In which I remember to substack. Or write, or more likely, both daninetherclift.substack.com/p/words-afte...

My latest piece, an excerpt from the book MS I'm working on, is up on the Meanjin website. At this point, it can be read in full without a paywall meanjin.com.au/memoir/prelu...

Cover Reveal for the Canadian/North American edition of my book Vessel, to be published by Assembly Press in January 2026. I love it!

It's a month tomorrow until Mansfield Readers and Writers Festival kicks off. I am mostly behind the scenes as president, co-producer and co-curator, but I have one part amongst it all at the front of the house, and can't wait to be in conversation with these luminaries!

Australian writers, please consider signing this open letter to the Vice Chancellor of Melbourne University regarding the decision to close Meanjin Quarterly down openletter.earth/an-open-lett...

Australian writers, please consider signing this open letter to the Vice Chancellor of Melbourne University regarding the decision to close Meanjin Quarterly down openletter.earth/an-open-lett...

My essay on AI and writing is up on Island Mag online islandmag.com/read/extinct...

My essay on AI and writing is up on Island Mag online islandmag.com/read/extinct...

Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "Should Britain recognise the state of Palestine?" Sarah Champion, "Yes" Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "Should Britain call this a genocide?" Sarah Champion, "I can't see it as anything other than a genocide"

My copy of Heat 20 arrived today, with my piece ‘Preludes #2’ within. I wrote this about anticipating my mother’s death, which occurred a month to the day before this edition was published.

I feel so honoured to have been selected as one of the writers for the Varuna Climate Fellowship.

Friends, I need TWO MORE REGISTRANTS to run Sat July 19 4pm EST Writing Trauma W/O Traumatising Yourself! Pay as you feel! Very chilled! Please sign up here! us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Reading proofs of upcoming essays to be published, Adobe Acrobat shows me a message: 'This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary.' The reading is the point, if you value being a reader and the work of writing. End of story.

I've written a new (free) Substack. Hope you have a nice Sunday. We are off on the long journey to the Wimmera for the funeral of a loved family member tomorrow.

I've written my first Substack for paid subscribers. It's about some of my processes for writing and mosaicking a long-form lyric essay, and a bit about the manuscript I am currently working on.

I wrote a new substack about getting myself to sit at a desk and actually write. You can read it here daninetherclift.substack.com/p/sitting-do...

This fundraiser, Authors and artists for Palestine, is live and still has a smidge over 4 days left. It's a treasure trove of books and writerly offerings. I've donated a signed copy of Vessel and an hour zoom chat to talk about lyric essays and fragments airauctioneer.com/authors-and-...

Some amazing itmes to bid on here to help desperate people in Palestine airauctioneer.com/authors-and-...

No, AI Overview, the dog in Olive Kitteridge is a wire haired dachshund named Clancy, and *not* in fact a German Shepherd called Old Man, but thanks for the unasked-for fakery. We live in a strange world.

Click on one ad for cosy winter socks, and suddenly, all you can see is cosy socks of every kind, everywhere you look.

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Good Night World

What I miss most about being a #PhD candidate #1 my supervisors as first readers.

Amidst the constant stream of bad, anxiety provoking news, I came across this beautiful balm www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

After a few days sick in bed, nice to see this review of Vessel up on Mascara Review today www.mascarareview.com/adele-dumont...

"Instead, I write in sadness for the record' www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

Dinner on me for the first reporter to ask him when we can expect to see tariffs imposed on Freedonia, Syldavia, Ruritania and the Duchy of Grand Fenwick.

Cory Booker as he breaks Strom Thurmond's speaking record: "I'm not here because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech. I'm here because as powerful as he was, the people are more powerful."

Australian poets, send us your poems, with the theme (or even a fleeting reference to) 'scrub'. $500 prize. Deadline is April 30. More details on the Mansfield Readers and Writers Festival website.

A very worthy cause, if you can spare any money at all.

Honestly, I had shivers down my spine.

I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

The censorship on Twitter was just too much. A 98% drop in engagement since Musk bought it. From a little over 1,000,000 views a week to less than 17,000. So we moved on over to blue sky. Follow us here at @altyellonatpark.org Because somebody somewhere Needs flowers tonight

No matter your station in life, there is astoundingly little separating you from those men in that cage behind Kristi Noem. No charges, no attorneys, no hearings, no trial. Just conjecture and brute force could be enough to justify completely dehumanizing you, too.

Thou shalt not snatch people off the streets for their opinions.

This is no way to treat ANY human. No human deserves to be treated inhumanely, no matter their crimes. Justice should be served through the courts, not through cruelty without due process. We don’t bite dogs when they bite us.

Cass Moritarty's lovely review of Vessel cassmoriarty.com/vessel-dani-...

I've emailed my federal member to ask them to put it to parliament that the work of many thousands of Australian writers has been used by Meta without our consent, and what they propose to do to protect us from this kind of abuse. I recommend other writers do the same.

Hamdan Ballal, one of the directors of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, has been assaulted & injured by settlers at his home in the West Bank & arrested by the IDF. No trace of him since. The vengeance is clear. Do not let Hamdan disappear. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

In case you missed it last night— open.substack.com/pub/danineth...

Just wrote a substack with some thoughts on the Meta violation of the copyright of millions of writers, including my book Vessel, as reported in The Atlantic a couple of days ago. open.substack.com/pub/danineth...

I have no doubt that a Dutton government would gut the NDIS in a Trump/Musk like fashion. Families like mine and many others I know would be left absolutely devastated. Let's look at cancelling AUKUS instead of eyeing off the NDIS. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

A good starting point for Australians of US companies to boycott, and US wines. Shame on them for their filthy opportunism www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

This decent, drenching rain falling now.