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.
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!
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.
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.
Australian poets, send us your poems, with the theme (or even a fleeting reference to) 'scrub'. $500 prize. Deadline is April 30. More details on the Mansfield Readers and Writers Festival website.
April 2, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Australian poets, send us your poems, with the theme (or even a fleeting reference to) 'scrub'. $500 prize. Deadline is April 30. More details on the Mansfield Readers and Writers Festival website.
In case you missed it last night—
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March 24, 2025 at 6:21 AM
In case you missed it last night—
open.substack.com/pub/danineth...
open.substack.com/pub/danineth...
Lovely to have a nice little review in The Age /SMH today:
“Is not the corpse itself the elegy for the body that preceded it?” asks Dani Netherclift in this threnody for her father and brother, who drowned in an irrigation channel in north-east Victoria more than 30 years ago…”
“Is not the corpse itself the elegy for the body that preceded it?” asks Dani Netherclift in this threnody for her father and brother, who drowned in an irrigation channel in north-east Victoria more than 30 years ago…”
March 13, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Lovely to have a nice little review in The Age /SMH today:
“Is not the corpse itself the elegy for the body that preceded it?” asks Dani Netherclift in this threnody for her father and brother, who drowned in an irrigation channel in north-east Victoria more than 30 years ago…”
“Is not the corpse itself the elegy for the body that preceded it?” asks Dani Netherclift in this threnody for her father and brother, who drowned in an irrigation channel in north-east Victoria more than 30 years ago…”
So much to love about @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social ‘s Salon Series. I so loved being in conversation with Anna MacDonald about Vessel last night. Thanks so much for having me x
March 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
So much to love about @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social ‘s Salon Series. I so loved being in conversation with Anna MacDonald about Vessel last night. Thanks so much for having me x
My book, Vessel in exquisite miniature on the desk. My cousin’s husband, Danny Fraser is the artist.
February 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
My book, Vessel in exquisite miniature on the desk. My cousin’s husband, Danny Fraser is the artist.
Thrilled to announce that I will be speaking about Vessel with the Paperback’s Anna MacDonald for the first of their Salon Series for 2025 at Bard’s Apothecary in Melbourne, Tuesday March 4 at 6PM. The event is free but you need to rsvp to The Paperback Bookshop on the events page of their website.
February 4, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Thrilled to announce that I will be speaking about Vessel with the Paperback’s Anna MacDonald for the first of their Salon Series for 2025 at Bard’s Apothecary in Melbourne, Tuesday March 4 at 6PM. The event is free but you need to rsvp to The Paperback Bookshop on the events page of their website.
Mansfield Readers & Writers Festival new writing competition High Country Words launches today! We can't wait to read your entries! More details in the comments and on our website.
February 1, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Mansfield Readers & Writers Festival new writing competition High Country Words launches today! We can't wait to read your entries! More details in the comments and on our website.
"Andrew Furphy, a man who has begat more Furphies than even he would acknowledge, is the great-grandson of Australia’s proto-novelist. He has been a metallurgist, a writer, a reader, and a film-maker. 1/
January 30, 2025 at 11:47 PM
"Andrew Furphy, a man who has begat more Furphies than even he would acknowledge, is the great-grandson of Australia’s proto-novelist. He has been a metallurgist, a writer, a reader, and a film-maker. 1/
Announcing our poetry judge, the superlative Maria Takolander. The competition opens Feb 1st. All details on the Mansfield Readers and Writers Festival website.
January 29, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Announcing our poetry judge, the superlative Maria Takolander. The competition opens Feb 1st. All details on the Mansfield Readers and Writers Festival website.
High Country Words writing competition opens Feb 1st, with categories for short story, poetry, and bush poetry. This week we are announcing our judges, starting with Margaret Hickey, our short story judge.
January 28, 2025 at 11:13 PM
High Country Words writing competition opens Feb 1st, with categories for short story, poetry, and bush poetry. This week we are announcing our judges, starting with Margaret Hickey, our short story judge.
Thanks to everyone who supported my book, Vessel in 2024. This date is significant in the book. It is the day of the year that I saw my father and brother drown, 32 years ago. My 10 year old daughter this morning said—I wish I could get over stuff like you.
January 2, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Thanks to everyone who supported my book, Vessel in 2024. This date is significant in the book. It is the day of the year that I saw my father and brother drown, 32 years ago. My 10 year old daughter this morning said—I wish I could get over stuff like you.
And last but not least, Felicity Plunkett's endorsement for Vessel—
December 6, 2024 at 11:39 PM
And last but not least, Felicity Plunkett's endorsement for Vessel—
Continuing on with Vessel's endorsements (and with some of the vintage envelopes/vessels from the book). With so many thanks to Arianne ❤️ and the highest of recommendations always for her beautiful and rightly lauded book, Because I'm Not Myself, You See.
December 4, 2024 at 9:53 PM
Continuing on with Vessel's endorsements (and with some of the vintage envelopes/vessels from the book). With so many thanks to Arianne ❤️ and the highest of recommendations always for her beautiful and rightly lauded book, Because I'm Not Myself, You See.
In a packed up house full of boxes, there are still calm places to retreat to.
December 4, 2024 at 3:17 AM
In a packed up house full of boxes, there are still calm places to retreat to.
