ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au News and analysis from Australia’s most trusted news organisation.
Dominique Chen @dominiqueachen.bsky.social Gamilaroi academic I mother I art maker I food grower I Indigenous Engagement at The University of Queensland. Views are my own.
www.growingoncountry.com.au
www.yuruwan.org.au
www.theblaklaundry.com.au
www.walkingstory.com.au
ANU Press @anupress.bsky.social The first and largest open-access university press in the world. Based at ANU, we publish academic monographs and journals across a wide variety of disciplines.
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
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International Australian Studies Association @intlausstudies.bsky.social The International Australian Studies Association brings together Australianists from across the world and publishes the quarterly Journal of Australian Studies.
NewSouth Publishing @newsouthpublishing.bsky.social Books that make you think. 📕
Australian Book Review @austbookreview.bsky.social One of Australia’s leading literary magazines. We publish reviews, essays, commentary, and creative writing, and offer several prizes and fellowships. Home to the Jolley, Porter, and Calibre prizes.
www.australianbookreview.com.au
Critical Research Association Melbourne @cramcramcram.bsky.social https://go.unimelb.edu.au/vj8s
Emerging Writers' Festival @emergingwriters.bsky.social #EWF26 10-18 Sept 2026
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ANU Centre for Australian Literary Cultures @calc-anu.bsky.social CALC honours the foundations of Australian Literature at the ANU while connecting a global network of literature and media scholars and practitioners. We focus on Australian reading, writing & publishing: https://slll.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/calc/home
The Steph Bowe Prize for Young Writers @stephboweprize.bsky.social Established in memory of beloved YA author Steph Bowe, the Prize is designed to support an unpublished Australian YA writer under 25. www.stephboweprize.com
raelee lancaster @raeleelancaster.bsky.social reader, writer, academic librarian. wiradjuri koori based in magandjin/meanjin (brisbane) australia. lover of em-dashes and lower-case lettering.
Stuart Kells @stuartkells.bsky.social History of books, history of money. Enterprise Fellow, Melbourne Institute #UniMelb. Editor #LibraryPlanet. Author of Alice, The Library, Shakespeare’s Library, Penguin & the Lane Brothers
kc@austcrimefiction @austcrimefiction.org Reads a bit of crime fiction. AustCrimeFiction.org since 2006. Owned by lots of Aussie Terriers, cats & farm animals. Gin drinker, whinges about weather, too old for this. Dja Dja Wurrung country.
All sites at: https://linksta.cc/@austcrimefiction
Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Tasmania. "Hotel Modernity: Corporate Space in Literature and Film" from Edinburgh UP. He/him.
Community Publishing in Regional Australia @communitypubinaus.bsky.social Researching how community groups in regional Australia are using digital technology to publish and distribute books. 2023-2025.
https://linktr.ee/communitypublishinginaus
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
Brigitta Olubas @brigittaolubas.bsky.social Professor of English UNSW Sydney | Australian Literature | Biographer
Victoria Purman @victoriapurman.bsky.social Australian bestselling novelist. Feminist. Reader. Golden Retriever owner.
Dervla McTiernan @dervlamctiernan.bsky.social Writer (The Ruin, The Scholar, The Good Turn, The Murder Rule). Irish living in Perth. OUT NOW: What Happened To Nina? (An Amazon Book of the Year). 
Meg Vann @megvann.bsky.social Book tornado
Newtown Review of Books @newtownbooks.bsky.social Sydney's original online review of books, established March 2012 by Jean Bedford and Linda Funnell. We are a free and independent site for book reviews. Find us at https://newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/
On Gadigal land. Posts by LF. 
Stephen Morgan @drsmorgan.com De/anti-colonialism, Indigenous Cinemas, Settler National Cinemas (CANZUS).
Settler kid, raised on Peramangk country.
Programming: londonaustfilm.com
Teaching: @kingsfilmstudies.bsky.social
Australian Society of Authors @asauthors.bsky.social The national peak organisation promoting and protecting the professional interests of Australia's authors and illustrators since 1963.
Dr Dee Michell #cep @drdeemichell.bsky.social Former foster kid, former academic at the University of Adelaide, Kaurna country. Views are mine. Concerned with representations of care experienced people https://www.careexperienceandculture.com/ Also https://drdee-drdeethinkingoutloud.blogspot.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
Mandy Beaumont @mandybeaumont.bsky.social Author-The Thrill of It (March 2025), The Furies (2022) & Wild, Fearless Chests (2020). https://linktr.ee/mandybeaumont
LUCTSDH @luctsdh.bsky.social The official account of the Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities, Loyola University Chicago.
