Tasmanian Land Conservancy @tasland.bsky.social We care for nature on our land and in partnership with private landholders throughout Tasmania.
Dr Rosemary Hohnen @rhohnen.bsky.social Liber Ero Postdoctoral Fellow @laurierbiology.bsky.social and @stewartresearch.bsky.social | Species at risk | Mesocarnivores | Tea
www.rosemaryhohnen.com
Martin Langford @martinlangford.bsky.social Poetry, essays, reviews. Aphorism. Sydney, Aus. Most recent: The Boy from the War Veteran’s Home (Puncher and Wattmann, 2022). Co-ed (with J. Beveridge, J. Johnson and D. Musgrave), Contemporary Australian Poetry (2016).
Tania Fordwalker @fordwalker.bsky.social Tasmanian author and Doctor of Creative Writing. Stories in Reactor (upcoming), Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, BCS, PodCastle and more. Clarion West & Odyssey ‘22. Tree enthusiast, dog friend, garden wench.
Fordwalker.com
Meg Brayshaw @megbrayshaw.bsky.social John Rowe Lecturer in Australian Literature @ USYD. Editor, Aust Lit at Sydney UP. Co-editor, Australian Literary Studies. Current projects: resource extraction & settler colonial spatial imaginaries; Dymphna Cusack & literary commitment in the Cold War
Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social Writer / Art writing, cultural criticism & fiction in Art Guide, Vault, Apollo, Sydney Review of Books, Island, Adroit Journal, Flash Frog & Okay Donkey / Secret 🪡 habit
janeosullivan.com.au
Southerly @southerlylitmag.bsky.social Southerly is Australia’s oldest literary journal. Founded in 1939, it is the journal of The English Association (Sydney).
Kenyon Review @kenyonreview.bsky.social In the heart of literature since 1939. journal | workshops | fellowships
https://linktr.ee/KenyonReview
Save Meanjin @savemeanjin.bsky.social The closure of Meanjin has triggered outrage across Australia’s literary and academic communities.
The solution is straightforward — transfer the journal to new custodians who can ensure its future.
More at https://savemeanjin.org
Barnaby Smith @abarnabyms.bsky.social Writer, editor, poet, singer-songwriter, researcher.
Website: https://barnaby-smith.wixsite.com/home
33 1/3 Oceania book on Crowded House
2nd album released in 2026: https://brigadoon.bandcamp.com/album/everyone-no-one
Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social Creative Director, Writer, Broadcaster - host Spin Cycle on RRR plus podcast platforms. Living in Naarm. Baker of bread. Here we go again.
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.)
Jessie Cole @jessiexcole.bsky.social 📚 Author of DESIRE, A RECKONING | Also STAYING, A MEMOIR 📚
Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social Writer, journalist, researcher, trade unionist
Steve Dow @dowsteve.bsky.social Arts journalo, everywhere I go - Guardian, Saturday Paper, The Monthly, Sunday Life, The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Art Guide Australia, Limelight, Australian Book Review, Meanjin. http://stevedow.com.au/default.aspx
Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social Online magazine editor, @overlandjournal.bsky.social. Bylines at New Humanist, Pantograph Punch, New Inquiry, Popula, Sport. Translator. He/him.
Alaina Gougoulis @radiomoderation.bsky.social Book editor. City views. 
Jane Howard @janeannehoward.bsky.social Arts and culture editor, The Conversation Au+NZ
Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social Writer and publisher (CB editions, 2007 to now: www.cbeditions.com)
Joy McCann @mjmccann.bsky.social Environmental/public historian & writer - oceans, ice, coasts & islands. Author of Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean. Living on Palawa country, lutruwita Tasmania.
#envhist #envhum #naturewriting www.joymccann.blog
Jen Murnaghan @jenmurnaghan.bsky.social Irish ex-pat in Lutruwita Tasmania. Weathering the storm with Blue Skies in 2025.
