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Jennifer Mills
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Writer, reader. On Kaurna land.

SALVAGE out now 🌏🪂✨
A Concise Compendium of Wonder coming 03/26 👹🧗🏻‍♀️🌳

Chair @asauthors.bsky.social, opinions my own
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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · Aug 18
Always cool to chat with the book show on ABC RN. Listen in if you want some laughs about billionaires leaving the planet so the rest of us can deal with the climate crisis, I write fiction I swear 🌏🪂💥

#salvage

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Gary Shteyngart, Jennifer Mills and Rhett Davis ask what's next - ABC listen
Russian born US writer Gary Shteyngart imagines a future America with strong parallels to Russia in Vera, or Faith, Adelaide based author Jennifer Mills' latest novel Salvage rockets into space after ...
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“Devastated literary figures have been working hard behind the scenes”
This community 📚❤️✊🏼
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Read the room: Guerilla Writers’ Week is happening - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia
Organisers of an alternative Writers’ Festival have vowed to push ahead after receiving support at an Adelaide City Council meeting.
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January 20, 2026 at 4:03 AM
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Can’t stop hearing it as Board of Piss, hope somebody’s named a punk band that by now
January 19, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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The dog would like readers to note that her career is not toast and she is just getting started
Me and my dog in an AAP article about the economic impact of Adelaide Writers Week being cancelled
January 16, 2026 at 5:21 AM
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Statement from our client Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah. It is a tragedy that Adelaide Writers' Week has been destroyed, for nothing. However, this is a massive win for artistic freedom and hopefully a turning point in this time of unhinged McCarthyist witch-hunting. Randa is a hero and we love her.
January 15, 2026 at 1:31 AM
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I’m glad the new board has admitted this was wrong. What an utter waste of everybody’s time, energy and labour

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Breaking: Adelaide Festival Corporation apologises to author Randa Abdel-Fattah
The Adelaide Festival Corporation, which oversees Adelaide Writers' Week, has apologised to Palestinian Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah and says she will be invited to speak at its next event in ...
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January 15, 2026 at 1:35 AM
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Spoke with ABC Arts for this great article on freedom of expression and writers festivals

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Can writers' festivals survive a 'censorship' crisis?
The shock cancellation of Adelaide Writers' Week has left many concerned about the future of writers' festivals in an increasingly polarised political world.
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January 14, 2026 at 10:45 PM
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For goodness’ sake Pete stop digging and start apologising
He said he did not "take responsibility for" AWW's cancellation. "That's a function of a bunch of authors making their own decisions and Louise Adler and her role in that," Mr Malinauskas said.
January 14, 2026 at 9:55 AM
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I spoke with @theconversation.com for this important piece on the Adelaide Festival disaster and the crisis in arts governance theconversation.com/masterclass-...
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‘Masterclass in poor governance’: what was the board’s role in the end of Adelaide Writers Week?
Just-resigned Adelaide Writers Week director Louise Adler calls the cancellation of the event ‘no surprise’. What went wrong?
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January 14, 2026 at 4:18 AM
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As someone who has participated in efforts to get the SA premier to understand arts and culture since he was elected, this moment - Malinauskas looking lost in a crisis of his own making - has an eerie inevitability about it
January 14, 2026 at 1:46 AM
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The Adelaide Festival board PR release paraphrased:
We don't understand
-writers
-books
-festivals
-the arts
-audience
-what our job is
-how to resist interference
-the gravity of our mistake
-how to apologise.
So we've obliterated Writers' Week & left the whole Adelaide Festival boardless, byeeee.
January 13, 2026 at 4:44 AM
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A failure of principle led to a failure of courage that led to a failure of governance and has now brought us to a failure of accountability.

Writers - and readers - deserve so much better than this.

