Book Launch: Grief Eater by Emma Osborne A rageful zombie rising. A blood-soaked road to vengeance. Join Emma Osborne in conversation with Suzanne J Willis to launch GRIEF EATER.

Naarm Melbourne people, I am having a physical launch for GRIEF EATER! Come hang!

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New article in Journal of Writing in Creative Practice. I hope I’ve contributed something useful in thinking about both the creation and reception of artworks (particularly when those works are engaging w the climate crisis). JWCP is available via uni libraries but hit me up if you don’t have access

Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award Judge EOI Waverley Council invites experienced and emerging writers, academics, literary critics, and industry professionals to join Award Judging Panel for a two-year tenure

Judge EOI is open for the Nib Literary Award for research-based literature. Two positions open – one for the usual 3-year term and one covering my maternity leave. Happy to answer qs in my DMs. haveyoursay.waverley.nsw.gov.au/nibliterarya...

It’s such an endurance test. Had to do it twice this pregnancy bc over 40 🤢 but omg that egg roll afterwards

a man with his eyes closed in a dark room with blue lights behind him ALT: a man with his eyes closed in a dark room with blue lights behind him

Omg the first bite of food after you do the pregnancy blood glucose test

I have just joined my “international stores” thread to this one, would love a boost! Thanks in advance 🥰

For sure!

For sure. I reckon Next Gen will be the first, as I remember watching that myself quite young. Excited to (hopefully) raise some Trekkies 😊

Love this book! See my words below. Excited that it’ll be out in the world soon! 🧟

That’s lovely feedback, thank you :)

Thanks, Michael! Just saw the news re your new book out soon. Excited to read it 😊

Angela Meyer reviews Louis Armand and Sarah Temporal Louis Armand’s Infantilisms and Sarah Temporal’s Tight Bindings (both Puncher & Wattmann, 2024) are disparate collections which overlap in their ability to make the parts speak for the whole. …

Haven’t published an at-length review for a while & certainly laboured over this one! Thanks, Cordite, for having me back. cordite.org.au/reviews/meye...

You are absolutely not too old for either of these things ❤️

Thank you!!

A weirdly good combo: pregnancy + a nihilistic mum writing in ‘snatches’ + Lestat: ‘You and your malady of mortality, your malady of goodness’ (as says Nicolas)

The work kitchen is full of hideously thin forks

Much to fuel anxiety in the middle of the night at the moment, but that doomsday clock… so specific. I can hear it ticking down.

Exploring how conflict and tension operate in literary fiction via MJ Hyland’s excellent novels (very much with teacher voice on here) 📖 text + audio 🎧 angelameyer.substack.com/p/an-uneasy-...

Renowned author accused of engaging with pedophiles, sharing child abuse material — SBS News Craig Silvey has been charged with possessing and distributing child exploitation material between 7 and 9 of January.

Oh, disgusting apple.news/ALtAbydSiTD-...

Took P outside for a bit once the cool change came through but realised there were tiny particles of ash raining down on our skin. Had thoughts exactly like this below. And just thinking of the people fighting the fires, in such extreme conditions. Awful & devastating.

If Tony Abbott is welcome at Adelaide Writers’ Week, Randa Abdel-Fattah should be too Australia’s best writers festival could collapse within days as international and local writers boycott it in protest at the removal of Randa Abdel-Fattah.

Richard Flanagan on point: "But with this act of utter folly and appalling weakness, the Adelaide Festival board – and the politicians who direct it – have, by scapegoating a Palestinian writer, now destroyed Adelaide Writers Week for the foreseeable future..." www.smh.com.au/national/if-...

Hi, bushfire survivor here and NSW RFS volunteer.

If you think you are going to stay and defend your property...Don't.
You are not prepared for the intense radiant heat, the ember showers, the smoke, the collapse of all of your energy.

If you have been instructed to leave.
Leave early.
#Bushfire

And if you’re thinking, “I’m just one person, what difference can I make?” my pinned post has you covered:

Thanks Gordon! Hope you’ve had a great reading (& everything) year :)

Angela Meyer | Substack 'Possibility was not a bag or box that could be closed and sealed, it was a vast open chute which received everything, everything; one could not choose or direct or destroy the powerful flow of possib...

Would help if I included the link… angelameyer.substack.com

Mostly Aus lit in the list this year, and many more on the tbr! Also soft launch of some personal news in this post… 😊

www.lifeblood.com.au

Urgent need for blood
#auspol
#bondibeach
#bondi
#sydney

They shall inherit Earth!

Chernobyl Fungus Appears to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability — ScienceAlert It's thriving.

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Haven’t been able to read much lately for various reasons but an Alex Cothren story from Playing Nice Was Getting Me Nowhere once or twice a week is cutting through the fog. Bloody excellent short fiction.