absolutely loving this podcast series

ICYMI: Nigel Featherstone discusses the raw and honest 1990s memoir that became a beloved local queer classic in our latest podcast episode. Queer Critics is hosted by @rebeccastarford.bsky.social. Listen now: apple.co/4qpc91O

Just three Aboriginal writers appeared in Radio National’s poll. There was little sense of the breadth and creativity of our First Nations writing scene.

Israel has killed nearly 100 Palestinians and wounded at least 230 since the 'ceasefire' went into effect on October 10.

anyone here good with (Australian) copyright law that I can pick your brains?

“On any given day we could be spooning in bed archival as ammonite” Our latest #fridaypoem is SPIRALS EXIST IN NATURE AND HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE by Rae White. overland.org.au/2025/10/spir...

What was it like to be an Australian gay man in the 1930s and 40s? This week @samtwyfordmoore.bsky.social joins @rebeccastarford.bsky.social on the podcast to talk about a fictional insight into the Sydney queer scene and one man's lifelong journey to love. bit.ly/47bJK6K

I’ll be hosting a zine workshop at the 2025 SEQ Queer Writers Festival this year on Saturday 15 November! 🥳🎉🌈 This workshop will give participants an understanding of zines and zine culture, as well as the tools they need to start working on a small zine on a topic of their choice.

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the King’s brother

1/ The first excerpt of Virginia Giuffre's posthumus memoir is out and it is gutting: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

still hold onto the Other App for some reason, bashed AI on it yesterday (in a way that actually felt very subdued compared to other things I've said on that app), and now I can't log on

go check this out! first issue of a great new lit mag!

Issue 1 is now live! 🎉 Putting together this inaugural issue has been a huge labour of love & we're excited for you to read the amazing pieces by the contributors! Download for free below. Plain text also available. #strangedazemag #strangedaze #literarymag #litmag #onlinemag #poetry #writers

I get sent SO MANY recommendations for books/tv/movies that contain sexual violence but nobody sent me this article?! Anyway go read this and check out all of these books.

To Substack, or not to Substack? We asked some well-versed writers what they've discovered in using the burgeoning platform.

9am and I've reached a whole new level of living in a hellscape: "LinkedIn will soon use your data to train AI." proton.me/blog/linkedi...

We are delighted to share the Call for Papers for our Spring Seminar Series 2026:

🌈📚 Introducing our new limited series podcast: Queer Critics Series 🎙️ Launching Monday 29 September — listen to the trailer and subscribe now!

Have a listen to this Public Seminar by Dr Mykaela Saunders, University of Sydney, supported by JCU’s Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing. youtu.be/2mJBfBGnD5g

New statue on National Mall celebrates ‘long-lasting bond’ between Trump and Epstein

“If we’ve learned anything from the recent slew of Zionist attacks on culture in Australia, it’s that institutions — mainly universities — are often a poisoned chalice for writers and editors.” Deputy editor Eli McLean on the closure of MEANJIN.

Our series of essays and commentary relating to the ongoing genocide in Gaza is free to read, share and download until the end of September 2025. #OpenAccess @jich.bsky.social [1/4] ● Raz Segal, "Settler Colonial Genocide" (doi.org/10.1080/0308...)

I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.

Rather buried in here is the extraordinary-in-the-context statement: “The publication recently secured a $2m grant from Creative Australia to fund its next two years of operation”. The plot doth thicken... #Meanjin www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Ok I've done it!

If we need further proof of the way the arts and humanities just aren't valued in Aus at the moment... www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...

Trying hard not to let this top 100 books of the past 25 years voting take over my life but the pressure is real

Voting is officially OPEN for Radio National's Top 100 Books of the 21st Century! Select up to 10 of your favourite books published between 1 January 2000 and 31 August 2025 Vote now! top100books.abc.net.au @austlit.bsky.social

Unless you're First Nations, you're a descendant of immigrants. No gatekeeping on stolen land 🖤💛❤️

In her latest comic for Overland, Sofia Sabbagh responds to Israel’s E1 settlement plan, illustrating a quote by American-Palestinian journalist and writer Mariam Barghouti.

Last week in Sydney, we saw a melodrama acted out that could stand in for the state of Australian universities more generally.

Woke up in an absolutely foul mood today and just remembered I spent too many hours last night down a j*ffrey e*stein rabbit hole

83%. And we’re still not allowed to say that Israel is committing genocide? www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Earth was high on my TBR related (tangentially) to my research but Boyne has done the service of knocking it off my list. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

TWO WEEKS 💖 #subsopen #submissionsopen #litmag #digitalmag #onlinemag #literary #writerofinstagram #poetry #artists #fiction #nonfiction #strangedazemag #strangedaze #strangedays

Bendigo Writers Festival has had to cancel 11 sessions, as writers withdraw over a code of conduct sent two days ago. 👉 theconversation.com/bendigo...

33 writers have cancelled their appearances at Bendigo Writers Festival in protest over a last-minute request to sign a ‘self-censoring’ Code of Conduct.

My first publication from my PhD research went live while I was overseas! It's open access (yay!) through a/b Auto/Biography studies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

☁️ subs open til 31st august ☁️ Send in your dreamiest art, poetry, fiction & nonfiction (up to 1000 words) Sub guidelines in bio Website coming v soon! #subsopen #submissionsopen #litmag #literary #digitalmag #journal #poetry #art #fiction #onlinejournal #strangedays #strangedaze #strangedazemag

Panic-voted. I'm sure I missed something but well spend the next few hours re-living my high school playlists

In which I have a crisis of the self while reading Middlemarch... booksinconversation.substack.com/p/thinking-a...

💛🤍💜🖤 Happy International Non-Binary Day! 💛🤍💜🖤 Today we’re excited to publish a brand new poem — ‘Halloween’ by E Saint Paul @thewritere.bsky.social. Read more at enbylife.net/2025/07/14/h...

Today is your last chance to send us a pitch! Email us your idea at [email protected] ✉️ See call for submissions for details. ⬇️ exhume.substack.com/p/call-for-s...

Attention Australian Literature fans: The 2025 Margaret and Colin Roderick longlist is out 🙌 www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/202...

This cause is close to my heart - I've visited Macquarie before for conferences, and the staff there are outstanding. Please sign the petition to save sociology, if you haven't already: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa... #academicsky

We're Hiring! We are looking for a Program & Administrative Assistant to join our team. Applications close Sunday 20 July 2025 at 5pm AEST. bit.ly/3ZX420Z

NAIDOC Week 2025 marks a powerful milestone: 50 years of honouring and elevating Indigenous voices, culture and resilience. Explore over 50 titles on Indigenous culture in our list, available in multiple formats: press.anu.edu.au

Happy NAIDOC Week! BlackWords, AustLit's single biggest dataset and one of its foundational datasets, records works by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors. It has been developed and maintained for over two decades, and is at the heart of the database. www.austlit.edu.au/blackwords

Declan Fry on the craft of criticism. Read more: bit.ly/3Ti0hQ7