Rachel Burton
@rachelburtonwriter.bsky.social
Creative | Single | Here to be social
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Just saw Aussie rock band The Angels - fabulous!!! All the hits played. I am a very stinky very sweaty exhausted but deliriously happy rock chick - there’s nothing like good old fashioned rock n roll! 🎶🕺🎸
#theangels #aussierock #australian #ozrock #ozmusic #rock #nostalgia
#theangels #aussierock #australian #ozrock #ozmusic #rock #nostalgia
November 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Just saw Aussie rock band The Angels - fabulous!!! All the hits played. I am a very stinky very sweaty exhausted but deliriously happy rock chick - there’s nothing like good old fashioned rock n roll! 🎶🕺🎸
#theangels #aussierock #australian #ozrock #ozmusic #rock #nostalgia
#theangels #aussierock #australian #ozrock #ozmusic #rock #nostalgia
Glorious
November 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Glorious
Reposted by Rachel Burton
Save the date: We are pleased to announce that entries are opening soon for the 2026 ASA/HQ Fiction Prize, offering one winner a publishing contract with HQ and a $10,000 advance against royalties. Entries open on 26 November!
www.asauthors.org.au/award/asa-hq-commercial-fiction-prize/
www.asauthors.org.au/award/asa-hq-commercial-fiction-prize/
ASA/HQ Fiction Prize - Australian Society of Authors
The ASA/HQ Fiction Prize is offered bienially for the best unpublished manuscript. The winner receives a publishing contract and $10,000 advance.
www.asauthors.org.au
November 17, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Save the date: We are pleased to announce that entries are opening soon for the 2026 ASA/HQ Fiction Prize, offering one winner a publishing contract with HQ and a $10,000 advance against royalties. Entries open on 26 November!
www.asauthors.org.au/award/asa-hq-commercial-fiction-prize/
www.asauthors.org.au/award/asa-hq-commercial-fiction-prize/
Brisbane’s best bookshops! My favourite, Avid, is listed as well as gems I didn’t know about - www.mustdobrisbane.com/features/bri...
#bookshops #books #brisbane #reading #readers #writingcommunity #writing #writers
#bookshops #books #brisbane #reading #readers #writingcommunity #writing #writers
Brisbane's Best Book Shops | Must Do Brisbane
20+ of the best independent and second-hand bookshops in Brisbane, including specialty shops
www.mustdobrisbane.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Brisbane’s best bookshops! My favourite, Avid, is listed as well as gems I didn’t know about - www.mustdobrisbane.com/features/bri...
#bookshops #books #brisbane #reading #readers #writingcommunity #writing #writers
#bookshops #books #brisbane #reading #readers #writingcommunity #writing #writers
November 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM
#stilllife writer’s cat on pillow in front of TV fried by tropical storm (and not missed).
November 12, 2025 at 7:59 AM
#stilllife writer’s cat on pillow in front of TV fried by tropical storm (and not missed).
I’m writing about a middle age muse-mistress exploring the dark side of Bohemia - and herself. I took art lessons to paint this photo encapsulating the story.
Left: photo
Right: my oil painting
#muse #mistress #midlife #shadowtheory #Jung #art #oilpainting #WritingCommunity #writerslife
Left: photo
Right: my oil painting
#muse #mistress #midlife #shadowtheory #Jung #art #oilpainting #WritingCommunity #writerslife
November 11, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I’m writing about a middle age muse-mistress exploring the dark side of Bohemia - and herself. I took art lessons to paint this photo encapsulating the story.
Left: photo
Right: my oil painting
#muse #mistress #midlife #shadowtheory #Jung #art #oilpainting #WritingCommunity #writerslife
Left: photo
Right: my oil painting
#muse #mistress #midlife #shadowtheory #Jung #art #oilpainting #WritingCommunity #writerslife
Reposted by Rachel Burton
Leah Gardner, contemporary Chicago-based oil painter #WomensArt
November 8, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Leah Gardner, contemporary Chicago-based oil painter #WomensArt
Reposted by Rachel Burton
Lisa Benson,
contemporary printmaker based in Somerset, UK #WomensArt
contemporary printmaker based in Somerset, UK #WomensArt
November 8, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Lisa Benson,
contemporary printmaker based in Somerset, UK #WomensArt
contemporary printmaker based in Somerset, UK #WomensArt
November 7, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Reposted by Rachel Burton
“…she’s prepared to look ignorant, grumpy, petty and small if that’s in pursuit of emotional truth. She makes us all work harder and stay braver.” A great survey here by Rochelle of the work of the very special person that is Helen Garner
Australian author Helen Garner is now so famous and well-regarded that to say you don’t like her has almost become a badge of honour among rebels, which I think is sad. Wrote this piece for @artshub.bsky.social.
