Dr Dani Netherclift
@dani-netherclift.bsky.social
Essayist and poet. Vessel is out now with Upswell Publishing. Australian, living on never-ceded Taungurung Country. President Mansfield Readers & Writers Festival.
In which I remember to substack. Or write, or more likely, both daninetherclift.substack.com/p/words-afte...
Words after a while
There are 89 named mountains or hills in the region where I live:
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October 3, 2025 at 6:10 AM
In which I remember to substack. Or write, or more likely, both daninetherclift.substack.com/p/words-afte...
My latest piece, an excerpt from the book MS I'm working on, is up on the Meanjin website. At this point, it can be read in full without a paywall meanjin.com.au/memoir/prelu...
Preludes for an Ending
Everything is lost, we say, when all hope is gone.
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September 29, 2025 at 10:31 PM
My latest piece, an excerpt from the book MS I'm working on, is up on the Meanjin website. At this point, it can be read in full without a paywall meanjin.com.au/memoir/prelu...
Cover Reveal for the Canadian/North American edition of my book Vessel, to be published by Assembly Press in January 2026. I love it!
September 18, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Cover Reveal for the Canadian/North American edition of my book Vessel, to be published by Assembly Press in January 2026. I love it!
It's a month tomorrow until Mansfield Readers and Writers Festival kicks off. I am mostly behind the scenes as president, co-producer and co-curator, but I have one part amongst it all at the front of the house, and can't wait to be in conversation with these luminaries!
September 9, 2025 at 12:24 AM
It's a month tomorrow until Mansfield Readers and Writers Festival kicks off. I am mostly behind the scenes as president, co-producer and co-curator, but I have one part amongst it all at the front of the house, and can't wait to be in conversation with these luminaries!
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Australian writers, please consider signing this open letter to the Vice Chancellor of Melbourne University regarding the decision to close Meanjin Quarterly down openletter.earth/an-open-lett...
An Open Letter to the Vice Chancellor of The University of Melbourne on the Closure of Meanjin
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September 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Australian writers, please consider signing this open letter to the Vice Chancellor of Melbourne University regarding the decision to close Meanjin Quarterly down openletter.earth/an-open-lett...
Australian writers, please consider signing this open letter to the Vice Chancellor of Melbourne University regarding the decision to close Meanjin Quarterly down openletter.earth/an-open-lett...
An Open Letter to the Vice Chancellor of The University of Melbourne on the Closure of Meanjin
openletter.earth
September 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Australian writers, please consider signing this open letter to the Vice Chancellor of Melbourne University regarding the decision to close Meanjin Quarterly down openletter.earth/an-open-lett...
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My essay on AI and writing is up on Island Mag online islandmag.com/read/extinct...
Extinctions – by Dani Netherclift | Australian Literary Arts Magazine | ISLAND
The threat AI poses to writers and the art of writing seems to have arisen swiftly. Who threw open those doors? What is an entry? A door is an aperture to possibility. These are important concerns for...
islandmag.com
August 28, 2025 at 9:19 AM
My essay on AI and writing is up on Island Mag online islandmag.com/read/extinct...
My essay on AI and writing is up on Island Mag online islandmag.com/read/extinct...
Extinctions – by Dani Netherclift | Australian Literary Arts Magazine | ISLAND
The threat AI poses to writers and the art of writing seems to have arisen swiftly. Who threw open those doors? What is an entry? A door is an aperture to possibility. These are important concerns for...
islandmag.com
August 28, 2025 at 9:19 AM
My essay on AI and writing is up on Island Mag online islandmag.com/read/extinct...
Reposted by Dr Dani Netherclift
Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "Should Britain recognise the state of Palestine?"
Sarah Champion, "Yes"
Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "Should Britain call this a genocide?"
Sarah Champion, "I can't see it as anything other than a genocide"
Sarah Champion, "Yes"
Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "Should Britain call this a genocide?"
Sarah Champion, "I can't see it as anything other than a genocide"
July 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "Should Britain recognise the state of Palestine?"
Sarah Champion, "Yes"
Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "Should Britain call this a genocide?"
Sarah Champion, "I can't see it as anything other than a genocide"
Sarah Champion, "Yes"
Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "Should Britain call this a genocide?"
