boyfriend asked if I knew E. T. A. Hoffmann and I said "no I don't know when he's getting here?", now to take the rest of the day off

“Tenderness is the most modest form of love. It is the kind of love that does not appear in the scriptures or the gospels… It appears wherever we take a close and careful look at another being, at something that is not our ‘self.’” Superb read: www.themarginalian.org/2022/11/21/t...

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

‘Haunted house stories tend to end in one of two ways: either the family flees, or the ghosts are soothed, and everyone – living and dead alike – is allowed to move on.’ Jon Day on the cultural history of haunted houses. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

@sarahweinman.com on the importance of librarians in dangerous times as seekers and keepers of truth.

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

absolutely loving this podcast series

We're very proud to be the first publisher to have the Books By People stamp - and that it should be going to Telenovela, a book about the fight against authoritarianism and all the associated nonsense: www.thebookseller.com/news/uk-star...

Really loved working on this episode - Sumner Locke Elliott is such a fascinating writer. If you're interested in the arc of OzLit and queer voices, please have a listen to the series, I can't believe we're already up to Ep 4!

Part Two of Karl Marx: in which Karl goes wild in Soho, Bakunin acts like a godforesaken fucking maniac and we do a crash course in Marxist economics. Everything you need to know about one if the most important ideas in history.

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

💪 *New* 30 Day Writing Boot Camp with @rebeccastarford.bsky.social Gain immediate access to daily lessons, prompts, motivational tools and writing exercises designed to strengthen your craft, boost creativity and build a foundation for future writing projects. Sign up: bit.ly/475C5XI

Really proud of this project! Please have a listen if you get the opportunity. Big shout-out of thanks to the smart-as critics joining me over the next six eps, my super colleagues @suzygracias.bsky.social & Mia Abrahams, wonderful producer @michellemacklem.bsky.social, and Copyright Agency! 🏳️‍🌈 📚

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

The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet.

“An emotional research team became tearful as they described how data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in patients.” What an absolutely incredible, joyous achievement for everyone involved. Hurrah for science and scientists! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Glou Wine Bar in Collingwood - the bar that donated all of the drinks VS used during our federal election campaign - had Nelson Alexander reach out to ask if they could have their Christmas party there. Their response is marvellous.

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry

Banksy satirised the state silencing those opposed to Israel’s genocide. The state then inadvertently made his artwork genius.

to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech

Warsaw opens metro station ‘express’ library to get commuters off their phones

“Literary journals have never been a commercial enterprise, they have been a cultural enterprise ... To talk about the ‘problem’ of Meanjin as being a commercial one is to disavow the purpose of a university.” @sophtree.bsky.social

The closure of Meanjin is real blow to the Australian literary community. We're sad to see the loss of another place where writers, thinkers, and culture-makers have a voice and platform. Our thoughts are with staff and contributors.

Introducing the first story in our New Short Fiction series, a new space for Australia’s best short fiction writers! Grief is a four-winged creature in this exclusive new story by award-winning author Melanie Cheng.

An iPhone detox didn’t make me more productive, but I did feel free, writes Eloise Grills. I don’t want to wake up one day and realise that my most devoted relationship has been with a screen.

Not one Al Jazeera journalist left… All systematically murdered by a regime desperate to conceal the truth And while many of their western counterparts and media figures (who are safe and salaried) choose silence and complicity.

Really proud of @kydmagazine.bsky.social's gorgeous new website! The animations, the buttons 😍 This upgrade has been months in the making. Special thanks to our head of digital strategy Mia Abrahams and editor @suzygracias.bsky.social for all their hard work as we got this over the finish line!

Tomorrow’s Guardian front page

Looking forward to seeing who wins the Miles Franklin tonight. A shame that they pay tax on their winnings but if you win the Block or a TV game show you don't pay tax. Past time for change! australiainstitute.org.au/post/heres-s...

Save the date: The KYD Creative Non-Fiction Essay Prize is back! Find out more: buff.ly/DtOd0Fj

Very excited to keep expanding our team!

Remember these people - already starved and weak- are forced to walk up to 10km to pick up this food and carry it back to wherever they have managed to make a temporary home

Published my first big monster read on Paris and the delight of wandering through this city in summer... on a winter Monday morning Aus time because I've impeccable timing. Forgive me, we do manage to have some fun on my newsletter. You can sign up free or paid. rick-morton.ghost.io/and-so-to-pa...

If you’re renewing your ASA membership or joining before 1 July, you can enter our member giveaway for a chance to win one of 12 literary prize packs. To find out more, including entry details, visit www.asauthors.org.au/news/asa-member-giveaway

Beyond satire.

Also v happy from 1 July @kydmagazine.bsky.social will increase our min payments to nonfiction writers to $700 per piece. KYD members, @suzygracias.bsky.social and I have also created 'How to Pitch' for you, designed to turn your pitches into publication! www.killyourdarlings.com.au/how-to-pitch...

Do you have "thoughts" on BookTok/literary YouTubers. We at @kydmagazine.bsky.social want to hear them! Pitch to our magazine between now and 15 June. www.killyourdarlings.com.au/write-for-kyd/

Non-fiction pitches are now open! Submissions close Sunday June 15. For more details on our submission guidelines and to submit your work: buff.ly/LngSUnt

Sad that @kydmagazine.bsky.social will no longer be a publishing partner or judge in the SLQ Young Writers Award as we believe in supporting early-career writers but we reject political interference and censorship of the library's award processes and have to call it out.

yeah cool way to splurge your super majority - more cataclysmic climate change. gotta love their consistency.

@kydmagazine.bsky.social is deeply disturbed by the recent political interference at the @statelibraryqld.bsky.social and its awards processes. Please read our statement on why KYD can no longer partner with SLQ & I've resigned as an awards judge. www.killyourdarlings.com.au/2025/05/a-st...

Just announced: I've been appointed chair of the newly-formed New Humanist editorial board humanists.uk/2025/05/27/i...

Exclusive | Palestine advocate Nasser Mashni called for sanctions on Israel in an interview on the ABC. Now, the interview appears to have been taken down. @daanysaeed.bsky.social reports.

When RMIT decided to junk a rare, $160k weaving loom, a group of artists, teachers and students united to rescue it. The story of this loom felt like a snapshot of everything that’s wrong with how we treat arts and crafts in tertiary education, so I wrote this: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Friend was joking about me dragging my kids to hypothetical boring summer vacation destinations like "the linen museum." Little does he know that a) there's an actual linen museum in Northern Ireland, b) I've been there, and c) it's really good but the Scottish jute museum is even better

Senator Bridget Mackenzie, please stop gaslighting in press conferences and interviews by claiming Nationals represent 9 million rural Australians. At current count (excluding combined LNP Queensland) Nationals vote across Australia is 588,755 or 3.80% Lazy journalists need to fact check her too

Totally bizarre that this happens immediately after an election comprehensively showing that the outrage-churning Australian newspaper has zero influence on political / public opinion. Politicians, grow some integrity. Institutions - libraries and universities, grow some courage: refuse!

@kydmagazine.bsky.social is a proud publishing partner of black&write, a vital & unique program staffed by incredible people. This statement is bizarre. If the award is based on merit, why isn't the library standing up for the recipients? Meanwhile kids in Gaza are being starved to death. Get real.

Congratulations to the Liminal team for this award - it is so well deserved! 🙌👏

This looks really cool, congratulations to the team behind this new Oz lit mag! Can't wait to read :)