The 2026 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship, worth $20,000, opens on 1 October 2025, closing at 5pm on 16 November 2025. To apply or find out more information, visit Writers Victoria.

#ShortStorySeptember This collection of Southern African stories is an old one, and I have no doubt that any such collection published today would be very different. anzlitlovers.com/2025/09/22/t...

Today's author for #ShortStorySeptember is Rodney Hall, and his most eloquent collection Silence: anzlitlovers.com/2025/09/21/s...

Today on a the blog, a post for #ShortStorySeptember hosted by @anzlitlovers.bsky.social "You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it." (Albert Einstein) madamebibilophilerecommends.co.uk/2025/09/20/y...

Short stories from the late great Shirley Hazzard anzlitlovers.com/2025/09/20/c...

A terrific second novel from Rhett Davis: Arborescence (2025) anzlitlovers.com/2025/09/19/a...

#ShortStorySeptember: another one from my shelves: Dream Stuff by David Malouf anzlitlovers.com/2025/09/17/d...

When I read Michelle Johnston's first novel Dustfall and she was a complete unknown, I knew then that she was going to one of our top shelf authors. Her third novel The Revisionists show her at the top of her game. anzlitlovers.com/2025/09/16/t...

A rarity for #ShortStorySeptember: Potch and Colour (1944), by Katharine Susannah Prichard anzlitlovers.com/2025/09/15/p...

Colum McCann's new book Twist might make a good movie... anzlitlovers.com/2025/09/14/t...

#bookthreads #booksky 💙📚#bookstodon A TCL #ShortStorySunday - Quin-Essential. My #bookreviews for the first two #ShortStories from "The Mysterious Mr. Quin" by #AgathaChristie, on my #bookblog now. Thanks to Lisa @ anzlitlovers.com for hosting #ShortStorySeptember #BeatTheBacklist #CloakDaggerChal

Does anybody know why I'm suddenly getting hits on my 2011 review of Bi Feiyu's Three Sisters? Is there a new book? Or has the Chinese government cracked down on him? anzlitlovers.com/2011/10/06/t...

For #EdnaObrien2025 hosted by Kim at Reading Matters and Cathy at 746 Books, I read The Little Red Chairs anzlitlovers.com/2025/09/12/t...

Award-winning author Christos Tsiolkas delivers the 2025 Ray Mathew Lecture, exploring the concept of 'Fence-sitting', and its place in the modern world: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aUk...

Aussie short stories for #ShortStorySeptember from the Red Centre: To Kill a Crested Bellbird and Other Stories by David Jagger anzlitlovers.com/2025/09/11/t...

Sad to hear that this is the final year of the Hazel Rowley Fellowship, but what a magnificent legacy it has been to a great Australian biographer hazelrowley.com

#ShortStorySeptember: Four short story collections and a copycat: anzlitlovers.com/2025/09/09/f...

With thanks to Paula at Winding Up the Week (to which any booklover should subscribe!) bookjotter.com/2025/09/06/w... Do Book Reviews Sell Books? worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...

@wordpress.com I have had to log in 8 times this morning, even to reply to comments on my own blog. Stop it, stop it, stop it, it is driving me crazy!

A bit of a Calvino-fest for this month's #6Degrees: anzlitlovers.com/2025/09/06/s...

A belated #20BooksOfWinter, No 20: Desertion by Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah anzlitlovers.com/2025/09/05/d...

We are looking for short story collections that are good to read and the contributions are starting to come in! Please bookmark this URL to add yours and tag it with the hashtag #ShortStorySeptember: anzlitlovers.com/category/my-...

19/20 for #20BooksOfWinter anzlitlovers.com/2025/05/06/2...

#20BooksofWinter No18 The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer anzlitlovers.com/2025/08/31/t...

#ShortStorySeptember begins tomorrow, so here’s a collection from Singapore to whet your appetite! Walk like a Dragon by Goh Sin Tub anzlitlovers.com/2025/08/31/w...

#20BooksofWinter No 16 The Star on the Grave by Linda Margolin Royal anzlitlovers.com/2025/08/30/t...

#20BoosOfWinter No 17 Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah anzlitlovers.com/2025/08/29/p...

#@)BooksOfWinter No 15 July's People by Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer anzlitlovers.com/2025/08/27/j...

#20BooksOfWinter No14: The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene anzlitlovers.com/2025/08/26/t...

#20BooksOFWinter No 13: Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell: a bit ponderous, but as a ground-breaking work of art in the cause of social reform, it’s still worth reading anzlitlovers.com/2025/08/24/m...

Innovating with AI: Project Gutenberg's Approach to Free eBooks and Literary Management Speaker: Ilana Kingsley, Pacific Northwest Library Association via @gbnewby www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXD7... #Ebooks

Today I attended a webinar about AI and the Productivity Commission, presented by CAL (the Copyright Agency Limited). These are my notes from the session, with thanks to Jo Johnston and Libby Baulch anzlitlovers.com/2025/08/20/c...

No#12 in #20BooksofWinter: Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler with Anna Aslanyan. If I'd been a bit quicker with my review I could have tagged it #TranslationThursday, eh @stujallen.bsky.social? anzlitlovers.com/2025/08/17/e...

An important book. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

I don't usually read books about sport... anzlitlovers.com/2025/08/16/c...

PM's Lit Award shortlists: anzlitlovers.com/2025/08/12/2...

Entries for the 20/40 Prize for fiction and nonfiction for 2026 will open again on 1 December this year (and remain open until to 31 January 2026). 20/40 offers a prize each year for the publication of a fiction and a nonfiction book of between 20,000 and 40,000 words. See finlaylloyd.com/20-40

Announcing Short Story September! anzlitlovers.com/2025/08/12/a...

#10 of #20BooksOfWinter Dottie, by Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah anzlitlovers.com/2025/08/10/d...

Spell the Month in Books: anzlitlovers.com/2025/08/09/s...

I do enjoy a thought-provoking book about obsession: Foreign Country by Marija Peričić anzlitlovers.com/2025/08/08/f...

With thanks to Hopewell's Library of Life, I read Crooked Cross by Sally Carson and was amazed at how this young author was so prescient. anzlitlovers.com/2025/08/07/c...

Hits on my post about Ruptured outnumber the next most popular post this week by five to one and are still rising steadily. anzlitlovers.com/2025/08/02/r...

#20BooksofWinter: England Made Me, an early novel by Graham Greene, anzlitlovers.com/2025/08/05/e...

Adventures in the kitchen: my review of the late Jock Zonfrillo's Recipes to Remember anzlitlovers.com/2025/08/04/r...

TCL's #6Degrees of Separation for August 2, 2025. tcl-bookreviews.com/2025/08/02/t...

It ought not to feel risky to be writing about this book... but if I lose friends and followers, so be it. anzlitlovers.com/2025/08/02/r...

An interesting exploration of the complexities of living with chronic illness: Cure by Katherine Brabon anzlitlovers.com/2025/08/01/c...

Just when you think there are no more novels to emerge from the carnage of The Great War, Anjet Daanje has produced a masterpiece: The Remembered Soldier, superbly translated by David McKay and published by @scribepub.bsky.social anzlitlovers.com/2025/07/31/t...

#No9 of #20BooksOfWinter: Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer — a superb novel about the collateral damage to family members of activists. anzlitlovers.com/2025/07/29/b...