Lindy Cameron @loucam.bsky.social Genre writer of crime, sf and historical fiction; crazy cat human with dogs too; Xena fan; publisher of Clan Destine Press; founding member and current VP of Sisters in Crime Australia.
Tiny Owl Workshop @tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social Award winning micro publisher and sculptor. Maker of curious things.
Sean Williams aka theAdelaidean @adelaidesean.bsky.social 60 books for all ages. 13 albums for Projekt Records. Teaching at Flinders University. That's my real family photo.
www.seanwilliams.com
www.theadelaidean.com
Australian Book Lovers @australianbooks.bsky.social Celebrating and supporting Australian #writers and #readers. A free platform full of Australian authored books. And a fabulous free podcast hosted by @VeronicaStrachan.bsky.social & @writerLaurieBell.bsky.social
#ReadMoreAussieBooks #AusWrites #booksky
Tom Doig @tomdoig.bsky.social e.g. Artist, dog lover and avid reader
Peta Mitchell @petamitchell.bsky.social Professor of Digital Media at QUT Digital Media Research Centre, researching digital and media geographies, digital cultures, digital inclusion
Alicia Sometimes @aliciasometimes.bsky.social Poet, broadcaster, love astronomy & quantum physics, sci-art, collaborator 
Michael Earp @littleelfman.bsky.social Books and Queers, and Queer Books.
Writer, Editor, bookseller.
Came for the network, stayed for the nonsense.
they/them
Anna Whateley @annawhateley.bsky.social Writer. PhD. She/her. Tearing Myself Together and Peta Lyre’s Rating Normal @AllenAndUnwin. GUDIA @BlackIncBooks. Rep’d @danielle_binks #EDS #ADHD #ASD #EDS #queer #loveozya
I also game a lot! #wow
Sydney Film Festival @sydfilmfest.bsky.social See it your way at the Sydney Film Festival, returning in June 2025. https://www.sff.org.au/
Writers Victoria @writersvictoria.bsky.social Writers Victoria supports & connects writers at all stages.
https://linktr.ee/writersvictoria
Tehani @editormum75.bsky.social Always learning
Alisa Krasnostein @krasnostein.bsky.social She/her. Mum, crafter. News junkie. Twelfth Planet Press publisher.
Pamela Jeffs @pamelajeffs.bsky.social Speculative Fiction Author and Interior Architect. Aurealis, Shadows and Ditmar Award winner🏆
Matt Tighe @mktighewrites.bsky.social Aurealis and Australian Shadows Awards Winner. Ditmar finalist. AHWA, SFWA. Tired, but trying to be kind. (he/him) https://matttighe.weebly.com/
Kirstyn McDermott @fearofemeralds.bsky.social Australian author of contemporary gothic, horror and fairy tales. Owned by two cats. Drinks too much gin, or maybe not enough. Current status: exhausted.
she/her
www.kirstynmcdermott.com
Cat Sparks @catsparx.bsky.social Author, Artist, Activist.
Freya Marske @freyamarske.bsky.social Writer, ice skater, gin drinker. She/her 🏳️🌈. THE LAST BINDING trilogy, SWORDCROSSED, CINDER HOUSE out now. BODIES OF MAGIC out September 2026.
Keith Stevenson @keithstevenson.com Scottish/ Australian SF author. The End Times of Markusz Zielinski. The Lenticular Series. Horizon. Here for a chat but no DMs please. No thieving GenAI
💙💛
www.keithstevenson.com
https://linktr.ee/keithstevenson
Jonathan Strahan @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social Freelance anthologist. Consulting Editor, Tor.com. Reviews Editor, Locus www.locusmag.com. Co-host, The Coode Street Podcast jonathanstrahan.podbean.com. Hugo and World Fantasy Award recipient.
Tansy Rayner Roberts @tansyrr.bsky.social Author of cozy fantasy, mysteries & more. Latest book: SAUCERS & SORCERY. Semi-professional tea-drinker. Occasional podcaster! Find my new author store The Teacup Magic Emporium at tansyrr.com
She/Her
Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social Author of horror and weird fiction. Martial Artist. Whisky drinker. Dog lover.
He/him.
Trans rights are human rights.
Fuck AI.
https://alanbaxter.com.au/contact/
Aurealis Awards @aurealisawards.bsky.social Australia’s premier speculative fiction literature awards.
https://aurealisawards.org
Kelly Gardiner @kmjgardiner.bsky.social I write, teach writing, and lead writing retreats. My latest novel, Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Detective, co- written with Sharmini Kumar, is out now (HarperCollins).
