There are only seven types of stories, and only two themes

Calling all First Nations Australian authors! I'm taking pitches for Bundyi Publishing, either in person in Hobart, 22 and 23 August, or online. I'd love to hear from those writing romance but happy to hear any commerical fiction ideas & non-fiction. willorganise.eventsair.com/2025-romance...

A pleasure to chat with @helenshield.bsky.social about Zadie Smith's 'The Fraud' - historical fiction that begins with a floor of a house collapsing under the weight of its books. 📚📚📚📚📚 Arguably a consummation devoutly to be wished... Here, from 2:27:30 www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Have just finished Jane Rawson‘s splendidly odd “From the Wreck”. It’s one of those books that’s a bit tricky to describe, a key feature is that one of the central characters is a shapeshifting alien refugee who often takes the form of an octopus, which makes perfect sense under the circumstances 🐙

The launch of a new Tasmanian publisher (Evercreech Editions) and a new Tasmanian novel (My Heart at Evening, by Konrad Muller), on August 7 at Fullers. Launched by Geordie Williamson, Adam Ouston and Richard Flanagan. www.fullersbookshop.com.au/event/my-hea...

The launch of a new Tasmanian publisher (Evercreech Editions) and a new Tasmanian novel (My Heart at Evening, by Konrad Muller), on August 7 at Fullers. Launched by Geordie Williamson, Adam Ouston and Richard Flanagan. www.fullersbookshop.com.au/event/my-hea...

Repeal the “inequitable, “pernicious,” and “perverse" Jobs Ready Graduate Policy! openpetition.org/!repealjrg

For those who are into new Australian nature writing prizes, I'm judging this: island.submittable.com/submit/02fa0...

Something I wrote on Gail Jones's latest theconversation.com/mystery-outb...

Just a girl and her best rock 🪨

Kath Kenny on an Australian Antarctic expedition: “On board are 60 researchers seeking to understand what is driving the melting ice and how glacial water is changing the ocean’s ecosystems.”

Participating in Dr Lucy Christopher's WritersBLOCK/ReadersBLOCK project tomorrow... 📖 ... spending two undisturbed hours reading Tasmanian literature in a glass fronted block in Salamanca Square, Hobart, while a Tasmanian writes in the block alongside... 📝 ...hope it's as idyllic as it sounds!

[Van Helsing pulling back Lucy's pale gums:] teeth, teeth- Arthur: teeth, TEETH Lucy: [pounding the window frame] TEETH, TEETH, TEETH

With more slop about to be poured into the world, I'd like to celebrate the 2012 audiobook of Dracula, somehow featuring both Alan Cumming and Tim Curry, but also actors who thrived and built careers in audiobooks, like Katherine Kellgren and Simon Vance www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Is there ANYONE who doesn't like having jokes explained to them? Thanks to the Honours students @utasenglish.bsky.social who are enjoying the extended, twelve week version...

One of my most anticipated #books of the year has arrived, all the way from Australia. If you’ve not read Jane Rawson yet, you should.

Can we recreate a lost world? In Tasmania, anything could happen - by the brilliant Jane Rawson www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The kids grabbing the final gasp of summer see their chance as a ferry glides past. "Watch this!" one yells to the passengers as he flips off the jetty, into the water. A quiet murmur of appreciation, everyone remembering their own youth. A seagull watches it all from one leg, utterly unimpressed.

A little Haitian anticolonialism from Baron de Vastey works very nicely in a Gothic literature course 👍

Another awful day in Hobart coming up.

WINNERS ANNOUNCED: Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2025   🏆 Prize for Poetry: Gawimarra: Gathering, Jeanine Leane   Congratulations to Jeanine Leane, on being awarded the VPLA Prize for Poetry for your work Gawimarra: Gathering. #wheelercentre #vplas

Spent the morning with honours students @utasenglish.bsky.social talking about 'The Comedy of Errors' and the works of @oldfortunatus.bsky.social and Northrop Frye. An unalloyed pleasure in itself, and also a chance to reflect on that time The X-Men met Frye and chatted about Blake's poetry...

“Being the 2024 Hedberg Writer-in-Residence enhanced my visibility and afforded me so many opportunities,” said @genni.bsky.social who took the position last year.

