Edited by four emerging voices, Crip Stories is a gathering of vibrant and diverse experiences from disabled people. Bringing together memoir, essays and poetry, these writers explore creativity, care, rage and refusal.
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“The committed writer is a movement writer … The committed writer knows that they know very little, and that the way to remedy that ignorance is through solidarity with people in struggle.”
For PEN Melbourne, André Dao on how a writer can make the world more free.
The image shows a collage based on Johanna’s Exhume piece, featuring all 18 covers of the Bulletin in which Velia Ercole’s novel was serialised. In the middle of these pink covers is the title of the novel as it appeared stylised in the magazine. Underneath is the quote: The town and the people she hated encroached on every moment of her life” (Ercole, 29) set against a pastoral farmland background. The background is in a hazy purple on cream.
We know it has not been long since Issue 1 made its debut, but in case you missed one of its 10 contributions, we will do a weekly post highlighting one article at a time!
First up: The Plot Thickens: Reading an Interwar Serial Novel by Johanna Wiggers
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I really wanted to challenge myself to consider literary analysis through a broader sociological lens this was such a rich text to use as a starting point!
Pretty stoked to share a new publication from my PhD research, "Queering #MeToo: Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House as Narrative Activism", published in Portal Journal last week.
epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/ind...
Strange Daze III (3) Submissions open until 31st March
Send in your dreamiest art, poetry, flash fiction & non-fiction (up to 1000 words) More submission info in bio
It's time! ⭐️ Submissions for issue 3 are now open! Full guidelines in bio 💙
#subsopen #litmag #onlinemag #strangedaze #strangedazemag
The Speculate Prize for Emerging Writers is back! Presented in partnership by Emerging Writers’ Festival and RMIT University.🔥
A literary prize for short speculative work, now open to Australian TAFE & university students.
Check out the full details: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/speculate-pr...
This image reads "Announcing Barribugu, a home for young Australian writers". It is followed by the Southerly logo.
This image reads: " The supermarket hums under the fluorescent glow, its lights illuminating rows of precisely aligned products. The floor glistens, spotless and sterile, as I clutch the handle of my cart, weaving through the aisles in search of the things on my list: Chia seeds. Granola. Greek yoghurt. I walk past Aisle Six. The lolly aisle. Sweet artificial scents cling to the back of my throat, thickening the air around me. Packaging spills from shelves, loud with melted colours, but I press my cart forward past the noise. I leave Aisle Six behind. I move towards the misted greens and pale yoghurts ahead."
Today, we launch Barribugu. Barribugu showcases new writing by students in Australian schools. We aim to nurture young writers as they develop their craft. Enjoy "Aisle Six" by Seray Pekenti, a Year 11 student from Auburn Girls High School.
barribugu.southerlylitmag.com.au/.../24/aisle...
Volume 6: Disconnect is now live!
In this sixth volume of Sūdō Journal, we hope you find, as we did, both solace and a call to action; connection in a time of division; something worth striving for.
sudojournal.com/disconnect/
happy bird day!
"Heads we win, tails you lose" is now live in its peer-reviewed form. This article represents a gamut of perspectives from pro-AI to staunchly opposed. What unites us all is shared condemnation of the use of AI-detection software in education contexts
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Looking down at a table with a potted jade, coffee and magazine: History, from the Royal Australian Historical Society. My fingers are touching the bottom left corner of the magazine.
The magazine is now open and you can see the title “an (un) ordinary farmhouse near Tamworth: refuge and danger in the family home” and there’s a photo of a woman outside on a mat with three young children and a car behind them on the other side of a fence
Publication alert! 🚨
“An (un) Ordinary Farmhouse near Tamworth: Refuge and Danger in the Family Home” has been published by the Royal Australian Historical Society.
I talk about gothic literature, family violence and how even unremarkable houses can be important
www.rahs.org.au/history-maga...
Text-based image on cream background, displaying the names of contributors who have written essays for Issue one of Exhume in order of publication: Jane Costessi, Neo Xia, Amanda Tink, Julia Garas, Jess Cook, Tara East, Ash McIntyre and Tenille McDermott.
