Read our #review of 'Ladies' Rest and Writing Room' by @kimkellyauthor.bsky.social!

Set in 1920s post-war Sydney, Kelly 'challenges dominant national narratives' in '[a] story of true connection and love between young women as they navigate the impacts of the world around them'. shorturl.at/AvC3l

infinite secrets of the river infinite secrets of the river Last week, mostly to somehow productively distract myself from the pain unleashed within my circle of Jewish friends and Lebanese friends by the terrorist attack in Bo…

A small essay reflecting on our shared, unsettled histories, Kate Grenville, and murder. kimkellyauthor.com/2025/12/22/i...

Australian writers! The 2026 Finlay Lloyd 20/40 Prize will be open for entries 1 December 2025. This prize is for fiction and nonfiction manuscripts of 20,000 - 40,000 words in length, and winners will be published by one of Australia’s loveliest and most nurturing publishers. finlaylloyd.com

Last call for responses to my PhD reader survey on fiction about Jews. Thank you hugely to those who've already pitched in - you've far exceeded my quota and expectations with your generosity and honesty. limesurvey.mq.edu.au/index.php/48...

So you want my arts job: Writing Coach Procrastinating about your writing? Joining one of Catherine Deveny's 'Gunnas' workshop may help the pen to flow.

"We don’t write to be published, paid, praised or win prizes. We write because it makes us feel better, think clearer and sleep more peacefully. We write because it makes our souls grow and our hearts glow." - Catherine Deveny

If you're an Australian author and your books have been caught up in the Meta AI theft (as mine have), fill out this Australian Society of Authors form, so they can measure the way this has affected us, and present findings. docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS....

Why decolonise Shakespeare when all the world’s a stage for his ideas on injustice? | Kenan Malik The trend for cultural reappraisal could risk upholding the very ideas it aims to dismantle

‘The greatness of Shakespeare, Baldwin wrote, lay in his desire “to defeat all labels and complicate all battles”.’ | Kenan Malik

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Only a few weeks left to run on my PhD reader survey of fiction about Jews. All responses, all opinions, hugely valued. And it's completely anonymous, so you can say what you really feel. Thank you! limesurvey.mq.edu.au/index.php/48...

Sixty years ago, 29 students took a bus ride that changed the way Australia thought about race The Freedom Ride hit the road in 1965 to protest racism and segregation throughout regional NSW. For descendants of the original riders, images from the trip are a source of immense pride

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Australian readers! I need survey participants for PhD research into novels about Jews. All responses anonymous, confidential and hugely valued limesurvey.mq.edu.au/index.php/48... Thank you!

Big blue sky with white streaky clouds, over green hills and a country road.

Blayney hills. Angel-wing sky.

The Finlay Lloyd 20/40 Prize 2025 is open for submissions! An Australian publishing prize for work 20k-40k words long - fiction or non-fiction. finlaylloyd.com/20-40/

Please , if you are able , support Independent publishers who are doing most of the heavy lifting in finding great new writers!

@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
@saraband-books.bsky.social
@influxpress.bsky.social
@galleybeggars.bsky.social
@peepaltreepress.bsky.social

And many more

Ten years of gratitude Ten years of gratitude Anniversaries aren’t really my thing. I often forget the date Deano and I were married or the precise year my mother died. If it wasn’t branded into my identity, I’d forget m…

Big anniversary: reflecting on 10 years of kidney transplantation gratitude. #organdonor #kidneytransplant kimkellyauthor.com/2024/12/02/t...

THE THIRTY-ONE LEGS OF VLADIMIR PUTIN by PS Cottier and NG Hartland It’s often said that we all have a doppelgänger somewhere in the world.

Another great review of The Thirty-One Legs of Vladimir Putin - from novella afficionado Bram Presser no less. #20/40Prize abookforants.substack.com/p/the-thirty...

And for editorial-free efficiency, you only have to pay Spine a minimum of US$128 per month. Astonishing. Banking on authors not being good arithmetic?

‘No more hiring expensive editors.’ What could possibly go wrong? opentools.ai/news/spines-...

Thank you so much!

A nice hot bath and a drink, in company of a yellow toy duck.

Earned and deserved, Duckie.

#selfrespect

Are you an Australian reader? I need survey participants for PhD research into novels about Jews. All responses anonymous, confidential and hugely valued limesurvey.mq.edu.au/index.php/48... Thank you!

Thanks so much!

I'd love to be added too, please, Lefa. What a wonderful thing you're doing.