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:

that’s me in the corner that’s me in the spotlight writing my silly little stories hoping they find readers

How did I not know Melbourne has a Trans Book Festival in April?! 😱 With lots of workshops, panels and trans and gender diverse authors selling their books. April 17th-19th. I already applied to table at SupaNova on the 18-19th, but if I don't get to do Supa... 😄 🏳️‍⚧️📚

Here’s to doubling my (admittedly tiny) lifetime poetry output this month 💪

Some folks seem to make a fundamental error in terms of making art. The challenge is part of the appeal. Overcoming it is how you learn. The process may be a struggle at times, but it's always a labour of love. Relating the struggle doesn't mean that the artist hates what they do. No, it's love.

About to head into this for the first time having somehow avoided all spoilers except that at some point Florence Pugh ends up covered in flowers. No one tell me otherwise. Will report back in around 2 hours

Honestly embarrassing how much more reading I’m doing since taking my phone out of the bedroom. 30 books this year already! 📚

Coming soon... 💙📚

I hope you write it gayer

Incredibly late to this party but who cares when you enjoy things as long as you do, right? Finished Night in the Woods last night and loved the shit out of it. Fully obsessed. Big narrative hangover this morning.

The Aurealis Awards ceremony is taking place THIS SATURDAY as part of GenreCon in Brisbane. With a beautiful venue, and hosted by the always engaging Eugen Bacon, it's shaping up to be a great night, and if you can make it in person, you absolutely won't regret it!

I hope you finally sell that story you love that has racked up a mountain of rejections

QUT will take over famous literary magazine Meanjin, after the journal was closed by Melbourne Uni Publishing last year. This is a win for all who campaigned to save the masthead, but hardly makes up for the damage done last year www.smh.com.au/culture/book...

Gorgeous cover! Keeping an eye out for this in May

“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English” my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

Writing about fairies at the laundromat (and trying out a new small notebook format)

I don't know what to tell you. You can't sit at a piano for the first time ever and play a sonata. You can't pick up a tennis racket for the first time and serve a 110MPH Ace. You have to fuck up. You have to be able to handle failing. You have to love it enough to not get it right and keep on.

Telling myself this tonight (and very grateful earlier today me got some words in!)

We have decided the world needs short fiction clubs instead of just book clubs. All those people who don’t finish a book in time and fumble their way through the meet-up can switch over and live a shame free life. Selfishly I recommend picking your material from a plucky, small press magazine.

Publishing expert @alicektg.bsky.social takes the pulse of Australia's literary festivals & their challenges – cancellations, culture wars, climate change and new hate speech laws – as Adelaide announces Constellations: Not Writers Week. @aunz.theconversation.com theconversation.com/what-is-the-...

I’d like to report a murder

I hope you write through the self doubt

Look at this phenomenal list!!

Three(!) short stories by me and Corey on the shortlist for the Aurelius awards this year and two of them are literally just FROM MY PATREON? (Our story in Interzone also got nominated!) Seriously what is happening. aurealisawards.org So excited. :D

Do one of the things that makes you feel better, because if you aren't doing any of that, you will run down. Today I did some writing. I'm a writer, & if I don't write, I run down. It's very easy for me to forget this, despite decades of knowing it. And so I am here to remind you to do your things.

and you may find yourself reading everything you wrote in your notes app at 4am and you may tell yourself this is not my beautiful story

Run don’t walk!

I hope you don't keep forever revising and polishing out of fear. It'll never be perfect, make it as good as you can and then move on

And *none of you* thought to mention the new secondhand bookshop that just opened up near my house??

I hope you have the courage to start that idea you don't think you're ready for

The things one impulse buys while one’s husband is buying warhammer

I hope you know you're a good writer

Imagine you were about to appear at a writers' festival to talk about your first book... then the whole thing fell apart. I wanted to find debut authors who almost talked at Adelaide Writers' Week. These are 21 folks I've identified so far but *please* let me know who I've missed or mixed up.

Alright time for a new pinned post. Follow along with my daily writerly encouragement bot to lighten your feed in 2026! Hand built to soothe my anxieties and maybe yours as well