Hi folks this is up to $120, and auction closes tomorrow night. Imagine what your progeny will say when they have their own story AND they found out you practically single-handedly funded the rfs in order to make it happen???

This has got to be the coolest thing going right now: thenovelprize.com

I'm judging the poetry prize for this year's Woollahra Digital Literary Award. If you've got work that found its way into the world via a digital medium, then please submit! We also have fiction and non-fic categories. Deadline is this Monday! woollahra.nsw.gov.au/library/whats_…

Dear everyone, I'll be interviewing Felicity Volk about her luscious new book #DesireLines at Better Read Than Dead tonight. Treat yourself to an honest, intelligent love story that literally spans the globe.

Twitterverse, at 6:30 this evening I'll be interviewing Jo Lennan Smythe about her new book In the Time of Foxes. It's a wiley and wise collection set variously in Japan, London, Spain, and even in another planet. Here's a link to the event: eventbrite.com.au/e/in-the-time-…

Last night we announced the winners of this year's @woollahramc Dig Lit Awards. As the poetry judge I was thrilled to see so many poets pushing digital poetry to new and playful places. This poem by @OmarjSakr - while more trad in form - took the cheese: poets.org/poem/where-i-a…

We have a couple of spaces left in our online poetry course with Pip Smith, book now to refine your poetry style, experiment with form and technique, and create new work over six weeks: buff.ly/3empxhc #WritingNSW #WritingCourse #poetry

My review of The Last Migration is up for your delectation: smh.com.au/culture/books/…

I dip out of casual teaching at uni to write a book and can't get back in the door. But it's ok because I'm teaching at Writing NSW. Then this happens. How should a govt protect artists through this recession? Maybe by not blowing up a vital employer: smh.com.au/culture/books/…

$175,000 is small change to the NSW Government, but it goes such a long way in a state which does not have a wheeler centre and four million (govt supported) literary journals. smh.com.au/culture/books/…

Kickstart Your Novel with Pip Smith is back! And this year we are running it as a summer school! If you're looking to get started on that long dreamt about manuscript, now is your chance. faberwritingacademy.com.au/course/kicksta…