Thanks to all the organisers and volunteers at the AAWP Conference. Perfectly curated and an absolute pleasure to be there AAWP

Excited to be book reviews editor for JASAL alongside Cheryl Taylor openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/about/ed… For suggestions and submissions please contact me research.jcu.edu.au/portfolio/eliz… or share this tweet

Sitting at home watching trees move in new ways thanks to Cyclone Jasper when Meanjin Quarterly accepts one of my short stories. What a great day!

Floodwater from afar and a landslide. Ergon Energy Network has been quick to respond here. Great reading weather!

Best wishes to everyone living on boats in the inlet and those with water in their houses or still without power!

Found these in a fruit box in Cairns. Subscription 10 shillings a year in 1941. Discerning readers in the tropics!

For the librarians. Is this bad? Cyclone season in Australia!

Saturday at Cairns Tropical Writers' Festival is looking good with Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing staff Elizabeth Smyth and RogerOsborne set to appear. Tickets and program available now at: ctwf.com.au James Cook Uni

Meanjin Mondays is back on 18 March at 5pm AEST! Listen to four writers with new work in Meanjin 83.1 Autumn 2024 - Traudl Tan & Kwini Elder Ambrose Mungala Chalarimeri, Michelle See-Tho and Elizabeth Smyth (Elizabeth Smyth)! RSVP here for the Zoom link: eventbrite.com/e/meanjin-mond…

Is there such a thing as ‘tropical grunge lit’? If there isn’t, there is now. See this short fiction published today! Thanks Meanjin Quarterly and James Cook Uni for your support. meanjin.com.au/fiction/alone-…

JCU is proud to announce our new Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing. Continuing the work of the late Professor Colin Roderick and Dr Margaret Roderick, the Centre champions Australian stories and storytelling James Cook Uni jcu.edu.au/RCALC

A huge thank you to the organisers of the Australian Literary Convention 2024! Especially Anthony Uhlmann and Aisha Makhdoom who were everywhere. Also thanks to James Gourley who expertly chaired my session. Fantastic event, location and program. ASAL

A. D. Hope's misguided condemnation of the group of young poets from Adelaide calling themselves the Angry Penguins was a tragic injustice to the breadth and quality of their writing. Read more in Journal of Australian Studies doi.org/10.1080/144430…

My experience as a non-Indigenous author writing Aboriginal characters meant limiting POV, signalling the existence of but not using First Nations language and knowledge. Free downloads for 50 readers here tandfonline.com/eprint/4F38DTQ…

Wiradjuri poet and academic Jeanine Leane gives a short masterclass on Indigenous representation. Listen up abc.net.au/listen/program…

I am absolutely in awe of Jeanine Leane. Jamie Oliver in Hot Soup for Indigenous Appropriation - 2SER: 2ser.com/jamie-oliver-i…

I have a new article published today that compares critical walking with using an industrial crane as a method for creative writing in rainforest doi.org/10.1080/147907…

Nothing exists until Wayne Bradshaw sees it. So here’s hoping he sees my new article in JASAL - for scholars interested in genre, plants and region openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/article/…

My new article is now available. About farm novels, women and Australian working class fiction. A reading of John Naish’s That Men Should Fear (1963). doi.org/10.1080/144430…

Had a fantastic conversation this week with Toby Miller about literature and writing in Far North Queensland. Check out the podcast here! podbean.com/ei/pb-p9rqm-19…