Two months to go until beloved American author Bonnie Garmus lands in Melbourne for an exclusive in-conversation event. With host Astrid Edwards, Garmus will discuss how her captivating debut Lessons in Chemistry became a worldwide hit. Grab your tix tinyurl.com/5y8eztn4

A Statement from the Board of Overland Literary Journal

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Diversity in kids’ books is not a ‘woke agenda’. And there certainly isn’t too much of it | Books | The Guardian theguardian.com/books/2024/jan…

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Our Between the Series series is out now on Youtube!

Five amazing Melbourne-based writers talk with The Garret host Astrid Edwards about writing as craft, process and influences here: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Thanks to Astrid for being a top facilitator! ✨

We made #1. Thank you Dr Amber Gwynne!

.Astrid Edwards on reading the new novel by Alexis Wright.

Read the full review in the The TLS (🔒): the-tls.co.uk/articles/prais…

'Alexis Wright challenges and stretches us, forcing us to reconsider the act of reading itself. It is a mind-altering experience: Praiseworthy retaught me how to read.'

Astrid Edwards reviews Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright for the new The TLS ✨
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I love The Garret | Writing & Publishing with Astrid Edwards! And I loved the chance to talk animals, short stories and Gunflower on the latest episode. thegarretpodcast.com/laura-jean-mck…

Emblematic case study: Associate Degrees at RMIT are university degrees regulated by the university regulator for which students pay university fees. Their teachers, however, are paid at vocational education rates. RMIT wants to cut rates, conditions again thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/education…

University staff are at breaking point. It's been a long time coming. The institutions have been run more and more like businesses, less like engines of knowledge and training. Students suffer. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/education…

Maybe we should do a #MeToo for coercive control in honour of #JonahHill texts. RT if you’ve ever had a partner:
- tell you what you’re allowed to wear/do for work/post on social media
- tell you who you’re allowed to be friends with
- impose similar restrictions on your autonomy

Australian universities report finds quality of education eroded by ‘long-term underfunding’ theguardian.com/australia-news…

Ok, going to do the Threads thing.
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💫 Vaxine Beneba Clarke's latest work is 'It's the Sound of the Thing' - a collection of poetry about poetry (and life). In this interview Maxine reflects on hoe she wrote 100 poems (!), as well as the rise of book bans.
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📖 TRANSCRIPT: bit.ly/3JLbxjE

Happy 2nd Birthday to #NewsAndReviews - it's a GLOW UP! In the coming months you're going to be hearing from all these legends. Am I creating a new independent ad-free mini media empire? Fuck, yeah, maybe, why not? newsandreviews.substack.com/p/allow-me-to-…

My latest in the The Saturday Paper: ‘Instead of being brave enough to enact policies that will protect the collective good, our leaders are choosing to safeguard the profits of an industry that sells products they know are destroying the planet’.
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Thank you to Astrid Edwards for the interview on the The Garret | Writing & Publishing and also for this succinct but incredible review! ❤️❤️❤️

💫History can be wild. In her latest book Sally Young interrogates the lives and decisions of Australia's newspaper barons and their evolution into media monsters. Honestly, some of this is so juicy.
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📖TRANSCRIPT: bit.ly/3Nw6wMT

I really love what Astrid Edwards has written about 'The Spare Room' by Helen Garner for #newsandreviews this week. On the complications of caring dynamics and who gets a voice in this work.
newsandreviews.substack.com/p/garnerrama-p…