Richard Glover @richardglover1.bsky.social Australian writer and recovering radio host. Website: richardglover.com.au
Dr Dani Netherclift @dani-netherclift.bsky.social Essayist and poet. My book Vessel is out on January 13 with Assembly Press in Canada and the US. Australian, living on never-ceded Taungurung Country. President Mansfield Readers & Writers Festival.
Sophie Loy-Wilson @sophieloywilson.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Australian History @University of Sydney
Chinese Australians | immigration & economic history
Liang Qichao's 梁启超 visit to Australia 1900-1901
https://tinyurl.com/yj2y37hs
Series editor: China & the West in the Modern World (SUP)
Erin Gough 🏳️🌈🍉 @eringough.bsky.social Writer. She/her. Books, culture, queer stuff, social justice, climate justice, TV, film, art. The Flywheel, Amelia Westlake, Into the Mouth of the Wolf https://linktr.ee/eringough
Ailsa Wild @ailsawild.bsky.social Writer, community arts, kids’ literature, sci-comms, ghost-writer, mentor, story-craft, collaboration. Living in Naarm
Peter M. Ball @petermball.bsky.social Genrepunk. Writing/Publishing Nerd. Writing neo-pulp stories at GenrePunk Books and publishing outstanding genre fiction at BrainJarPress. He/him.
Beth Spencer @bethspen.bsky.social Writer. Latest book - The Age of Fibs: fiction, memoir, microlit - Green lefty - she/her/dr. Living on Darkinjung land. https://linktr.ee/bethspen / substack at https://bethspen.substack.com
David Whish-Wilson @davidwhish-wilson.bsky.social Fremantle-based crime writer and reader, reviewer, academic. Author of the Frank Swann and Lee Southern series. Latest is Cutler, out with Fremantle Press.
Ellie Marney @elliemarney.bsky.social Aussie rural, NYT bestseller - people die in my books 💀 Feb 2026: NO ONE IS SAFE 💀 Here's the fun stuff: https://t.co/ujW6HqmgSi
Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social Literary agent @shawliterary.bsky.social, formerly head book buyer at Readings Books, Melbourne. Kafka, Sebald, the Antipodes.
Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social A journal from the fringes of civilised society.
Volume 6 submissions open now!
sudojournal.com
Cover image: “Heart on a Wire“ (CC0 1.0 Universal) by Alan Levine.
Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social Authoress kazcooke.com.au
New book, Spooky Ladies out Oct 27! Also: Up The Duff; Girl Stuffs 8-12 & 13+; Ada; You’re Doing It Wrong: a History of Bad & Bonkers Advice to Women; ‘It’s The Menopause’. Further palaver as it comes to hand.
Monique Rooney @moniquerooney.bsky.social teaching US literature, television and new media at the Australian National University. Writing contemporary ‘brow’ aesthetics and a biography of Ruth Park. https://anu-au.academia.edu/moniquerooney and https://substack.com/@moniquerooney
Damen O'Brien @damenobrien.bsky.social Poet and father. Not necessarily in that order.
Author of 'Walking the Boundary' (Pitt Street Poetry, 2024) and 'Animals With Human Voices' (Recent Work Press, 2022)
James Ley @jamesley.bsky.social Deputy Books and Ideas Editor, The Conversation. Contributing Editor, Sydney Review of Books. Author of The Critic in the Modern World. Words in various other places.
Danielle Binks @daniellebinks.bsky.social Author • Literary Agent • Creative Writing Teacher • https://linktr.ee/DanielleBinks
Simon Groth @simongroth.com Curious writer. Aprendiendo español. ‘Ephemeral City’ is available now. Stories and ephemera published in a box that can be read in any order you like. Follow along with my new book in progress. simongroth.com/newsletter
fiona hardy @fionathehardy.bsky.social melbourne-based author, reviewer, bookseller & butthead
crime books/kids books/educational books
out now: old games 🏺🎾
Danielle Clode @dclode.bsky.social Writer | Nature Science History
www.danielleclode.com.au Author of award-winning Australian nonfiction books for adults and children.
Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social 1. Writer (https://www.adamsharp.me/)
2. Obsessed with lists
3. COMMON PEOPLE
4. THE CORRECT ORDER OF BISCUITS
5. THE WHEEL IS SPINNING BUT THE HAMSTER IS DEAD (http://geni.us/yDxa)
Michael Winkler @micwink.bsky.social Writer, reader, swimwear model. Last book Grimmish. Next book Griefdogg.
michaelwinkler.com.au
@deliafalconer.bsky.social @deliafalconer.bsky.social Acting Head of Writing, University of Technology Sydney. Author of The Service of Clouds, The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers, Sydney, Signs & Wonders. Fiction, criticism, CNF. https://profiles.uts.edu.au/Delia.Falconer Deliafalconer.com.au Instagram @drdelia.
Joanne Anderton @joanneanderton.bsky.social Student. Writer. Nerd.
@nicmoore.bsky.social @nicmoore.bsky.social Lit and cultural history stuff - Australian in particular. Plus book and print censorship. Teaching and research at UNSW Canberra, ex-Australian Studies Prof at UTokyo. https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/nicole-moore
Leonie Wood @leoniewood.bsky.social Writer, journalist, author.
History, law, justice, business, archaeology, politics, world affairs, literature, travel, human rights, regional issues. Looking outwards, always.
Johannes Jakob @jojojakob.bsky.social commissioning editor at Penguin Random House Australia
Lucy Treloar @lucytreloar.bsky.social Writer: Salt Creek (2015), Wolfe Island (2019), Days of Innocence and Wonder (2023); Agent: Curtis Brown Australia; haphazard but enthusiastic gardener. Love my family and my darling whippets.
Felicity Plunkett @felicity-plunkett.bsky.social she / her
Poet, critic, editor
Poetry Editor, Australian Book Review
Vanishing Point, A Kinder Sea, Seastrands, Thirty Australian Poets (ed.)
Kirsten Krauth @kirstenkrauth.bsky.social Author, podcaster, poet, 80s tragic. Latest novel, Almost a Mirror - The Guardian's 20 Best Books of 2020, shortlisted Penguin Literary Prize, SPN Book of the Year. Commissioning editor, Spinning Around - The Kylie Playlist. Blake Poetry Prize - runner up.
The Little Bookroom @littlebookroom.bsky.social The oldest bookshop for children in the world. Melbourne, Australia.- G Gillian Polack @gillianpolack.bsky.social Writer, historian, educator, foodie. Maker of seriously bad jokes.
Jessica Friedmann @msfriedmann.bsky.social Writer, editor, tarot-lover, nice dogs etc. Author THINGS THAT HELPED 🌸 and TWENTY-TWO IMPRESSIONS 🔮
Living and writing on the unceded lands of the Boonwurrung people of the Kulin nation.
Jo Case @jocaseau.bsky.social Professional book nerd (writer, editor, critic - former publisher, bookseller). Deputy Editor, Books & Ideas, The Conversation: @aunz.theconversation.com. Co-editor, Someone Like Me: An Anthology of Autistic Writers (UQP).
Eloise Faichney @eloisefaichney.bsky.social Lecturer in media and comms at University of Melbourne.
Robert Lukins @robertlukins.bsky.social Reader, writer, Naarm, Melbourne. New book out in Feb 2025, Somebody Down There Likes Me.
https://linktr.ee/robertlukins
Nadia Niaz @nadianiaz.bsky.social she/her
Writing, multilingualism, academia, occasional gardening & powerlifting
Book! https://rabbitpoetry.com/shop/the-djinn-hunters-nadia-niaz
Bram Presser @brampresser.bsky.social Writes stuff. Tries to be kind. Dirty punk. Obsessive reader. Obsessed Dad.
Angela Slatter 📚 @angelaslatter.bsky.social AKA AG Slatter. Many gothic novels (okay 4). A Forest, Darkly coming in Feb '26. Several gothic novellas (okay 5). Some Awards. Hellboy U comic. PhD.
Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them) @sandyosullivan.bsky.social Aboriginal trans professor doing anti-colonial work across policy, universities, museums, art, gender, culture, supporting older queer lives @IndigFutures.
them/sib/kin
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
James Bradley @ghostspecies.bsky.social Author of Wrack, The Deep Field, The Resurrectionist, Clade and Ghost Species. Editor of The Penguin Book of the Ocean. New book, Deep Water: The World in the Ocean, coming 2024. He/him. https://linktr.ee/jamesbradley
Tyne Daile Sumner @tynedaile.bsky.social ARC DECRA Fellow: literary studies | digital humanities | surveillance | President, Australasian Association for Digital Humanities: https://aa-dh.org/ | current project: surveilit.com | everything else: tynedaile.com
Sophie Beer @sophiebeerdraws.bsky.social Kids author and illustrator✨☀✨
Into books and equality. She/her
Debut MG 'Thunderhead' out now with A&U