Board Co-Chair, Director, Marketing Consultant. Story-driven. Running Novice. Dog pal.
https://www.digitaldandy.com.au/
Stuart Barnes @stuartabarnes.bsky.social Poet (Like to the Lark, Upswell Publishing; Glasshouses, UQP). One quarter of Hell Herons (The Wreck Event) 📚🌳🪩🌈
stuartabarnes.com
Martine Kropkowski @mkropkowski.bsky.social Writer
Ultimo Press
www.martinekropkowski.com
alex bennetts @alexbennetts.bsky.social writer, music maker. Ann Arbor.
www.alexanderbennetts.com
Bob Burton @bobburtonoz.bsky.social Editor CoalWire free weekly digest on global coal: https://shorturl.at/oofNh
Tasmanian Inquirer: @tasinquirer.bsky.social
Email alerts for new TI stories: http://bit.ly/348DcoE
Website: https://tasmanianinquirer.com.au/
Likes often = bookmarks
Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social jockserong.com
clothes hearse
Gunditjmara country, southwest Vic
Rep'd Melanie Ostell Literary
Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social Inviting readers into a community of caring for the planet—justly, sustainably, and joyously. orionmagazine.org
@zowiedk.bsky.social @zowiedk.bsky.social 
@evelynaraluen.bsky.social @evelynaraluen.bsky.social 
Puncher & Wattmann @puncherwattmann.bsky.social A publisher of shit-hot Australian literature (poetry, fiction and critical non-fiction). We like writing with humour and edge.
https://puncherandwattmann.com/
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).
AE Macleod @aemacleod.bsky.social Writer living in Meanjin. Words at The London Magazine, The Marrow International Poetry, The Cormorant, Granta, The Saturday Paper, New Australian Fiction.
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.
Tim Coronel @timcoronel.bsky.social Toiling in the word mines for decades. Publishing/comms lecturer at Unimelb. Opinions, I got plenty. Join your union/s!
Elias Greig @eliasgreig.bsky.social Slow writer (he/him)
Author of I Can't Remember the Title but the Cover is Blue (A&U 2018). Opinions mine, professional account only.
Rep'd by @daniellebinks.bsky.social
Email: eliasgreig@gmail.com (E-I-G)
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).
@edwritten.bsky.social @edwritten.bsky.social 
Joshua Santospirito @joshuasantospirito.com Multi-artist, graphic novelist, musician, etc, etc, etc. Graphic novel ~ THE ISLANDS WHERE WE LEFT OUR ANCESTORS. More over at https://joshuasantospirito.com
Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social Film & theatre maker, PhD candidate, film programmer.
Against: fascism, corporate rule, AI boosting, cynicism. For: old movies, ideas for the future & pretzels.
Tasmanian & citizen of the world.
Kerry Jewell @drkerryjewell.bsky.social Writer and nuclear medicine physician
@sueorr.bsky.social @sueorr.bsky.social 
Susan McCreery @susanmccreery.bsky.social Writer. ALL THE UNLOVED out now. Retired proofreader (90 issues!) for Australian Geographic. Still work for trade publishers. Freediver. Ocean, flowers, movies, birds, books, cats, silliness. Thirroul/Dharawal, Australia.
susanmccreery.com.au
C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social Writer of stories. 'We Live Here Now.' 'Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea,' 'The Blind Accordionist,' 'Who's Who When Everyone is Someone Else,' 'The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure.' (@melvillehouse.bsky.social)
Clare Millar @claresmillar.bsky.social Maisy Mouse enthusiast
(Writer, editor, glassblower, former bookseller, etc) She/her
Mandy Beaumont @mandybeaumont.bsky.social Author-The Thrill of It (March 2025), The Furies (2022) & Wild, Fearless Chests (2020). https://linktr.ee/mandybeaumont
Nic Gill @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social Tasmanian author and environmental writer, conservation detection dog handler. Eco-flâneur and known associate of the Difficult Birds Research Group, on the traditional lands of the Moomairremener people, SE lutruwita/Tasmania 🐶🦉🐕🦺📚 nicole-gill.com
Dr Luke Buckmaster @lukebuckmaster.bsky.social Guardian Australia's film critic, chief critic of Flicks.com.au and "The VR Critic" (thevrcritic.com). PHD in virtual reality. Creator of Nicolas Cage fan site The Cage Gauge: https://www.flicks.com.au/cagegauge/
Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social Writer, mastering engineer, will soon sing again in ¡Forward, Russia!
I master records for a living, I'm really good at it: www.hippocraticmastering.com
Erin Vincent @erinvincent.bsky.social Author of FOURTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING - published in AUS/UK/US/CA March/April 2026
www.erinvincent.com
Lydia Hales @lhales.bsky.social Freelance science journalist, editor & em dash enthusiast living in lutruwita. Equally happy to hear about your research or your unhinged D&D campaign.
