Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com Indie bookshop in Paris📚Online store ships to the world 🌎 Listen to our podcast here: https://podfollow.com/shakespeare-and-company 🎧
New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social www.nyrb.com
Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social Cartoonist and Illustrator. My book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS, is available now! www.tomgauld.com
Melbourne International Film Festival @melbfilmfest.bsky.social The story of film in Melbourne could not be told without the Melbourne International Film Festival. MIFF returns in 2026.
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elijah m. @ejmcl.bsky.social arts prole - critic - communist - poet
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.
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Emerging Writers' Festival @emergingwriters.bsky.social #EWF26 10-18 Sept 2026
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Fiona Kelly McGregor @fionakellymcgregor.bsky.social Novelist, essayist, art writer based on Gadigal country in Sydney, Australia.
Out now: The Trap, follow up to Iris. Set Sydney 1942-43, The Trap is about an entrapment scandal that went all the way to the top.
No generative AI pls.
Sophie Cunningham @sophtree.bsky.social Book person, tree person. Views my own etc. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9YCy_3b6AhPiD5OnJ4S5gWmveYj8okfTrhldoupni2-yaiw/viewform?usp=sharing
benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social Life is thundering blissful towards death
Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social Online magazine editor, @overlandjournal.bsky.social. Bylines at New Humanist, Pantograph Punch, New Inquiry, Popula, Sport. Translator. He/him.
Emmett Stinson @emmettstinson.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Creative Humanities, Edith Cowan University. Writing, publishing, literary culture, contemporary literature. Views mine etc.
Leah Jing @leahjing.bsky.social 
Liminal @liminalmag.bsky.social Founded in 2016, Liminal is an anti-racist literary journal publishing art + writing, criticism + conversations / AGAINST DISAPPEARANCE out now
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
jordy silverstein @jordanas.bsky.social jewishness, diasporism, history, memory, solidarity, justice. she/her. Author of 'Cruel Care' (2023) and 'Anxious Histories' (2015).
Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social Historian in Oz (history of work, education, capitalism) on unceded Dharug & Gundungurra land. Books = Virtue Capitalists: rise & fall of the professional class (2023) and History of the Modern Australian University (2014). She/her. Views mine. 🍉🍉🍉
Michael Winkler @micwink.bsky.social Writer, reader, swimwear model. Last book Grimmish. Next book Griefdogg.
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Clare Millar @claresmillar.bsky.social Maisy Mouse enthusiast
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Eloise Grills @grillzoid.bsky.social No
alison evans @alisonevans.bsky.social author, zinester 👽 they/them 🏳️⚧️ Wurundjeri land 🍃 alisonwritesthings.com 🛸 is mise Alison, is scríbhneoir mé, siad/iad ✨ (can't access DMs, pls @ me)
Ren Wyld @wyld.bsky.social K.A Ren Wyld [-o-] Aboriginal author (Martu) living on Kaurna Yarta. They/she/mx
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Links > https://linktr.ee/KarenWyld https://www.paypal.me/KarenAWyld
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
Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social heavy reactive volcanic clay, Footscray, Melbourne. no DMs (failed age verification)
Eloise Ross @cinemelo.bsky.social I'm Gun Crazy, & I love Barbara Stanwyck so much it hurts sometimes | PhD in sound & Classical Hollywood | film studies lecturer | co-curator @melbcinematheque.bsky.social
https://letterboxd.com/cinemelo/ 
cooperativepower.org.au @copower.bsky.social We are a non-profit cooperative energy provider working to bring energy back into the commons. https://www.cooperativepower.org.au
Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social Anarchist, cat-lover, & avid reader /// No dms b/c STRAYA : write slackbastard at protonmail dot com or comment on blog https://slackbastard.anarchobase.com /// https://www.patreon.com/slackbastard.
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
Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social poet, blogger, children's author
samantha floreani @floreani.bsky.social digital rights advocate / writer / PhD candidate researching tech + housing justice 🏠 surveillance isn't safety xoxo
samanthafloreani.com
Nick Riemer @nickriemer.bsky.social Activist, academic. Vice-president (academic), USyd National Tertiary Education Union. Author, Boycott Theory & the Struggle for Palestine (2023) : http://bit.ly/3dmJgTy. Views my own.
