Come along and bring your kids from 3 pm on Sunday, December 14 in Glebe in Sydney/Gadiagal and 4 pm on Sunday, December 21 in Prahran in Melbourne/Naarm for a day of kid friendly activities, candle lighting and celebrating together! For Prahran, please RSVP at events.humanitix.com/chanukah-com...

Save the date: We are pleased to announce that entries are opening soon for the 2026 ASA/HQ Fiction Prize, offering one winner a publishing contract with HQ and a $10,000 advance against royalties. Entries open on 26 November! www.asauthors.org.au/award/asa-hq-commercial-fiction-prize/

Buy Blak 🎅🏾 this Christmas 🎄🎁 and join us for some Christmas shopping 🛒📖 and festive joy! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 Magabala Bookshop, 1 Bagot St, Rubibi (Broome) Saturday 29 November, 9am–12pm 📚 Every purchase goes into the draw to win a Magabala Christmas hamper📚 🎁 Gifts 🎁 🎀 Wrapping 🎀 🧑🏾🎨 Activities 🧑🏾🎨

We’re back! After pestilence, after pain, after wholeness, after emptiness, after life, after death, after a long hiatus, Southerly, Australia’s oldest literary journal, has returned with issue 80.1 ‘First, The Future’. Purchase a copy of Southerly today: southerlylitmag.com.au/shop-subscri...

Got invited to write something for a "best book of 2025" feature. How can I pick just one book!! How can I favour one bestie writer over others?! How can I even remember what I've read this year....

Today's Author Rabbit Hole (aka reasearch for new novel): internal monologues (I do that). And I came across unsymbolized thinking. Now I'm looking into relationships between individuals' thinking styles and how they relate to different forms of dreaming. Anyway, going back down that rabbit hole

2am...insomnia... Wonder what Nathan Apodaca is doing these days? *googles* Alls good, he's still living his best life.

Doing some research for my next novel, and google AI just recommended a Master thesis for me to read.... Umm, google, I wrote that thesis. And it certainly does not match the search words I just used. (No, I don't rely on AI summaries for research)

Some of the Queer As publications are here. This project has been part of the ARC Saving Lives program that we’ve been working on for the last 5 years. It’s been a joy to get to do the surveys, talk to people, and analyse the genius that is queer Indigenous creativity. queer-as.org/the-project/...

Our QueerTV project has been a dream featuring queer complexities onscreen. So many responses to the survey, and most importantly so many shows that we’re listing in the stream text videos that we’re including shortly. Pubs here, and the stats are kind of hilarious too! queer-as.org/queer-tv/

Queer As… a podcast features expansive conversations with LGBTIQA+ Indigenous creative practitioners who share their work, lives, and processes of making. Partnering with @IndigenousX, we explore anti-colonial queer-centred joy, practice, and the everyday acts of resistance. queer-as.org/a-podcast/

🧵 Our new QUEER AS… website Exploring queer Indigenous creativity. With: Blaqademics/Indigiqueers Queer as…a podcast (Jazz Money is first up). Indigenous Creatives Queer Museums Queer Tv - deep dive Our pubs and info queer-as.org

Absolutely not. Conflating mental illness with white supremacy and the settler colonial ideology it rode in on is garbage. Western society is a system of hierarchies that require explanations for why some are allowed to control others. It is not a mental illness or personal failing

If you're in Melbourne this Thursday, come hear Jeanine Leane and myself have a conversation about Unbroken Resistance. MCed by Jane Harrison. Event is free, bookings essential. www.blakandbright.com.au/events/blak-...

If you're in Melbourne this Thursday, come hear Jeanine Leane and myself have a conversation about Unbroken Resistance. MCed by Jane Harrison. Event is free, bookings essential. www.blakandbright.com.au/events/blak-...

I forgot how atomised platforms are now - Insta is my primary acc. We have a GoFundMe that has been lifesaving, enabling us to take time off work to manage this crisis. You can read more here about ways to support us and there’s links to cancer charities in my bio x www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-su...

"What an American Indian looks like, how one is defined, what they sound like, where they are supposed to live, and how they are supposed to fit into American life are all questions that have plagued the country for centuries." lareviewofbooks.org/article/rese...

Today, I'm blasting more overused words in the manuscript of my next movel. Really keen to have this done, so I can get stuck into writing my next manuscript - which is now haunting me day and night. Good sign that it's time to write it out. I ❤️ being a full time writer

If you're trying to puzzle out the future of books as we see more mergers, cost of living pressures, changing habits and the behemoth of AI, you should read the new issue of @austbookreview.bsky.social You'll find @millicentweber.bsky.social, Melissa Lucashenko, Elizabeth Weiss & me (among others)

I think Bluesky will end up being where I mostly post about books, writing, books, writers, books, #Auslit, diverse books. I thought that about twitter many years ago, and that idea went pear shaped quickly 🤣

Raelee Lancaster explores a 2014 debut that became an almost instant classic in the companion essay to our latest Queer Critics podcast. Blak, visionary and undoubtedly queer—Ellen van Neerven's Heat and Light blurs boundaries and binaries. Read more: bit.ly/3JcL69m

In the final episode of the Queer Critics Podcast 2025, Raelee Lancaster joins @rebeccastarford_author to discuss Ellen van Neerven's Heat and Light. This genre-bending debut dissolves boundaries and binaries with its depictions of Blak queer life. 📖 Heat and Light is published by #UQPbooks.

