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aurealisfsf.bsky.social
Aurealis #183 is out now! Get it or subscribe at www.aurealis.com.au
August 8, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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gast-gafas.bsky.social
Dany Adone and James Smith talk about ›Indigenous Worldviews and Resilience‹: »People listen for and they don’t listen for all sorts of reasons [...]. They’re not listening at all. They wait for the opportunity to attack.« | Read here: buff.ly/WeZuThQ #AustralianStudies #FirstNations
Australian Studies Journal 42/2025 – German Association for Australian Studies
German Association for Australian Studies
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August 12, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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tanaudel.bsky.social
Presenting to translation students who’ll be working on my story “The Five Lazy Sisters” (F&SF).

SUCH good, word- and story-level questions.
Printouts — glimpses of red illustrations, half-seen notes, start of story: he Five Lazy Sisters By Kathleen Jennings NCE, WHEN GIRLS WORE red cloaks and wonders were common which is to say, not so long ago as you might imagine), there was no bridge over the little river that cuts our gentle farmlands off from the rising forest. In those days, as now, it was not wise to travel up among the trees, for law and history grow skittish under those branches. Hungry, uncommon creatures hunt there — especially when the moon is full. But wise or foolish, people have always found reasons to go that way. And so, on this side of the river, in a crowded cottage cheerful with geraniums and climbing roses, lived a wiry ferrywoman with her five lazy granddaugh-
August 12, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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tanaudel.bsky.social
The alarming @lairdbarron.bsky.social on HONEYEATER
"Honeyeater is a Gothic nightmare full of buried secrets and shambling horrors. Jennings' prose has a powerful grip." LAIRD BARRON author of The Wind Began to Howl
August 11, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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tanaudel.bsky.social
You can preorder it now!
tanaudel.bsky.social Kathleen Jennings @tanaudel.bsky.social · Jul 18
HONEYEATER, a haunted subtropical tale, comes out September 2025 PREORDERS open now from your favourite bookstore or:

USA: torpublishinggroup.com/honeyeater/?...
Australia: panmacmillan.com.au/9781761562303/
Honeyeater by Kathleen Jennings Unsettling baroque image of a person in a white shirt, head obscured by birds and flowers Art by Lindsey Carr, design by Christine Foltzer, edited by Ellen Datlow
August 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
spec-australia.bsky.social
Join us for an Online Symposium!
13.8.2025
Time: 8:30AM PDT/11:30AM EDT/5:30PM CEST
Zoom link: tinyurl.com/AUSSF2025
Co-sponsored by the American Association of Australasian Literary Studies and the University of California-Riverside's English Department.
This event will be recorded
August 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
spec-australia.bsky.social
Hi everyone! We have a brand new video lecture for you!

In this video, Bettina Burger explores how Lee Edelman's Queer Death Drive may resonate with the themes of Shelley Parker Chan 's She Who Became the Sun.

youtu.be/03gR-MbopCo?...
March 27, 2024 at 1:06 PM
spec-australia.bsky.social
Hi everyone, we have a new podcast episode for you! In this one, Leonie John, Bettina Burger, Gillian Polack and Lucas Mattila discuss Nevil Shutes's On The Beach!

open.spotify.com/episode/62aU...
January 22, 2024 at 3:08 PM
spec-australia.bsky.social
And the third and final translated short story is “Der gläserne Wirt.”

blogs.phil.hhu.de/anglophonelite…

Short story: @kaaronwarren.bsky.social
Art: @anika_kls
December 18, 2023 at 3:26 PM
spec-australia.bsky.social
The second short story, by @kaaronwarren.bsky.social , our students translated is “The Revivalist, “Die Erweckerin”

Art by: @anika_kls

blogs.phil.hhu.de/anglophoneli...
December 15, 2023 at 3:54 PM
spec-australia.bsky.social
As part of a project within a literary translation seminar by lecturer Helena Küster, in correspondence with @kaaronwarren.bsky.social , our students translated some of the author’s short stories. This translation is "Das Dieselbecken."
Blog: blogs.phil.hhu.de/anglophonelite…
Art: @anika_kls
December 13, 2023 at 4:11 PM
spec-australia.bsky.social
Halloween may be over, but that doesn't mean we have to say goodbye to Spooky Season - so have some Australian recommendations fit to scare you!
Book recommendations: Jay Kristoff's Empire of the Vampire, Deborah Sheldon's Thylacines, Joan Lindsay's Picnic at Hanging Rock, Angela Slatter's The Path of Thorn's Lois Murphy's Soon, Ambelin & Ezekiel Kwaymullina's Catching Teller Crow Film recommendations: The Babadook, Talk to Me, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Cargo, Lake Mungo
November 1, 2023 at 9:40 AM
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freyamarske.bsky.social
[phantom of the opera opening chords]

BOOK NEWS! BOOK NEWS!

www.tor.com/2023/10/24/t...
Yes, The Swords Do Cross: Tor Acquires Four New Books From Freya Marske
Tor Publishing Group is thrilled to announce that Ruoxi Chen has acquired North American rights to Swordcrossed, a standalone novel pitched as Swordspoint meets Legends & Lattes, a second novel…
www.tor.com
October 24, 2023 at 4:11 PM
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eliseswritings.bsky.social
For #AusWrites (& anyone who doesn't know me yet 😉 👋),

I'm a queer, primary school teaching, ancient history & travel loving, ADHDistic Aussie author of epic YA Fantasy & poetry.

My debut #RuarnonTrilogy is an atheist's reply to a queer, dark Narnia. I'm currently editing book 3.
Imagine features two book covers on a rainbow background over calm water. Text 1: Manipulator's War (book cover) Image: red glyphs outline a stone archway, through which fire arrows rain down on torch-lit battlements atop a castle, at night time. Spears in the foreground indicate an advancing invading army. Text 2: Secrets of the Sorcery War (book cover) Blue glyphs in a stone arch frame a pair of tall cliffs, a ship sailing on bright blue water through the gap, into the sunshine of a natural harbour. Text connected to covers with white squiggly lines: Invisible doods think we'll save the world? Are they nuts? Why are there monsters? 4 lost Aussies Aro Aces on Adventure Enby heir torn between friendship and duty Did the monsters just get smarter We can learn magic? Us?
September 22, 2023 at 8:10 AM
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alanbaxter.bsky.social
Conflux pals! Only a couple of days left to vote in the Ditmars. I'm stoked to be nominated and would love your vote if you think I'm worthy of it. Stellar shortlists all around this year. You can vote online here:
ditmars.sf.org.au/voting/
Ditmar voting form: 2023
ditmars.sf.org.au
September 20, 2023 at 9:41 PM
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freyamarske.bsky.social
SHORT STORY ALERT!

I'm delighted to have a story in the new upcoming CSFG anthology, Body of Work.

Mine is a military-ish scifi story about childbirth (...no, it's not Alien) and I'm sure it'll be surrounded by some excellently bony, gory, squishy & otherwise embodied tales.
a red book cover with a creepy torso containing honeycomb, tentacles and mushrooms (among other things), titled Body of Work, edited by C.Z. Tacks
September 20, 2023 at 10:29 PM
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leemandelo.bsky.social
We’re halfway through the open submissions period for ‘Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity’ (edited by yours-truly with @dianapho.bsky.social at Erewhon Books) — so consider this a reminder to send your stories. And we are actively still seeking stories in translation!!
August 15, 2023 at 2:18 PM
spec-australia.bsky.social
The Australian Speculative Fiction project from the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf has arrived!
Follow us if you're an Australian Speculative Fiction author, a fan - or if you want to become one 😁
September 20, 2023 at 11:43 AM