Thank you International Film and Entertainment Festival Australia (IFEFA) for awarding me the great honour of being recognised as the 2025 IFEFA Woman of the Year at NSW Parliament House today. Such an honour to be amongst those that champion our arts, film and cultural sectors!

A good day. A big day. A good day.

I'm proud to have been on the judging panel that selected Yumna Kassab as the inaugural Parramatta Laureate in Literature. And I'm pleased she is getting recognition for an epic work. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

So grateful for the wonderful Kate Fagan, who was my partner-in- literature when I was the Cultural Strategist at City of Parramatta and creating the Laureate in Literature program. It was hugely challenging and incredibly rewarding to create this opportunity for a writer.

One of the greatest issues we are facing as Australians at the moment is "what are we talking about?" Are we quoting our poets? Are we discussing the latest new Australian play? Are we engaging with questions of philosophy? Or are we talking about real estate and growing wealth?

Wonderful for NSW to finally have its own Writing and Literature Strategy - "Stories Matter" is a three year strategy to best support our $1.3B industry. www.nsw.gov.au/departments-...

Questions I asked a publisher today at Parramatta's Lit! Industry Day about things that impact his decision making when. Considering a manuscript to be published... #ozlit

Friday is Parramatta’s Lit! “Industry Day”: all welcome and free to attend - it should be a great arvo! @parramattaslit.bsky.social @augustasupple.com #ParramattasLit

Really loved this conversation. It was fascinating hearing industry professionals speak frankly about the state of modern publishing and how they each contribute to it, both machinery and soul. Insightful, honest, sincere. Top marks for the discussion and event overall @augustasupple.com!

Did someone say "sustainable careers for writers"? Parramatta’s Lit! "Industry Day" is on the horizon, part of @augustasupple.com's collaborative, grassroots festival of Australian writing #ParramattasLit

I'm not sure about the stuff on Substack. As I get older and with the prevalence of AI, I prefer the analogue. Substack kind of sucks. Except for this. This Substack post from David Maney. I think it's perfect. (At least for me in this moment.) open.substack.com/pub/davidman...

All Lit Up! An evening of true stories told by Western Sydney writers: KT Major, Linda Atkins, Paris Rosemont, Jelena Curic, Shondelle Pratt, Augusta Supple. $25 11 Sept, 6pm PHIVE, Parramatta Square Parramatta's Lit! and @sydneyfringe sydneyfringe.com/events/all-l...

Wir leben in einer Welt, worin ein Narr viele Narren, aber ein weiser Mann nur wenige Weise macht. ▪️Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I have been awarded an extraordinary opportunity to pursue my work as a playwright and dramaturg internationally thanks to support from a Next Steps Professional Development Grant from Create NSW. As such I have resigned from the Board of Vitagraph Publishing, which I co-founded 2 years ago...

Next month in Parramatta, I'll be leading a playwriting workshop on the Raffetys stage at the @RiversideParra as part of #ParramattasLit! DETAILS: Cost: $25 Duration: 2 hours Date: 2nd September, 2025 Time: 6pm Bookings: boxoffice.riversideparramatta.com.au/WebPages/Ent...

Delighted to be included in the Future of Women in Western Sydney Summit speaking about arts, culture and creative industries Entrepreneurship on the 4th Sept in Blacktown. For tickets and more information - check out: westernsydneysummit.com.au #westernsydney #artsandculture

My room with a view in Ojai - the most incredible gift of time and space to listen, connect and write during the Ojai Playwrights Conference and Festival.

Just leaving this one here... #hottest100 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N5a...

Incredible to be at the Ojai Playwrights Conference in California for the 2025 Summer Conference and New Works Festival - with an incredible company of artists and staff- all passionately committed to being in the service of new plays. #newplaydevelopment #newwork #ojaiplaywrightsconference

A fair articulation of the importance of criticism being more than opinion - it is context in all its dimensions, writ large.

Director @augustasupple.com's swell new festival: "Parramatta’s Lit! is about celebrating our local literary community – the authors, readers and publishers that are dedicated to sharing stories – and who are putting Parramatta on the global map" www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/202...

