Moreno Giovannoni @morgio2.bsky.social I’ve translated millions of words. I’ve written two books, both published by Black Inc: The Fireflies of Autumn (2018), and The Immigrants (2025). Books 3 and 4 are on the boil.
S. A. Chant 🏳️⚧️ is writing sword & sorcery @essaychant.bsky.social Author of Peter Darling, transsexual menace. He/they.
Next publication: "The White Spire at World's End" in SHATTER THE SUN!
Books & news at my website: https://austinchant.com/
Jimmy Barnes @jimmybarnes.com Working Class Man 40th Anniversary Tour: Nov - Feb. Pre-order For The Working Class Man 40th Anniversary Edition👉 jimmybarnes.com
Dr Anita Heiss @dranitaheiss.bsky.social Wiradyuri
Author of over 20 titles, most recent DIRRAYAWADHA (RISE UP)
Publisher @ Bundyi, Simon & Schuster AU
Prof of Communications @ UQ
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/dranitaheiss?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=e8039df8-76bc-4e43-b07d-c57dc8bfc
Alison Goodman @alisongoodman.bsky.social Australian author of 9 novels including The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies and its upcoming sequel The Ladies Road Guide to Utter Ruin.
I drink too much coffee & cannot click my fingers (frustrating since my fave musical is West Side Story).
Dr Helen Edwards, Psych PhD, Australian Author & Speaker @drhelenedwards.bsky.social Award-winning Australian Author on Kaurna Land.
🪶SA Literary Fellow 2025
✨️The Rebels of Mount Buffalo✨️Legend of The Lighthouse Moon✨️On Gallant Wings ✨️The Disappearing Circus 7/25 with Kate Gordon
🪶Nature, Magic & History
www.helenedwardswrites.com
Michael Earp @littleelfman.bsky.social Books and Queers, and Queer Books.
Writer, Editor, bookseller.
Came for the network, stayed for the nonsense.
they/them
Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social 👉🏽 https://linktr.ee/ronnisalt
Political-social commentator/sometime-journo. I write books & media articles, sometimes I investigate stuff. Whiny male edgelord's pinup girl. Mostly hilarious most of the time. Likes are acknowledgments only. She/her
Montague Street Bridge @montaguestbridge.bsky.social Vertically challenged - just 3.0m tall!
Allegedly invisible to the naked eye
Come visit me in South Melbourne
Don't be a jerk!
The Shovel @theshovel.bsky.social News you can believe in.
Read more at theshovel.com.au 
@larissabehrendt.bsky.social @larissabehrendt.bsky.social 
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
Sophie Overett @sophieoverett.bsky.social Writer, editor, cultural producer. Debut novel, The Rabbits, out now with Penguin Random House Australia and Gallic Books UK.
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. www.celesteng.com
Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social detroit native. deputy editor at huffpost. WABJ president. check out my free newsletter! --> https://www.whatimreading.net/
Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au "Young has nailed it." - Publisher's Weekly
Philosopher & author. Agents: Zeitgeist Agency (nonfiction) & Alex Adsett Literary (fiction)
www.damonyoung.com.au
Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social Queer Muslim. Author of five books. Father of two boys. Latest: The Nightmare Sequence (UQP, 2025). https://linktr.ee/OmarjSakr 🇱🇧🇹🇷2170
Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social I write. Author of Mean Streak and other things. Reporter. I write a decent newsletter: https://rick-morton.ghost.io
Yassmin Abdel-Magied @yassmin.bsky.social screenwriter + novelist
newsletter yassmin.substack.com. @yassmin_a on most other socials
Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social Freelance cartoonist , political junkie, best-selling author of The Amazing True Story of How Babies Are Made. Sweary.
Gadigal Country. Australia
Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social Journalist. Author of The Death of Holden (2016) and Slick: Australia's Toxic Relationship with Big Oil (2024).
For more me: https://www.roycekurmelovs.com/
Get me on Signal: RoyceK.11
James Colley @colley.bsky.social buy me book, watch me shows, love me til my heart stops
Jodi McAlister @jodimca.bsky.social Romance author, romance scholar. Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature & Culture at Deakin (Naarm/Melbourne). My newest rom-com, An Academic Affair, is out now.