Early 19thC sickos meme: reading The Monk in the water closet

A unique 12-week Tasmanian residency in creative writing at @utas.edu.au! Includes a $20,000 stipend plus $10,000 accommodation. Previous residents include Robbie Arnott, Gail Jones, Michelle Cahill and Eugen Bacon. See here for more: www.utas.edu.au/community-an...

A unique 12-week Tasmanian residency in creative writing at @utas.edu.au! Includes a $20,000 stipend plus $10,000 accommodation. Previous residents include Robbie Arnott, Gail Jones, Michelle Cahill and Eugen Bacon. See here for more: www.utas.edu.au/community-an...

gosh tasmania is so awful - i’m making lunch and one of our resident falcons is hunting right in front of the kitchen windows

I've realised that the hidden thesis of this semester's 19th-century Gothic unit is: we're living through the 1890s again

Minnie Darke (our own Danielle Wood) will be in conversation with Lara Giddings on April 15th at Fullers www.fullersbookshop.com.au/event/three-...

In Launceston's own "Le Petit Chou" to read "In Search of Lost Time" for the Modernist Reading Group hosted @utasenglish.bsky.social Apparently the madeleines didn't sell locally (though they were delicious) so it will be their most delicate macaron instead... 😋

Proust lunchtime reading group! Thursdays, fortnightly via Zoom, 12-12.45pm. Hosted by the UTAS Modernist Reading Group. Starting with bite-sized chunks of Swann on Feb 27. Get in touch if you're interested!

'Those who write for children have the chance to point them towards beauty that they do not yet know exists: towards versions of joy that they have not yet imagined possible.' For anyone @utasenglish.bsky.social considering HEN205: The World of Children's Books www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Started drafting a "Don't use AI" statement for an undergrad poetry task, and ended up writing something longer

The work experience kid was having fun that day

The "Read, Write, Publish" workshop at the Tamar Valley Writers Festival www.utas.edu.au/about/news-a...

Audiobook out now on Apple! 💞 @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social, @suyidavies.com, @nuzo.bsky.social, @aniyonsenga.bsky.social, @dilmandila.com.web.brid.gy, @nerinedorman.bsky.social, @tobithedreamer.bsky.social, @stephenembleton.bsky.social, @xanwriter.bsky.social books.apple.com/us/book/afro...

First step in preparing for the Modernist Reading Group @utasenglish.bsky.social in 2025 with @drmilthorpe.bsky.social and @robbiemoore.bsky.social ... 🕵️‍♀️ ⏱️ 😀

Texts this semester from Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Alice Perrin, Victor Séjour, Marcus Clarke, Lettice Galbraith, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Dickens, Conan Doyle, Gaskell, Stoker ...

For the solstice: a playlist of folk carols, with uncanny creatures and god-haunted cherry trees open.spotify.com/playlist/72t...

Well this was very pleasant... Thanks to everyone @utasenglish.bsky.social who helped me celebrate, in person or in spirit, and congratulations to Dr Philippa Moore and my fellow graduates!

Should've done this earlier - this is a starter pack of participants at the Australasian Modernist Studies Network conference in Hobart. Stay in touch with these fine peeps. go.bsky.app/RfKzpm8

the AMSN conference at @utasenglish.bsky.social just ended, and honestly can't remember the last time I enjoyed a conference so much - huge thanks to the organisers @drmilthorpe.bsky.social @robbiemoore.bsky.social and Fergus Edwards for having me and for putting on such a brilliant three days

It's been a great start to #AMSN6 being hosted here @utasenglish.bsky.social on a delightful day here in Hobart...

So excited to be hosting Noreen next week, headlining the Australasian Modernist Studies Network conference

I love this image from the Tassie highlands. Can't say what it is that speaks to me so much, but it kind of trembles my brain.

Very pleased to turn up in the latest Meanjin ($) discussing remoteness as a lens to understand our relationship to wild places and the natural world. meanjin.com.au/essays/where...

Reading list for 19th-Century Sensation and Spectacle, with brand new sensations for 2025 👻🍄🐅

Reminder to register ASAP! Registration link here: payments.utas.edu.au/Register/boo...

Congratulations to Prof Elle Leane for her Vice Chancellor's Research Excellence Medal! She's hit it out of the park this year with environmental humanities publications on Antarctic cultures! www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYd9...

My morning inspo was listening to Ken Gelder talk about the new book he's written with Rachael Weaver about Australian colonial adventures (and the continuation of the colonial state). I have this book, it is great! Ripping yarns situated in solid theory = kryptonite. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...