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Taking perspective:1 year ago: I stated baking sourdough bread.2 years ago: I didn’t know if I would write a book after Rainforest.3 years ago: I was physically v unwell &

‘Fast food might connote easy accessibility or overindulgence in the West, but McDonald’s presented a different kind of comfort for my family and me. The cost of a burger was

I’m really low level simmering angry. So pls tell me a kind thing someone did for you which you never expected & haven’t forgotten. Ty Today the pest control

On @OverlandJournal :‘I want to write about the intersections of death and ecology and ethics and decolonisation, and I will not be able to do this with integrity if I

Hello everyone, I’m at the NSW art gallery & I’m going to do a thread of some of the art I saw today! I really loved the way time &

You are not more or less Asian or Australian than another person due to your race, ethnicity, place of birth, migration story, class, gender, & other identity markers. We are

I want to speak to my experiences as a judge on panels for literary prizes, whether for individual poems, or for book prizes. I will not divulge any identifying information

Writers, readers, lit fam: I know many feel voiceless in the face of power wielded by lit orgs, lit mags, funding bodies. What if we reframed ‘power’ to ‘responsibility’? These

I don’t wish to exist in a literary community that relies on a whisper network to warn others. Many have fallen through the cracks. If we all have more courage,

When I spoke up about this to #VerityLa, the editor did not see the problem with the piece. It had been already been published & distributed in newsletter. I caught