Delighted to be working with our new Prof and Head of Creative Writing at UTS. Great things ahead! www.uts.edu.au/news/2025/09...

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The Productivity Commission is floating AI copyright exemptions – with worrying implications for Australian authors and publishers

The Copyright Agency-UTS New Writer’s Fellowship 2025 is what’s up, thank you Bluesky! Based in the Creative Writing department at UTS in Sydney, it supports a writer working on a second or third book. Details below. www.uts.edu.au/about/facult...

Vale brilliant Australian writer and dear friend Brenda Walker. theconversation.com/remembering-...

"Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland rewilding project."

Read that again: **116** times.

Why are we STILL having to argue the case for rewilding??
www.scotsman.com/hays-way/bum...

This

“Until the Job-ready Graduates Package has been abolished and a better model for student fees has replaced it as envisioned by the Accord process, the HECS-HELP system will remain manifestly unfair, and graduates in history will continue to draw the short straw.” theaha.org.au/aha-statemen...

Some great starter packs here. I’m now looking for lovers of Japanese literature and culture, Australian historians, environmental historians, and any interesting resources on literature from South America or Asia. Any tips or leads appreciated!

I made a thing!

I was playing around with the AT protocol and as a little experiment I made a website that visualises activity around Bluesky: nightsky.hctr.dev

It listens to all new posts and shows them as little stars across a night sky 🌃

Every star is someone, somewhere, posting something

This is actually full of good reporting on casualization of UKHE at even the most prestigious institutions. And the fact that the Observer pressed Christ Church directly on ad wording, and then reported on the college's sidestepping is nothing short of astonishing.

The UTS Writers’ Anthology, a national lit journal out of Writing, is now 43 and has launched many careers. Come and hear this year’s editors talk about the joys and challenges of editorship at the University of Technology Sydney’s FASStival on 11 December. events.humanitix.com/2024-uts-wri...

Another excellent event out of UTS Writing at the UTS FASStival on December 11, University of Technology Sydney. Our UTS Copyright Agency Writer in Residence Vivian Pham will talk about writing her second novel. Why write dystopian fiction in a troubled world? events.humanitix.com/uts-copyrigh...

Friends, this is a nice way to begin on this platform. (Is the Bluesky equivalent of a tweet a flutter??) Join me and UTS alumnus David Dyer for this FASStival session in which we talk about his wonderful new novel, outer space and the writing life. events.humanitix.com/in-orbit-thi...

Joining the migration (I think).