THIS ONE IS FOR THE DINOSAURS

Who else’s dreams have specific genres? Last night was romcom with a twist of war drama. We were just meet-cuteing, goofing around and falling in love hilariously while everyone in the world got invaded!

The invisible labour of motherhood.

Quietly thrilled to have performed at the APS Qld Finals, and so honoured to have won. It was a poem for my daughter, called ‘La Niña’. I am competing in the national final at the Sydney Opera House on Oct 23. If you’re in town, please come along. sydneyoperahouse.com/events/whats-o…

Congratulations to the Australian Poetry Slam QLD Final winners! 🎉 Australian Poetry Slam Word Travels 1st place goes to Anna McGahan from the APS Ipswich Heat. And 2nd place goes to Zach Phleming from the Logan Heat. 📸 Martin Ingle.

Absolutely thrilled to have an essay published in the upcoming Griffith Review. I’ll be reading an excerpt of my piece at the launch at @avidreader4101 - my absolute favourite bookstore in the world.

That feeling when finally, finally you have the motivation to sit down and ACTUALLY edit, but bedtime for the toddlers suddenly takes 2 hours, a packet of shredded cheese, seven beds and a dramatic retelling of the Nutcracker.

Congratulations to our 2022 Australian Poetry Slam Champion: Joanna Yang from NT! Well done also to the runner up Anna McGahan from QLD, and to all the finalists from around the country that competed, shared, and bared their souls with us.

Wild little night performing poetry at the Australian Poetry Slam national final at the opera house. Shared stories, made friends, came second place - loved every minute of it. It’s so thrilling to have space carved out for poets who perform their own work. Thanks Word Travels!

Join us! The launch of Griffith Review 78: A Matter of Taste! 🗓 6:30 pm AEST, 10 Nov 2022 📍 ZOOM or at @avidreader4101 🎟 Free! Register bit.ly/3fS8gTn With @CarodyC Jumaana Abdu Laura Elvery 🇵🇸 Kris Kneen (they/them) Anna McGahan Myles McGuire @melanieannmyers Elizabeth Willing

Kind of wild how when you’re mid-shoot on a show reality can become very abrasive. One minute I’m in a gay bar in the 80s, in a 1900s corset, or fighting baddies, next minute I’m at swimming lessons on a Saturday morning with 300 screaming toddlers and corporate dads in rashies.

IN OUR BLOOD: Australia’s radical response to AIDS in the early 1980s: an abctv (Australia) Series by Adriano Cappelletta starring @Boxheadhill @mattlday Nicholas Brown Anna McGahan Oscar Leal Hoodlum bit.ly/3SbeLj7

Bloody thrilled to have been shortlisted for the Vogel alongside these two beautiful writers - thank you so much Allen & Unwin and The Australian. You can read an extract of my fiction manuscript below.

ANNOUNCING Anna McGahan AS THE WINNER OF THE AUSTRALIAN / VOGEL’S AWARD FOR YOUNG WRITERS 2023 The award is one of Australia’s richest and most prestigious awards for an unpublished manuscript by a writer under the age of thirty-five. #VogelAwards #Awardwinner The Australian

Just the process of writing this book was healing and joyful - to win this and to be published is entirely thrilling. I am so incredibly grateful, and desperate to share the world of ‘Immaculate’ with you.

Anna McGahan reflects on the ongoing damned if you do, damned if you don’t conversations that come with the complex timing of when to wean an infant. Anna is the winner of this year’s Vogel Literary Award. Dried milk is free to read here: bit.ly/3NqSVWW

Listen now to the winner of the 2023 Vogel's Literary Award! bit.ly/43XZQhl #Immaculate, written and narrated by Anna McGahan, tells the story of a couple navigating their daughter's illness, and a young girl who claims to have had an immaculate conception...

Easily the most impactful novel I’ve read this year. Anna McGahan takes the chaos and trauma of Pentecostal life and metabolizes it into a story that is so loaded with beauty. I got it yesterday morning and was done by evening. I couldn’t put it down.

#VogelAward winner & actress ⁦Anna McGahan⁩ on leaving the church but staying close to what’s holy abclisten.page.link/2Jgk2CBX1R7Y6T…