Geoff Lemon 🍋 @geofflemon.bsky.social Writer. Australian. Probably somewhere else.
Essays at patreon.com/geofflemon
Sport at @finalwordcricket.bsky.social
Marieke Hardy @mariekehardy.bsky.social Mainlining tahini while the world burns
She/Her
Ren Wyld @wyld.bsky.social K.A Ren Wyld [-o-] Aboriginal author (Martu) living on Kaurna Yarta. They/she/mx
[Bluesky has locked my DMs]
Links > https://linktr.ee/KarenWyld https://www.paypal.me/KarenAWyld
Chris Somerville @chrisomerville.bsky.social writer, teacher, working on our communication goals
Amy Gray @amygray.bsky.social Writer and mal vivant.
liz duck-chong @lizduckchong.bsky.social post-fertile funny girl 💘 writer, carpenter, researcher 🏳️🌈 still masking and anti gen-AI 💋 proud trans broad, and board member of @transjusticeau
she/her
www.lizduckchong.com
marlee jane ward @marleejaneward.bsky.social Author & visual artist. Middle-aged goth aunt. My novella The Forgetting Navigations is available May, 2026 through Interstellar Flight Press.
linktr.ee/marleejaneward
Kate Cuthbert @katydidinoz.bsky.social Book lover and narrative nerd. Editor, genre fiction advocate, Doctor of Literature, proponent of reading for fun *and* education. Co-host What Would Danbury Do?
she/her. Naarm/Wirandjuri land
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social Birds, books, netball, cats
Overland Journal @overlandjournal.bsky.social Overland Journal – radical Australian literature and culture since 1954
linktr.ee/ovrlnd
Jay Kristoff @misterkristoff.bsky.social #1 International, NYT, USAToday and Sunday Times bestselling liar.
EMPIRE OF THE DAWN - Out Now
Claire G. Coleman @clairegcoleman.bsky.social Noongar writer - Novels: Terra Nullius, The Old Lie, Enclave [Hachette Australia]. Non-fiction: Lies, Damned Lies [Ultimo Press]. Writer also of essays, verse, opinion, and criticism.
Michelle Scott Tucker @mst-writes.bsky.social Australian biographer, writer, reader, gardener, muse, dirty lefty and terrible cook.
Working on Louisa Lawson biography.
SPIRIT OF THE CROCODILE (A&U, 2025), SO FAR, SO GOOD (Pantera 2022), ELIZABETH MACARTHUR (Text 2018).
www.MichelleScottTucker.com
Isy Oderberg @yodaberg.bsky.social Journo ▪️ media-comms ▪️ Mum to #didgerijews ▪️ Insta @isyode▪️ Book: http://hardtobear.com (@mjostell) ▪️ @speakingout▪️ http://isabelleoderberg.com.au
Karlie Noon @karlienoon.bsky.social Gamilaroi yinarr (woman), astronomer, author, science communicator, and gamer girl.
Brydie Lee-Kennedy @brydielk.bsky.social I write TV and books and I watch a lot of basketball. She/her 🏳️🌈
https://linktr.ee/brydieleekennedy
vidyarrrr @vidyarajan.bsky.social screenwriter/comedian/ performance art goblin based in aust 🌈
often at the intersection of art and tech but like non yuck version 💀
insta: @vidyarrrr
Patrick Marlborough @cormacmccafe.bsky.social writer, comedian, musician based in Walyalup, WA.
The Yeah Nah Review on substack
co-host of The Battler
debut novel NOCK LOOSE out NOW!!!
Liminal @liminalmag.bsky.social Founded in 2016, Liminal is an anti-racist literary journal publishing art + writing, criticism + conversations / AGAINST DISAPPEARANCE out now
Andrew P Street @andrewpstreet.bsky.social Word making-in-the-order-doing guy, fleeing Twitter for less Nazi-filled horizons.
