Exhume
@exhumelit.bsky.social
A new critical literary space designed to explore themes relevant to a history of Australian literary criticism, supported by the Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing.
Coming Soon // Launching December 2
✉️exhume.lit@gmail.com
Coming Soon // Launching December 2
✉️exhume.lit@gmail.com
We can’t believe it is happening so soon— Exhume launches next Tuesday!
Here is a schedule overview of the wonderful pieces we will be publishing on our Substack between 2 Dec and 24 Jan.
Many thanks to all our contributors!
Here is a schedule overview of the wonderful pieces we will be publishing on our Substack between 2 Dec and 24 Jan.
Many thanks to all our contributors!
November 28, 2025 at 11:05 PM
We can’t believe it is happening so soon— Exhume launches next Tuesday!
Here is a schedule overview of the wonderful pieces we will be publishing on our Substack between 2 Dec and 24 Jan.
Many thanks to all our contributors!
Here is a schedule overview of the wonderful pieces we will be publishing on our Substack between 2 Dec and 24 Jan.
Many thanks to all our contributors!
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In our fourth episode, 2025 winner of the Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award Khin Myint joins Tenille to speak about finding compassion in writing, the complicated intersections of class, race, and gender, and his stunning debut memoir, Fragile Creatures.
www.pod.link/1793719696/e...
www.pod.link/1793719696/e...
www.pod.link
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
In our fourth episode, 2025 winner of the Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award Khin Myint joins Tenille to speak about finding compassion in writing, the complicated intersections of class, race, and gender, and his stunning debut memoir, Fragile Creatures.
www.pod.link/1793719696/e...
www.pod.link/1793719696/e...
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Nominate your favourite Australian children’s picture book of all time
Nominate your favourite Australian children’s picture book of all time
The best picture books are pure magic – and Australia has produced some of the best. Nominate your favourite here
The best children’s picture books can be pure magic for adults too: witty and wise prose or poetry that is a joy to read aloud, coupled with vivid, evocative illustrations that live on in the memory – and the culture – for decades.
Australia has produced more than its fair share of classics, from the effortlessly educational to the cheekily irreverent, and we want you to nominate your favourite for a major reader’s poll we will run in late January: the best Australian children’s picture book of all time.
Primarily intended to be read aloud to children who don’t yet read independently;
Able to be read in a few minutes – we’re looking for a child’s picture book, rather than a graphic novel or illustrated chapter book;
Written by an Australian (or someone we’ve claimed);
Published in Australia. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Nominate your favourite Australian children’s picture book of all time
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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Print books embody culture. We see it in social media trends for annotating books, community publishing and wartime destruction of books spanning the Nazis to Gaza.
👉 theconversation.com/should-...
👉 theconversation.com/should-...
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Print books embody culture. We see it in social media trends for annotating books, community publishing and wartime destruction of books spanning the Nazis to Gaza.
👉 theconversation.com/should-...
👉 theconversation.com/should-...
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Literary journals are breeding grounds of talent – including the new Splinter, rebooted Southerly, and First Nations journal Sovereign Texts, launching next year.
Meanjin was closed – but new Australian literary journals are springing up around the country
theconversation.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Literary journals are breeding grounds of talent – including the new Splinter, rebooted Southerly, and First Nations journal Sovereign Texts, launching next year.
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Have you checked out AustLit's summer newsletter? It is absolutely chockers with excitement and bibliography.
Plus! Get some hints about how we plan to celebrate our big 25th birthday next year ...
Not a subscriber? The link is at the bottom of the newsletter.
comms.uq.edu.au/v/39308/4706...
Plus! Get some hints about how we plan to celebrate our big 25th birthday next year ...
Not a subscriber? The link is at the bottom of the newsletter.
comms.uq.edu.au/v/39308/4706...
November 25, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Have you checked out AustLit's summer newsletter? It is absolutely chockers with excitement and bibliography.
Plus! Get some hints about how we plan to celebrate our big 25th birthday next year ...
