I’m running the online 8-week Writing YA Fiction course at Allen & Unwin’s Faber Academy. Details and bookings here: faberwritingacademy.com.au/course/writi... Reskeets (?) much appreciated. (It says YA but I happily accept writers working on MG and whatever we’re calling new adult these days)

Writing YA Fiction

Explore Writing YA Fiction with expert guidance in this eight-week course designed for aspiring authors of young adult novels.

faberwritingacademy.com.au

@ceinwenlangley.bsky.social you're a star - thank you!!

I’m running the online 8-week Writing YA Fiction course at Allen & Unwin’s Faber Academy. Details and bookings here: faberwritingacademy.com.au/course/writi... Reskeets (?) much appreciated. (It says YA but I happily accept writers working on MG and whatever we’re calling new adult these days)

Writing YA Fiction

Explore Writing YA Fiction with expert guidance in this eight-week course designed for aspiring authors of young adult novels.

faberwritingacademy.com.au

Absolutely killer piece from @katydidinoz.bsky.social on the problems in the genre fiction publishing pipeline in Australia.

Tough love

Kate Cuthbert considers the ways that genre fiction is forsaken by the Australian publishing industry.

griffithreview.com

I come back to this tumblr post again and again

Hillary Monahan@hillarymonahan.bsky.social · last wk.

Nobody wants predictive data models to stop working for the people in medicine. Or translating ancient Pompeii texts. Or the other ways we were already using it. We want it to stop replacing workers, killing the environment, and stealing from artists. Hope that clarifies.

There has not been an Australian government in our lifetime that has given a shit about Australian creatives in any form

Now it's Australia's turn to consider arts work simultaneously worthless (and thus not worth compensating) yet also capable of earning billions for American tech oligarchs (as long as they don't have to follow the law and legally pay for it).

Writer Beware is currently receiving an incredible volume of reports of impersonation scams: publishers, editors, literary agents, production companies, conferences, & more. I started keeping a list in 2024; in recent months it has more than doubled. writerbeware.blog/2024/03/15/t...

The Impersonation List - Writer Beware

The most pernicious scams focused on English-speaking writers these days come from overseas: publishing/marketing/fake literary agency scams from the Philippines, and ghostwriting/publishing/marketing...

writerbeware.blog

not saying anything new, but if these folks actually believed in genAI writing, they'd disclose it, tout it, and build their own audiences elsewhere and leave others be. hiding and sneaking it to markets who want no part of it doesn't prove you're good at writing. just proves you're good at fraud.

Absolutely this

I don't want a US tech bro as a patron - which is why artists must defend our copyright in the age of AI | Anna Funder

US companies hoping to make fortunes from AI want the creative product of our country to be available to them for free, or for peanuts. Words fail me

theguardian.com

I am incredibly excited about this

Jamie Galea@jamiegalea.bsky.social · 4w ago

Finally, kino is coming to Melbourne

The @asauthors.bsky.social CEO is in Canberra today fighting against the ongoing theft of our books, stories, and illustrations to feed LLMs. Sign the open letter from Australia’s creatives: www.surveymonkey.com/r/WBXGKN7

Support First Nations story sovereignty this EOFY 🖤💛❤️ We're more than a publishing house. Our unique cultural, creative and community responsibilities set us apart. For nearly four decades we have carried stories across Country and across generations. Donate now: bit.ly/3fyeqmg

imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar

NBC News@nbcnews.com · last mo.

She has a neck the size of an adult human, legs that are just as long and an unforgettable coat. And she’s missing.

Now they are grabbing up land in Geelong to build one! Big tech out. getup.to/Bv9WvcqCqZ7h7

Stop the Data Drain - Senate Submission

An independent movement to build a progressive Australia and bring participation back into our democracy.

getup.to

check your banks Australian creatives, CAL money just landed, time to buy another bottle of (*checks amount*) mid-priced domestic bubbly from the discount bin.

We've put together a collection of Magabala books and authors to support if you're looking for Queer Blak work this #PrideMonth 🌈 Check out the full collection: bit.ly/4uykCAF

My whole life I was told that plagiarism is bad only to become an adult and be told it's fine now because it's A.I.

I think every media person who has spent the last 3-4 years warning everyone that AI is a scam should, when the bubble bursts, get one billion dollars each to run our normal businesses for the next 1000 years. seems fair.

I just—like, sure, being a trillionaire is cool I guess but what’s it all for if you haven’t even seen the wreckage of the titanic firsthand

Please consider showing your support to the staff under incredible pressure at Deakin U by signing: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/do...

Do better, Deakin

Open letter from Deakin University staff On the restructure, the resignation, and the obligation to do better On 4 June, affected Deakin staff across two divisions of the University – Academic Portfo...

megaphone.org.au

A thing I love about writing is the PROCESS OF WRITING because I can sort out & note down all the ideas, of course. But it is process that creates narrative. Often I don't know how I am going to make a plot point work until, as I'm writing, a solution slides onto the page. Boom! It's magic.

Need three books and a movie

Jasmin🌸@theboobtaster.bsky.social · 2mo ago

this might be the best headline i’ve ever read

Start all your writing with “Hey, dipshit!” so people know it wasn’t written by AI. Follow me for more writing tips.

the writing *is* the thinking, these two things simply cannot be productively divorced from each other

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Fuck this all the way to the lava pit She said: “I really do feel that it’s allowed me to focus more of my time and energy on what really matters, which is the ideas, the thinking … rather than spending a lot of my time writing sentences from scratch.” Full article ⬇️⬇️⬇️

As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!

“There is something fundamentally wrong with a system where extreme wealth keeps skyrocketing while so many people are struggling to afford the basics, and governments claim there is not enough money for housing, healthcare, climate action and essential services.”

Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · 2mo ago

Australia’s 178 billionaires are $25.7bn richer than last year as 3.7 million live in poverty

June 1st