Have a little story in your favorite magazine and mine: The Big Issue Australia

Happy reading! It’s The Big Issue Fiction Edition, celebrating 20 years! Our judges @mrdjames claire and @melissajfulton read through a massive 808 submissions to bring you 13 of Australia’s best and brightest new writers, serving up a smorgasbord of tales to suit every mood.

I'll be reading at this with the other The Wheeler Centre hotties in a few weeks! Come see what we've been cooking, no worries if not, etc. wheelercentre.com/events-tickets…

We sit down with Renata Adler for a conversation about her fiction, nonfiction, and the murky area in between. unburied-books.castos.com/episodes/with-…

Today, I'm celebrating ten years of love, friendship, and competitive silliness with Clara Ames (nee Sankey). Our beautiful pal @caseyjarman has promised to make us an anniversary mug every decade, and it might just be the thing keeping us together.

“Falling down is the universe being honest with you, finally.”

Truly humbled to have a weird little story in HEAT next to writers like Alexis Wright and Tom Cho. It's about AI, doppelgängers, and the desire to future-proof your family. giramondopublishing.com/books/heat-ser…

“The problem with a book is that you never know what it’s planning to do to you until you’re too far into it.”

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.Chris Ames is a writer from California living in Melbourne. A short story by Ames – in which a man with a heart defect named Chris is ‘building a house big enough for [his] family and also everyone named Chris to live in’ – is published in HEAT S3 N16. giramondopublishing.com/heat

It happened to me: a good email.

It’s the most wonderful time of the literary year! The 2025 shortlist for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards (VPLAs) has been revealed 📚 🎉 Read all about the authors and their shortlisted works here: tinyurl.com/VPLA25 Creative_Vic

Victorian Premier's Literary Awards: Prize for Unpublished Manuscript Shortlist Announced 🎉📚 Explore the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards Unpublished Manuscript shortlist and discover what to add to your reading list: tinyurl.com/VPLA25

“This week you gained the same one hundred grams that I must have lost dancing with you in my arms. The son gains the weight that his father sheds. It’s the perfect diet.”

Amulet 001 is LIVE amuletmag.com

Have a new story in 🧂 Salt Hill Journal 🧂 where I was finally able to deposit my extensive knowledge of celebrities debasing themselves on press tours.

A Two Dollar Radio retrospective: lithub.com/two-dollar-rad…