Brisbane and visitors to this wonderful city: I'm talking stories at Avid Reader in September in a workshop on writerly voice. Please come! xx avidreader.com.au/pages/9479-Lau…

I've just had my first academic article published with Extrapolation! I analyse depictions of nonhuman animal gestures and creativity in Laura Jean McKay #CEASEFIRE's The Animals in that Country and Ursula K Le Guin's The Author of the Acacia Seeds. liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/ex…
Liverpool University Press

Capital, from my 2021 poetry collection How Decent Folk Behave.

2024 is already a huge year for First Nations communities fighting for Treaties, Truth- Telling and First Nations Justice. Can you chip in to power these scholarships to bring together First Nations changemakers from all corners of the country? getup.to/KEOkXFPd7CN27FG

Thanks Rachael it was so cool talking to you.

With thanks to the excellent reporting of Steph Sabrinskas and Josie Hess, for COAL FACE POD: more on the mess of Lake Hazelwood at
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Environmental groups Environmental Justice Australia & Environment Victoria are worried about water covering the toxic coal ash dump, 1 million cubic metres in size (!), in the mine/lake's northeast corner. 6 months ago this wasn't a pressing issue. But when I checked Google Maps today ... maps.app.goo.gl/saSGLq8jm9u6Wx…

I wrote an article for Meanjin Quarterly: 'Ten years on from Hazelwood: last decade’s second-worst disaster'
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It's about a lot of things: ongoing injustice, vicarious trauma, the renewable energy transition - and how Hazelwood mine is ALREADY a lake (see pics)

It is not possible to be 'apolitical'. Every action you take or choose not to take, contributes to the state of the world and the well-being/or demise of those who live in it. The fact that you exist and continue to exist is political.

Our very own Carody Culver does a deep dive on the sustainable (or not so much) future of fashion in this brilliant review of 'Wear Next: Fashioning the Future' by Clare Press for our friends Sydney Review of Books
sydneyreviewofbooks.com/review/pick-yo…

We’re absolutely thrilled today to share that both of our longlisted titles have moved on to the International Booker Prize shortlist!

Congratulations to Hwang Sok-yong and translators, Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae, and Jente Posthuma and translator sarah timmer harvey 🎉

Thank you Paula Green
Poetry Shelf Ockham NZ Book Award Feature: Grace Yee - a reading and a review nzpoetryshelf.com/2024/04/09/poe…

Giramondo Publishing

My partner Murray Hewitt has some work in this art fundraiser for Palestine, along with lots of other awesome artists. They are selling work to raise funds for urgently needed humanitarian supplies in Gaza. Link in comments.

By mass, the world’s 1.7 billion cows are the dominant animal species on Earth, far outweighing the human population, and outweighing all the wild terrestrial mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians left on Earth.

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Places where you might find ALL GENDER bathrooms
1) Your house
2) A plane
3) Your hotel room
4) A cafe
5) A roadhouse/service station
6) A park that only has one toilet cubicle
7) A street toilet (particularly auto-cleaning toilets)
8) Your friends house
9) Every disabled loo ...

You know where else has all gender bathrooms? Your house

Great to see such diverse support for #Palestine in Melbourne today.

Thousands have turned out demanding for #CeasefireInGazaNOW

There must be an immediate end to the killing of children, aid workers, journalists and civilians in #Gaza and full access to aid and healthcare.

If you haven’t read The Colony by the brilliant Audrey Magee then please do asap! One of the best times had at a festival just now talking with her about the project if the book - extraordinary - Aspiring Conversations

THUNDERHEAD by Miranda Darling is a dark literary comedy about one woman’s struggle to be free, perfect for fans of Rachel Cusk and Jenny Offill.⁠

‘Darkly funny, astute, timely’ — Sophie Laguna
‘Powerful, restless, irresistible’ — Laura Jean McKay #CEASEFIRE

📘 scribepublications.com.au/thunderhead

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