Why do we love Helen Garner so much?
From Monkey Grip to How to End a Story, Helen Garner has been writing with clear-eyed precision for the better part of 50 years.
www.artshub.com.au
November 6, 2025 at 5:28 AM
“…she’s prepared to look ignorant, grumpy, petty and small if that’s in pursuit of emotional truth. She makes us all work harder and stay braver.” A great survey here by Rochelle of the work of the very special person that is Helen Garner
Settling down to continue my edit: choral sacred music playlist and sandalwood oil perfume for calm. Outside, a random purple flowered bush waves tendrils in the breeze, light green butterflies flutter by, above is a deep blue Queensland sky.
#writing #writinglife #writingcommunity #Queensland
#writing #writinglife #writingcommunity #Queensland
November 6, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Settling down to continue my edit: choral sacred music playlist and sandalwood oil perfume for calm. Outside, a random purple flowered bush waves tendrils in the breeze, light green butterflies flutter by, above is a deep blue Queensland sky.
#writing #writinglife #writingcommunity #Queensland
#writing #writinglife #writingcommunity #Queensland
Please buy and read this book.
I'm glad I read it if only to bear witness 🙏
Where are Epstein’s secret videos? When will the powerful clients/abusers be arrested?
❤️🙏 RIP Virginia Giuffre - It took too long for people to listen 😞
#justice #believeher #epstein #arrestthem #releasethefiles
I'm glad I read it if only to bear witness 🙏
Where are Epstein’s secret videos? When will the powerful clients/abusers be arrested?
❤️🙏 RIP Virginia Giuffre - It took too long for people to listen 😞
#justice #believeher #epstein #arrestthem #releasethefiles
November 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Please buy and read this book.
I'm glad I read it if only to bear witness 🙏
Where are Epstein’s secret videos? When will the powerful clients/abusers be arrested?
❤️🙏 RIP Virginia Giuffre - It took too long for people to listen 😞
#justice #believeher #epstein #arrestthem #releasethefiles
I'm glad I read it if only to bear witness 🙏
Where are Epstein’s secret videos? When will the powerful clients/abusers be arrested?
❤️🙏 RIP Virginia Giuffre - It took too long for people to listen 😞
#justice #believeher #epstein #arrestthem #releasethefiles
I cut 3776 words today! and began aligning my novel with 'Save the cat' 15 beats for novels, to ensure the pacing works. Am up to beat 8 - it's aligning well so far. Tomorrow I’ll identify the bloated sections 🎉
#writingcommunity #savethecat #amediting #amwriting #fiction #writer #writerslife
#writingcommunity #savethecat #amediting #amwriting #fiction #writer #writerslife
November 5, 2025 at 7:36 AM
I cut 3776 words today! and began aligning my novel with 'Save the cat' 15 beats for novels, to ensure the pacing works. Am up to beat 8 - it's aligning well so far. Tomorrow I’ll identify the bloated sections 🎉
#writingcommunity #savethecat #amediting #amwriting #fiction #writer #writerslife
#writingcommunity #savethecat #amediting #amwriting #fiction #writer #writerslife
My favourite author - so well deserved!!
Helen Garner has won The Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction for 'How to End a Story', her collection of diaries. Helen is an ASA life member and ASA Medal recipient, and we offer our warmest congratulations to her for being awarded this major international prize!
Helen Garner’s diaries win 2025 Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction
Tracing the author’s life from bohemian Melbourne in the 70s to the breakdown of her marriage in the 90s, How to End a Story was praised by judges for ‘taking the diary form to new heights’
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:11 AM
My favourite author - so well deserved!!
November 4, 2025 at 10:06 PM
So, writers, there’s hope for your rejected manuscript! Never give up! 🤩 📚
Oh that’s funny: Kafka’s The Metamorphosis/Transformation was reviewed at the time of publication as “really lacking imagination & being boring” in one journal
November 4, 2025 at 9:55 PM
So, writers, there’s hope for your rejected manuscript! Never give up! 🤩 📚
What a great idea! Please share!