Not a subscriber? The link is at the bottom of the newsletter.
comms.uq.edu.au/v/39308/4706...
Plus! Get some hints about how we plan to celebrate our big 25th birthday next year ...
Not a subscriber? The link is at the bottom of the newsletter.
comms.uq.edu.au/v/39308/4706...
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Our incredible lineup of guests in Season 2 continues! Join writer, editor and food reviewer Candice Chung as she and Mia discuss being anti love-language, crafting the I in memoir, and food as means of communicating frustration and fear, anxiety and affection.
www.pod.link/1793719696/e...
www.pod.link/1793719696/e...
www.pod.link
November 25, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Our incredible lineup of guests in Season 2 continues! Join writer, editor and food reviewer Candice Chung as she and Mia discuss being anti love-language, crafting the I in memoir, and food as means of communicating frustration and fear, anxiety and affection.
www.pod.link/1793719696/e...
www.pod.link/1793719696/e...
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The abrupt and indefensible closure of Meanjin makes me ask, what can be done to shore up the future of literary journals in this country? How about funding the arts to the OECD average. That would mean an extra $5b per year.
With thanks to @jocaseau.bsky.social for her ever-excellent edits on this
With thanks to @jocaseau.bsky.social for her ever-excellent edits on this
Meanjin was closed – but new Australian literary journals are springing up around the country
Literary journals are breeding grounds of talent – including the new Splinter, rebooted Southerly, and First Nations journal Sovereign Texts, launching next year.
theconversation.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM
The abrupt and indefensible closure of Meanjin makes me ask, what can be done to shore up the future of literary journals in this country? How about funding the arts to the OECD average. That would mean an extra $5b per year.
With thanks to @jocaseau.bsky.social for her ever-excellent edits on this
With thanks to @jocaseau.bsky.social for her ever-excellent edits on this
Alright time to put some faces to the names, even if we are a bit reluctant to put ourselves front and centre! Exhume is edited by Bianca and Johanna, who met as postgraduate students at James Cook University. Fun fact: this photo is the first and only time we’ve met IRL!
November 25, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Alright time to put some faces to the names, even if we are a bit reluctant to put ourselves front and centre! Exhume is edited by Bianca and Johanna, who met as postgraduate students at James Cook University. Fun fact: this photo is the first and only time we’ve met IRL!
Spending a grey and foggy Sunday morning trawling through Substack... send us your recs!
November 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Spending a grey and foggy Sunday morning trawling through Substack... send us your recs!
Exhume wouldn’t exist without the generous support from The Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing! The Roderick Centre aims to foster the reading and writing of Australian literature in all its forms. www.jcu.edu.au/RCALC
November 22, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Exhume wouldn’t exist without the generous support from The Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing! The Roderick Centre aims to foster the reading and writing of Australian literature in all its forms. www.jcu.edu.au/RCALC
very excited for this collection!
Today in KYD: Read an excerpt from the much-anticipated new book from the winner of the 2022 Stella Prize, Evelyn Araluen (@allenandunwin.bsky.social).
Link:
Link:
The Rot - Extract — Kill Your Darlings
One day the books will count the dead but not the killers, will pass over the weapons, the death mongers, the megatons of carbon and fire and steel, will sing sorry songs for crimes they denied were…
bit.ly
November 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
very excited for this collection!
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How does a character emerge from a draft? And what's the connection between Frida Kahlo and a 9th-century female pope? Award-winning writer Emily Maguire joins Tenille to discuss creative collisions, writing careers, and her latest novel, Rapture.
www.pod.link/1793719696/e...
www.pod.link/1793719696/e...
www.pod.link
November 20, 2025 at 7:06 AM
How does a character emerge from a draft? And what's the connection between Frida Kahlo and a 9th-century female pope? Award-winning writer Emily Maguire joins Tenille to discuss creative collisions, writing careers, and her latest novel, Rapture.
www.pod.link/1793719696/e...
www.pod.link/1793719696/e...
yessss! We <3 edits & annotations and are so happy they're back for a second season!
