Clare Millar
@claresmillar.bsky.social
Maisy Mouse enthusiast
(Writer, editor, glassblower, former bookseller, etc) She/her
(Writer, editor, glassblower, former bookseller, etc) She/her
A pleasure to interview Andy Griffiths! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Andy Griffiths: ‘I think it’s a pity that reading is being lost through neglect’
The multimillion copy-selling children’s author on his freewheeling childhood, the joy of being unproductive and life after the Treehouse series
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August 15, 2025 at 11:58 PM
A pleasure to interview Andy Griffiths! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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This discourse about freedom of speech, Bendigo Writers Festival & principled writers withdrawing is good. But keep speaking up for Palestine, centre Palestinian voices & don't let media turn you into the main story/a distraction. Solidarity: from the river to the sea, always was always will be ✊🏾
August 15, 2025 at 5:34 AM
This discourse about freedom of speech, Bendigo Writers Festival & principled writers withdrawing is good. But keep speaking up for Palestine, centre Palestinian voices & don't let media turn you into the main story/a distraction. Solidarity: from the river to the sea, always was always will be ✊🏾
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They *are* speaking up, just not at the festival.
And their “boycott” is an explicit piece of moral & political action: they’re withdrawing their labour.
Every withdrawal makes it clearer how a) the festival desperately needs this labour to exist; and b) the La Trobe policy threatens this labour.
And their “boycott” is an explicit piece of moral & political action: they’re withdrawing their labour.
Every withdrawal makes it clearer how a) the festival desperately needs this labour to exist; and b) the La Trobe policy threatens this labour.
August 15, 2025 at 3:08 AM
They *are* speaking up, just not at the festival.
And their “boycott” is an explicit piece of moral & political action: they’re withdrawing their labour.
Every withdrawal makes it clearer how a) the festival desperately needs this labour to exist; and b) the La Trobe policy threatens this labour.
And their “boycott” is an explicit piece of moral & political action: they’re withdrawing their labour.
Every withdrawal makes it clearer how a) the festival desperately needs this labour to exist; and b) the La Trobe policy threatens this labour.
This is one of the things that irks me, beyond the censorship and the genocide, writers, specifically progressive left wing writers, as a commodity for programming to get attendance when there is conservative value or pressure behind the programming.
So disappointed to discover the Bendigo Writers Festival thinks our words are just ‘content,’ to be forced into alignment with corporate values. Writers are there to pursue difficult conversations. That’s the job. If that makes you nervous, you may as well play pre-recorded music out of a speaker.
August 14, 2025 at 11:54 PM
This is one of the things that irks me, beyond the censorship and the genocide, writers, specifically progressive left wing writers, as a commodity for programming to get attendance when there is conservative value or pressure behind the programming.
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Getting a little sick and tired of this new unofficial Australian arts policy of "have no political opinion, or alternatively just shut up about Palestine"
May 21, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Getting a little sick and tired of this new unofficial Australian arts policy of "have no political opinion, or alternatively just shut up about Palestine"
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The day author Ren Wyld was due to receive the Black & Write $15k Indigenous fellowship she was told it had been rescinded. A journo from the Oz seemed to know before she did. Appalling to see QLD govt cave to Murdoch press to punish a First Nations writer for speaking out in support of Palestine.
May 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The day author Ren Wyld was due to receive the Black & Write $15k Indigenous fellowship she was told it had been rescinded. A journo from the Oz seemed to know before she did. Appalling to see QLD govt cave to Murdoch press to punish a First Nations writer for speaking out in support of Palestine.
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Westside kids book author, Deb Frenkel, read The Truck Cat for us at Footscray West Writers Fest. Wild to see that it will be read by millions of kids across the world next week for National Simultaneous Storytime.
Next week, millions of children across the globe will read this Australian book at the same time
In its 25th year, the National Simultaneous Storytime event is inviting children from Australia and beyond to read a gentle story of migration, belonging and family – starring an inquisitive cat and a...
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May 16, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Westside kids book author, Deb Frenkel, read The Truck Cat for us at Footscray West Writers Fest. Wild to see that it will be read by millions of kids across the world next week for National Simultaneous Storytime.
I wrote about the delightful National Simultaneous Storytime! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Next week, millions of children across the globe will read this Australian book at the same time
In its 25th year, the National Simultaneous Storytime event is inviting children from Australia and beyond to read a gentle story of migration, belonging and family – starring an inquisitive cat and a...
www.theguardian.com
May 16, 2025 at 8:17 AM
I wrote about the delightful National Simultaneous Storytime! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
pleased to see an AI declaration as part of this year's mid-year Walkley submissions
April 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
pleased to see an AI declaration as part of this year's mid-year Walkley submissions
have been noticing more Aus middle grade novels, in particular, more overtly addressing class, which I think is very interesting in a society that doesn't like to talk about it!
March 17, 2025 at 11:18 AM
have been noticing more Aus middle grade novels, in particular, more overtly addressing class, which I think is very interesting in a society that doesn't like to talk about it!
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"... a stunning, magical and confronting verse novel for young readers" review by @claresmillar.bsky.social of #MG #VerseNovel LITTLEBONES by @aussie_kids_books Heads up @bklynlibrary.bsky.social @doucette515.bsky.social @jholmblad.bsky.social @librarianages.bsky.social @rurooie.bsky.social
I reviewed Little Bones by Sandy Bigna in today’s @thesaturdaypaper.com.au www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/book...