Stephanie Convery @gingerandhoney.bsky.social Writer. Reporter at Guardian Australia. Stories and tips: stephanie.convery@theguardian.com or stephanieconvery@protonmail.com; DM for Signal
Cristy Clark @cristyclark.bsky.social Associate Professor (human rights & environmental law). I’m interested in legal geography, and water, climate & spatial justice. Co-author of The Lawful Forest (2022), author of Legal Geographies of Water (2025). Naarm. She/her
Jasper Peach @jasperpeachsays.bsky.social Writing about parenting, disability, queer things. General flavour is dismantling misplaced shame. 📖 You’ll be a Wonderful Parent (@hardiegrant 2023) 🏳️⚧️🌈- M Marni Cordell @marni.bsky.social Major projects + investigations editor at Guardian Australia
Harry Saddler @harrysaddler.bsky.social Wrote a book about a bird (the Eastern Curlew, 2018), a river (A Clear Flowing Yarra, 2023), and a global existential crisis or three (Questions Raised By Quolls, 2021).
Jeff Sparrow @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social Frightful hobgoblin
Mireille Juchau @mireillejuchau.bsky.social Writer, Critic. The World Without Us (Bloomsbury), Burning In (Giramondo). Essays here and there. Researching archives, dreams and war.
www.mireillejuchau.com
Jessica Alice @jessicaalice.bsky.social Artistic Director/CEO Byron Writers Festival | Melburnian in Byron Bay
Jess / Jesse Walton @jesshealywalton.bsky.social Free Palestine
🚫 TERFs, Zionists or Fascists
Johannes Jakob @jojojakob.bsky.social commissioning editor at Penguin Random House Australia
Laura Jean McKay @laurajeanmckay.bsky.social Writer. THE ANIMALS IN THAT COUNTRY winner of The Arthur C Clarke Award and The Victorian Prize for Literature. Latest collection GUNFLOWER. She/her. Views mostly other people's.
laurajeanmckay.com.au
On Meeanjin - Turrbal and Jagera Country.
Anti gen AI
Chris Currie @furioushorses.bsky.social honky tonk investor
Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social aunty/she/her
Comforter, philosopher and lifelong mate.
Tea, zines, spec fic, postcards and long walks.
On Dharug land (Australia)
Sarah Jansen @sarahjansencom.bsky.social Writer for energy engineers, disabled, queer, mixed, anxious, organ donor. Made in Logan, Qld. She/her. #ItsNotYouItsCapitalism
Leah Jing @leahjing.bsky.social 
Jes Layton @ageekwithahat.bsky.social 🌈 www.jeslayton.com.au 🌈
Esther Anatolitis @anatolitis.bsky.social art – tenacity – democracy
Writer. Strategy and policy, Test Pattern. Curator, Frameworks for Practice. Adj Industry Prof, RMIT. Cultural Policy, NIDA. Council, National Museum of Australia. CoChair, Australian Republic Movement
linktr.ee/estheranatolitis
Claire turbo chook @clairekoolkat.bsky.social Currently running naked down your street. Writer, copywriter and general bozo.
egg morning 🐣 @mdixonsmith.bsky.social Writer, editor, bookseller living on unceded Gadigal land. She/her. ITYSL memes always welcome here. 
Nicola Santilli @nicolasantilli.bsky.social Freelance editor (kids/YA). Words, anime, manga, graphic novels, #LoveOzYA 🌈🏳️⚧️ They/them.
Kate Murray @katemurray.bsky.social YA author of WE WHO HUNT THE HOLLOW and WE WHO ARE FORGED IN FIRE. Usually caffeinated. Adore all forms of SFF. Kiwi. Own way too many lip balms. Melburnian. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/kateswriting
Briar Rolfe: TRANS INSURGENT @briar-rolfe.bsky.social Cartoonist on Latji Latji country 🌱 Get Your Story Straight (2027) from Hachette Australia and Levine Querido (US)! 🏳️🌈 Repped by Danielle Binks 📚 he/they
Connor Tomas O'Brien @mrconnorobrien.bsky.social Run a design studio for non-profits (http://studiosometimes.com) + write stuff for lazy environmentalists (Change is Hard). Born: 351.41 ppm CO2
paul dalgarno @pauldalgarno.bsky.social Author. A Country of Eternal Light, Prudish Nation, Poly, And You May Find Yourself 🏴 🇦🇺Here for the book chat
Alice Grundy @alicektg.bsky.social Managing Editor, Australia Institute Press
Research Manager, The Australia Institute
Austlit editing and publishing aficionado
Opinions own
Rochelle Siemienowicz @milan2pinsk.bsky.social Writer and Australian arts/screen journo. Author of 'Double Happiness', a novel, and 'Fallen', a memoir. Emerging crone. MEAA union member. Substack: https://rochellesiemienowicz.substack.com/
CHB @craighb.bsky.social writer & psychologist
Jane Howard @janeannehoward.bsky.social Arts and culture editor, The Conversation Au+NZ
F'N Feminist @fnfeminist.bsky.social Blak of all trades / no masters / no slaves
The Paperback Bookshop @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social Keeping Melbourne in good books since the 1960s.