Alex Kelly @alexkelly.bsky.social Doco filmmaker, comms, futures, PhD candidate (ethics & impact producing) Director - Economic Media Centre.
Dja Dja Wurrung Country
https://echotango.org/
https://unquiet.com.au/
https://thethingswedidnext.org/
https://economicmediacentre.org/
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com your horror nonna
dr / filmmaker / film critic / author of 10 books on cult, horror + exploitation cinema
in Venice award-winning doc CHAIN REACTIONS + Shudder's 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR based on my book
Naarm/Australia
she/her
https://horrornonna.com
Sam Elk @samhellkin.bsky.social 🎙️🏳️⚧️📚🍉Author of Detachable Penis (Upswell) and co-host of Queer View Mirror (Triple R). Living on unceded Wurundjeri land. Samelkin.com
alexmckinnon.bsky.social @alexmckinnon.bsky.social Independent journalist in western Sydney reporting what others won't about Australia's silence on Palestine.
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Alice Te Punga Somerville @alicetps.bsky.social Scholar Poet Irredentist Māmā | Māori on Musqueam whenua
NTEU Victoria @nteuvictoria.bsky.social Representing higher education staff in Victoria; protecting rights at work and public education.
Authorised by Sarah Roberts, Division Secretary, NTEU VIC.
Scrivener Creative Review @scrivener1980.bsky.social Scrivener is a literary journal published at McGill University in Montreal, founded in 1980. https://scrivenerreview.com/
Submit to issue 48: http://tinyurl.com/scrivener48.
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emma @scsky.bsky.social do not test me
Overland Journal @overlandjournal.bsky.social Overland Journal – radical Australian literature and culture since 1954
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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.
steph harmon @stephharmon.bsky.social culture editor of Guardian Australia
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/
Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social Film/TV critic, copyeditor, author and shadow academic on Wurundjeri Woiwurrung country
Amy Gray @amygray.bsky.social Writer and mal vivant.
JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social Aussie queer dude. 30 something. Nintendo. Politics. Butts. Photography. Cheerleader for proud nerds and good causes.
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) 🏳️⚧️🌈
Paul Karp @paulkarp.bsky.social POLITICO Canberra Playbook Editor. Sign up: https://www.politico.com/canberra-playbook
Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social Wordy emigre. Means well. Talks to microphones. Writes. Wokish.
Carlton FC victim. he/him
https://greenworlds.substack.com/
Adam Morton @adammorton.bsky.social Journalist, writer. Guardian Australia climate and environment editor. Clear Air columnist. Tasmanian Inquirer co-founder.
Sally McManus @sallymcmanus.bsky.social Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions
Isy Oderberg @yodaberg.bsky.social Journo ▪️ media-comms ▪️ Mum to #didgerijews ▪️ Insta @isyode▪️ Book: http://hardtobear.com (@mjostell) ▪️ @speakingout▪️ http://isabelleoderberg.com.au
Lenore Taylor @lenoret.bsky.social 
Leo Puglisi @leopuglisi6.bsky.social FOLLOW @6newsau.bsky.social
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not really active on here
Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co Hey, I'm a climate and energy writer / data analyst who focuses on corporate + govt accountability
Creator + curator of the Greensky feed: https://ketanjoshi.co/greensky/
Based in Oslo but write about US, Europe, Aus too - ketan.joshi85@gmail.com
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.
Patrick Lenton @patricklenton.bsky.social Writer.
Author of some books.
My debut novel ‘In Spite of You’ out now.
Subscribe to my newsletter: https://heterosexualnonsense.substack.com/
Read my articles:
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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
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/
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Jessica Alice @jessicaalice.bsky.social Artistic Director/CEO Byron Writers Festival | Melburnian in Byron Bay
The New York Times @nytimes.com We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Not a subscriber? Your first month is now free in our app. https://nytimes.onelink.me/Xpht/zbx4nci9
casey briggs @caseybriggs.com numbers gremlin.
i invented ravioli
• do NOT contact me with unsolicited services or offers
💧 simon holmes à court @simonahac.bsky.social energy geek. root striker. trimtab. impatient incrementalist.
