Image of covers of books Dark Desert Road by Tim Ayliffe and Learned Behaviours by Zeynab Gamieldien.
ICYMI this week's reviews:
Viv Ronnebeck on Tim Ayliffe's new thriller Dark Desert Road
Sally Nimon on award-winner Zeynab Gamieldien's latest novel Learned Behaviours
Find them both at newtownreviewofbooks.com.au
@timayliffe.bsky.social
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Image of cover of book Learned Behaviours by Zeynab Gamieldien, reviewed by Sally Nimon in the Newtown Review of Books.
"This is a novel that urges us to resist the pull to the extremes, to examine not just our privilege but our assumptions..."
Sally Nimon reviews Zeynab Gamieldien's latest novel, Learned Behaviours:
newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/zeynab-gamie...
#MurderMystery
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Image of cover of book Dark Desert Road by Tim Ayliffe, reviewed by Viv Ronnebeck in the Newtown Review of Books.
"Dark Desert Road is both nuanced and gripping. The novel refuses to soften the sharp edges of its sisterly relationship in favour of tidy reconciliation."
Viv Ronnebeck reviews @timayliffe.bsky.social 's new thriller:
newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/tim-ayliffe-...
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Image of cover of book The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan, reviewed by Robert Goodman in the Newtown Review of Books.
"a confident, compulsively readable debut and more exploits in this universe would be welcome."
Robert Goodman reviews Cameron Sullivan's debut dark historical fantasy The Red Winter:
newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/cameron-sull...
#grimdark
#AustralianWriters
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Royal Caribbean still has a few cabins if you’re looking for a last-minute deal to join us on this year’s retreat.
You can book your cabin at bit.ly/WAS26Cabin and the retreat at www.writersatsea.com.au
#writersretreat #australianwriters #writingcommunity
Thank you to @the.australian for interviewing us recently about Creative Victoria’s brutal funding cuts to the literary sector.
#SaveWritersVictoria #ArtsCuts #FundTheArts #SupportWriters #VictorianArts #AustralianWriters #CreativeVictoria
Entries have closed and the anthology committee elves are busy assessing ing every submission.
Going by the quality of what we've read so far, West of the Moon is going to be an excellent collection of Australian fairy tales.
#westofthemoon #fairytales #australianwriters
We're seeking original, unpublished work infused with the enchantments of Australian culture, heritage and landscapes - short stories, flash fiction, poetry.
Closing date: 30 Sep
https://australianfairytales.com/west-of-the-moon/
#FairyTale #FairyTales #AustralianWriters #BookSky
West of the Moon, the Australian Fairy Tale Society's second anthology, is open for original flash fiction, short stories and poetry until September 30
https://australianfairytales.com
#blueskybooks #booksky #fairytale #fairytales #australianwriters
Meanjin closing & AI stealing the work of authors. Times are tough for Australian writers. Please sign
chng.it/p4KFP8BB9Y #australianwriters
1 / 1 Letter in support of Meanjin’s future As members of the Publishing and Communications program’s staff at the University of Melbourne, we strongly support the continued existence of Meanjin Quarterly. From direct involvements with the journal during the past 25 years and more, we personally attest to the formative role Meanjin has played in the development of writers, editors and publishers, and an independent Australian cultural voice. The creative labour of thousands resonates deeply in the fabric of this cultural institution founded by Clem Christesen in Meanjin/Brisbane in 1940. We call on the University of Melbourne to recognise the rich and continuing social, political and literary value of Meanjin by ensuring its future. The journal is a living resource for our teaching, and vital to our students. Its publications fill our reading lists with ideas from the best minds of our time. It has uplifted many of our students through publication, internships, partnerships and employment, and its connection to the University is part of what makes our writing and editing programs valuable and comparable to other leading universities on the international stage. We believe the University’s enduring purpose of benefiting society compels it to take swift action to preserve the journal and sustain its continued publication, preferably within the University itself. At the very least, the University should do all it can, acting in good faith, to transfer the journal’s cultural and IP assets to another institution prepared to save it. Culturally, the University of Melbourne has benefited immensely from its support of the journal since 1945; the extinction of the journal would be its enduring loss but an even greater loss to the community the University serves. Signed by: Sybil Nolan Tim Coronel Matt Holden LJ Maher Fiannuala Morgan Sharon Mullins Beth Driscoll Claire Parnell Nicola Redhouse Hollen Singleton Bec Kavanagh
Re #MeanjinJournal, a letter from myself and some of my colleagues to The University of Melbourne. #Meanjin is such an important part of Australia's literary ecosystem and losing it would be culturally and industrially devastating. #AusLit #AustralianWriters #Publishing #Unimelb
A post announcing the e-book availability for Once by Annie Raser-Rowland.
✨ ONCE by Annie Raser-Rowland is now out as a Kindle eBook!
Shortlisted for the 2025 WA Premier’s Book Awards, this punky slice of climate fiction is a bold tale about the interconnectedness of our world. 🌱⚡
📖 Grab your copy on Amazon: shorturl.at/VrphP
#ONCE #ClimateFiction #AustralianWriters
The 2026 Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing is now open for short story and poetry submissions. This year’s theme: “Echoes.” 🌊
Open to all Australian residents until Sept 30.
Click shorturl.at/Piyy9 to submit!
#WritingPrize #AustralianWriters #CallForSubmissions
What is an Australian fairy tale?
