Bethany Keats
@bethanykeats.bsky.social
Writer ✍️ Reader 📚 Dancer 🩰 cyclist 🚲
PhD: creative writing, family history, 1950s Australia, gothic literature, women's history 🎓
Also: languages
Geelong ✈️ Townsville (sometimes 🇫🇷)
co-editor @sudojournal.bsky.social
co-host @editsannotations.bsky.social
PhD: creative writing, family history, 1950s Australia, gothic literature, women's history 🎓
Also: languages
Geelong ✈️ Townsville (sometimes 🇫🇷)
co-editor @sudojournal.bsky.social
co-host @editsannotations.bsky.social
TFW you call the race of a girl whose mother you use to compete against.
(She won. And, typically, so did her mother 😅)
(She won. And, typically, so did her mother 😅)
November 29, 2025 at 1:15 AM
TFW you call the race of a girl whose mother you use to compete against.
(She won. And, typically, so did her mother 😅)
(She won. And, typically, so did her mother 😅)
Citrouille is not happy about it. (I WFH on Wednesdays anyway but even if I didn’t I would not be riding to work in this. Although it better clear in time for a library run…)
November 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Citrouille is not happy about it. (I WFH on Wednesdays anyway but even if I didn’t I would not be riding to work in this. Although it better clear in time for a library run…)
Gorgeous. Anything I say is going to sound like absolute wank but it really is a tender exploration of a family collapsing through the eyes of a child.
November 23, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Gorgeous. Anything I say is going to sound like absolute wank but it really is a tender exploration of a family collapsing through the eyes of a child.
Promises horror but delivers rich late-20s rich brats taking drugs. Which I guess is a kind of horror, but not the kind the book promised.
November 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Promises horror but delivers rich late-20s rich brats taking drugs. Which I guess is a kind of horror, but not the kind the book promised.
First mango of the season!
November 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
First mango of the season!
The weekend plus WFH means I didn’t ride for five days and the wasps think this is acceptable behaviour. Rude.
November 16, 2025 at 10:31 PM
The weekend plus WFH means I didn’t ride for five days and the wasps think this is acceptable behaviour. Rude.
Beautifully written and I love how the two timelines join.
November 16, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Beautifully written and I love how the two timelines join.
A dark satire on the contemporary art scene with an unreliable narrator = hard yes.
November 15, 2025 at 2:55 AM
A dark satire on the contemporary art scene with an unreliable narrator = hard yes.
Boozy book club has a good one! This is such excellent, dark commentary on backpacking and colonialism with an unlikeable, unreliable narrator. (No, I haven’t seen the movie)
November 15, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Boozy book club has a good one! This is such excellent, dark commentary on backpacking and colonialism with an unlikeable, unreliable narrator. (No, I haven’t seen the movie)
Re-read ahead of interviewing her for @editsannotations.bsky.social and I loved it even more the second time! Classic gothic in a contemporary setting.
November 15, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Re-read ahead of interviewing her for @editsannotations.bsky.social and I loved it even more the second time! Classic gothic in a contemporary setting.
The problem with missing lots of class due to work means also losing my pointe shoe calluses and needing to re-harden them 😫
November 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The problem with missing lots of class due to work means also losing my pointe shoe calluses and needing to re-harden them 😫
The bike shed has guards now.
November 10, 2025 at 7:19 AM
The bike shed has guards now.
Wednesday night is gym night but omg have you seen my latest library haul?
November 5, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Wednesday night is gym night but omg have you seen my latest library haul?
Thought things were getting a bit loud
November 5, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Thought things were getting a bit loud
Stopped on my ride home to take a photo of birds.
Kid on a bike: Did you see the crocodile?
No, child, I did not. Because omg I am a middle aged millennial 🫠
Kid on a bike: Did you see the crocodile?
No, child, I did not. Because omg I am a middle aged millennial 🫠
November 4, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Stopped on my ride home to take a photo of birds.
Kid on a bike: Did you see the crocodile?
No, child, I did not. Because omg I am a middle aged millennial 🫠
Kid on a bike: Did you see the crocodile?
No, child, I did not. Because omg I am a middle aged millennial 🫠
Happy Diwali! 🪔
October 20, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Happy Diwali! 🪔
An elaborate fantasy world that happens to have Egyptian blue and Faustian pacts 🤔
A friend lent it to me because it’s “gothic” buuuuuuuut…
A friend lent it to me because it’s “gothic” buuuuuuuut…
October 18, 2025 at 11:34 PM
An elaborate fantasy world that happens to have Egyptian blue and Faustian pacts 🤔
A friend lent it to me because it’s “gothic” buuuuuuuut…
A friend lent it to me because it’s “gothic” buuuuuuuut…
This is so good. Haven’t seen it getting attention anywhere but it needs some. Tropical gothic, mining exploitation, sexism and isolation.
October 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
This is so good. Haven’t seen it getting attention anywhere but it needs some. Tropical gothic, mining exploitation, sexism and isolation.
I really wanted to like this but it fell flat for me 😥
October 13, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I really wanted to like this but it fell flat for me 😥
Creepily current. Technology discomfort, overstepping human boundaries, ethics. It literally could be written today.
October 13, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Creepily current. Technology discomfort, overstepping human boundaries, ethics. It literally could be written today.
Kate Mildenhall’s ability to consistently genre-switch is quite something!
October 13, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Kate Mildenhall’s ability to consistently genre-switch is quite something!
Taxi driver at Canberra airport: Floriade is still on this afternoon.
Me: nah mate, I’m booking my Mr Squiggle ticket as we speak
Me: nah mate, I’m booking my Mr Squiggle ticket as we speak
October 12, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Taxi driver at Canberra airport: Floriade is still on this afternoon.
Me: nah mate, I’m booking my Mr Squiggle ticket as we speak
Me: nah mate, I’m booking my Mr Squiggle ticket as we speak
Nope.
Weak world-building and felt rather pointless.
Weak world-building and felt rather pointless.
October 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Nope.
Weak world-building and felt rather pointless.
Weak world-building and felt rather pointless.
Easy read for travel but not great.
And later put on the free book shelf at Uni New Cal (bring some Australian books/slang to the students!)
And later put on the free book shelf at Uni New Cal (bring some Australian books/slang to the students!)
October 2, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Easy read for travel but not great.
And later put on the free book shelf at Uni New Cal (bring some Australian books/slang to the students!)
And later put on the free book shelf at Uni New Cal (bring some Australian books/slang to the students!)