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"Science fiction lends itself readily to imaginative subversion of any status quo. Bureaucrats and politicians, who can't afford to cultivate their imaginations, tend to assume it's all ray-guns and nonsense, good for children." - Ursula K. Le Guin (2012) [Anthology idea: Ray-guns and Nonsense]

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Legends in Canberra protested at the NGA today

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English artist Vanessa Bell’s book cover designs for (her sister) Virginia Woolf’s texts (1920s-30s) #womensart

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Hi fellow Deaf and Disabled folks working in the arts in this place. Please sign n share 🖤

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There is no revolution without disabled people #DisabilityJustice

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Ursula K. Le Guin via @thellpsx.bsky.social’s THE FUTURE IS DISABLED. Pulled from a library book as I spend a week restoring my metaphorical muscle

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Saturday join the National Day of Action. This fight belongs to all of us. Find a rally near you: transjustice.org.au/youth/

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Anyone looking to ban a book from a school should have to prove they read it by presenting a book report to the school committee.

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Everything @kvanaren.bsky.social says here is 100 percent correct. What a fucking show. www.vulture.com/article/seve...

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Weatherglass Prize for a novella (rare in this day and age), with the wonderful Ali Smith as judge. International. Please share: weatherglassbooks.com/novella-priz...

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It’s a tiny apple

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When the only open door is a prison door

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Such a powerful essay by Jeff Sparrow: theconversation.com/friday-essay...

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i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same

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Cover reveal for THE NIGHTMARE SEQUENCE (April 2025), a collection of poems by me and art by Safdar Ahmed responding to the genocide in Gaza. All our royalties are being donated to Palestinian charities and relief efforts 🙏🏽💜

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Extremely important to emphasize this. Indie bookstores are growing and can actually thrive...if we support them.

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This is incredible.

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Something I wasn’t prepared for is how much audacity it takes to be an author—or even an artist—in publishing. You gotta be ready to pitch yourself to anyone at any time, arrange & set up your own events, build your own hype, all while burying your insecurities. It’s a shockingly extroverted job.

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This is your annual reminder that Carol is a Christmas movie.

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Where is the humanity?

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The war on Christmas will be fought at Nakatomi Lahren Plaza.

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I don’t want to die disfigured under the rubble. - Mahmoud Darwish, August, Beirut, 1982 (translated by Ibrahim Muhawi)

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Authors receive a payment every time you borrow a book, audiobook or ebook from libraries in 35 countries. Those countries include the UK, Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Germany to name but a few. Borrowing a book helps the author’s pocket as well as yours.

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A new series of Is It Cake? has dropped and I am excited. It is so pure and those cake makers are so talented. Plus I get to watch it with the kid and it makes us both really happy.

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Hey @nytimes.com a list of the year’s fiction and nonfiction without any books for young people isn’t really all the year’s “notable books” now, is it?

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Huge day on the water today with @risingtideaus.bsky.social - we held the channel for a while, slowing down the coal trade, and exposing how the government and the police are protecting the corporations who are destroying nature and our life support systems

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This week artshub gave New Australian Fiction 2024 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️, saying it’s ‘as eerily prescient as it is deeply satisfying…a literary defibrillator, shocking us out of our complacency.’ So proud to have a story in here among so many great stories. Read the full review: www.artshub.com.au/news/reviews...

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Writers, readers, travellers - here's your list of writers, readers & literary festivals in Australia in 2025...time to start dreaming...and planning! annafeatherstone.com/writing-reso...

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Ben, no.

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If you only read one novel this year…. maybe read 2 next year

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Layla review – heartbreak looms in coming-of-age yarn of a secret affair and queer identity

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Hopefully not too rushed given I've got a Year 11 English exam tomorrow - but behalf of all of @6newsau.bsky.social, I have made a submission to the relevant Committee regarding the social media ban for under-16s There's less than 24hrs to make a submission: aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

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Why do I write for children? Because when you get negative feedback from a child it generally looks like this.

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Allowing new coal and gas projects is a big adulting fail. "From my perspective as a 12-year-old, it’s devastating that the blockade is getting such a negative reaction from the government...politicians aren’t making any big changes, but instead allowing new coal and gas projects to go ahead."

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A little something I have brewing for next year: my first writing retreat, for writers working on a fiction project. Genre and YA writers particularly welcome. newpagewriting.com/2024/07/14/w...

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Trans Day of Remembrance. Sending love to all who need it; yearning for a time beyond this awful political scapegoating. Sending love 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

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I would love an Australian public holiday to commemorate a poet, and the poet I’m voting for is Dorothy Porter.

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‘Australians are reading less than other countries, a new report shows. Why?’ theconversation.com/australians-...

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Hi Sydney folks, I facilitate a queer book club at Kogarah library and this week - Thursday at 6pm - we’re talking all things queer Ozlit with a focus on Sydney Khoo’s The Spider and Her Demons. Join us!

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Finally got to read this 2017 beauty, #ExitWest by Mohsin Hamid. A very cool premise: What if doors began to appear that led to other cities, other countries? Big ideas, clean prose, and at 200 pages, a relatively brief read. Not a word of dialogue in it. It’s like a magic trick. I loved it.

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It’s been a very long time since I’ve said this and I’m so happy: new from me 😌🥰😌🥰😌🥰🥰😌 heterosexualnonsense.substack.com/p/dear-queer...

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‘Australian authors giving every federal politician five books to encourage nuance in Middle East debate’ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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