Malinauskas should answer for the destruction of Writers Week.
January 13, 2026 at 5:10 AM
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There were a lot of us babies in that bathwater.
January 13, 2026 at 4:23 AM
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Few words.
My @smh @theage cartoon
January 12, 2026 at 10:56 PM
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“We need writers now more than ever, as our media closes up, as our politicians grow daily more cowed by real power, as Australia grows more unjust and unequal.”

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I cannot be party to silencing writers, which is why I am resigning as director of Adelaide Writers’ Week | Louise Adler
Cancelling the Australian Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah weakens freedom of speech and is the harbinger of a less free nation
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January 12, 2026 at 9:44 PM
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“If writers can be disqualified from public forums based on past statements and changing political winds, then participation becomes contingent on institutional nervousness”

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If we silence voices we don’t agree with, we’re doing the work of extremists for them | Peter Greste
I do not need to share Randa Abdel-Fattah’s views to believe that removing her is wrong. This is why I’ve withdrawn from Adelaide writers’ week
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January 12, 2026 at 1:45 AM
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Amidst all the powerful author, literary and bookshop solidarity the last few days, I am extra buoyed by learning that a friend’s book club - made up of retired country teachers and farmers - is also writing furious letters to the Adelaide Festival board
January 11, 2026 at 7:39 AM
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A guerrilla festival is indeed being discussed 📚❤️ ✊🏼

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Guerilla festival on cards as city councillor moves to pull Writers' Week funding - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia
A guerrilla festival could be on the cards as boycotting writers discuss protest options and city councillors explore cutting funding.
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January 9, 2026 at 2:26 AM
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Yesterday I wrote to the Adelaide Festival Board to withdraw my participation from Adelaide Writers Week.

Their decision to intervene in Writers Week programming and cancel the participation of author Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah is completely unacceptable.
January 9, 2026 at 12:18 AM
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This time of year can feel demoralising for authors and also in general, so it was lovely to see Salvage pop up on another summer reading list this morning, along with stacks of other great recs!

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Summer Reading: South Australia’s writers and readers share their 2025 highlights - InReview | InDaily, Inside South Australia
From Hannah Kent to Adelaide Writers’ Week director Louise Adler, we’ve polled the state's writers, publishers, reviewers and booksellers about their year in reading.
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December 12, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Come for authors at your peril!

Srsly, great to see this mature reflection on what went wrong for Bendigo WF. Let’s all do better in 2026

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Bendigo Writers Festival in damage control, report recommends one-year break
Council officers recommend a one-year hiatus for the Bendigo Writers Festival to work on repairing the reputation of the event.
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December 12, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Good. The outrage at the SLV has been justified.

Another win for collective action from writers! ✊🏼

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State Library of Victoria scraps restructure plan after outrage from famous writers and public
Proposal to cut jobs and refocus on ‘digital experiences’ attracted ire of writers including Helen Garner and Nick Cave
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December 12, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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I look forward to this “Australia bravely stands up to regulate big tech” energy being applied to AI theft!
December 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Reviews, recommendations, and requesting these books for purchase by your local library.
thoughtsstained.bsky.social Nicole Evans | Editor and Author @thoughtsstained.bsky.social · Dec 9
"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—"

Reviews.

Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.)

Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!
December 10, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Gadigal/Sydney based authors & readers, support the Berkelouw/Harry Hartog bookshop workers strike this weekend!

Image via RAFFWU
Harry Hartog + Berkelouw books workers’ strike - sat 13 Dec 12pm outside berkelouw leichhardt. Poster shows a bunch of bookshop workers with raised fists
December 9, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Calling all Melbourne & Victoria #bookgroups & #readinggroups! Rally together this Saturday to help save the State #Library of Victoria, on its steps, at 12.30. (Here's a pic of the poet Edith Sitwell & big reader Marilyn Monroe: reading makes friends.) #StateLibraryofVictoria #ReadingMakesFriends
Eccentric dresser, British poet Edith Sitwell in sunnies and snood, and actress Marlyn Monroe in a demure black suit, sitting at either ends of a couch, genuinely delighting in each other's company.
December 8, 2025 at 8:31 AM