The trouble with carrying around a ms in a box like this is : everyone thinks you’ve bought cake. Nope, just a manuscript! #SpringReadinginthePark

We are privileged for the opportunity to publish this important statement by nine former winners of the NSW Multicultural Award in solidarity with Randa Abdel-Fattah. overland.org.au/2024/05/statem…

Going through Lyta Gold's DANGEROUS FICTIONS proofs and found one of my favorite lines again:

'Of course, any time a U.S. publisher claims that something won't sell, they're lying. Anything can be sold if you market it properly: this is America, we have toothpaste for dogs.'

Guinness chocolate cake time…

Seeksiest eksent…

trans. Saturn's Cat #solidarity #iorestoacasa 🇪🇺🕯️ - been in the works a long time this one!

Hmm, haven’t had a milkshake since I was a kid. But with a shot? Must admit I hadn’t thought of that! #Stokey

My upcoming events as part of the Sydney Writers' Festival.

Two events and one workshop on writing at the PHIVE building in Parramatta

Links neatly compiled in one place by Sydney Review of Books :)

Ultimo Press Martin Shaw
City of Parramatta

sydneyreviewofbooks.com/upcoming-appea…

Barbarian invasion.

Exhibit A: The bookcases I built housing my book collection.
Exhibit B: How the new owners chose to use the space.

(I can never unsee this.)

Strikes me as sad – when you see such blinding essays appearing from the likes of Elias Greig and Anwen Crawford – that the Best OZ Essays (& Stories & Poems for that matter) got canned a few years ago...

Friendly reminder that on Wed 8 May I'll be talking with Emily Rhodes about The Axeman's Carnival and the difficulties of working with @tamamagpie! Come along to L&R Bookshop for all the squawking.
Europa Editions UK

Chapeau to Michael Winkler for 'Grimmish'. What play, what form, damn!

Just me on a Saturday afternoon, on my couch, quietly outraged all over again that Harvard University Press claims copyright on the poetry of Emily Dickinson and charges exorbitant quotation fees.

Amusing! e.g. the lobster pie's 'heavy, beige, unlaundered duvet of raw pastry'... theguardian.com/food/article/2…

This weekend I had the contents of my skull rearranged in the very best way.

Jen Craig's piece in this journal is a thing of brief, bloody beauty. if you're in NYC there's a newsstand at Mulberry and Kenmare that sells it

Katja being an influencer today, on me at least!

'This is my inheritance, I’ve come to understand: not property or wealth but this daft game, imported with the colonists.' Incredible essay from a most-definitely-not-out Anwen Crawford...