My story, Nowhere Town, is available now in Interzone #305. It's long, it's personal/vulnerable, and should come with a CW for childhood abuse and sexual assault (nothing graphic though). I really hope people check this one out. interzone.press/iz-305/ shop.interzone.press/b/h2rDl

Why am I like this?! — me, writing content warnings for a submission to spare the poor first reading team.

when i write something? it's in conversation with something else. usually several somethings. a piece is never just: "Oh I wrote this cause I had an idea." the idea is the seed. and that seed took a bunch of other things to grow. something a friend said once, an article i read yesterday, a song...

"Ich fedde thys nightmare hounde all the bookes from everye librarye. It hath everye stolen storye burblinge ynside. And it doth befoul all pooles from which it drinketh. Arounde it are waste, and stynke, and noyses that keepe folk up at nighte. Why do you not want to take the hounde for a walke?"

Site Selection is open at LA Con V. Your vote provides start up money for #Meanjin2028 #Brisbanein2028. You can also support us as Mates/Virtual Mates. These only need the WSFS supplement (bought with Site Selection) to be full memberships, this is the cheapest way to join the convention

Australian writers, the Aurealis Awards are now open for fiction published in 2026! Go! Enter! queenslandwriters.org.au/aurealis

Related to this morning’s commentary. The work takes time.

And when/where/how you find the time is going to change and look different. It’s whatever works.

Looking to be a sunny winter day in Naarm. Bring your writing tools and come hang with us ❤️

This Sunday!

Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine has always been one of my dream mags. Thanks to an amazing decade-long collab with Rich Larson, that dream is becoming reality. VISITING SKINS is about a bunch of terrible friends making appalling decisions out in the woods; I hope it'll sink its hooks into you.

Do not speak to me of "barriers to entry". Every act of creation is slicing out a thin sliver of light from the existential darkness of the human condition. You not being able to pick up a fucking pencil and risk failing does not even register.

On again this month! (Accessibility info in the next post)

Listen. I’m disabled with depression, neurodivergence and also chronic pain. I would rather put a fork in my eye than use AI to express any kind of creativity. Like, I’m a writer, and I would absolutely never use it for writing. I can’t draw. I’d still rather do a shitty drawing than use AI.

If you have ever emailed a writer to let them know you enjoyed something they wrote, you are among the noblest and best and most saintly in this entire world, and I hope you sleep really well tonight.

Relevant note from past me to current me

At 30%!! Can we get to the halfway point today? 👀📽️ #crowdfund #BackerKit #SFFH #anthology 💙📚 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

Someone asked me how I can continue to write fiction where people find a way to be better when the world now shows it's not the case. And fella, nothing the fash want you to do more than give up on hope but you really must not. If it's getting too dark to see you don't turn out the lights.

Drink tea. Read books. Tax billionaires.

This Sunday!

So!! Grief Eater is out on Monday!! (Tuesday for the US, sorry, we beat you to it!) (Also if you haven’t seen my cover, holy shit, thank you Dante Luiz 🖤) I’d love to answer some questions, please AMA 🥰

For the evening crowd

So hype for this one. I love found footage stuff!

Melbourne/Naarm writing friends! This month’s writer hangs is on next Sunday 31 May - join us! Whitehart bar from 12-4ish Writing time from 12-2ish, socialising after. Drinks/pizza available for purchase, accessibility notes in the next post

VICTORY SCREECH

When will my kobo return from sea

Chuck nails it as always. The respect you get for winning a marathon is because you put in the work, not because you drove 26 miles and said, "where's my medal?" www.tumblr.com/drchucktingl...

I’ve put my kobo down somewhere in the house. Who knows where that location is. I started Jade City two days ago. If anyone needs me, I’ll be turning my whole house upside down…

Cozy snoot tucked under tail for the timeline

Just FYI we are rescheduling this! Will likely be 28/29th June instead :) Stay tuned!

That feeling you get when you tell a friend in a reading slump the latest murderbot just came out ❤️

Fave purchase from the renfair today (shout out @yiskadesigns.bsky.social for gothy homeware needs)

Submissions are officially open!! You can either send your stories through the Duosuma link below, or through the submission form on the website: www.scyllapublishing.com/anthology Please share and repost generously 💙

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Join me for the online launch of The Forgetting Navigations! Details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/free-book-...

The campaign to bring #WorldCon to #BrisbaneIn2028 needs your support! #AustralasianSFF#MeanjinIn2028 Follow us! Share our bluesky posts!

In extremely cool news I'll be doing an online launch for GRIEF EATER on June 1 (USA)/June 2 (Aus) with the wonderful @kyliu99.bsky.social! I'm so excited!! Details here (free tix but registration required): www.eventbrite.com/e/emma-osbor...

I hope you keep your eyes on the task in front of you and don't get overwhelmed by how long you've been going already or how far it seems you have to go

Brisbane in 28 congratulates all the Locus Awards Finalists, especially our Australasian creators! 🏆 locusmag.com/2026/04/2026... Horror Novel: The Crimson Road, A.G. Slatter (Angela Slatter) Novella: Cinder House, Freya Marske Artist: Kathleen Jennings and Shaun Tan Editor: Jonathan Strahan

Just finished this one, too, and can confirm it’s an excellent novel

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I hope you come back to the page even if it's been a few days or it feels stale or the WIP is stuck

Once more I am boosting my pre-order links, a share would be appreciated! Also check out my book if you wanna read a gory, bloody, revenge fantasy. also it’s gay

Evergreen

Blood! Singing! Chainsaws!

Only just saw this!! Melbourne/Naarm people get on it. Emma is a gem and their novella is going to be a cracker

best part of reading some excellent books is wanting to go improve what you’re writing as soon as possible

Hugo, POETRY I've already done two separate threads celebrating the field, so I'll just link to them here: First thread: bsky.app/profile/mari... Second thread: bsky.app/profile/mari...

instead of watching the new harry potter trailer, why not pick up some horror books by trans and nb writers for the trans rights readathon?? there are so many good options. For example, check out some of these writers: