Angela Meyer
@literaryminded.bsky.social
Author: JOAN SMOKES, A SUPERIOR SPECTRE, MOON SUGAR ✨ writing & publishing lecturer ✨ former publisher & bookseller✨ bi ✨ https://linktr.ee/AngelaMeyer
Haven’t been able to read much lately for various reasons but an Alex Cothren story from Playing Nice Was Getting Me Nowhere once or twice a week is cutting through the fog. Bloody excellent short fiction.
November 24, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Haven’t been able to read much lately for various reasons but an Alex Cothren story from Playing Nice Was Getting Me Nowhere once or twice a week is cutting through the fog. Bloody excellent short fiction.
I’ll be editing a special issue of Publishing Research Quarterly on environmental sustainability and book publishing. The call for papers is out now. Please share if you have relevant networks!
Call for papers: Publishing Research Quarterly – Environmental Sustainability and Book Publishing
Hi everyone, I’m excited to share the call for papers for a special issue of the international academic journal Publishing Research Quarterly on the topic of environmental sustainability and …
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November 13, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I’ll be editing a special issue of Publishing Research Quarterly on environmental sustainability and book publishing. The call for papers is out now. Please share if you have relevant networks!
Sarah Gory and I wrote for B+P about incorporating sustainability research into the RMIT Master of Writing and Publishing program this year, w broader insights into the benefits of W&P programs getting students involved in industry/global(!) issues, and partnering w industry on these.
November 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Sarah Gory and I wrote for B+P about incorporating sustainability research into the RMIT Master of Writing and Publishing program this year, w broader insights into the benefits of W&P programs getting students involved in industry/global(!) issues, and partnering w industry on these.
On grief dreams, planting trees, and figuring out how to talk about loss and death with the toddler (w cameo from Grug)
A great grinding noise
A short memoir piece on recurrence, resurrection, regeneration
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September 5, 2025 at 4:42 AM
On grief dreams, planting trees, and figuring out how to talk about loss and death with the toddler (w cameo from Grug)
Meanjin 66.1, 2007, ordered in at a regional bookstore and enthusiastically pored over by a baby writer discovering the incredible landscape of Australian literature. Meanjin 82.4, 2023, author copy received when a mid-career writer published a short story, The Station, in her dream journal.
September 5, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Meanjin 66.1, 2007, ordered in at a regional bookstore and enthusiastically pored over by a baby writer discovering the incredible landscape of Australian literature. Meanjin 82.4, 2023, author copy received when a mid-career writer published a short story, The Station, in her dream journal.
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I think we should agree that the explanation proffered yesterday by the MUP board chair for Meanjin’s axing (“purely financial reasons”) is a nonsense. Which begs the question: what was the real reason? This is a scandal.
I worked with meanjin a few years ago on supporting its sales to close the incredibly small gap between its revenue and costs.
It had made progress. The small amount needed to subsidise could be found if UofM saw literary culture as important.
It clearly doesn't.
It had made progress. The small amount needed to subsidise could be found if UofM saw literary culture as important.
It clearly doesn't.
September 5, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I think we should agree that the explanation proffered yesterday by the MUP board chair for Meanjin’s axing (“purely financial reasons”) is a nonsense. Which begs the question: what was the real reason? This is a scandal.
My novel/novella in progress instinctively seems to have five parts; I’ve just finished drafting part four. Have some vague notions of how it all comes together and I hope I can nail it over the summer once classes are done! It might involve moss, childbirth, a house disappearing into a forest.
September 5, 2025 at 12:55 AM
My novel/novella in progress instinctively seems to have five parts; I’ve just finished drafting part four. Have some vague notions of how it all comes together and I hope I can nail it over the summer once classes are done! It might involve moss, childbirth, a house disappearing into a forest.
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Strewth, finished copies of @roffwrites.bsky.social’s debut novel emerge! Out very soon from Adelaide’s Wakefield Press! #HereAreMyDemands
July 17, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Strewth, finished copies of @roffwrites.bsky.social’s debut novel emerge! Out very soon from Adelaide’s Wakefield Press! #HereAreMyDemands
Help give gorgeous Jess a proper celebration of her life 🩵
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Donate to In memory of Jessica Knight, organized by Giselle Nguyen
On July 7, 2025, we very suddenly lost our dear friend Jess Knight.
Jess was a wonderfu… Giselle Nguyen needs your support for In memory of Jessica Knight
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July 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Help give gorgeous Jess a proper celebration of her life 🩵
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Gorgeous reading night @ Bibliotheca Bar: Nicholas Jose, Jen Mills, Danielle Clode, Lisa Hannett, Heather Taylor-Johnson, Amelia Walker, Lauren Fuge. What a treat 📖 #StoryandtheSelf
July 1, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Gorgeous reading night @ Bibliotheca Bar: Nicholas Jose, Jen Mills, Danielle Clode, Lisa Hannett, Heather Taylor-Johnson, Amelia Walker, Lauren Fuge. What a treat 📖 #StoryandtheSelf
At the IABA (International Auto/Biography Assoc) x ASAL (Assoc. for the Study of Aus Lit) #StoryandtheSelf conf in Adelaide, speaking this morning on rereading Garner’s The Spare Room after life experience (accumulation & loss) & thinking about rereading as a practice in general
July 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
At the IABA (International Auto/Biography Assoc) x ASAL (Assoc. for the Study of Aus Lit) #StoryandtheSelf conf in Adelaide, speaking this morning on rereading Garner’s The Spare Room after life experience (accumulation & loss) & thinking about rereading as a practice in general
To him, music was like breathing. So genuine an artist & a huge inspiration for me. I’ve loved the Beach Boys through all eras of my life. Was so lucky to see the Pet Sounds tour ❤️ www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
Brian Wilson, visionary creative spirit for the Beach Boys, dies aged 82
Musician, who suffered from mental health problems, wrote and produced the 1966 album Pet Sounds – seen by many as the greatest album of all time
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June 11, 2025 at 9:29 PM
To him, music was like breathing. So genuine an artist & a huge inspiration for me. I’ve loved the Beach Boys through all eras of my life. Was so lucky to see the Pet Sounds tour ❤️ www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
‘I rested the breast pump on top of Gender Trouble and pale milk pooled on its cover.’ I love this so much islandmag.com/read/a-natur...
a natural sort of being – by Miriam Jones | Australian Literary Arts Magazine | ISLAND
At home we were a newborn, a toddler, a man, and a non-binary me. For three months we lived outside of normal time and normal social life. The privatised home is not known for nurturing gender improvi...