A big thank you to all our Issue 1 contributors and readers! We’ve shared some final reflections on putting together Exhume’s inaugural issue over on our Substack: exhume.substack.com/p/thank-you-...
Without intervention, we risk hardcoding human misogyny into the digital infrastructure of everyday life.
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/most-ai...
Text-based image on cream background. Under the green and blue heading “Exhume Issue 1: Meet our contributors” is the name Tenille McDermott, highlighted in green. To the right is an image of Tenille, captured mid-interview, holding a microphone, notes and a book.
Text-based image on cream background featuring an introduction of Tenille: Tenille McDermott (she/her) is a writer and PhD candidate exploring the intersection between time, narrative, and machine-generated text. She is the co-editor of Sūdō Journal, and the co-host and co-producer of the podcast Edits & Annotations, a project of the Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing. She was the recipient of a 2025 Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre Fellowship and longlisted for the 2025 AAWP/Westerly Life Writing Award.
Text-based image on cream background advertising Tenille’s Exhume piece. Under the heading “Issue 1” is the title “ChatGPT in Deep Time: Technology and Temporality in Kate Mildenhall’s The Hummingbird Effect. Underneath, on a blue background, is the book cover of The Hummingbird Effect which is light blue and features yellow wings.
Tomorrow, we will be posting the last piece of Issue 1: “ChatGPT in Deep Time: Technology and Temporality in Kate Mildenhall’s The Hummingbird Effect” by Tenille McDermott.
Books to read this Invasion Day via @magabalabooks.bsky.social
www.magabala.com/collections/...
Text-based image of a pull quote from Ash’s Exhume piece entitled “The Author is Dead. Long Live the Witness: Why Climate Fiction is an Ethical Act, Not Just a Story” displayed on a cream background with a green abstract border. The quote reads: By weaving scientific ideas into human-scale stories, these novels work on us emotionally as well as intellectually. Fiction, then, becomes a kind of ethical experiment: an invitation to feel differently, and perhaps to live differently, in the face of ecological crisis.
Now live on our Substack: “The Author is Dead. Long Live the Witness: Why Climate Fiction is an Ethical Act, Not Just a Story” by Ash McIntyre
exhume.substack.com/p/the-author...
Photo of an underground cave with orange-brown rock walls and beige-pink floor. Black text on a transparent brown background reads, ‘to dream of a world where we’re not the last / because i want survival to feel like a given, not / something begged for—‘ 'transistor' by mk zariel.
The first piece in our brand new EUPHORIA series is 'transistor' by mk zariel.
Read the full poem at enbylife.net/2026/01/19/t...
@mkzariel.bsky.social
To celebrate the publication of The Library That Made Me: 200 Years of the State Library of NSW, an illustrious line-up of contributors reflect on the libraries that shaped them as readers and writers.
Get tickets: www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/libra...
Red background with flying folders marked by question marks. Text reads: what is an information trail?
Grey text book on red background. Text reads: Information Trails on AustLit are curated and themed collections of related works, gathered together for you to explore. In 2026, we'll be releasing twenty-five trails for twenty-five years. Curious about Australian film? In love with romance? Seeking literary scandals? Fascinated by picture books? Wondering what Australian authors say about techno-futures? Look no further!
Grey text box on red background. Text reads: These information trails are NOT 'best of' lists! Rather, they celebrate the depth and diversity of Australian literature and story-telling while showcasing the impressive collection of data that is housed within AustLit. These lists have been compiled by interns, volunteers, and former staff members, as well as the current AustLit team, bringing a diversity of perspectives to the vast information available in the database.
Grey text box on red background. Text reads: Interested in what we'll be posting and when? Check out our social media calendar! Our 2026 information trails will mark key dates and events, but some simply explore the one million works we've recorded on the database over the past quarter of a century. Want to learn more about Australian literature or our anniversary?
This week, we'll be posting the first of our anniversary information trails. So in advance, here's a pithy explanation of what an information trail on AustLit is!
