Kylie Mirmohamadi’s graceful portraits launch Textile Message Series 5 ✨ Read here👇 piecedwork.com/2025/11/21/k...

All seven EWF x Textile Message essays and poems are now online to read ✨ emergingwritersfestival.org.au/blog/2025/te...

Small fee, big impact: Advertise your submission calls monthly for £3, and directly contribute to raising £5000 for our poetry-focused #BrokenSpineAward fundraiser:

SAVE THE DATE for AusArt Day to join EWF's new initiative and support us in raising our artist fees to make working as an emerging writer more accessible! This is the best way for you to show your support for our festival’s work! 👀 Find out more: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/supporting-t...

EWF x Textile Message at No Vacancy gallery, Naarm. Thanks @emergingwriters.bsky.social for everything ✨

If you’re in Naarm / Melbourne this Friday September 12th please join us: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/ewf-x-... @emergingwriters.bsky.social

EWF X Textile Message presents seven stories about favoured and not-so-favoured clothes and textile pieces, woven with memory and emotion. This is an artist’s enquiry into significant clothes and other textile objects. 12/9 Naarm/Melbourne - info👇 emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/ewf-x-...

Beyond excited to be part of the Emerging Writers' Festival 2025 with EWF X Textile Message No Vacancy Gallery September 12th featuring stories from: Leila Lois, Mira Robertson, Anne M Carson, Julia English, Shu-Ling Chua, Trish Bolton, Emilie Collyer & Clare Carlin (host) Link to event & tix in bio

This will be lovely 🤍 please join us — an exhibition curated by @cecarlin.bsky.social Friday 12 September, 6:00PM, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/ewf-x-...

"Whoever's found out what location compassion (heart's imagination) can be contacted at these days, is herewith urged to name the place; and sing about it in full voice, and dance like crazy and rejoice beneath the frail birch that appears to be upon the verge of tears." ~Wisława Szymborska

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In the battle with Google, I'm on team Fox. Go Foxes - make that ludicrously expensive roof paid for by this rampant monopolising techno-infestation smell of your rank wee.

‘Her peculiar vision is both austere and lyrical, elegantly fluent in the secret ways of the self.’ Isabella Gullifer-Laurie reviews Fiction by Antigone Kefala in The Saturday Paper.

Silence, you know, is something that can’t be censored. And there are circumstances in which silence becomes subversive. That’s why they fill it with noise all the while - #JohnBerger

SF aloes on Tan track

AP announces the INAUGURAL Theresa Matheson Bequest Award 2025 🎉. This new award (with a prize of $1,000) is for poets who have not had a poem published, outside self-publication or via their Social Media. The 2025 judge is Claire Gaskin

One day in 1992, I spent a highly-memorable day with Bob Hoskins, dressing him up as Cher. For the full story - which also stars Cilla, MC Hammer, Gazza, Rab C Nesbitt & Blur-dressed-as-Blondie - plus images by the late great Terry O'Neill, read on... www.carolinecollettwriter.com/bob-hoskins-...

Out in July!

Griffith Review 90 - ‘Best Dressed’ call for subs 👇 www.griffithreview.com/for-writers

No one will tell our stories if we don’t 🌞 www.uapress.com/product/slee... Launched next month, preorder this collection, which shines a light on works by a diverse group of contemporary Kurdish women and nonbinary writers living in Kurdistan and in diaspora 💕 Edited by Holly Mason Badra

Episode 3 of What Moves Them has just dropped ✨🍃 In this episode, we speak to David H. Slattery, interdisciplinary artist & dance lover. He speaks about his new poetry/ dance/ photography project, Belle du Jour, and choreography project with Leila Lois. open.spotify.com/episode/3aho...

Early career and current creative practice doctoral researchers 👇

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Excellent opportunity for creative practice HDRs and ECRs to share research creative & critical. Eds really take time on the peer review, which is rigorous and generous. Please share! creativematters.edu.au/contribute-c...

“Whatever emotions they have in their heart are going to be translated into the textile. When you produce something by hand, it is always going to be unique and beautiful” au.toa.st/blogs/magazi...

the brilliant Yvonne Audette www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au/artists/yvon...

irrealis moods Tuesday

Mathew Adams' research challenges conventional perceptions of animal experimentation & considers the nature of scientific work. How art-based research can help to re-think human-animal relations - including health relations - is reflected in the below quote from Val Plumwood! 🧵(3/4)

“ Medical miracles don't happen overnight. They take years. You won't notice it tomorrow or next week, but someday soon, you or a family member will be diagnosed with cancer, dementia, or some other terrifying disease, but this time there will be no miracle cure because there is no funding.”

Textile Message: on clothes and other textile objects piecedwork.com/textilemessage

When I started freelancing for The Age & SMH in 2003, I could get $1200–$1600 for a feature. Even a decade ago I'd get roughly $850. In 2022 I got $700 – & that's GOOD PAY nowadays Media orgs use us as band-aids on their staff cuts, thinking we're non-union scabs. But I'm @withmeaa.bsky.social

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Please share Hamdan Ballal

The epoch-making photography commissioned by The Face is celebrated at the NPG, but it’s impossible to convey somehow how exciting the magazine once was. What else did it need? A sound design taken from interviews or testimonial recall? A dance floor??!

Just wrote a substack with some thoughts on the Meta violation of the copyright of millions of writers, including my book Vessel, as reported in The Atlantic a couple of days ago. open.substack.com/pub/danineth...

Peace Offer is an interactive dress inspired by this message: for peace to flourish, two sides must come together—at least two hands need to be shaken. Once they do, the white flower blooms. ~ Maia Hirsch 🕊️ www.maia-hirsch.com/peace-offer

Art’s “Jazz Witch” 🧙‍♀️ 🎺 fabulous! Happy IWD ✨

This is worth a visit, lots of books to see and buy plus a curated exhibition of artists' books at the library:

Lesotho le phele! 🇱🇸

Cynthia Erivo ♥️

It's publication day! Poetry on a theme of cellular memory and the inheritance of intergenerational trauma. 'The Hum Hearers' is out now from UWA Publishing and all good bookstores. Shortlisted for the 2023 Dorothy Hewett Award. Buy now: uwap.uwa.edu.au/products/the...

North Sea Poets is live! We offer online masterclasses, webinars, workshops for poets everywhere (novice or adept) and readers, because poems sing in the dark times. Hope you'll join us. Pls see website. Do share. northseapoets.com 🌊 @northseapoets.bsky.social

'The roots of the word ‘fern’ in both Greek & Anglo-Saxon are derived from words meaning feather. When you pair that with epiphytic growth...it’s like the ferns, the feathers of the plant world, are turning branches into wings.' @golowmor.bsky.social considers ferns' feathery forms buff.ly/4kiEHXI

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