We're back!
Edits & Annotations kicks off our second season in the company of the brilliant Steve MinOn, who joins Bethany to talk about the importance of building a community of writers, world building, identity, and, of course, names.
www.pod.link/1793719696/e...
Edits & Annotations kicks off our second season in the company of the brilliant Steve MinOn, who joins Bethany to talk about the importance of building a community of writers, world building, identity, and, of course, names.
www.pod.link/1793719696/e...
www.pod.link
November 20, 2025 at 8:31 AM
yessss! We <3 edits & annotations and are so happy they're back for a second season!
2 weeks until we go live! Eek! Recognise any book covers? 👀📚
November 18, 2025 at 9:17 AM
2 weeks until we go live! Eek! Recognise any book covers? 👀📚
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This time next week a whole host of AHA members will be speaking as part of the Aus Academy of the Humanities and CHASS' symposium on academic freedom. It's free and open to the public: register your attendance at the link! humanities.org.au/events/acade...
Academic Freedom Symposium – Australian Academy of the Humanities
Join us at this year's CHASS in Melbourne to explore what it means to define, contest and safeguard academic freedom in the 21st century.
humanities.org.au
November 17, 2025 at 11:15 PM
This time next week a whole host of AHA members will be speaking as part of the Aus Academy of the Humanities and CHASS' symposium on academic freedom. It's free and open to the public: register your attendance at the link! humanities.org.au/events/acade...
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A lil sneak peak for what's coming up 👀
November 15, 2025 at 3:56 AM
A lil sneak peak for what's coming up 👀
A lil sneak peak for what's coming up 👀
November 15, 2025 at 3:56 AM
A lil sneak peak for what's coming up 👀
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📚REVIEW: Jane Harper’s novels do not include any significant First Nations characters or perspectives. Nor do they acknowledge the deeper meaning and consequence of their Gothic conventions.
Why Jane Harper’s ‘outback noir’ novels make for comfortable – and uncomfortable – reading
theconversation.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:08 AM
📚REVIEW: Jane Harper’s novels do not include any significant First Nations characters or perspectives. Nor do they acknowledge the deeper meaning and consequence of their Gothic conventions.
Are you new to Substack? It's a user-friendly and generally easy-to-navigate platform that offers several different ways of interacting with content:
November 12, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Are you new to Substack? It's a user-friendly and generally easy-to-navigate platform that offers several different ways of interacting with content:
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ICYMI the good news yesterday! We're thrilled to announce the shortlist for the KYD Creative Non-Fiction Prize 2025.
KYD announces 2025 Creative Nonfiction Essay Prize shortlist | Books+Publishing
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November 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
ICYMI the good news yesterday! We're thrilled to announce the shortlist for the KYD Creative Non-Fiction Prize 2025.
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Registrations are now open for our (free!) upcoming symposium! 🥳 It will be held on 24th November, running approximately between 10am and 4pm AEDT (Syd/Melb Time). It is shaping up to be a great event full of SUCH interesting research on Reading, Writing, and Publishing in Regional Australia.
November 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Registrations are now open for our (free!) upcoming symposium! 🥳 It will be held on 24th November, running approximately between 10am and 4pm AEDT (Syd/Melb Time). It is shaping up to be a great event full of SUCH interesting research on Reading, Writing, and Publishing in Regional Australia.
ICYI! Launching Dec 2! We're putting the final touches on everything and it's getting very exciting.
✏️🗓️ Mark it in your calendars! Issue 1 of Exhume is officially launching on December 2.
November 9, 2025 at 6:58 AM
ICYI! Launching Dec 2! We're putting the final touches on everything and it's getting very exciting.
The theme from issue 1 is... exhume! We wanted to contextualise why we chose this particular name. It's so much more than morbid associations!
November 8, 2025 at 3:03 AM
The theme from issue 1 is... exhume! We wanted to contextualise why we chose this particular name. It's so much more than morbid associations!