Clare Carlin
@cecarlin.bsky.social
PhD candidate in RMIT’s non/fictionLab, writer, runs ongoing literature project Pieced Work.
https://linktr.ee/clarecarlin
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Kylie Mirmohamadi’s graceful portraits launch Textile Message Series 5 ✨
Read here👇
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Read here👇
piecedwork.com/2025/11/21/k...
Kylie Mirmohamadi - Pieced Work
I I sort through my memories. The jacket hanging in my cupboard; a Japanese-style grey coat that I found in a vintage shop during the melanoma year. I wore it to a restaurant one night not long after ...
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November 21, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Kylie Mirmohamadi’s graceful portraits launch Textile Message Series 5 ✨
Read here👇
piecedwork.com/2025/11/21/k...
Read here👇
piecedwork.com/2025/11/21/k...
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All seven EWF x Textile Message essays and poems are now online to read ✨ emergingwritersfestival.org.au/blog/2025/te...
Textile Message at the 2025 Emerging Writers' Festival - Emerging Writers' Festival
At the 2025 Emerging Writers' Festival, EWF X Textile: An Exhibition saw an array of artists come together to fuse textile tradition with verbal and written storytelling. Relive this exhibition!
emergingwritersfestival.org.au
November 14, 2025 at 4:50 AM
All seven EWF x Textile Message essays and poems are now online to read ✨ emergingwritersfestival.org.au/blog/2025/te...
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Small fee, big impact: Advertise your submission calls monthly for £3, and directly contribute to raising £5000 for our poetry-focused #BrokenSpineAward fundraiser:
Join Our Independent Press Directory - The Broken Spine
At The Broken Spine, collaboration and community have always been at the heart of what we do. We believe in uplifting fellow independent presses, writers, and
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October 10, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Small fee, big impact: Advertise your submission calls monthly for £3, and directly contribute to raising £5000 for our poetry-focused #BrokenSpineAward fundraiser:
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SAVE THE DATE for AusArt Day to join EWF's new initiative and support us in raising our artist fees to make working as an emerging writer more accessible!
This is the best way for you to show your support for our festival’s work!
👀 Find out more: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/supporting-t...
This is the best way for you to show your support for our festival’s work!
👀 Find out more: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/supporting-t...
October 10, 2025 at 7:35 AM
SAVE THE DATE for AusArt Day to join EWF's new initiative and support us in raising our artist fees to make working as an emerging writer more accessible!
This is the best way for you to show your support for our festival’s work!
👀 Find out more: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/supporting-t...
This is the best way for you to show your support for our festival’s work!
👀 Find out more: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/supporting-t...
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EWF x Textile Message at No Vacancy gallery, Naarm. Thanks @emergingwriters.bsky.social for everything ✨
September 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
EWF x Textile Message at No Vacancy gallery, Naarm. Thanks @emergingwriters.bsky.social for everything ✨
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If you’re in Naarm / Melbourne this Friday September 12th please join us: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/ewf-x-... @emergingwriters.bsky.social
September 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM
If you’re in Naarm / Melbourne this Friday September 12th please join us: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/ewf-x-... @emergingwriters.bsky.social
EWF X Textile Message presents seven stories about favoured and not-so-favoured clothes and textile pieces, woven with memory and emotion. This is an artist’s enquiry into significant clothes and other textile objects.
12/9 Naarm/Melbourne - info👇
emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/ewf-x-...
12/9 Naarm/Melbourne - info👇
emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/ewf-x-...
August 12, 2025 at 12:14 PM
EWF X Textile Message presents seven stories about favoured and not-so-favoured clothes and textile pieces, woven with memory and emotion. This is an artist’s enquiry into significant clothes and other textile objects.
12/9 Naarm/Melbourne - info👇
emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/ewf-x-...
12/9 Naarm/Melbourne - info👇
emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/ewf-x-...