Dear online scammers who used a disabled Australian's financial details to go on a one-day $700+ eating & drinking frenzy in Southampton UK - hope you got food poisoning and the Uber driver kicked you out before you got back to London today, ya dropkick c*nts. I've been furious all day over this 😡

I'm toying with the idea of applying the literary device of Grotesque in the new novel I'm writing. A darkly surreal Indigenous rebuttal of sad white girl novels. I think a necessary factor of using Grotesque in contemporary literature is refusing the abelism found within older works. #AmWriting

Ever notice that some of the best Indigifuturism in so-called Australia is by Western Australian mob? eg Ambelin Kwaymullina, Kat Gedhill-Tucker, Claire G Coleman, Cass Lynch. Did I miss anyone? #Mobsky #Auslit

Southerly journal has returned with a huge lineup of contributors: southerlylitmag.com.au/announcing-s... My short story 'we find stories in the columns of light' is another fairly nerdy piece of spec-fic inspired by ham radios, camping and cyberdecks.

My mini crock pot lamb stew had too much liquid, so I've made dumplings for the first time. Stew with dumplings are giving me childhood nostalgia. Might taste gross but worth it for the feels

#mobsky that amazing cover's artwork was created by @flashblak.bsky.social www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/202... @southerlylitmag.bsky.social #Auslit

“At a time when on-screen violence is commonplace and eyes begin to turn shamefully away, only a select few mediums continue to resist desensitisation. Poet Omar Sakr and artist Safdar Ahmed employ two of them.” Nalini Jacob-Roussety reviews THE NIGHTMARE SEQUENCE — supported by @copyright.com.au

The fun part of editing a novel: searching for over-used words, and changing some. (Not fun)

We will keep the fire burning and demand the government and police to protect the safety of our people and the sacred lands we gather on. secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

The neo-nazi attack on Camp Sovereignty was a direct attack on First Peoples - calculated and designed to intimidate, terrorise, and spread fear among our communities. nit.com.au/22-10-2025/2...

Why I started Readers and Writers Against the Genocide (RWAG) 'As a literary community, we trade in creative freedom, free speech and the contestation of ideas,' says RWAG founder Aviva Tuffield. www.artshub.com.au/news/opinion...

Bob Vylan ‘not regretful’ about IDF chant at Glastonbury: ‘I’d do it again tomorrow’ In first interview since Glastonbury, frontman Bobby Vylan tells Louis Theroux the backlash was ‘minimal’ compared to the plight of Palestinians www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

Magabala Books is deeply saddened at the recent passing of one of our creators, Noel Tovey AM; an Elder, artist and activist. Our thoughts are with Noel’s family and friends who feel his loss the most. Read the full Vale here: bit.ly/47wCcN3

I've read ten books on RN's Top 100 list. And two authors on the Patrick White prize list. No regrets. Life is short, read whatever you bloody well like

Look who's back 🤯 Yes, it is Australia's oldest literary journal. Arising from a long hiatus. Cover design by Kerry (Flashblak) Klimm. Edited by new @southerlylitmag.bsky.social editor Roanna Gonsalves. Guest co-edited by moi.

I'm in Sydney for an exciting (re)launch of [redacted] tomorrow. Can't wait for the cat to be out of the bag! Proud to have co-edited this collection of poetry, fiction, essays, and more by new and established writers and scholars. ##AusLit

Hello Sidenee 🛩

No one is illegal on stolen land #IndigenousPeoplesDay

Good morning. Keep your empty land acknowledgements. Give back the land and waters that have been stolen. #IndigenousPeoplesDay

Tommy Orange, the Cheyenne and Arapaho author of There There and Wandering Stars, has been named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow, one of the highest honors in the arts. redpopnews.com/wandering-st... #macarhurfellowship #MacArthurFoundation #redpopnews #tommyorange

We're looking for a Project Officer to help our small, dynamic team celebrate Blak brilliance ✨ Click here for all the details: bit.ly/496IBjc Applications close 25 October 2025.

anyway I had the privilege of listening to actual experts this evening. Three brilliant and indefatigable Palestinian women Lana Tatour, Randa Abdel Fattah and Paula Abood launch Race and the Question of Palestine (Tatour and Lentin 2025) at Gumbramorra Marrickville.

So I submitted the complete manuscript of my new book to the publisher. Hope it'll be out in the world late next year. It's about why Australia's role as an overseas coloniser was strikingly obvious to all and sundry till the 1970s, then was abruptly (and conveniently) forgotten.

This is work in progress, but I'll soon update this page to contain an extensive archive of racist comments that I receive, primarily on X. The sheer volume is hard to keep up with, but it's important to document. I'll share the raw archive with the Islamophobia Register. fahad3li.github.io

Confession: I know for a fact that something is brewing. And it is lit 🔥 All will be revealed next week.

Didn't Abbott's last book get pulped and turned into asphalt for a highway? Maybe this next one can be used to build walls for affordable apartments.