60 Bourke St, Melbourne VIC, Australia
https://paperbackbooks.com.au
Monica Attard @monicaattard.bsky.social Journalist, academic, author, obsessive about international affairs, media and tennis.
Geoff Orton @geoffsopinions.bsky.social Digital Learning Leader, Writers Bloc founder and curious person. Writing about education, books and learning Spanish. I could eat.🌮📚🏀
Michael Robotham @michaelrobotham.bsky.social Writer, author, scribbler, scribe, wordsmith, storyteller, ink smith, ghostwriter, hack.
sean watson @seanmwatson.bsky.social 
MEAA @withmeaa.bsky.social The union & industry advocate for Australia's creative professionals.
Authorised by Erin Madeley, 245 Chalmers St, Redfern NSW 2016. Phone: 1300 65 65 13
Alex Adsett @alexadsett.bsky.social Australian literary agent, publishing consultant and avid reader. 
Roz Bellamy @bellarozz.bsky.social Writer 🖊
PhD grad from @latrobeuni 🤓
Memoir MOOD published by @wakefieldpress 📚
Kylie @kyliemmason.com Freelance book editor based in Sydney, Australia. AuDHD. Working on Bidjigal land. I created a workbook to help writers self-edit their novel: https://kyliemmason.com/after-the-first-draft-workbook/
Also my kid's stan account.
Louise Swinn @losewin.bsky.social Journalist, writer, editor - Melbourne, Australia
Jessie Cole @jessiexcole.bsky.social 📚 Author of DESIRE, A RECKONING | Also STAYING, A MEMOIR 📚
Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social Australian icon.
Co-host of the Lamestream pod
Lamestream.com.au
Scribe @scribepub.bsky.social Seriously good books since 1976.
Melbourne | London | Minneapolis
scribepublications.com.au
scribepublications.co.uk
scribepublications.com
lisa @lisadempster.bsky.social culture etc
AustLit @austlit.bsky.social AustLit is a bio-bibliographical database of stories by Australians and about Australia.
https://www.austlit.edu.au/- M Melanie Ostell Literary @mjostell.bsky.social Still interested in good stuff. Open for submissions 15 August 2025.
Sulari Gentill @sularigentill.bsky.social Mystery writer, animal lover, truffle hunter.
Robert Lukins @robertlukins.bsky.social Reader, writer, Naarm, Melbourne. New book out in Feb 2025, Somebody Down There Likes Me.
https://linktr.ee/robertlukins
Fiona Tuomy @flinderslane.bsky.social Writer Filmmaker Artist 🎬 and Advocate. Born and respectfully living on the land of Wurundjeri people.
Vikki Wakefield @vikkiwakefield.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Doodler. Dreamer.
Rachel Toop @rachofwonder.bsky.social Sleep deprived parent and connector.
Usually found toddler/baby wrangling or at University of South Australia’s Enterprise Hub, connecting industry with research.
cubbieberry @cubbieberry.bsky.social (cubbie/they/them) #writer & #violist with #LongCOVID • carer of #LongCOVIDkids• #cargobike #slow #cycling as everyday transport
https://mercurialmum.wordpress.com/about
Andrew McDonald @andrewmcdonald.bsky.social Writer. Real Pigeons. Hello Twigs.
Living/writing on Wurrundjeri Country. 
Angela Savage @angelasavage.bsky.social Award-winning author, library lover, 80s pop tragic, bird nerd. Commissioning co-editor of Spinning Around: The Kylie Playlist. Crafter of #literarycritters