If you live in any of these places, or know anyone who does, we'd love to say gidday...

Latest AI author scam offers this burn.

Happy Copyright Agency Day to all who celebrate.

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

Australia is publishing books too quickly – and everyone is losing out

Thanks to rushed deadlines, financial pressure and overworked staff, titles are going to market before they’re ready – and then sliding from view immediately

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My debut in Good Weekend - on Becca Lunnon, first woman to complete the insane Hobart Walking Club Peak Baggers' List. www.smh.com.au/national/her...

Her physio was horrified, but Becca didn’t let a torn knee ligament stop her reaching a milestone

She hated hiking as a child – and had no idea what she was doing once she started climbing – but Becca Lunnon just made history on Tasmania’s mountains.

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Feeling super honoured to be commended for the Anne Elder. Really means a lot to me.

Australian Poetry@australianpoetry.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The winner of this year's Anne Elder Award is Two Hundred Million Musketeers by Ender Başkan (Giramondo Publishing). Two Hundred Million Musketeers 'is an illustrious, spirited debut that beholds shifting inner worlds and geographies, polyphonic voices, and everyday lifeworlds.'

I've just hit a thing where an org who commissioned me to run a workshop is saying 'hey, bookings are low, if it stays that way, we could either cancel or negotiate a lower fee if you want to go ahead'. I'm wtf? Has anyone else encountered this kind of thing? Are kill fess normal from arts orgs?

Well, I guess this is my first ever piece of breaking news - probably the biggest rare plant story in Australia this year. Over at @tasinquirer.bsky.social. tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/very-ex...

New site of critically endangered Tasmanian species found

A group of bushwalkers walking in remote southwest Tasmania has discovered a new population of a critically endangered plant, King’s lomatia.

tasmanianinquirer.com.au

‘Very exciting’: Bushwalkers in remote southwest #Tasmania have discovered a new population of a critically endangered plant found nowhere else: King’s lomatia. Story by @benwaltez.bsky.social for #TasInq #politas ▶️ tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/very-ex...

New site of critically endangered Tasmanian species found

A group of bushwalkers walking in remote southwest Tasmania has discovered a new population of a critically endangered plant, King’s lomatia.

tasmanianinquirer.com.au

‘Very exciting’: New population of critically endangered Tasmanian species discovered in remote southwest by @benwaltez.bsky.social for @tasinquirer.bsky.social tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/very-ex...

New site of critically endangered Tasmanian species found

A group of bushwalkers walking in remote southwest Tasmania has discovered a new population of a critically endangered plant, King’s lomatia.

tasmanianinquirer.com.au

Well, I guess this is my first ever piece of breaking news - probably the biggest rare plant story in Australia this year. Over at @tasinquirer.bsky.social. tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/very-ex...

New site of critically endangered Tasmanian species found

A group of bushwalkers walking in remote southwest Tasmania has discovered a new population of a critically endangered plant, King’s lomatia.

tasmanianinquirer.com.au

Great to be shortlisted for Tas Media Awards again - always feel like a bit of an imposter as a weirdo fiction writer doing journalism, but here we are. www.meaa.org/meaa-media/s...

Tasmanian Media Awards - MEAA

The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance is pleased to announce the list of finalists for the 2026 Tasmanian Media Awards, celebrating excellence in journalism across the state. Entries soared this ye...

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Well I’m stuck in Melaleuca for the next few days because of bad weather destroying tomorrow‘s flights, but I have the best friends (and one of the most epic pizza deliveries ever).

Here's some new comic fiction from me in The Saturday Paper. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/fict...

The captain is dressing as a pirate again

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Nice day for it.

Meanjin returns! Thanks so much QUT…

Just got to interview Academy Award-nominated film director Paul Greengrass about some Tasmanian horses in the 1980s. I love being a weird writer.

35 Degrees in Huonville, can't cope. I know you have it worse in Melbourne but I have Tasmanian blood which actually boils around this point.

This is such a good book! Highly recommend...

"On a closer, slower read, the poems reveal themselves. Their depths, it turns out, are camouflaged by how sonically seductive they are". Andy Jackson on @benwaltez.bsky.social's debut volume of poetry, Lithosphere www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/book...

Lithosphere

I’m told humans can only genuinely experience a natural environment by staying still for at least 10 minutes. Only then do birds and other animals begin to emerge from their cautious retreat. There’s ...

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Really nice to read from Lithosphere for Radio National's Line Break series today - always such a privilege to have your work broadcast to unsuspecting ears. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

The Oysters Roar by Benjamin Walter - ABC listen

This poem explores the experience of walking among the oyster bursting from the tidal flats around Cygnet. Ben Walter is a Tasmanian writer, and the author of the recent poetry collection Lithosphere...

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If you're a friend or fan of writer Robert Skinner, you may have heard about his terrible accident a couple months ago. This Sat night at Coburg RSL is a benefit to help him back on his feet, out of debt, and to get his razzle-dazzle back. Music, fun and party guaranteed. Details below. Come along!

The Razzle Dazzle Restoration Project

Readings, Music and More for Robert Skinner Help Robert get his razzle-dazzle back after his bike accident! With readings from Andy...

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Ridiculous, but somehow this rotten poetry book is still topping the bestsellers at Fullers six weeks after launch…

How interesting. Ultimo Books specifically open to subs of manuscripts between 30-40k words (both fiction and nonfiction). Don't think I've seen anything like this from a biggish publisher in Australia before. hardiegrant.submittable.com/submit/33977...

This is obviously great but *cries in Tasmanian*... www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

‘We want our stories to be told’: NSW Labor pledges $3.2m to support writing and literature amid AI onslaught

Stories Matter strategy responds to urgent pressures such as declining reading rates and growing impact of digital media on publishing, minister says

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Look who's back 🤯 Yes, it is Australia's oldest literary journal. Arising from a long hiatus. Cover design by Kerry (Flashblak) Klimm. Edited by new @southerlylitmag.bsky.social editor Roanna Gonsalves. Guest co-edited by moi.

Just saw this in the Overland newsletter - never met Moya, but always enjoyed interacting with her back when Twitter was sort of okay. Very sorry to hear...

Rochford Street Review@rochfordstreview.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Rochford Street Review Issue 43. Vale Moya Costello. Rochford Street Review was shocked and saddened to learn of the death of writer, editor, academic and wine critic Moya Costello. rochfordstreetreview.com/2025/10/14/v...

Bird bluesky, does anybody recognise this interesting ascending call? It's a new one to me. Huon valley in southern Lutruwita, possibly hiding in the grassy field next door.

I wrote to Tony Burke about the closure of Meanjin, and finally received a reply from the office of Jason Clare, who had been forwarded the message because it was an issue for higher education, rather than the arts (!). This is a wholly embarrassing and inadequate buck pass and response.

I can't stop listening to Roy Orbison.