Be inspired by authors from our last anthology South of the Sun reading excerpts from their tales:
https://www.youtube.com/@aftsanthologycommittee7775
#FairyTale #FairyTales #ShortStories #ShortStoryCollection #AustralianLiterature #AustralianWriters #BookSky
A blonde-haired woman, Mandy Sayer, sitting at a table in a nightclub signing books. A pile of her book No Dancing in the Lift is on the table in front of her.
Cover of Mandy Sayer’s new book No Dancing in the Lift: a memoir
Wonderful night at Sean and Dolly's last night for the launch of Mandy Sayer's new book No Dancing in the Lift - a gripping story of a writer and a moving continuation of the story begun in Dreamtime Alice. Love, death, the whole damn thing.
#memoir
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Woman cannot be content with health and agility: she must make exorbitant efforts to appear something that never could exist without a diligent perversion of nature. Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a sub-humanly ugly mate? Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; Following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves.
Pop art portrait of a sitting woman with red hair. She’s heavily made up and smiling.
“…she must make exorbitant efforts…”
📚 Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
🖼️ Mary Shakman, Australian Beauty
#BookWormSat #AustralianWriters
Then again, maybe I’m sick of the masquerade. I’m sick of pretending eternal youth. I’m sick of belying my own intelligence, my own will, my own sex. I’m sick of peering at the world through false eyelashes, so everything I see is mixed with a shadow of bought hairs; I’m sick of weighting my head with a dead mane, unable to move my neck freely, terrified of rain, of wind, of dancing too vigorously in case I sweat into my lacquered curls. I’m sick of the powder room. I’m sick of pretending that some fatuous male’s self important pronouncements are the object of my undivided attention.
A woman and a man standing next to each other. Above them, a shelf with six masks.
📚 Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
🖼️ Barbara Hanrahan (b.Adelaide, 1939) The Masquerade
#BookWormSat #AustralianWriters
Woman cannot be content with health and agility. She must make exorbitant efforts to appear something that never could exist without a diligent perversion of nature. Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to caresses of a superhumanly ugly mate? Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves.
A naked red haired woman, supine, with a brown wombat sitting on her belly. A huge intense yellow sun in the background.
📚Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
🖼️ David Boyd, Europa and the Sacred Golden Wombat
#BookWormSat #AustralianWriters
Geometrical and flower patterns create a very colourful huge blond woman with a male figure peering behind her shoulder, in typical pop art style.
“The opposite to patriarchy is not matriarchy but fraternity, yet I think it’s women who are going to have to break this spiral of power and find the trick of cooperation.”
✍️ Germaine Greer
🖼️ Karen Elzinga (Gladstone, Queensland) The Matriarch and Sons
#BookWormSat #AustralianWriters
Photo of the Mortlock Wing of the library interior built in 1861. There are books on three levels, the lowest one with a colonnade. The ceiling is lighted by a skylight.
“A library is a place where you can use your innocence without losing your virginity.”
✍️ Germaine Greer
📷 State Library of South Australia
#BookWormSat #AustralianWriters
This requires being indelicate: fuck that shit. #writers #Australianwriters
Image of covers of books The Golden Sister by Suzanne Do, The Male Complaint by Simon James Copland and The Red Labyrinth by Ben Peek.
ICYMI this week's reviews:
Linda Godfrey on Suzanne Do's debut novel The Golden Sister
Braham Dabscheck on sociologist Simon James Copland's The Male Complaint
Lucy Sussex on Ben Peek's novella The Red Labyrinth
newtownreviewofbooks.com.au
#AustralianWriters
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Image of cover of book The Golden Sister by Suzanne Do, reviewed by Linda Godfrey in the Newtown Review of Books.
"... explores themes of family, grief, loss and second chances with such depth, humour and empathy that it’s impossible not to be moved."
Linda Godfrey reviews Suzanne Do's debut novel The Golden Sister:
newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/suzanne-do-t...
#MurderMystery
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Submissions are open! For more information, including submission guidelines, please visit: australianfairytales.com
#FairyTale ##FairyTales #ShortStories #ShortStoryCollection #AustralianLiterature #AustralianWriters #BookSky
West of the Moon is seeking contemporary fairy tale literature that engages with Australian culture.
#FairyTale #FairyTales #Retelling #ShortStories #ShortFiction #FlashFiction #Poetry #ShortStoryCollection #FlashFictionCollection #PoetryCollection #AustralianLiterature #AustralianWriters #Booksky
Image of covers of books The Haunting of Mr and Mrs Stevenson by Belinda Lyons-Lee and Salvage by Jennifer Mills
ICYMI this week's reviews:
Ann Skea on Belinda Lyons-Lee's new historical novel The Haunting of Mr and Mrs Stevenson
Robert Goodman on Jennifer Mills' new speculative fiction Salvage
newtownreviewofbooks.com.au
#NewBooks
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Image of cover of book Salvage by Jennifer Mills, reviewed by Robert Goodman in the Newtown Review of Books.
"From a climate fiction perspective, Salvage is up there with the best of the recent crop of novels."
Robert Goodman reviews Jennifer Mills new novel, Salvage:
newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/jennifer-mil...
@jennifermills.net.au
#AustralianWriters
#BookSky 💙 📚
Are you a one-desk or two-desk writer? I could honestly go a third some days, if there were room in my office.
Sometimes you just need to spread, amiright?
#nicolehayesauthor #ozlit #loveozya #australianwriters #melbournewriters #youngadultfiction #writingya #writingdystopian #womenwriters
Things I do when I should be writing. #1 write a social media post about things I do when should writing. And then try to work out how to make it work for Insta.
#writing #writinglife #australianwriters
