Photo of Kathleen Jennings, a woman with short brown hair. She wears a patterned blue shirt and a blue necklace. She stands in front of some trees.

Kathleen Jennings (@tanaudel.bsky.social) is an Australian writer and artist – and GoH at Swancon this year...

Where are you based? Brisbane!
Your work in brief: Gothic, Australian Gothic, fairy tales, and fairy-tale Gothic fiction and illustration.

Honeyeater by Kathleen Jennings Unsettling baroque image of a person in a white shirt, head obscured by birds and flowers Art by Lindsey Carr, design by Christine Foltzer, edited by Ellen Datlow OUT NOW

HONEYEATER, an (AUREALIS shortlisted! Locus 2025 recommended!) haunted subtropical tale, is available now!

Order through your favourite bookstore or:
USA: torpublishinggroup.com/honeyeater/
Australia: panmacmillan.com.au/9781761562303/

In the meantime, this also has an (inadvertent) green woman (sort of) in it:
bsky.app/profile/tana...

Words and stories of fantasy and myth from acclaimed women writers around the world Brian Froud's GREEN WOMEN With Original Contributinos by Extraordinary Women Writers of Fantasy and Myth On Sale October 6 With provocative portraits from the "grandfather of faerie art," Brian Froud

I'm so excited to have several(!) tiny stories in this collection of responses to Brian Froud's Green Women paintings. You can see the full list of contributing writers (and preorder the book) here:
www.abramsbooks.com/product/bria...

Martha in Paris A novel New York Times-bestselling author Margery Sharp

6 pages into Martha in Paris and remembering how much I adore Martha (first met in the delightful The Eye of Love)

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You know who else is sprouting leaves?

And not *un*related to skeletons with gardlands: HONEYEATER

new mcmansion hell to cleanse the horrors: mcmansionhell.com/post/8099372...

On making Timothée Chalamet a little ugly and a lot horny By Christian B. Long

There's a great article about sex and Marty Supreme by Christian Long up on ACMe's substack: acmesmokescreen.substack.com/p/on-making-...

University of Waikato in Hamilton, NZ, are hiring in English and Writing Studies - pass it on! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

The album cover for Public Works and Utilities by Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan shows the interior of a Warrington library in 1979.

Get your lugholes around it on Bandcamp, at record shops and online streaming platforms. warringtonruncorn.com/albums/publi...

Make Yourself At Home | Defector I started going back to the 1970s last winter because I was convinced everything and everyone else was, too. This was not a good time, and I was very much Not Having A Good Time in it; in retrospect,…

"If nothing ever really goes away, it's also true that bad times can be survived and outlasted, sometimes through heroic acts of resistance and refusal but mostly in the ways that people generally survive and outlast things, which is by being stubborn and keeping at it." defector.com/make-yoursel...

Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into…

Higher ed's rush to adopt AI is about so much more than AI: defector.com/higher-eds-r...

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Screenshot of the top of a Bsky feed, with a red circle around the hamburger menu in the top left.

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.

Here's how to turn it off.

First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

Your Dream House Might Be a Fantasy AI has has invaded the real estate industry, dissolving the boundaries between image enhancement and false advertising.

wrote about ai real estate listings for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...

"we now have a rush to either strip-mine university resources or capitalize on university prestige. Education technology (or Ed Tech) has been leading this charge since long before the AI craze" 💯 this is excellent

Public Works and Utilities, by Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan 6 track album

Quite the treat to see @warringtonruncorn.com at the Boat Club tonight. If you like electronica and town planning nostalgia this is the night out for you. New album sounded great
warrington-runcorn-cis.bandcamp.com/album/public...

I’m doing a thing. Join me, won’t you?

NOIRVEMBER ’55, PART TEN We’re only a month away from our draft of the Top 13 Films Noirs of 1955. I’m busy compiling my list, and I’m sure my co-drafters Sergio Angelini and Nick Cardillo are doing the same…

October brings the final batch of films before Sergio, Nick and I draft the Top 13 Films Noirs of 1955. Here are the first three. ahsweetmystery.com/2025/10/09/n...

Paul Thomas Anderson Goes Big Game Hunting With 'One Battle After Another' | Defector To call One Battle After Another the most ambitious film of director Paul Thomas Anderson’s career would be a disservice to his filmography. All of his work is marked by ambition, both in the…

Paul Thomas Anderson goes big game hunting with ‘One Battle After Another’ defector.com/paul-thomas-...

Academia.edu wants permanent rights to your likeness, signature, voice, name, etc. to be used in any setting. My answer was "absolutely not." Log in, click on "privacy policy" when prompted to accept the new terms (don't accept!" then find "account settings" @ dropdown, scroll down to delete.

This poster (Lou Benesch) is so fun — there must have been a temptation to go (literally) dark, but this looks like painted sugar dough. Also the static pose, the vertical hangings, and yet the slight movemnet of star, ribbons, flame-fur...
#artthoughts

Again, the *roundness* of everything, and the resultant carousel-dimensionality, and the way the angles (so many here) all bend and support and direct the eye to the encircling...

#artthoughts

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Out now! My chapter on "Authorship and Cognitive Studies" appears in The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Authorship, with my thanks to editors Rory Loughnane and Will Sharpe for shepherding this through to completion. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

So then what do you do next, if your work is in the database?

17 September: Brisbane Book launch Avid Reader! 21-22 September: Adelaide Writers Assemble SA State Library 3-6 October: Canberra Conflux 19 - Crowne Plaza Hotel 7 October: Canberra Launch Book Cow, Kingston 9-13 October: Brisbane Brisbane Writers Festival Powerhouse

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