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This freaking heatwave. I can't remember the last day not in the late 30s. Last night, I walked home at 10 PM and it was still 30 degrees. In the mornings, the house is hot and stale, and the temperature is climbing. One day of reprieve tomorrow.

The new special edition of text journal is up, edited by David McCooey and Briohny Doyle. I have a piece in there, and am looking forward to reading the other work within textjournal.scholasticahq.com/article/1554...

Finishing the book MS I've been working on for 2 years was an easy enough task. Encapsulating it in a 500-word synopsis seems like the harder thing.

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Wow. #NoKings #Davos2026

Here's an interview I did recently Open Book Canada about my book, Vessel, out now in Canada and the US open-book.ca/News/Dani-Ne...

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My book, Vessel is out in Canada and the US as of today! Look out for it in bookstores ❤️

Solidarity with Venezuela as they resist American aggression

'US president Donald Trump claims that the Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro, and his wife have been “captured and flown out of the country”. WTAF? How can this be legal? It's not, is it?

Our AUKUS partner showing off the shared values Richard Marles loves to talk about

An interesting article. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Happy NY 2026. I woke up this morning and wrote a Substack open.substack.com/pub/danineth...

A year in reading (Not pictured:The Season by Helen Garner,The Place of Tides by James Rebanks, You Must Remember This by Sean Wilson, The Granddaughter, by Bernhard Schlink, The Sun was Electric Light by Rachel Morton, Before, Between and After by Edita Mujkic, The Mother Shadow by Cynthia Banham.

If I were a single woman, these sheets would be mine. lazybones.com.au/products/pel...

Making Nigella's (choc chip) Panettone for breakfast for my family. This feels like the perfect start to these in-between days. Heading to Lake Mulwala to swim in the pool my mum 'lived in' as a child today.

I can't believe anyone ever relies on AI being a reliable source of information. The amount of times I've searched for something and forgotten to turn off AI results, and the utterly and obviously preposterous results that I've seen come up is ridiculous.

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

Be like the Victorians and read a biography or two during the holidays 📚🎄 cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/i...

Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books

So close now! I can't wait for readers to have this beautiful edition by @pressassembly.bsky.social in their hands.

Sussan Ley is clearly so far out of her depth that she deserves to be sacked by her party, purely for her own good. This is perhaps the most contemptible thing any political leader has ever said in this country. The sooner she f*cks off to obscurity the better for Australia.

A disgraceful end. Melbourne University is a captured organization with no backbone

Feverishly working on this

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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