🏳️🌈🌊🐦⬛
Andrew Roff @roffwrites.bsky.social Unprofessional word arranger. Debut novel, 'Here Are My Demands', out now via Wakefield Press. Rugby enthusiast in a town full of Aussie Rules fans. More at www.roffwrites.com
Tasmanian Inquirer @tasinquirer.bsky.social Independent open-access reader-funded journalism about Lutruwita/Tasmania.
Our eyes are on untold stories. Read them at https://tasmanianinquirer.com.au.
Sign up for email alerts about new articles at https://tasmanianinquirer.com.au/subscribe/
Kate Harrison @kateharrison.bsky.social she/her
in the evening, the real me comes alive ✨
read tasmania 📚
no lights no lycra hobart 👯
the unconformity 🪨
Ruth Dawkins @dorkymum.bsky.social Freelance writer & blogger • Science, environment, travel, books, family, islands • Green, socialist, feminist • Trans rights are human rights • Free Palestine • She/her • Lutruwita/Tasmania via Scotland • #MDANT • dorkymum.com • ruthdawkins.net
Patrick Allington @patrickallington.bsky.social Reader. Lapsed this and that.
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
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
Chris Somerville @chrisomerville.bsky.social writer, teacher, working on our communication goals
Lefa @lefasn.bsky.social Writer, creative producer, mobile-bookshop owner, tea addict, feminist, repping disability pride. Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. #MECFS
Blarney Books & Art @joblarney.bsky.social Hi - I’m Jo. I opened this bookshop in the tiny tourist town Port Fairy (Australia) over 20 years ago (2004). We also facilitate the annual PF Literary Weekend. ‘Notes from a Smalltown Bookshop’ over on Substack.
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!!!
Alex Sawyer @alexsawyer.bsky.social Complete amateur, real dilettante. My debut novel, Rat Daniels, is coming out in 2026.
Matthew Clayfield @mclayfield.bsky.social Lapsed journalist. Occasional critic and screenwriter. Author of much unpublished fiction.
Svetlana Stankovic @svetlanastankovic.bsky.social Opinion editor Guardian Australia
Johannes Jakob @jojojakob.bsky.social commissioning editor at Penguin Random House Australia
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social Birds, books, netball, cats
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.
Jake Dean @jake-dean.bsky.social Writer + just some guy https://jake-dean.com/
Melissa Fagan @liss-liss.bsky.social Writer, reader, surfer, swimmer | on unceded Bundjalung country | author 'What Will Be Worn' 👗 | Co-pilot, stepmum, dogmum, auntie | gardener-in-training | PhD survivor | Sessional academic - creative writing
http://melissafagan.com/
Daniel Davis Wood @danieldaviswood.bsky.social Author of BLOOD AND BONE and AT THE EDGE OF THE SOLID WORLD. Guiding force at ThisIsSplice.co.uk. Fiction Editor at www.3ammagazine.com.
Louise Swinn @losewin.bsky.social Journalist, writer, editor - Melbourne, Australia
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
@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.
Melbourne City of Literature Office @melcityoflit.bsky.social The official Blue Sky account for the Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature office.
https://linktr.ee/melcityoflit
Robert Lukins @robertlukins.bsky.social Reader, writer, Naarm, Melbourne. New book out in Feb 2025, Somebody Down There Likes Me.
https://linktr.ee/robertlukins
Jessica Alice @jessicaalice.bsky.social Artistic Director/CEO Byron Writers Festival | Melburnian in Byron Bay
Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Creative Humanities, Edith Cowan University. Writing, publishing, literary culture, contemporary literature. Views mine etc.
Alison Croggon @alisoncroggon.bsky.social I write words. Award-winning poet, novelist, critic, theatre writer. Arts editor The Saturday Paper. She/her. Living and working on unceded Bunurong and Wadawurrung Country.
http://www.alisoncroggon.com/
Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au Writer, reader. On Kaurna land.
Books incl SALVAGE, A Concise Compendium of Wonder, The Airways, Dyschronia &c
Chair @asauthors.bsky.social, opinions my own
Michael Winkler @micwink.bsky.social Writer, reader, swimwear model. Last book Grimmish. Next book Griefdogg.
michaelwinkler.com.au
Adam Morton @adammorton.bsky.social Journalist, writer. Guardian Australia climate and environment editor. Clear Air columnist. Tasmanian Inquirer co-founder.
Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social Wordy emigre. Means well. Talks to microphones. Writes. Wokish.
Carlton FC victim. he/him
https://greenworlds.substack.com/
Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social Literary agent @shawliterary.bsky.social, formerly head book buyer at Readings Books, Melbourne. Kafka, Sebald, the Antipodes.