You know those times when something just sticks in your head and won't get out until you write it - though you should be working on something else. Think this is the fastest acceptance I've ever had. (maybe they'll bring their friends) Wishing y'all a decent day xx #writinglife

'Balmy days pottering around home while doing some light imagining' - how people imagine what being a writer involves. This cracked me up. Michael Winkler in the The Age on the realities of having your book pubbed www.smh.com.au/culture/book... #writingcommunity

I just gifted a Women's Refuge Safe Night for Mother's Day - just $20! I hope you will too! #NewZealand #MothersDay

Very happy to hear I've been longlisted in the Peter Carey Short Story Awards I've said it before and I'll say it again, but prizes run by writers are the best. I won't make it any further I don't think but lovely to be involved again, and big congrats to all the other finalists 💫

Thrilled to have a short story up on @newsroom.co.nz Thanks to Steve Braunias for his insights. It's an old one, revamped. Plus find out the inspiration behind the story. Check it out here: newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/03/s...

Lots of people early voting in the rain yesterday. It felt kind of hopeful. Also, got some very good writing news today. Hope ... hmm such an interesting word.

Longlisted! Congratulations to all those shortlisted for the #Commonwealthshortstoryprize #cwwp I'm thrilled. My story is set in a dystopian (is it?) future where it's illegal to not smile or have pets. It's about opression, betrayal and resistance!

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Very exciting news today!

Help! For a writing thing: What's the difference between being 'in love' w someone and loving someone? (and what nationality you are) - I have a hunch ...

Your new alternative to #insiders The Sunday Shot premieres on Sunday at 9am! For those intending to watch, please click below and subscribe to our new YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/@TheSundayShot - apparently we need at least 50 subscribers to ensure a smooth YouTube livestream experience!

We went for bahn xeo the other day. When we weren't watching our Chilean friend drunk the dipping sauce 🤣 Thank God the restaurant owner didn't see he was too busy counting how many tissues other customers used!

March 30th. Writers on how living in the West contributes to our writing. I'll be talking about the well of ideas that is the Coin Laundry. Feat. Alice Pung, Jinghua Qian, Sam Elkin, Rijn Collins, and Emilie Collyer. Check out the full program! www.trybooking.com/events/landi...

Baby's first writers festival! Check out this amazing new festival! Alice Pung, Thuy On, Sam Elkin, Rijn Collins, Helen Garner and many more. I'm very excited to be one of the closing night readers! #writingcommunity www.trybooking.com/events/landi...

Very thankful for my time at KSP Writers Centre! I've tried to summarise what I was thinking about while there. Plus, my best top ten writing tips. (been thinking about those for years!) www.kspwriterscentre.com/single-post/... #writingcommunity

Call for entries: Rod Oram Memorial Essay Prize newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/19/c...

Excited to have this short piece up at la piccioletta barca. I think you'll really like it. (might be my lot for the year so good to get in early in the year!) www.picciolettabarca.com/posts/apartm...

"When Mexico sends its people, they're sending their best. They're sending firefighters to help solve American problems. They're bringing fire fighting uniforms. They're bringing fire fighting equipment. They're bringing kittens down from trees. And all, I assume, are good people."

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I got myself Chinese Postman. Check out these recs!

New email in my inbox and thought no, I'm too unwell to get another rejection (a virus) but ... Anyway, it will be up soon. I'm happy because in Jan 2025 I will have two pieces out and that's as many as I got in all of 2024. Wishing lots of stories this coming year for everyone! #writingcommunity

Caught up with my writer bestie, Katelin Farnsworth outside Paperback Bookshop Snapped up a copy of @dani-netherclift.bsky.social Vessel! #books

Dorothy Porter (legend!) The monkey's mask. 'oh, Chris, I feel like blubbering, I'm nearly forty I'm in love again I'm tracking a stranger I'm reading poetry I'm getting so sensitive I'm an allergy on legs.' #poetrycommunity #poems

I was sent some screenshots from social media reactions following my report on Port Pirie and it still surprises me how even when people are quite literally tripping over evidence of a problem in the street or park, there are some who will deny it.

Congratulations to all the winners of the KSP short fic comp. I was excited about this because I love these nuns! And I have a novel idea in story cycles for them (up next) (They're also actually very funny!) #writingcommunity

Hi #WritingCommunity! Something very exciting is coming to Bluesky next month . . . We're excited to announce that our annual #5ActFestiveStory writing competition will be hosted here this year. Join us from Mon 9 Dec to Mon 16 Dec. www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/blog/how-to-...

PSA: do not climb on unstable things to put up your Christmas lights. So many patients tonight from falls putting up lights!!!

Anyone in #wellington this Sat 30 Nov my incredible 99-year-old mum is hosting an open day to sell the pottery she has made over the last 6 months. everyone welcome - 88 Howard Rd, Pt Howard, Eastbourne

From Richard Powers Playground Which Māui - whether the Hawaiian, the Tahitian, the Māorian, the Samoan etc - surely this should just be Māori??? Also this is a terrible sentence I love RP but quite a few things not right at the beginning of this book

'but I especially love the ending ... I thought it was really wonderful, perhaps as a metaphor for the spurious disappearance of our creative impulses.' A friend said lovely things about my story. Made my day! headland.org.nz/issues/issue...

you'd repost this wouldn't you? ( a nice review for Low-Ex. Much appreciated btw)

Anyone know where I can submit a 600 word comedy/horror story? - TIA. #flashfiction #horror

Geese going for a gander. I asked where they were going but they remained tight beaked.

Resistance = Do less.

Another Australian horror: never heard of this one before. www.australiawidefirstaid.com.au/resources/du...

Sat in on a novel writing group while I'm in Perth at KSP and they did a weekly check-in. One of them thanked another for her blunt feedback of 'it's boring' on her novela, while the other whispered, 'it is' under her breath. Gobsmacked, I looked from one to the other, relishing the unspoken.

'is Perth surrounded by ...' - crying - Google prompts.

Perth is so bright and clean. Full of tourists, pigeons and possibility This poem has been written in the toilet. #poetry #Perth Image: arched white bridge over water, shiny skyscrapers in background

A Sort of a Song Let the snake wait under his weed and the writing be of words, slow and quick, sharp to strike, quiet to wait, sleepless. —through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones. Compose. (No ideas but in things) Invent! Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks. - WCW

#TOITUTETIRITI www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

May indulge :) www.trybooking.com/events/landi...

Arrived at KSP Fellowship. So utterly peaceful. Three crows had a beak to beak outside my window then one flew north, one south, and the last east. Watching for their return. Editing and reading, a bit here, a cookie and chocolate milk, a bit there.

Closing out your brief bites day with a lovely smidgen of literary fiction. This piece talks sisterly love and familial loss in a most poetic way. This is "La Garbancera Gotica" by Tina Cartwright @humsentence.bsky.social SUNDAY

Apropos of nothing in particular, the DE ebook is marked down to $6.99 a whole bunch of places where you can buy ebooks. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/232363...

Recovered from a bad cold. Slept nine hours. Listened to Joshua Bell Romance of the Violin. Now to usher forth into the world armed only with my diary, a pen and a thrill at the world made anew.