You can access our anniversary pages & social media calendar at this link:
www.austlit.edu.au/25th-anniver...
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Text-based image on cream background. Under the green and blue heading “Exhume Issue 1: meet the contributors is the name Ash McIntyre. Next to that is an image of Ash eating a bowl of pasta at a restaurant.
Text based image on cream background which reads: Ash McIntyre (she/her) is an academic and artist with a PhD in Literature from the University of Newcastle, where she currently lectures. Her research explores the intersections of literary ecocriticism, Anthropocene fictions, and literary activism, with a keen interest in interdisciplinary approaches that extend into soundscape ecology and gender studies. Ash is fuelled by a three-coffee-per-day limit, the endless promise of her towering 'to read' pile, pasta, and a resting attitude of over-enthusiasm for her work.
Text-based image advertising Ash McIntyre’s Exhume piece entitled “The Author is Dead. Long Live the Witness: Why Climate Fiction is an Ethical Act, Not Just a Story.” Underneath are the book covers of James Bradley’s novels Clade and Ghost Species, as well as Inga Simpson’s The Last Woman in the World an The Thinning on a blue background.
Live tomorrow: “The Author is Dead. Long Live the Witness: Why Climate Fiction is an Ethical Act, Not Just a Story” by Ash McIntyre
exhume.substack.com
Text-based image showing a quote from Tara East’s Exhume piece on a cream background with a green abstract border. It reads: Across these two works, Arnott offers a way to reimagine fairy tales and mythologies in the Australian landscape. However, he does not simply overlay this existing land with familiar European tales, instead, he has drawn upon the tradition to create his own, unique fairy tale works that are both surprising and inventive.
Tara East’s “Magical Navigation: Writing Magic into the Australian Landscape,” which explores Robbie Arnott’s use of magic and fairy-tale elements in Flames (2018) and The Rain Heron (2020), is now available to read on our Substack.
exhume.substack.com/p/magical-na...
Brightly coloured calendar showing the celebrations for AustLit's 25th birthday.
Curious about how AustLit is celebrating its 25th birthday? Our social media calendar will tell you all! Download a copy to follow along as we create new trails, celebrate research projects, and provide search tips--or maybe come to our trivia night?! #AustLit25
www.austlit.edu.au/25th-anniver...
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Text based image on cream background with green abstract border displaying a pull quote from Bianca’s Exhume piece “Text and Testimony” which reads: In highlighting the influence of environment and circumstance, Gorrie and Thunig expose the ongoing impacts of colonialism as a system of power to be reckoned with in the conversation about sexual violence.
"Text and Testimony: Australian #MeToo Memoirs" by Bianca Martin is now live on our Substack:
exhume.substack.com/p/text-and-t...
My piece for @exhumelit.bsky.social is live today! So grateful for all the feedback I received while writing & editing. I'm pretty happy with the final piece and so happy to have such a great home for these ideas that I've been developing over the past 12 months.
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No Adelaide Writers Week for me. I can’t in any good conscience now appear at a festival seeking to mute a very necessary public conversation … Randa Abdel-Fattah is an important voice. Here’s something I published from her on, guess what, Palestinian marginalisation. meanjin.com.au/latest/the-g...
“The Adelaide Festival’s decision to dump Palestinian academic Randa Abdel-Fattah gives us a grim foretaste of the Australian cultural landscape in 2026.”
David Brophy on “ambient antisemitism” and the institutional mechanisms for curtailing protest and political expression.
Purple and green themed social media graphic announcing ‘#EnbyLife Journal Submissions Open.’ Bold green and purple text reads, ‘Submission dates: 1–7 January 2026. Categories: poetry, microfiction, art. Theme: Euphoria.’ Decorative white star and flower shapes are scattered throughout the graphic. Website: enbylife.net and handle @enbylife at the bottom.
#EnbyLife Journal closes for submissions on 7 January (wherever you are in the world)!
January’s theme is EUPHORIA. Send us your poetry, microfiction (under 100 words), and art.
Head to enbylife.net/submissions for more info.
