Will having some regrets about the cold dawn swim today

Spoke with the excellent @catrionamp.bsky.social for this important piece on our stressed-out publishing industry. It’s no wonder authors and editors are struggling with burnout. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

we had the opening of our members exhibition at the pottery tonight and i was standing listening to my pottery teacher open the show completely oblivious that i was standing next to the most perfect creature in the world until she moved and gave me the jump scare of my LIFE

Oof I need a raki and I’m not even turkish

I feel like we witnessed the football equivalent of difficult second novel

Well some of us are awake for the game

Happy queers refusing to participate in our own goddamn commodification month, also celebrated july through may

Against the bullshit break, obvs, but have to admit it is perfectly spaced for sourdough stretch and folds

Today in world cup fever: walked past a café in the city, a table of men just saying “Ronaldo” to each other in overlapping interruptions

Love lines from "Salvage" by @jennifermills.net.au: "Her favourites are second-hand. She traces the names of strangers written on the first blank page... Books remember their readers." Mine says "Paul Manton, Sydney, NSW, September 4th 2025". Someone might read that, one day. #FuturePerfect #BookSky

Well this match is more interesting than i expected -me, each & every match

Great defensive work. Could do with more possession of the ball

New short fiction just dropped in @thesaturdaypaper.com.au, read now to find out if you’re a robot [gift link] www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/27ac98...

Every year when public lending rights are paid I like to share a little appreciation post for @asauthors.bsky.social. Without the ASA we wouldn’t have this payment to authors for copies of our books that are held in public libraries around the country. This year I’m proud to do so as its Chair!

I stuck my draft together this week and it feel’s like there’s a structure or at least the idea of one. Phew. Rewarding self with weekend and new murderbot

Checks out.

Entitled to a little happy dance this morning, just kicked the gas forevs

Hard to believe it’s been a whole year since Salvage was released. I have a lot to be grateful for. New post on a few such things, including the next jennifermills.net.au/2026/05/27/t...

Listen in on scientists finding (and falling for) a new species of octopus now called Microeledone galapagensis. Read more here www.scientificamerican.com/article/tiny...

My partner (entomologist) agrees. Maybe Netelia genus

A visitor. Too light on their feet to add anything to the WIP

Willow helping with my homework.

On June 3rd, NO WAVE features another four great readers from across Adelaide & SA's thriving lit scene. They are: @jennifermills.net.au Juan Garrido Salgado Lara Day & Chelsea Avard 7 for 7:30pm The Wheaty 38 George St Thebarton $5 cash on the door Event page: www.facebook.com/share/1JDhma...

BAdelaide was bad-ass and it was a packed theatre. Perth are you up for a fun and unflinchingly honest discussion about 'Women Who Win'? Tuesday 19th May: www.penguin.com.au/events/6064-...

ArtsHub @artshub.bsky.social has published an edited version of my National Cultural Policy submission today. You have 10 days left to make your own! www.artshub.com.au/news/opinion...

Just sent a disconnection request to the gas company. Very pleasant feeling, highly recommend

It’s that time again! Sharing my cultural policy submission on my website to encourage you to write your own: jennifermills.net.au/2026/05/11/c...

Very grateful for this principled stance. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

Gleaning day.

“Beaked, furred, fanged, tusked, clawed, hooved, snouted, they will settle in us…” Revisiting Malouf’s An Imaginary Life. Queer ecofiction circa 1978

Well said, @jennifermills.net.au, I completely agree, post cancelled Writers Week: "the insult to books and writers and to readers in the state was very widely felt and I think you can’t underestimate the damage that has been done from that". www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in...

I only met David Malouf on a couple of occasions; the last was at a recent Adelaide Writers Week. When he met my partner and found out she was a public school teacher in the northern suburbs, he told us a story: 1/2

Melissa Lucashenko on UQP’s actions: “It is not only silencing an Indigenous author, it’s caving in to the Murdoch press… it makes me want to put an ancestral curse on the lot of them.” Well, quite. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Absolutely disgusted by this appalling treatment of an author and an illustrator by UQP www.lamestream.com.au/exclusive-un...

Sydney's much-loved community radio station 2SER-FM is under imminent threat. We've started a petition to go to UTS, (the uni that will make the call). WE DON'T WANT MONEY, just your support. Can you help? c.org/xnykpfBd7r Please share.

Work/loaf balance

So thrilled that @jennifermills.net.au is on the shortlist for the Age Book of the Year – "a marvel of speculative eco fiction that bucks tired tropes and draws you into its shifting realms of consciousness” www.theage.com.au/culture/book...

Mt Posidonia

Freelance media workers! Share your experiences of pay and conditions with MEAA here: freelancers.org.au/2025-industr...

Chilling stuff from the premier’s dept www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

HCBs for breakfast (tho maybe i shoulda made TACOs)

I see Croesus has been consulting the Delphic oracle again

“This compendium interleaves its stories of allegiance and enmeshment, weaving its urgent cautionary impetus with the hope that wonder offers.” A very beautiful review of A Concise Compendium of Wonder in this weekend’s Saturday Paper (gift link) www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22838/...

“This compendium interleaves its stories of allegiance and enmeshment, weaving its urgent cautionary impetus with the hope that wonder offers.” A very beautiful review of A Concise Compendium of Wonder in this weekend’s Saturday Paper (gift link) www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22838/...

In Lebanese, we'd say Bibi and Trump are two butt cheeks in the same pair of knickers طيزين بفرد اللباس

We stood together against anti-Palestinian racism and they cancelled our festival. So we organised our own. Very tired now, but very proud of Constellations! Great in depth coverage from Hannah Story here www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

We’re in a matryoshka doll of institutional failure, but we go on www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Australians impacted by Robodebt have until 4pm on Friday, March 6, to register for a new class action settlement with payouts between $1,000 and $50,000 au.finance.yahoo.com/news/centrel...

Heading in to town again for a day of poetry, SA writers reading, and Blak and Arab writers - loving every minute of Constellations, and so proud of this community’s strength and defiance Bit.ly/constellationsfestival

For those who missed the incredible Constellations event at Adelaide Town Hall last night, some of Louise Adler’s words are published here. Appreciate her patience in putting some facts on the public record. johnmenadue.com/post/2026/03...