/blog/uqp-acq...
December 10, 2025 at 7:17 AM
protraitofprudence.bsky.social
A. D. Hope
1907-2000
Inscription for a War
Published. Shared.
#poem #poetry #poet #warpoetry #auspoetry #auslit
January 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
patrickallington.bsky.social
The report that Melbourne University Publishing will stop publishing the lit mag #Meanjin is bad news for readers, writers, thinkers, dreamers, doers, publishers, and policymakers - and for citizens who have never heard of or read Meanjin.
#Auslit #litmags
www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...
Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing
Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.
www.crikey.com.au
September 4, 2025 at 4:06 AM
littleread.bsky.social
Re #MeanjinJournal, a letter from myself and some of my colleagues to The University of Melbourne. #Meanjin is such an important part of Australia's literary ecosystem and losing it would be culturally and industrially devastating. #AusLit #AustralianWriters #Publishing #Unimelb
1 / 1 Letter in support of Meanjin’s future As members of the Publishing and Communications program’s staff at the University of Melbourne, we strongly support the continued existence of Meanjin Quarterly. From direct involvements with the journal during the past 25 years and more, we personally attest to the formative role Meanjin has played in the development of writers, editors and publishers, and an independent Australian cultural voice. The creative labour of thousands resonates deeply in the fabric of this cultural institution founded by Clem Christesen in Meanjin/Brisbane in 1940. We call on the University of Melbourne to recognise the rich and continuing social, political and literary value of Meanjin by ensuring its future. The journal is a living resource for our teaching, and vital to our students. Its publications fill our reading lists with ideas from the best minds of our time. It has uplifted many of our students through publication, internships, partnerships and employment, and its connection to the University is part of what makes our writing and editing programs valuable and comparable to other leading universities on the international stage. We believe the University’s enduring purpose of benefiting society compels it to take swift action to preserve the journal and sustain its continued publication, preferably within the University itself. At the very least, the University should do all it can, acting in good faith, to transfer the journal’s cultural and IP assets to another institution prepared to save it. Culturally, the University of Melbourne has benefited immensely from its support of the journal since 1945; the extinction of the journal would be its enduring loss but an even greater loss to the community the University serves. Signed by: Sybil Nolan Tim Coronel Matt Holden LJ Maher Fiannuala Morgan Sharon Mullins Beth Driscoll Claire Parnell Nicola Redhouse Hollen Singleton Bec Kavanagh
September 12, 2025 at 5:58 AM
wyld.bsky.social
I'm in Sydney for an exciting (re)launch of [redacted] tomorrow. Can't wait for the cat to be out of the bag! Proud to have co-edited this collection of poetry, fiction, essays, and more by new and established writers and scholars. ##AusLit
October 15, 2025 at 6:40 AM
voicesofwentworth.bsky.social
Bluesky is now up to 39m users.
If you’re Australian & new, you might like these 21 pages of starter packs on topics from #auspol to #AFL to #AusLit to #AusScience & more👇

When you scroll to page 10, hit “continue thread” for the next 11pgs
#StarterPack #Aussie #Australia #Australian #Sydney #NSW
voicesofwentworth.bsky.social Voices of Wentworth @voicesofwentworth.bsky.social · Jan 8
#AUSSIE starter pack 🧵v2

Australian & new to Bluesky? Many pages of starter packs loosely grouped by topic. New randoms added to the end

A. AUSPOL
Community Independents: go.bsky.app/9etBt9s

The #Australia Institute: go.bsky.app/DnEVDa2

Aus politics & climate action go.bsky.app/B7vD6KF
#auspol
September 28, 2025 at 4:30 AM
fionakatauskas.bsky.social
Really enjoying this #AusLit
Book- Raaza Hamshed’s What Kept You?
July 12, 2025 at 4:33 AM
wyld.bsky.social
Ever notice that some of the best Indigifuturism in so-called Australia is by Western Australian mob? eg Ambelin Kwaymullina, Kat Gedhill-Tucker, Claire G Coleman, Cass Lynch. Did I miss anyone? #Mobsky #Auslit
October 29, 2025 at 8:18 AM
wyld.bsky.social
#mobsky that amazing cover's artwork was created by @flashblak.bsky.social

www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/202...
@southerlylitmag.bsky.social #Auslit
Southerly journal returns | Books+Publishing
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www.booksandpublishing.com.au
October 28, 2025 at 8:26 AM
voicesofwentworth.bsky.social
Bluesky is now up to 35m users.