Little Bones
Verse novels have been a particular strength of Australian writing for children and young adults over the past few decades. Little Bones, a lyrical and eerie debut middle-grade verse novel by Sandy Bi...
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March 2, 2025 at 3:10 AM
"... a stunning, magical and confronting verse novel for young readers" review by @claresmillar.bsky.social of #MG #VerseNovel LITTLEBONES by @aussie_kids_books Heads up @bklynlibrary.bsky.social @doucette515.bsky.social @jholmblad.bsky.social @librarianages.bsky.social @rurooie.bsky.social
I reviewed Little Bones by Sandy Bigna in today’s @thesaturdaypaper.com.au www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/book...
Little Bones
Verse novels have been a particular strength of Australian writing for children and young adults over the past few decades. Little Bones, a lyrical and eerie debut middle-grade verse novel by Sandy Bi...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
March 1, 2025 at 5:48 AM
I reviewed Little Bones by Sandy Bigna in today’s @thesaturdaypaper.com.au www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/book...
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The @meanjin.bsky.social online reviews section is back for 2025! This month, I asked avid readers & critics @claresmillar.bsky.social @nedhirst.bsky.social @clairecao.bsky.social & Sonia Nair what their favourite Ozlit books were in 2024. Read on: meanjin.com.au/latest/best-...
Best of Australian reading in 2024
Meanjin writers share their favourite books of 2024.
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February 18, 2025 at 10:48 AM
The @meanjin.bsky.social online reviews section is back for 2025! This month, I asked avid readers & critics @claresmillar.bsky.social @nedhirst.bsky.social @clairecao.bsky.social & Sonia Nair what their favourite Ozlit books were in 2024. Read on: meanjin.com.au/latest/best-...
Wrote about my picks for best local books of 2024 over at @meanjin.bsky.social. Loved reading the other critics’ picks too. Thanks @mxcreant.bsky.social! meanjin.com.au/latest/best-...
Best of Australian reading in 2024
Meanjin writers share their favourite books of 2024.
meanjin.com.au
February 17, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Wrote about my picks for best local books of 2024 over at @meanjin.bsky.social. Loved reading the other critics’ picks too. Thanks @mxcreant.bsky.social! meanjin.com.au/latest/best-...
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She’s here! Book number 10. A poem for my ancestors in 101 fragments to be read in any order. A dreaming. An offering. ✨
www.uqp.com.au/books/we-spe...
www.uqp.com.au/books/we-spe...
We Speak of Flowers
From award-winning poet Eileen Chong comes a dazzling book-length poem, comprising 101 interconnected fragments that can be read in any order, inviting the reader to construct multiple interpretations.
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February 17, 2025 at 4:32 AM
She’s here! Book number 10. A poem for my ancestors in 101 fragments to be read in any order. A dreaming. An offering. ✨
www.uqp.com.au/books/we-spe...
www.uqp.com.au/books/we-spe...
I was not prepared for the readings website to change that much 😂😭
February 13, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I was not prepared for the readings website to change that much 😂😭
A pleasure to be back online for Meanjin, with a review of Black Convicts by Santilla Chingaipe meanjin.com.au/latest/revis...
Revisiting the First Fleet
Santilla Chingaipe’s debut work of ‘Australian’ history is a work of rigorous research that reframes the historical narrative of the continent, reminiscent of the cultural reckoning brought on by t…
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November 30, 2024 at 9:11 AM
A pleasure to be back online for Meanjin, with a review of Black Convicts by Santilla Chingaipe meanjin.com.au/latest/revis...
Just learned about ‘YoPro’ as an alternative term for yuppie???
November 26, 2024 at 11:31 AM
Just learned about ‘YoPro’ as an alternative term for yuppie???
Video essay: We broke the economy in Flamecraft, here’s how
November 16, 2024 at 7:00 AM
Video essay: We broke the economy in Flamecraft, here’s how
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people who use goodreads: jeff bezos owns goodreads and if you want a better alternative there is a black woman owned company called storygraph that you can use to replace it. you can transfer all of your data from goodreads to storygraph and have your mind be free of trumpie jeff bezos! win win. 💙
November 13, 2024 at 5:24 PM
people who use goodreads: jeff bezos owns goodreads and if you want a better alternative there is a black woman owned company called storygraph that you can use to replace it. you can transfer all of your data from goodreads to storygraph and have your mind be free of trumpie jeff bezos! win win. 💙
New Paddington + new Wallace & Gromit is 2024’s Barbenheimer.
November 13, 2024 at 1:42 PM
New Paddington + new Wallace & Gromit is 2024’s Barbenheimer.
Thinking of this again meanjin.com.au/essays/the-l...
The Last Literary Editor
When I was still doing my job, I noticed I had begun to explain myself. ‘I’m literary editor of the Sydney Morning Herald … I run our coverage of books: commission book reviews, interview authors, …
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August 21, 2024 at 12:00 PM
Thinking of this again meanjin.com.au/essays/the-l...
Reviewed the new Andy Griffiths in the Guardian www.theguardian.com/books/articl...
The Land of Lost Things by Andy Griffiths review – a madcap adventure for young readers
The first in the highly anticipated post-Treehouse series delights in silliness, imagination and problem-solving
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August 15, 2024 at 9:12 PM
Reviewed the new Andy Griffiths in the Guardian www.theguardian.com/books/articl...