Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social jockserong.com
clothes hearse
Gunditjmara country, southwest Vic
Rep'd Melanie Ostell Literary
Ben Walter @benwaltez.bsky.social Writer in Lutruwita/Tasmania. Author of What Fear Was, Lithosphere. Walkley winner. Former Fiction Editor, Island. Words in The Kenyon Review, 3:AM Magazine, Poetry Ireland Review.
Experiments | Stories | Essays | Nature writing
https://ben-walter.com/
stuart everly-wilson @basicwriter.bsky.social stuarteverlywilson.com
Published author of 2 novels.
My second, 'THE MASKEYS' - Transit Lounge - is out there...now...somewhere. Maybe its in your favourite bookshop. Why don't you go in and ask for it?
Jaye Kranz @jayekranz.bsky.social Audio producer. Poet. Writer. Work on/in BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 3, ABC RN, The Monthly, Australian Book review. Poems in: Verse Daily, Cincinnati Review, West Branch, The Florida Review, Best of Australian Poems, Cordite 🌈 https://linktr.ee/jayekranz
Luca Demetriadi @lucambd.bsky.social UniMelb PhD candidate, researching indie Australian publishers and contemporary coolness.
https://lucademetriadi.com
Jake Dean @jake-dean.bsky.social Writer + just some guy https://jake-dean.com/
Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social The latest writing on arts, culture and society from across Australia, along with resources and awards for writers. 
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
sjxsjc @sjxsjc.bsky.social Snake Milker / Mattress Grave / METH-DTF / SEX SHOPS OF SHERMAN OAKS, XEROX OVER MANHATTAN, BELFIE HELL, YEEZUS IN FURS, NAPALM RECIPE, POLICE FORCE AS A CORRUPT BREEZE.
Sophie Beer @sophiebeerdraws.bsky.social Kids author and illustrator✨☀✨
Into books and equality. She/her
Debut MG 'Thunderhead' out now with A&U
michelle laren @bibliotato.bsky.social Book person. Like, literally a person made from books. I'm also a library worker, zine collector, wannabe lit critic, big cardigan fan and frequently covered in cat hair. Forty-something, she/her. Comfortably awkward. FKA booktothefuture.
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
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/
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!
Mary Garden @marygarden.bsky.social Award-winning author
PhD Journalism
My Father's Suitcase (2024) Shining a light on sibling abuse.
The Serpent Rising (1988)
My years in a sex cult 1970s. Sundowner of the Skies (2019). On my father.
https://www.marygarden.com.au/my-fathers-suitcase
Robert Lukins @robertlukins.bsky.social Reader, writer, Naarm, Melbourne. New book out in Feb 2025, Somebody Down There Likes Me.
https://linktr.ee/robertlukins
spooky spice @jenniferdown.bsky.social author BODIES OF LIGHT + PULSE POINTS + OUR MAGIC HOUR. also edit, translate, hike, cook, copywrite, &c. she/her. jenniferdown.com 
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
The Little Bookroom @littlebookroom.bsky.social The oldest bookshop for children in the world. Melbourne, Australia.
@abeilby.bsky.social @abeilby.bsky.social 
Maddy Ruskin @madeleineruskin.bsky.social writer & disability advocate
my illnesses are chronic, so naturally i’m iconic ✨
community manager at Spoony ❤️🥄
Naarm/Melbourne
https://madeleineruskin.com/
Evan Gregory @egregory.bsky.social Senior Literary Agent at The Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency.
Kate in the trees @kateinthetrees.bsky.social Recovering academic. Living on Awabakal Country.
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
Sallie Butler @salsibee.bsky.social Lover of the arts, books and gigs. Mum to Ernie
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/
gina rushton @ginarush.bsky.social journalist, author etc
Lucy @lucylucy.bsky.social my brain is a ship in a bottle
@librariously.bsky.social @librariously.bsky.social 
@irepp.bsky.social @irepp.bsky.social 
Sarah Layton @sarahloumary.bsky.social Editor at Lake Press. Graphic novel obsessive. Sometimes reviewer. Research in Post-Digital Book Cultures with MUP. Views are my own. she/her
Emah Fox @emahfox.bsky.social Electropop Musician / Producer / Video Artist / Cat-lady
emahfox.com/music
@emmalashmarart.bsky.social @emmalashmarart.bsky.social 
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.
@railisim.bsky.social @railisim.bsky.social 
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
Co-Chair, Australian Republic Movement
linktr.ee/estheranatolitis
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
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
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
stacey roberts 🍉 @staceyroberts.bsky.social the working-class woman in fiction.
https://substack.com/@workingclassgal
laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social the best goddamn dancer in the american ballet academy // lauraolin.com
Jessie Cole @jessiexcole.bsky.social 📚 Author of DESIRE, A RECKONING | Also STAYING, A MEMOIR 📚
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.
Lisa Tirreno @lisatirrenoauthor.bsky.social 📚Australian YA fantasy author. PRINCE OF FORTUNE out with S&S now! Also chickens and cake.
