Hey, props to writers who got literally anything done this year.

A manuscript isn't ready to be shown to a potential publisher until you've done a thorough edit, double-checked your facts, abandoned your family, shunned all friendships, and offered a suitable blood sacrifice to the demon librarians that curate the Library of Forgotten Authors

2005 me: I love literary journalism, I love writers who bare their souls 2025 me: Stop stop oh my god please stop

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It felt like Australian publishing was shrinking with mergers and the shock closure of Meanjin - waiting to see the full story behind that! But there's a few new players bring fresh energy and new books in recent months. With thanks to @jocaseau.bsky.social for excellent editing.

What does this even mean

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...

Mainstream publishers persist in bringing out books full of 'what I reckon' and 'my friend sells spirulina in fancy bottles' pretendy-cure wellness influencer/celeb nonsense for everything from menopause to cancer to immune disorders to endometriosis.

For a moment, Winton thought he saw someone dressed as a twenty-something on the verge of uncovering their rural town’s terrible secret, but it was just a student in mufti. theshovel.com.au/2025/08/20/t...

this, from the brain of perfect genius @radiomoderation.bsky.social , whips, as one would expect

it finally happened www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

We've never seen a writers' festival try to impose a code of conduct on speakers before; it's not a thing. However, the weaponising of such codes by all sorts of institutions has been proliferating lately, detrimentally to the public interest.

The Productivity Commission has floated an idea to expand the fair use provision, which would make the kind of scraping AI companies do to train ChatGPT et al legal. Authors and other creatives are rightly outraged. NB: this isn't the first time the PC has come for book publishing.

Congrats to the editorial and design team at Southern Cross University for the relaunch of the literary magazine Coastlines. I'm very pleased to have some fiction in the new issue, sitting among some fine writing and writers. #litmags #Auslit #Ausfiction coastlinesjournal.com

Nicely said: #academicpublishing mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850

Creative Australia is advertising for the inaugural director of Writing Australia. This is a time for transformative, systemic, disruptive thinking and change. And new voices. #auslit #CreativeAustralia #WritingAustralia australiacouncil.pulsesoftware.com/Pulse/job/zC...

Private schools spend millions on new buildings, thanks to generous tax deductions. The Govt's own Productivity Commission recommended that the tax deduction for private schools be removed. Our report shows how it creates inequality in our education system: australiainstitute.org.au/report/fundi...

I commented on the present and future of the Miles Franklin Literary Award for Griffith Review: #Auslit #MilesFranklin #GriffithReview www.griffithreview.com/articles/the...

Submissions are now open! Best of Australian Poems 2025 accepts published & unpublished poems from 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025. Guest editors: Nam Le & Jill Jones! 🔥 Close of submissions: 30 June 2025. Submission guidelines + how to submit: www.australianpoetry.org/ap-projects/...

Thinking of all the hardworking authors who've been so comprehensively ripped off. 'Historic royalty payments' = money earned and owed.

Literary Magazines: Arablit Quarterly, Nenta, Ipikai, Ubwali #LiteraryMagazine #Fiction #Nonfiction #Poetry www.writingafrica.com/literary-mag...

Nothing says Happy Easter like hyper-realistic silicon feet.

I swear to god some books should just be 700 word opinion pieces.

That Toner-Rodgers paper on AI applications to materials science research that caused such a flap last year turns out to be largely fabricated

… Also ….😩

Best-ever author statement on why we should buy/read her latest book. And you should, because it is damn good. #TheLastAmericanRoadTrip

*crab-walked

I've adjusted the AI model so that it always responds with facts about Batman.

If I won the lottery, I wouldn’t tell anyone, but there would be signs

• 2,000 men made to sit on a beach in shirt & shorts as 2 atomic bombs were detonated just nine miles away • hundreds of men ordered to walk, march & crawl through fallout in order to see how much of it stuck on their uniforms • a decades long cover-up by successive governments #NukedBloodScandal

To the office, and was there late doing business, and so with my head full of business I to bed.

New Parliamentary Library product: ‘Issues and Insights: Challenges for Australia’. 12 articles by Library researchers on some of the big issues for the new Parliament - www.aph.gov.au/About_Parlia...

I hate this

“Are conspiracy theorists just writers without conventional publishers?”—a delightful/insightful aside from @sularigentill.bsky.social at the @mysterywriters.bsky.social Edgar Week Symposium

I would be ticked if I went to the trouble of coming up with three prize-worthy novels only to be overruled by a board. lithub.com/did-the-puli...

Absolute slop from the AI machine

Has anyone asked the echidnas their views on this election? 🎤

Top-notch election reading. #ausvotes

I cannot bawl very heartily and work very recklessly at one and the same time.

Coming soon: Vantage Point, the new essay series from @australiainstitute.org.au Press. We're launching with an event at Gleebooks with author Dr Emma Shortis and Nick Bryant who will be talking about what Australia can do during and after a Trump America gleebooks.com.au/event/emma-s...

Who told you that you have to finish every book you start?

WRYTE WEIRDE BOOKES

it seems to be misspelled

Preorders end this weekend! Get your copy and read up on big ideas from @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social, @grogsgamut.bsky.social, @emmashortis.bsky.social and many more. With thanks to my co-editor @annachang.bsky.social who made this possible www.australiainstitute.org.au/store

Picked up this little book of writers’ writing rituals, & I think most of em are liars — “up at dawn, 6 hours at my desk, followed by calisthenics, liquor, & reading edifying works.” But David Lynch delivers the goods.

Sumana Roy - fine-grained writer and thinker - in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social on etcetera: 'the sense of leftovers: lareviewofbooks.org/article/how-...