Australian and new? You might like these 20 pages of starter packs on topics from #auspol to #AFL to #AusLit to #AusScience & more👇

When you scroll down to page 10, hit “continue thread” for the next 10 pgs
#StarterPack #Aussie #Australia #Australian #Sydney #NSW
voicesofwentworth.bsky.social Voices of Wentworth @voicesofwentworth.bsky.social · Jan 8
#AUSSIE starter pack 🧵v2

Australian & new to Bluesky? Many pages of starter packs loosely grouped by topic. New randoms added to the end

A. AUSPOL
Community Independents: go.bsky.app/9etBt9s

The #Australia Institute: go.bsky.app/DnEVDa2

Aus politics & climate action go.bsky.app/B7vD6KF
#auspol
April 21, 2025 at 4:21 AM
fionakatauskas.bsky.social
Finished this today and really really liked it #auslit
Book cover- The Sun Was Electric Light by Rachel Morton
May 7, 2025 at 10:18 AM
kevinklehr.bsky.social
#authorlife #writinglife #booksky #books #auslit #ausbooks #urbanfantasy #bookreviews #dystopian
September 26, 2026 at 1:53 AM
wyld.bsky.social
#AusLit
southerlylitmag.bsky.social Southerly @southerlylitmag.bsky.social · Nov 17
We’re back!
After pestilence, after pain, after wholeness, after emptiness, after life, after death, after a long hiatus, Southerly, Australia’s oldest literary journal, has returned with issue 80.1 ‘First, The Future’.
Purchase a copy of Southerly today: southerlylitmag.com.au/shop-subscri...
November 17, 2025 at 5:05 AM
karinhedet.bsky.social
Proud to have a food-inspired poem published in the August 2024 issue of inScribe Journal of Creative Writing. (Alas, the ocean swallowed my contributor copy! I’d so love to read this whole food issue.) 🍋

#poetry #AusLit #FoodPoems
Live a Little, by Karin Hedetniemi This is the way my mother sliced raw vegetables: precise and thin, even with the dull, wood-handled paring knife. She’d arrange a colour palette on the board, deconstructed works of art, carefully budgeted for orderly assemblies in the steaming pot. But when it came to cheese—how different we are. The way my mother would cut a brick of cheddar in such extravagant slabs, they wouldn’t fit on the cracker. The cover of inScribe Journal of Creative Writing, August 2024, Issue 8 “Food.” It features a still-life lemon with the stem and leaf attached.
November 12, 2024 at 12:55 AM
susiewalsh.bsky.social
Great resource T R, thank you for sharing!

I've added #ALT for those who use screen readers.

#AusLit
#WritingCommunity
Model clauses 1. No Generative Al training or licensing without consent This Agreement does not confer upon the Publisher any rights or interests other than those specified. Despite anything in this Agreement to the contrary, the Publisher is prohibited, without the Author's prior written consent, from reproducing, publishing, communicating, or otherwise using the Work or any part of the Work to develop, train or direct, Generative Artificial Intelligence technology or models ("Generative Al"), including but not limited to the mining or scraping of text, images or data from the Work, whether undertaken by the Publisher or by third parties authorised, licensed or directed by the Publisher. 2. No substantial generative Al use without consent Neither party will, without the other party's prior written consent, use or authorise others such as sub-licensees to use, Generative Al to wholly or substantially fulfil that party's material obligations pursuant to this Agreement or any sub-license authorised by this Agreement. In particular, the Publisher must seek the Author's prior written consent to the use of Generative Al in relation to their Work for [list and amend as appropriate for your deal]: a) audiobook narrations b) translations c) illustrations or artwork d) cover design e) animation f) substantial visual elements g) revisions and new editions h) substantive editing
April 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM
kevinklehr.bsky.social
Thanks for the mention. And it's cool my latest is about to be reviewed.
#auslit #writinglife #booksky #books #authorlife
australianbooks.bsky.social Australian Book Lovers @australianbooks.bsky.social · Jul 12
And more fabulous Aussie authored book spotlights:
4. The Battle for Victoria Street by Gabiann Marin #middlegrade
5. The Truth About Love by Mark Worthington #non-fiction
6 & 7. Midnight Angel & Three Ghosts @kevinklehr.bsky.social #urbanfantasy