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June 4, 2025 at 3:11 AM
‘I rested the breast pump on top of Gender Trouble and pale milk pooled on its cover.’ I love this so much islandmag.com/read/a-natur...
Well, the fight has been lost. Watched these huge old red gums begin to be fed into the wood chipper this morning and sobbed. dandenong.starcommunity.com.au/news/2024-04...
Gum trees' fate in council's hands | Dandenong Star Journal
The fate of two towering gum trees controversially approved for removal in central Noble Park seemingly remains in Greater Dandenong […]
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May 26, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Well, the fight has been lost. Watched these huge old red gums begin to be fed into the wood chipper this morning and sobbed. dandenong.starcommunity.com.au/news/2024-04...
Am reading a recently published Aus narrative nonfiction book in which every piece of dialogue is incorrectly punctuated. All punct. is outside quote marks & if there’s punct. within (like a !) they’ve added an EXTRA FULL STOP on the outside. How does this happen?
May 23, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Am reading a recently published Aus narrative nonfiction book in which every piece of dialogue is incorrectly punctuated. All punct. is outside quote marks & if there’s punct. within (like a !) they’ve added an EXTRA FULL STOP on the outside. How does this happen?
The emergency vehicles on the way to the CFA protest was a sight to see this morning! So loud! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
Calls for Vic premier to 'hold a hose' as firies rage against new levy
Volunteer firefighters and farmers say the Victorian government's new tax is "totally unfair" and will send communities to the wall. As the budget looms, they are in the state capital to raise their v...
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May 20, 2025 at 12:10 AM
The emergency vehicles on the way to the CFA protest was a sight to see this morning! So loud! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
When I became a mum I was already a carer for my own mum (& with my dad already gone) but we’re in a golden period, with her illness progressing slowly & her living close by. Three generations getting to spend time together, mostly walking the dog, snacking & colouring in. Highlight of my weeks ❤️
May 11, 2025 at 4:08 AM
When I became a mum I was already a carer for my own mum (& with my dad already gone) but we’re in a golden period, with her illness progressing slowly & her living close by. Three generations getting to spend time together, mostly walking the dog, snacking & colouring in. Highlight of my weeks ❤️
Kaliane Bradley on The Ministry of Time w Claire Nichols. I loved when she spoke about a novel’s relationship with/representation of time, deepening the time travel chat: you decide ‘what is history, what’s narrative, how your reader will travel through your story’. #mwf2025
May 10, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Kaliane Bradley on The Ministry of Time w Claire Nichols. I loved when she spoke about a novel’s relationship with/representation of time, deepening the time travel chat: you decide ‘what is history, what’s narrative, how your reader will travel through your story’. #mwf2025
Writer as Witness, Evelyn Araluen, Amy McQuire, Hasib Hourani, Micaela Sahhar. Writing in response to complicit (imperial) media, how writing can inform activism & how certain practices & methodologies (especially relational, communal, etc.) can subvert dominant or prescribed norms. Moving. #mwf2025
May 10, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Writer as Witness, Evelyn Araluen, Amy McQuire, Hasib Hourani, Micaela Sahhar. Writing in response to complicit (imperial) media, how writing can inform activism & how certain practices & methodologies (especially relational, communal, etc.) can subvert dominant or prescribed norms. Moving. #mwf2025
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of *course* on his very last election Antony Green would have all his technology fail him and have only his little notebook to guide him, this is the hero's journey but for psephologists #AusVotes
May 3, 2025 at 10:21 AM
of *course* on his very last election Antony Green would have all his technology fail him and have only his little notebook to guide him, this is the hero's journey but for psephologists #AusVotes
‘Some of her earnings were spent on riotous living, but Kerry gave a lot of it away without fanfare to those who really needed it: fellow authors down on their luck, impecunious neighbours and, above all, to charities.’ What a legend. Vale, KG.
We are heavy-hearted with news of the passing of accomplished author and lawyer Kerry Greenwood OAM, who was also a longtime member of the ASA.
We extend our condolences to her family, friends, readers and the writing community. Vale Kerry.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
We extend our condolences to her family, friends, readers and the writing community. Vale Kerry.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries creator dies aged 70
Australian author Kerry Greenwood, who died following an illness, was best known for the Phryne Fisher detective series.
www.abc.net.au
April 7, 2025 at 6:37 AM
‘Some of her earnings were spent on riotous living, but Kerry gave a lot of it away without fanfare to those who really needed it: fellow authors down on their luck, impecunious neighbours and, above all, to charities.’ What a legend. Vale, KG.
March 31, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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❗️Authors and illustrators: have your books been used to train AI? Today the Atlantic published a search tool allowing authors to search for their books in the LibGen dataset, which has been used to train Meta's AI system.
Search here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
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March 21, 2025 at 3:30 AM
❗️Authors and illustrators: have your books been used to train AI? Today the Atlantic published a search tool allowing authors to search for their books in the LibGen dataset, which has been used to train Meta's AI system.
Search here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...