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Hearing whispers SLQ are now begging writers to judge this year's QLD literary awards. Where's the assurance that judges & entrants will be respected? Would the Arts Minister once again interfere in the peer process, at the biding of bad faith lobbyists? Writers support writers!

Coming to Oz in September, & US/UK in ‘26!

Zunächst wollte er ruhig und ungestört aufstehen, sich anziehen und vor allem frühstücken und dann erst das Weitere überlegen, denn, das merkte er wohl, im Bett würde er mit dem Nachdenken zu keinem vernünftigen Ende kommen. Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka was born on this day in 1883. To mark the occasion, consider subscribing to FRANZ, a Substack devoted to creative engagement with his work, including my translation of his complete letters, a new letter every other week, in chronological order.

next minor literature[s] talk/discussion will be on Friday, July 31st on the subject of "literary pleasure" same set-up as before 22:00 Paris 21:00 London 16:00 NYC 13:00 LA 06:00 Sydney (01/08) drop in/listen/contribute as you like contact for link

Great to see Paul A Thomas’s marvellous new cosy crime novel The Sunbaker at Sydney Airport today!

🧵Appreciation for your literary novel is especially nice when you're self-pubbed, and today I'm in a peculiar place. A purchaser has contacted me to say that he has read Mr O Winds Back the Clock twice in six months, and enjoyed it even more the second time. #litfic /more

Mad thrilled to have The Revisionists as Apple's 'What To Read This Month' book. Want a story about love and war and Dagestan and bad decisions and money and the malleability of memory? You could do worse :-) Apple Books apple.co/WhatToReadThis… apple.co/new-release-pi…

So proud of Augusta Supple, whose literary festival “Parramatta’s Lit!” was announced tonight at the launch of the Sydney Fringe programme

Such utter bollocks… thebookseller.com/news/bloodhoun…

Full festival programme here: sydneyfringe.com/parramattas-li…

Best living writers of fiction in English

Op shop find: “the first collection of stories by a Maori woman to be published” (1975)

“Just pull yourself up by your bootstraps” or something idk

Less than one month before my new crime thriller novel THE BOLTHOLE is published with the wonderful MacLehose Press in the UK! You can pre-order online now ahead of the 29 July 2025 publication date 📕😀

Curious that this new OZ publisher detects a gender bias in OZ publishing bakerslane.com.au

More inappropriate glassware, but #agentlife looking up! #thebooksdeskdownunder #dealnews

The Special Envoy’s Plan builds on the IHRA definition which lists as an example of anti-Semitism claims that 'the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.' Amnesty and HRW both say Israel practices apartheid. Would a festival featuring them now lose its funding?

This by Jewish Council of Australia's Max Kaiser is absolutely spot on

MEDIA RELEASE: Jewish Council Rejects Special Envoy’s antisemitism plan The Jewish Council of Australia has today warned that the newly released Special Envoy’s Plan to Combat Antisemitism risks undermining Australia’s democratic freedoms, inflaming community divisions, and