#climate200 #OpenElectricity #AEGN #SuperpowerInstitute #NoDickheads
likes≠agreement. DoB: 329.7ppm
https://authory.com/SimonHolmesaCourt
Dr Richard Denniss @richarddenniss.bsky.social Co-CEO at The Australia Institute
Economist, Author of books and writer of columns often for Saturday Paper, The Monthly & The New Daily (previously The Guardian, Australian Financial Review)
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
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!
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
Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com Word-whore • Write 'em, Talk 'em • Cybers, politics, media • I have a podcast, obviously • Signal +61407623600 • All hail Eris! Vive les poissons rouges sauvages! • Based in Sydney NSW AU.
https://stilgherrian.com • https://linktr.ee/stilgherrian
Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com freelancer emeritum | senior media advisor at economicmediacentre.org | words & shenanigans at jinghuaqian.com | work and also nsfw | ey/eir/em 伊
kelli mccluskey @pvikelli.bsky.social artist / artivist making work on climate justice. creative troublemaker with pvi collective
Prof Jenny Hocking @palaceletters.bsky.social Award winning best selling author The Palace Letters, biographer Gough Whitlam, Lionel Murphy, Frank Hardy. Now on ABC iview The Search for the Palace Letters https://iview.abc.net.au/show/search-for-the-palace-letters
Writers Victoria @writersvictoria.bsky.social Writers Victoria supports & connects writers at all stages.
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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).
THE BLACK DOUGLAS @theblackdouglas.bsky.social Publisher: MA; Postgrad Dip Psych (Hons); Postgrad Dip Art (Hons); Grad Dip Ed (Dux, Hons), AMAPS
David Blumenstein @nakedfella.bsky.social Comix about badness: nakedfella.com. Service design: experienceillustration.com. Squishface Comic Studio: squishfacestudio.com. Deputy pres of the Australian Cartoonists Association. @nakedfella on insta, @nakedfella@mastodon.scot
Charlie Lewis @theshufflediary.bsky.social Journalist at Crikey, radio at Triple R, extremely intermittent music writing here: dancingtoarchitecture.home.blog
Bigger ideas here: https://meanjin.com.au/essays/pop-music-at-the-end-of-the-world/
Max Kaiser @maxyka.bsky.social Author of Jewish Antifascism and the False Promise of Settler Colonialism (Palgrave, 2022)
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9
Robert Lukins @robertlukins.bsky.social Reader, writer, Naarm, Melbourne. New book out in Feb 2025, Somebody Down There Likes Me.
https://linktr.ee/robertlukins
ziz @chriszissiadis.com Mostly photography, mostly film, with occasional tangents into coffee, food, architecture, urbanism.
chriszissiadis.com
Nick Miller @nickdmiller.bsky.social Now at The i Paper. Some settling of the content may occur during transit.
https://authory.com/NickMiller
Stedman Watts @stedmanwatts.bsky.social not by design - KBAM - he/him 🏳️⚧️ i use technology to make things for fun. art should be accessible for everyone. I live with chronic pain.
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
Scribe @scribepub.bsky.social Seriously good books since 1976.
Melbourne | London | Minneapolis
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Emma Shortis @emmashortis.bsky.social Director, International and Security Affairs at @australiainstitute.org.au. All things Australian foreign policy and US history & politics.
Sunil Badami @sunilbadami.bsky.social bon vivant raconteur flâneur. All views my ownsome. Glad to be here and out of Parler (the app formerly known as Twitter). 
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
Sarah Stewart @sarahstewartaus.bsky.social 3xParalympian Athens 2004, Beijing 2008 & London 2012 w/ AUS Gliders Wheelchair Basketball Team. Philosopher.
Illustrator. Writer. AFOL. Vegan