Publishers are offering free ebooks in solidarity with pro-Palestine campus protests. lithub.com/verso-and-othe… via Literary Hub

🧵Foreign Soil came out 10 years ago today! I’d sent the manuscript to almost every publisher in Australia with no luck, when paddy Sam Twyford-Moore and DrFrancesca🌈 plucked it from the pile and awarded it the Victorian Premiers Unpublished Manuscript Prize.

The fourth age of #libraries - the generative age where community comes together to create content - Gene Tan govinsider.asia/intl-en/articl…

🔔 LAST CHANCE TO BOOK

We are 170 years old this year and to celebrate our birthday we are holding a TRIVIA NIGHT 🎉

🗓️ Tues, 1st May @ 6.30pm
📍 PMI Victorian History Library
💰 $10-15
🔗 to register: trybooking.com/CPCPE

#170YearsofPMIVicHistoryLibrary

A unique opportunity you don’t want to miss - and applications close THIS WEDNESDAY!!

and we love the Chestnut Tree!

Three years ago the Chestnut Tree was taking shape in a room out the back! Thanks to all that have helped us along the way. We love Wefo! 📚🌳🥰

I get to be on stage with Siang Lu and Sofija Stefanovic at Melbourne Writers Festival in a matter of weeks for Ghost Cities and Ghost Futures! Come see us Sat 11 May 1:30
tickets.mwf.com.au/Events/Ghost-C…

What is that mysterious box?

This panel comes from SALLYMANDER, an extra story included in the new colour edition of BROBOT.

Buy it wherever you get your books, or online here: jamesfoley.com.au/brobot-now-in-…

Fremantle Press

ngl i doubt either of them could fix my computer

“No one’s coming to mind? Not a single New Zealand author?
Not immediately. Let me come back to you.” Ah NZ, where a coalition partner’s arts spokesperson can’t name a single Kiwi author. Via a suitably flummoxed Steve Braunias…
newsroom.co.nz/2024/04/29/act…

Please read our statement in solidarity with Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah and sign if you wish to support. We have to stand up to these targeted smear campaigns, which are designed to scare people into silence.

THIS YEAR, FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME....

A Weekend Pass will allow you entry into any 60 sessions across the Saturday and Sunday* including conversations, panels, workshops, launches, walks and Willy Lit Fest Late.

Follow the link in our bio to find out more 🔗

Meet our exclusive Melbourne Writers Festival cocktail, the Limoncello Margarita!

We’ve given this Mexican classic an Italian makeover with Tequila Reposado, limoncello, lemon, lime and agave nectar.

Our Limoncello Margarita is only available from May 6-12, during MWF!

📸 @duncographic

My girlfriend (a genius poet) and me (Travis Kelce) published a poem together about beloved Riverdale, this is the perfect intersection redroompoetry.org/poets/rebecca-…

In The Age, read a new piece of writing by Alexis Wright, published ahead of her appearance at the Melbourne Writers Festival next week.

theage.com.au/culture/books/…

A Love Letter to Local Independent Bookstores | Teen Librarian Toolbox
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Are there any great online writing workshops/masterclasses happening at the moment? I would love your recommendations. Keen to Personally Develop in 2024.

Kate Callingham was greatly admired and greatly loved. A true arts and cultural leader of integrity and deep care, who died honouring the life of someone she loved. Please consider donating to her memorial fund: gofund.me/ded647bb

Please read my colleague Nadia Abu El-Haj in The New York Review: “Storm Over Columbia” nybooks.com/online/2024/04…