I’m in a fringe show. Will be what it says on the box

Great aurora in Greenland tonight!

“Devastated literary figures have been working hard behind the scenes” This community 📚❤️✊🏼 www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in...

Can’t stop hearing it as Board of Piss, hope somebody’s named a punk band that by now

The dog would like readers to note that her career is not toast and she is just getting started

Statement from our client Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah. It is a tragedy that Adelaide Writers' Week has been destroyed, for nothing. However, this is a massive win for artistic freedom and hopefully a turning point in this time of unhinged McCarthyist witch-hunting. Randa is a hero and we love her.

I’m glad the new board has admitted this was wrong. What an utter waste of everybody’s time, energy and labour www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Spoke with ABC Arts for this great article on freedom of expression and writers festivals www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01... @asauthors.bsky.social

For goodness’ sake Pete stop digging and start apologising

I spoke with @theconversation.com for this important piece on the Adelaide Festival disaster and the crisis in arts governance theconversation.com/masterclass-... @asauthors.bsky.social

As someone who has participated in efforts to get the SA premier to understand arts and culture since he was elected, this moment - Malinauskas looking lost in a crisis of his own making - has an eerie inevitability about it

The Adelaide Festival board PR release paraphrased: We don't understand -writers -books -festivals -the arts -audience -what our job is -how to resist interference -the gravity of our mistake -how to apologise. So we've obliterated Writers' Week & left the whole Adelaide Festival boardless, byeeee.

A failure of principle led to a failure of courage that led to a failure of governance and has now brought us to a failure of accountability. Writers - and readers - deserve so much better than this. Malinauskas should answer for the destruction of Writers Week.

There were a lot of us babies in that bathwater.

Few words. My @smh @theage cartoon

“We need writers now more than ever, as our media closes up, as our politicians grow daily more cowed by real power, as Australia grows more unjust and unequal.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“If writers can be disqualified from public forums based on past statements and changing political winds, then participation becomes contingent on institutional nervousness” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Amidst all the powerful author, literary and bookshop solidarity the last few days, I am extra buoyed by learning that a friend’s book club - made up of retired country teachers and farmers - is also writing furious letters to the Adelaide Festival board

A guerrilla festival is indeed being discussed 📚❤️ ✊🏼 www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in...

Yesterday I wrote to the Adelaide Festival Board to withdraw my participation from Adelaide Writers Week. Their decision to intervene in Writers Week programming and cancel the participation of author Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah is completely unacceptable.

This time of year can feel demoralising for authors and also in general, so it was lovely to see Salvage pop up on another summer reading list this morning, along with stacks of other great recs! www.indailysa.com.au/inreview/boo...

Come for authors at your peril! Srsly, great to see this mature reflection on what went wrong for Bendigo WF. Let’s all do better in 2026 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Good. The outrage at the SLV has been justified. Another win for collective action from writers! ✊🏼 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I look forward to this “Australia bravely stands up to regulate big tech” energy being applied to AI theft!

Reviews, recommendations, and requesting these books for purchase by your local library.

Gadigal/Sydney based authors & readers, support the Berkelouw/Harry Hartog bookshop workers strike this weekend! Image via RAFFWU

Calling all Melbourne & Victoria #bookgroups & #readinggroups! Rally together this Saturday to help save the State #Library of Victoria, on its steps, at 12.30. (Here's a pic of the poet Edith Sitwell & big reader Marilyn Monroe: reading makes friends.) #StateLibraryofVictoria #ReadingMakesFriends

My first seal sighting since the algal bloom. Very moved to see them back

Decided it was time to clean out the pond. An hour of hacking away at it and I have decided I need to make my will before i try again It is only the size of a bathtub but there is some @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social shit going on in there

Great work @commsdeclare.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Imagine these corrupt warlords awarding each other peace prizes— forever

A lovely shout out for Salvage here. “The perfect book to read on your summer holidays. It’s pacey and keeps you turning the pages, while you reflect on how you’re cooking on a heating planet” theconversation.com/best-books-o...

What's your best book of 2025? If you share today, you might end up in our newsletter tomorrow. (Also, I just want to know!) theconversation.com/best-books-o...

Climate change will ‘create’ lots of jobs, eg 2000 extra jobs to process the claims from Brisbane floods Time for new thinking re what kind of jobs we want, not just how many…building new gas & coal doesn’t just cause disasters it diverts workers from useful tasks thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

you will be visited by 12 ghosts: the ghost of christmas past, the ghost of christmas past continuous, the ghost of christmas past perfect, the ghost of christmas past perfect continuous, the ghost of christmas future simple, the ghost of christmas future continuous, the ghost of future perfect, the

I reviewed the latest Trent Dalton for ABR. Hoo boy! www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/c...

Salvage has spent six months in the world today! I’m so grateful for all the critical attention and love this book has received so far. As always, personal words from readers are the most treasured part for me. Thank you for reading and sharing my work ❤️ jennifermills.net.au/salvage/

Speaking of theatre - tix are selling fast for The Childhood of the World! Fairytale agitprop for all ages www.adelaidefestival.com.au/whats-on/sea...

How did I not know that Stoppard worked on Indiana Jones? Must be due for a rewatch m.youtube.com/watch?v=bOYY...

Good result but have you thought about making men take responsibility for their behaviour? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

It’s being reported that the new laws will require large emitting projects to disclose their carbon emissions. Good news.

This is a beautiful story. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Passed out mid roll 💙

I read the Szalay and now feel terrible for any commentator who described it as being “about masculinity”

Catching up with this incredible conversation between Peter Greste and Omar El Akkad from Canberra Writers Festival last month www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

The impacts of the algal bloom are still evident along our South Australian shores, dead fish scattered as far as the morning walk. To face the climate change driven causes behind this national disaster Australia needs a firm commitment to stopping the expansion of fossil fuels.

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...

Everybody look at this cool moth

The tide has turned against AI theft. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...