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Beyond excited to be part of the Emerging Writers' Festival 2025 with EWF X Textile Message
No Vacancy Gallery September 12th featuring stories from: Leila Lois, Mira Robertson, Anne M Carson, Julia English, Shu-Ling Chua, Trish Bolton, Emilie Collyer & Clare Carlin (host)
Link to event & tix in bio
No Vacancy Gallery September 12th featuring stories from: Leila Lois, Mira Robertson, Anne M Carson, Julia English, Shu-Ling Chua, Trish Bolton, Emilie Collyer & Clare Carlin (host)
Link to event & tix in bio
August 8, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Beyond excited to be part of the Emerging Writers' Festival 2025 with EWF X Textile Message
No Vacancy Gallery September 12th featuring stories from: Leila Lois, Mira Robertson, Anne M Carson, Julia English, Shu-Ling Chua, Trish Bolton, Emilie Collyer & Clare Carlin (host)
Link to event & tix in bio
No Vacancy Gallery September 12th featuring stories from: Leila Lois, Mira Robertson, Anne M Carson, Julia English, Shu-Ling Chua, Trish Bolton, Emilie Collyer & Clare Carlin (host)
Link to event & tix in bio
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This will be lovely 🤍 please join us — an exhibition curated by @cecarlin.bsky.social
Friday 12 September, 6:00PM, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne
emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/ewf-x-...
Friday 12 September, 6:00PM, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne
emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/ewf-x-...
EWF X Textile Message: An Exhibition - Emerging Writers' Festival
Textile Message presents seven stories about favoured and not-so-favoured clothes and textile pieces, woven with memory and emotion.
emergingwritersfestival.org.au
August 7, 2025 at 9:47 AM
This will be lovely 🤍 please join us — an exhibition curated by @cecarlin.bsky.social
Friday 12 September, 6:00PM, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne
emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/ewf-x-...
Friday 12 September, 6:00PM, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne
emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/ewf-x-...
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"Whoever's found out what location
compassion (heart's imagination)
can be contacted at these days,
is herewith urged to name the place;
and sing about it in full voice,
and dance like crazy and rejoice
beneath the frail birch that appears
to be upon the verge of tears."
~Wisława Szymborska
compassion (heart's imagination)
can be contacted at these days,
is herewith urged to name the place;
and sing about it in full voice,
and dance like crazy and rejoice
beneath the frail birch that appears
to be upon the verge of tears."
~Wisława Szymborska
July 7, 2025 at 2:35 AM
"Whoever's found out what location
compassion (heart's imagination)
can be contacted at these days,
is herewith urged to name the place;
and sing about it in full voice,
and dance like crazy and rejoice
beneath the frail birch that appears
to be upon the verge of tears."
~Wisława Szymborska
compassion (heart's imagination)
can be contacted at these days,
is herewith urged to name the place;
and sing about it in full voice,
and dance like crazy and rejoice
beneath the frail birch that appears
to be upon the verge of tears."
~Wisława Szymborska
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Reposted by Clare Carlin
In the battle with Google, I'm on team Fox. Go Foxes - make that ludicrously expensive roof paid for by this rampant monopolising techno-infestation smell of your rank wee.
June 9, 2025 at 11:39 PM
In the battle with Google, I'm on team Fox. Go Foxes - make that ludicrously expensive roof paid for by this rampant monopolising techno-infestation smell of your rank wee.
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‘Her peculiar vision is both austere and lyrical, elegantly fluent in the secret ways of the self.’
Isabella Gullifer-Laurie reviews Fiction by Antigone Kefala in The Saturday Paper.
Isabella Gullifer-Laurie reviews Fiction by Antigone Kefala in The Saturday Paper.
Fiction
Antigone Kefala is a writer of poetic intensity and integrity. During her childhood, her family fled Romania and arrived in Greece as refugees, before settling in New Zealand and Australia. Her writin...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
May 24, 2025 at 1:50 AM
‘Her peculiar vision is both austere and lyrical, elegantly fluent in the secret ways of the self.’
Isabella Gullifer-Laurie reviews Fiction by Antigone Kefala in The Saturday Paper.
Isabella Gullifer-Laurie reviews Fiction by Antigone Kefala in The Saturday Paper.
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Silence, you know, is something that can’t be censored. And there are circumstances in which silence becomes subversive. That’s why they fill it with noise all the while
- #JohnBerger
- #JohnBerger
May 22, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Silence, you know, is something that can’t be censored. And there are circumstances in which silence becomes subversive. That’s why they fill it with noise all the while
- #JohnBerger
- #JohnBerger
SF aloes on Tan track
May 22, 2025 at 3:20 AM
SF aloes on Tan track
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AP announces the INAUGURAL Theresa Matheson Bequest Award 2025 🎉. This new award (with a prize of $1,000) is for poets who have not had a poem published, outside self-publication or via their Social Media. The 2025 judge is Claire Gaskin
May 19, 2025 at 6:03 AM
AP announces the INAUGURAL Theresa Matheson Bequest Award 2025 🎉. This new award (with a prize of $1,000) is for poets who have not had a poem published, outside self-publication or via their Social Media. The 2025 judge is Claire Gaskin
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One day in 1992, I spent a highly-memorable day with Bob Hoskins, dressing him up as Cher. For the full story - which also stars Cilla, MC Hammer, Gazza, Rab C Nesbitt & Blur-dressed-as-Blondie - plus images by the late great Terry O'Neill, read on...
www.carolinecollettwriter.com/bob-hoskins-...
www.carolinecollettwriter.com/bob-hoskins-...