#ReadMoreAussieBooks #booksky #LoveBooks
Book cover: The Battle for Victoria Street by Gabiann Marin Book cover: The Truth About Love by Mark Worthington Book cover: Midnight Angel by Kevin Klehr Book cover: Three Ghosts by Kevin Klehr
July 13, 2026 at 12:07 AM
wyld.bsky.social
Been going through 2026 Red Dirt Poetry festival program. Excited to be participating. After couple of poetry events, 8 poems published, a verse novel in progress and now this festival - I can now call myself an emerging poet without the imposter cringe
www.reddirtpoetryfestival.com #AusLit #poetry
Red Dirt Poetry Festival | 20–23 August 2026
www.reddirtpoetryfestival.com
July 21, 2026 at 6:05 AM
kevinklehr.bsky.social
And while it explores love, it's the love between the friends which it really delves into – where their views originate from and how modern friendships are cultivated through social technology.

Read more 👉 lttr.ai/AtC1s

#bookreview #books #booksky #auslit #auswrites
Book Review – The Paradise Pact by Anita Heiss
This is more than a Romance novel. At its heart it is a comparison of indigenous issues in both Australia and Hawaii. It explores similarities and differences as three fifty-something female friend…
lttr.ai
July 21, 2026 at 12:26 AM
alexburchmore.bsky.social
Some good news for a change!

"Queensland University of Technology announced on Wednesday it had acquired the 85-year-old journal ... QUT’s successful bid marked a full circle for Meanjin, which was founded in Brisbane/Meanjin by Clem Christesen in 1940 before moving to Melbourne in 1945"

#AusLit 📚
australia.theguardian.com Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · Feb 11
‘A cultural icon’: axed Australian literary journal Meanjin finds new life in Queensland
‘A cultural icon’: axed Australian literary journal Meanjin finds new life in Queensland
The 85-year-old magazine will return to the city for which it was named after a successful bid by Queensland University of Technology * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The literary journal Meanjin will return to the city it was born in that bears its Indigenous name. The Queensland University of Technology announced on Wednesday it had acquired the 85-year-old journal, whose life was cut short by Melbourne University Press in September. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 6:41 AM
theotherindrani.bsky.social
It's outrageous to me that universities seem unable to market the humanities—including publications like #Meanjin. People are still buying books, young people are embracing poetry—and we have the internet. Get on Instagram and put these damn things in front of the people! #AusLit #auspol
simonrosenberg.bsky.social Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · Sep 5
“Given the coffers of the University of Melbourne, one would have thought the paltry amount Meanjin requires on a yearly basis was small coin for the intellectual contribution the magazine, at its best, can make to our literary culture.” @louiseadler1.bsky.social
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...
Australian writers shocked and ‘disgusted’ by closure of 85-year-old literary journal Meanjin
After 85 years of continuous publication, Meanjin, Australia’s second-oldest literary journal, is closing.
johnmenadue.com
September 6, 2025 at 2:19 AM
nickfeik.bsky.social
John Farnham heavily outselling Sally Rooney #auslit
November 21, 2024 at 2:47 AM
jessaine.bsky.social
My work Major Arcana was published today in the Globe Review you can read it here: globereview3.wordpress.com/2026/09/30/m... check out the other works too! 💟💜💟💜💟💜 #auslit #tarot #theglobereview
Major Arcana
by Jess Áine Barry Twenty-two strange folk gathered under a full moon. The Devil arrived late, as per usual. Death was there but invisible. She was the dark empty spaces between people, the bare br…
globereview3.wordpress.com
October 1, 2026 at 9:44 AM
genni.bsky.social
✨ Coming Soon ✨
The Night The Stars Came Close, edited by moi and Dominique Hecq, cover art by @stephenembleton.bsky.social.
The creative heart of a James Cook University project on #refugee youth resettlement in Australia. 📚
#RefugeeResettlement #CreativeWriting #AusLit #JCU
Refugee anthology by Eugen Bacon and Dominique Hecq (eds)
July 2, 2026 at 8:11 AM