We are in the last weeks of Vitagraph Publishing's EOFY Fundraising Campaign via the Australian Cultural Fund! 100% of funds raised go directly to writers. And every donation is fully tax deductible! We appreciate your support. artists.australianculturalfund.org.au/s/project/a2...

It's that time of year, when a donation to an arts organisation means a warm, happy glow and great works continue to flow in our cultural community. It's why I've chosen to donate to Story Factory Parramatta. For more info on how to make a donation: www.storyfactory.org.au/donate/

Congratulations to Ivor Indyk for being honoured today in the King's Birthday Honour roll: awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for his service to Australian Literature (incl as editor @giramondobooks.bsky.social #SydneyReviewofBooks #HeatLiteraryJournal & @westernsydneyu.bsky.social)

One for your calendars: two shining stars of the OZ literary firmament are sharing the stage! Namely Angela O'Keeffe is interviewing @eleytherius.bsky.social regarding her (stunning!) new novel at Kinokuniya on July 17 events.humanitix.com/an-evening-w...

Can't wait to attend this launch at Better Read Than Dead Newtown next week!

Travelling Tip for when in Europe:A Sydney Review of Books bag holds nearly everything I need (tictacs, laptop, notebooks, water) with a logo which subtly conveys "I'm Australian and I read."

Written Off in Berlin, Germany. #australianwriting #vitagraphpublishing

When I arrive in Germany, I eat my first pretzel on the train. There's a blue sky. There's a florist downstairs. Angels are in the architecture. Graffiti & political stickers everywhere. The streets are lined with linden trees in bloom, the air is sweet. At the pharmacy I buy a yellow toothbrush.

Looking forward to meeting the playwrights of Lake Macquarie next week! I'm hosting a #playwriting workshop "Stories for the Stage" on 16 May as part of #writehere festival at Windale Hub, bilyabayi #LakeMacLibraries #workshop www.eventbrite.com.au/e/stories-fo...

Thanks to support from the Sydney Fringe, the poets, writers and literary communities of Parramatta are gearing up for a really exciting September for Parramatta's Lit! @parramattaslit.bsky.social

A fun night out with The Boyz. Happy birthday #drmike! And thank you for the full discussion on female protagonists in Disney VS Lucasfilms - and that last squabble about AI and brain function was amazing! Love you both. #bestfriendchris #bobhawkesbeerandleisurecentre

A pleasure and delight to write about Emma Harrison's HIGH OCTANE at Campbelltown Arts Centre... And class... And politics... And burnout... limelight-arts.com.au/features/hig...

27yrs ago as a Fairfax editor I was paying freelancers a too modest word rate which was just liveable. Today, freelancers (like me) are getting paid pretty much the same rate - in other words effectively a major cut in pay - by the same company now even more dependent on freelancers.

Now this is an initiative I love to see – a Vitagraph Press fundraiser for "culturally significant" lit. Because: "OZ writers face shrinking opportunities to publish work that is bold, culturally rich, & not commercially driven..." artists.australianculturalfund.org.au/s/project/a2...

Excited to be contributing tomorrow to the Wild West symposium in Bankstown on creativity, art and social justice in Western Sydney. 10.30am-4pm at WSU's Bankstown Campus. Register now: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/wild-west-... #artsandculture #westernsydney @westernsydneyu.bsky.social

Finished the first draft of a major project. Send compliments about my hair, encourage me to go for a walk and smell the roses... #artsandculturalstrategist

I finally understood something this morning. Which is all the proof I need to know I am still alive.

Thanks to Mihaela Cristescu and the State Library of NSW for hosting the launch of the wonderful Romanian Australian Anthology of Poetry and Prose last Saturday. It's an honour to have my short story "Frances Bechdel in the Here and Now" included in its pages! #newwriting

Thank you @westernsydneyu for this honour. It's a pleasure to be of service to the arts organisations and artists of Western Sydney.

Thank you to the 200+ people who engaged with focus groups, interviews and surveys to inform Market Insights and Industry Needs analysis for a new Performing Arts Degree at Western Sydney University. Survey closes 14th March, COB- last chance- www.surveymonkey.com/r/9SJCFTS