Bob Hoskins, Cher and the Trading Places Challenge — Caroline Collett
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May 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
One day in 1992, I spent a highly-memorable day with Bob Hoskins, dressing him up as Cher. For the full story - which also stars Cilla, MC Hammer, Gazza, Rab C Nesbitt & Blur-dressed-as-Blondie - plus images by the late great Terry O'Neill, read on...
www.carolinecollettwriter.com/bob-hoskins-...
www.carolinecollettwriter.com/bob-hoskins-...
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May 14, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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No one will tell our stories if we don’t 🌞 www.uapress.com/product/slee...
Launched next month, preorder this collection, which shines a light on works by a diverse group of contemporary Kurdish women and nonbinary writers living in Kurdistan and in diaspora 💕
Edited by Holly Mason Badra
Launched next month, preorder this collection, which shines a light on works by a diverse group of contemporary Kurdish women and nonbinary writers living in Kurdistan and in diaspora 💕
Edited by Holly Mason Badra
May 12, 2025 at 8:07 AM
No one will tell our stories if we don’t 🌞 www.uapress.com/product/slee...
Launched next month, preorder this collection, which shines a light on works by a diverse group of contemporary Kurdish women and nonbinary writers living in Kurdistan and in diaspora 💕
Edited by Holly Mason Badra
Launched next month, preorder this collection, which shines a light on works by a diverse group of contemporary Kurdish women and nonbinary writers living in Kurdistan and in diaspora 💕
Edited by Holly Mason Badra
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Episode 3 of What Moves Them has just dropped ✨🍃
In this episode, we speak to David H. Slattery, interdisciplinary artist & dance lover. He speaks about his new poetry/ dance/ photography project, Belle du Jour, and choreography project with Leila Lois.
open.spotify.com/episode/3aho...
In this episode, we speak to David H. Slattery, interdisciplinary artist & dance lover. He speaks about his new poetry/ dance/ photography project, Belle du Jour, and choreography project with Leila Lois.
open.spotify.com/episode/3aho...
Episode 3: Porous media—Poetry, Dance & Photography with David Slattery
What Moves Them: Conversations in Dance Writing · Episode
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May 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Episode 3 of What Moves Them has just dropped ✨🍃
In this episode, we speak to David H. Slattery, interdisciplinary artist & dance lover. He speaks about his new poetry/ dance/ photography project, Belle du Jour, and choreography project with Leila Lois.
open.spotify.com/episode/3aho...
In this episode, we speak to David H. Slattery, interdisciplinary artist & dance lover. He speaks about his new poetry/ dance/ photography project, Belle du Jour, and choreography project with Leila Lois.
open.spotify.com/episode/3aho...
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Early career and current creative practice doctoral researchers 👇
Excellent opportunity for creative practice HDRs and ECRs to share research creative & critical. Eds really take time on the peer review, which is rigorous and generous.
Please share!
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Please share!
creativematters.edu.au/contribute-c...
Creative Matters ed. 11: Creative Practice Researchers in the Making – NiTRO + Creative Matters
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May 5, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Early career and current creative practice doctoral researchers 👇
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Take note 👇
We’re an online and digital literary magazine for working class writing by established and emergent writers, with a podcast about working class literature, and an ambitious outreach plan to encourage new writing.
May 5, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Take note 👇
Excellent opportunity for creative practice HDRs and ECRs to share research creative & critical. Eds really take time on the peer review, which is rigorous and generous.
Please share!
creativematters.edu.au/contribute-c...
Please share!
creativematters.edu.au/contribute-c...
Creative Matters ed. 11: Creative Practice Researchers in the Making – NiTRO + Creative Matters
creativematters.edu.au
May 5, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Excellent opportunity for creative practice HDRs and ECRs to share research creative & critical. Eds really take time on the peer review, which is rigorous and generous.
Please share!
creativematters.edu.au/contribute-c...
Please share!
creativematters.edu.au/contribute-c...