Sarah Champion, "I can't see it as anything other than a genocide"
My copy of Heat 20 arrived today, with my piece ‘Preludes #2’ within. I wrote this about anticipating my mother’s death, which occurred a month to the day before this edition was published.
July 17, 2025 at 4:23 AM
My copy of Heat 20 arrived today, with my piece ‘Preludes #2’ within. I wrote this about anticipating my mother’s death, which occurred a month to the day before this edition was published.
I feel so honoured to have been selected as one of the writers for the Varuna Climate Fellowship.
July 16, 2025 at 11:11 AM
I feel so honoured to have been selected as one of the writers for the Varuna Climate Fellowship.
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Friends, I need TWO MORE REGISTRANTS to run Sat July 19 4pm EST Writing Trauma W/O Traumatising Yourself! Pay as you feel! Very chilled! Please sign up here!
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July 13, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Friends, I need TWO MORE REGISTRANTS to run Sat July 19 4pm EST Writing Trauma W/O Traumatising Yourself! Pay as you feel! Very chilled! Please sign up here!
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Reading proofs of upcoming essays to be published, Adobe Acrobat shows me a message: 'This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary.' The reading is the point, if you value being a reader and the work of writing. End of story.
June 5, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Reading proofs of upcoming essays to be published, Adobe Acrobat shows me a message: 'This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary.' The reading is the point, if you value being a reader and the work of writing. End of story.
I've written a new (free) Substack. Hope you have a nice Sunday. We are off on the long journey to the Wimmera for the funeral of a loved family member tomorrow.
May 31, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I've written a new (free) Substack. Hope you have a nice Sunday. We are off on the long journey to the Wimmera for the funeral of a loved family member tomorrow.
I've written my first Substack for paid subscribers. It's about some of my processes for writing and mosaicking a long-form lyric essay, and a bit about the manuscript I am currently working on.
May 22, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I've written my first Substack for paid subscribers. It's about some of my processes for writing and mosaicking a long-form lyric essay, and a bit about the manuscript I am currently working on.
I wrote a new substack about getting myself to sit at a desk and actually write. You can read it here daninetherclift.substack.com/p/sitting-do...
Sitting Down & Getting Words Onto a Page.
Sorry it's been so long between posts here. A sickness, then another sickness, and the other ways that life intervenes.
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May 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I wrote a new substack about getting myself to sit at a desk and actually write. You can read it here daninetherclift.substack.com/p/sitting-do...
This fundraiser, Authors and artists for Palestine, is live and still has a smidge over 4 days left. It's a treasure trove of books and writerly offerings. I've donated a signed copy of Vessel and an hour zoom chat to talk about lyric essays and fragments airauctioneer.com/authors-and-...
Authors and Artists for Palestine Fundraiser
We believe that literature and art can play a powerful role in raising awareness and encouraging people to speak up and take action – as well as raising much needed money to provide food, clean water ...
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May 10, 2025 at 4:16 AM
This fundraiser, Authors and artists for Palestine, is live and still has a smidge over 4 days left. It's a treasure trove of books and writerly offerings. I've donated a signed copy of Vessel and an hour zoom chat to talk about lyric essays and fragments airauctioneer.com/authors-and-...
Some amazing itmes to bid on here to help desperate people in Palestine airauctioneer.com/authors-and-...
Authors and Artists for Palestine Fundraiser
We believe that literature and art can play a powerful role in raising awareness and encouraging people to speak up and take action – as well as raising much needed money to provide food, clean water ...
airauctioneer.com
May 7, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Some amazing itmes to bid on here to help desperate people in Palestine airauctioneer.com/authors-and-...
No, AI Overview, the dog in Olive Kitteridge is a wire haired dachshund named Clancy, and *not* in fact a German Shepherd called Old Man, but thanks for the unasked-for fakery. We live in a strange world.
May 7, 2025 at 2:50 AM
No, AI Overview, the dog in Olive Kitteridge is a wire haired dachshund named Clancy, and *not* in fact a German Shepherd called Old Man, but thanks for the unasked-for fakery. We live in a strange world.
Click on one ad for cosy winter socks, and suddenly, all you can see is cosy socks of every kind, everywhere you look.
May 7, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Click on one ad for cosy winter socks, and suddenly, all you can see is cosy socks of every kind, everywhere you look.
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Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
May 7, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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