(Via my author Meg Mundell)
Dear Melbourne..these messages are addressed to you ❤
Launched today! HOME TRUTHS: POSTCARDS UNSHELTERED, a street poster exhibition featuring handwritten postcards from Melbourne residents who have been/are currently homeless 🏠
Please share ❤
#HOMETRUTHS #homelessness
Dear Melbourne..these messages are addressed to you ❤
Launched today! HOME TRUTHS: POSTCARDS UNSHELTERED, a street poster exhibition featuring handwritten postcards from Melbourne residents who have been/are currently homeless 🏠
Please share ❤
#HOMETRUTHS #homelessness
November 3, 2025 at 9:34 AM
What a great idea! Please share!
I used to collect hearts, coral hearts, from the seashore. Then one day walking home I looked up and saw the gum outside my front gate… it’s a heart tree! 💚
#heart #NatureLovers #NatureIsAmazing
#heart #NatureLovers #NatureIsAmazing
November 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I used to collect hearts, coral hearts, from the seashore. Then one day walking home I looked up and saw the gum outside my front gate… it’s a heart tree! 💚
#heart #NatureLovers #NatureIsAmazing
#heart #NatureLovers #NatureIsAmazing
The power of words.
Virginia Giuffre 1, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor 0
www.bbc.com/news/live/cn...
#writing #memoir #believeher #publishing #voice #raiseyourvoice #BookSky
Virginia Giuffre 1, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor 0
www.bbc.com/news/live/cn...
#writing #memoir #believeher #publishing #voice #raiseyourvoice #BookSky
Prince Andrew stripped of 'prince' title and will move out of Royal Lodge
He will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor - Buckingham Palace says
www.bbc.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The power of words.
Virginia Giuffre 1, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor 0
www.bbc.com/news/live/cn...
#writing #memoir #believeher #publishing #voice #raiseyourvoice #BookSky
Virginia Giuffre 1, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor 0
www.bbc.com/news/live/cn...
#writing #memoir #believeher #publishing #voice #raiseyourvoice #BookSky
I'm learning how to kill my darlings as I edit Novel 2 - it has an embarrassment of hooks and X-factors - the only trouble is, it's WAY TOO LONG. I cannot wait to see this novel's shiny svelte self when I'm done!
#optimism #grit #killyourdarlings #writing #writingcommunity #BookSky
#optimism #grit #killyourdarlings #writing #writingcommunity #BookSky
October 30, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I'm learning how to kill my darlings as I edit Novel 2 - it has an embarrassment of hooks and X-factors - the only trouble is, it's WAY TOO LONG. I cannot wait to see this novel's shiny svelte self when I'm done!
#optimism #grit #killyourdarlings #writing #writingcommunity #BookSky
#optimism #grit #killyourdarlings #writing #writingcommunity #BookSky
Fabulous work! Thank you to everyone who contributed to this outcome 🙏
The ASA welcomes the Albanese Government’s decision to rule out a Text and Data Mining (TDM) exception to Australian copyright law, which would have allowed for AI training on authors’ work.
aapnews.aap.com.au/news/copyrig...
aapnews.aap.com.au/news/copyrig...
Copyright laws to protect creatives from AI data mining
Tech developers will not have a "free pass" to use creative works to train AI systems, but advocates say more protections are needed against copyright theft.
aapnews.aap.com.au
October 27, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Fabulous work! Thank you to everyone who contributed to this outcome 🙏
❤️ 🐥
October 26, 2025 at 5:58 AM
❤️ 🐥
Visiting family I came up with a fabulous idea for what will be my third novel - and researched comps to see if it’s been done - I came up with Lionel Shriver’s A Perfectly Good Family - not in stock 😞 but I DID find these -
I’d like to write as ferociously 📚
#booksky #writing #fearless #famiily
I’d like to write as ferociously 📚
#booksky #writing #fearless #famiily
October 26, 2025 at 1:30 AM
#Sydney #birdlife #rainbowlorikeet
On a brief visit to Sydney to see my Dad. The colourful locals are very friendly!
On a brief visit to Sydney to see my Dad. The colourful locals are very friendly!
October 25, 2025 at 10:53 AM
#Sydney #birdlife #rainbowlorikeet
On a brief visit to Sydney to see my Dad. The colourful locals are very friendly!
On a brief visit to Sydney to see my Dad. The colourful locals are very friendly!