MARION @marion-writers.bsky.social MARION is a not-for-profit, member-driven literary organisation dedicated to championing the rights and interests of writers in the ACT region and beyond. Unceded Ngunnawal and Ngambri country.
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haoyi ่ซใ @haoyizhang.bsky.social 
Gene Smith @gene-reads.bsky.social Head of Programming at The Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas in Melbourne, Australia. Like reading. ๐
Esther Anatolitis @anatolitis.bsky.social art โ tenacity โ 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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The Wheeler Centre @wheelercentre.bsky.social Australia's first dedicated centre for Books, Writing and Ideas. 
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
Eileen Chong @eileenchongpoet.bsky.social Poet. Author of 11 books, most recently
๐ธ We Speak of Flowers (UQP, 2025) ๐ธ
eileenchong.com.au (she/her) ๐
Jennifer Feeley @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social Chinese-English Literary Translator
Gigi Leung ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐๐
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Lau Yeewa ๐ป๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
Chen Jiatong ๐พ๐๐๐๐ ๐ญ๐๐ series
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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/
Leah Jing @leahjing.bsky.social 
Yassmin Abdel-Magied @yassmin.bsky.social screenwriter + novelist
newsletter yassmin.substack.com. @yassmin_a on most other socials
cubbieberry @cubbieberry.bsky.social (cubbie/they/them) #writer & #violist with #LongCOVID โข carer of #LongCOVIDkidsโข #cargobike #slow #cycling as everyday transport
https://mercurialmum.wordpress.com/about
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
vidyarrrr @vidyarajan.bsky.social screenwriter/comedian/ performance art goblin based in aust ๐
often at the intersection of art and tech but like non yuck version ๐
insta: @vidyarrrr
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
Addy Teoh (ๅผ ็พ้) @witmol.bsky.social aunty/she/her
Comforter, philosopher and lifelong mate.
Tea, zines, spec fic, postcards and long walks.
On Dharug land (Australia)
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
Jes Layton @ageekwithahat.bsky.social ๐ www.jeslayton.com.au ๐
AustLit @austlit.bsky.social AustLit is a bio-bibliographical database of stories by Australians and about Australia.
https://www.austlit.edu.au/
Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social Literary agent @shawliterary.bsky.social, formerly head book buyer at Readings Books, Melbourne. Kafka, Sebald, the Antipodes.
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!
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.
Scribe @scribepub.bsky.social Seriously good books since 1976.
Melbourne | London | Minneapolis
scribepublications.com.au
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The Paperback Bookshop @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social Keeping Melbourne in good books since the 1960s.
60 Bourke St, Melbourne VIC, Australia
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Jane Howard @janeannehoward.bsky.social Arts and culture editor, The Conversation Au+NZ
Jessica Alice @jessicaalice.bsky.social Artistic Director/CEO Byron Writers Festival | Melburnian in Byron Bay
nikki โยทห เผ * @curiousother.bsky.social artist-curator-filmmaker โฝ she/they
hong kong / naarm โง hyphenated projects + slow burn books
nikkilam.info
Liminal @liminalmag.bsky.social Founded in 2016, Liminal is an anti-racist literary journal publishing art + writing, criticism + conversations / AGAINST DISAPPEARANCE out now
Luke Horton @lukehorton.bsky.social https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdXFajxKO8LQUqgCe-DJwbWqJY-N4_p6qI7Hd7nQYQNErxcyQ/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=115780487899036679119
New novel, Time Together, March 25 via Scribe
https://www.lukehorton.au/
Catriona Menzies-Pike @catrionamp.bsky.social Editor and critic at large. SYD โYVR. I write a newsletter about literature and the internet called Infra Dig.
https://infra-dig.ghost.io
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.)
Wai Chim @onewpc.bsky.social Writer-y sometimes and other things. Fed up.
kat @kgt.bsky.social [-o-]
microgames: https://chipswoon.itch.io/
everything else: https://kgt.dev
DMs closed bc Australia
Claire Mabey @clairemabey.bsky.social Writer. Founder of Verb Wellington. Books editor at The Spinoff. Sylvia Townsend Warner fan. Mum. Author of The Ravenโs Eye Runaways, an MG adventure (2024) ๐Substack at clairemabey@substack.com | clairemabey.com
Maxine Beneba Clarke @maxinebenebaclarke.bsky.social Author of 15 books, including Foreign Soil, How Decent Folk Behave, Itโs The Sound of The Thing, The Patchwork Bike, The Hate Race, Beautiful Changelings, and The Saturday Portraits.
shastra deo เคถเคพเคธเฅเคคเฅเคฐเคพ เคฆเฅเคต @shastradeo.bsky.social not active on here bcause im trying to become a linkedin influencer
Sian C @s-camp.bsky.social Writer/Tutor/PhD-doer at RMIT's non/fictionLab
https://www.patreon.com/c/MorningWriteClub
Meanjin Quarterly @meanjin.bsky.social 
Eloise Grills @grillzoid.bsky.social No
Tina Cartwright (she/her) @humsentence.bsky.social Writer. Wurundjeri country. Novelist thinking about poetry.
LL Michael Gifkins Prize for an Unpublished Novel 2023 and 2024.
Finalist #tasmanianwritersprize 2025
Longlisted #cwprize 2025
https://www.tina-cartwright.com/about
Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social The magazine of international literature since 1984. Order our latest issue, Wasafiri 127: Solidarities
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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com freelancer emeritum | senior media advisor at economicmediacentre.org | words & shenanigans at jinghuaqian.com | work and also nsfw | ey/eir/em ไผ
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.
Sam Elk @samhellkin.bsky.social ๐๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐๐Author of Detachable Penis (Upswell) and co-host of Queer View Mirror (Triple R). Living on unceded Wurundjeri land. Samelkin.com
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)
Jessica Friedmann @msfriedmann.bsky.social Writer, editor, tarot-lover, nice dogs etc. Author THINGS THAT HELPED ๐ธ and TWENTY-TWO IMPRESSIONS ๐ฎ
Living and writing on the unceded lands of the Boonwurrung people of the Kulin nation.
Overland Journal @overlandjournal.bsky.social Overland Journal โ radical Australian literature and culture since 1954
linktr.ee/ovrlnd
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 ๐ฑ๐ง๐น๐ท2170
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.
Nic Gill @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social Tasmanian author and environmental writer, conservation detection dog handler. Eco-flรขneur and known associate of the Difficult Birds Research Group, on the traditional lands of the Moomairremener people, SE lutruwita/Tasmania ๐ถ๐ฆ๐โ๐ฆบ๐ nicole-gill.com
yanyi @yanyiii.com writer
Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social Birds, books, netball, cats
liz duck-chong @lizduckchong.bsky.social post-fertile funny girl ๐ writer, carpenter, researcher ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ still masking and anti gen-AI ๐ proud trans broad, and board member of @transjusticeau
she/her
www.lizduckchong.com
alison evans @alisonevans.bsky.social author, zinester ๐ฝ they/them ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ Wurundjeri land ๐ alisonwritesthings.com ๐ธ is mise Alison, is scrรญbhneoir mรฉ, siad/iad โจ (can't access DMs, pls @ me)
Clare Millar @claresmillar.bsky.social Maisy Mouse enthusiast
(Writer, editor, glassblower, former bookseller, etc) She/her
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