Rep: Jim McCarthy at @dystelgoderichandbourret
Suzy Garcia @suzygracias.bsky.social bookseller / editor @kydmagazine.bsky.social
https://www.killyourdarlings.com.au
Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social feelings, now more than ever!
wrote some stuff in some places
Catriona Menzies-Pike @catrionamp.bsky.social Editor and critic at large. SYD →YVR. I write a newsletter about literature and the internet called Infra Dig.
https://infra-dig.ghost.io
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.
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
Louise Swinn @losewin.bsky.social Journalist, writer, editor - Melbourne, Australia
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).
Eleanor Elliott Thomas @eet.bsky.social Author of Readings Prize shortlisted novel, The Opposite of Success, and Do We Deserve This? (due out late 2025). Semi-regular substack: eleanorelliottthomas.substack.com
Nadia Bailey @nadiabailey.bsky.social PhD candidate and freelance writer for hire | Researching intersections between Spiritualism, queerness and the First World War
www.nadiabailey.com
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.)
Alice Grundy @alicektg.bsky.social Managing Editor, Australia Institute Press
Research Manager, The Australia Institute
Austlit editing and publishing aficionado
Opinions own
Dr LJ Maher (cis: she/her, 🌈, AuDHD, Quaintrelle) @littleread.bsky.social Naarm-Melbourne. Settler-Coloniser on Stolen Woi Wurrung
Land.
Research: transmedial life-writing, literature & law, music & memoir, book & reading histories. Lecturer in Publishing Studies at Melbourne Uni. Views my own, not my employer's, etc.
Em @emintheeast.bsky.social Mostly books/travel/anxiety. Eternal cat servant. She/her.
Jessica Alice @jessicaalice.bsky.social Artistic Director/CEO Byron Writers Festival | Melburnian in Byron Bay
Neptune Henriksen🍉 @neptunehenriksen.bsky.social 🎤Goodwill Comedy Club
https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1296894
📹Hey Dad, It's Neptune
📚Queer Summer Trilogy
Liminal @liminalmag.bsky.social Founded in 2016, Liminal is an anti-racist literary journal publishing art + writing, criticism + conversations / AGAINST DISAPPEARANCE out now
Leah Jing @leahjing.bsky.social 
Michael Winkler @micwink.bsky.social Writer, reader, swimwear model. Last book Grimmish. Next book Griefdogg.
michaelwinkler.com.au
Fay Helfenbaum @fayhelfenbaum.bsky.social Editor at Thames & Hudson, recommender at fayrecommends.substack.com
AV @alanvaarwerk.com word rearranger
CT6000 @mxcreant.bsky.social http://jerkofalltrades.net
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.
Clare Millar @claresmillar.bsky.social Maisy Mouse enthusiast
(Writer, editor, glassblower, former bookseller, etc) She/her
ziz @chriszissiadis.com Mostly photography, mostly film, with occasional tangents into coffee, food, architecture, urbanism.
chriszissiadis.com
Ewa Ramsey @ewaramsey.bsky.social Wrote The Morbids and have had writers block ever since. Half-arsed human parent, full-arsed dog parent. She/her. 
Nicola Santilli @nicolasantilli.bsky.social Freelance editor (kids/YA). Words, anime, manga, graphic novels, #LoveOzYA 🌈🏳️⚧️ They/them.
Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social Film/TV critic, copyeditor, author and shadow academic on Wurundjeri Woiwurrung country
Doug Wallen @dougwallen.bsky.social Arts journalist, band booker & broadcaster in Australia https://linktr.ee/dougwallen
Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social Literary agent @shawliterary.bsky.social, formerly head book buyer at Readings Books, Melbourne. Kafka, Sebald, the Antipodes.
Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social Assoc. Prof., McGill English | Book: WRITING BACKWARDS (Columbia UP) | Articles: The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, LARB, Public Books, Post45, PMLA, and MELUS | Next Up: The History of High School English |📍Montreal
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
Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social Radiant ambiguity/unclassified residuum/ enigmatic relief/seasoned harridan (historian of age, gender, reproduction, opinions my own and not my employer’s etc.)
https://www.colby.edu/people/people-directory/sarah-duff/
Lucy @lucyxiv.boontavista.com talking my shit on @boontavista.com + @savantgardepod.bsky.social
world’s normalest Philadelphia Flyers fan.
aviation enthusiast, australian [derogatory]
pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social The 76th most followed account on bluesky. I will NOT be updating this ranking when it’s no longer true
steph harmon @stephharmon.bsky.social culture editor of Guardian Australia
Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social poet. writer. editor. reviewer. translator. corrupted bibliomaniac. exists in romanian and alabamian. hybrid in she/her dreams. self-deleting. self-ghosting.
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com
derridalicious @derridalicious.bsky.social tired of starting over on social media | 'The thing about street fights... the street always wins' | Amazon ( . Y-- | she/הִיא
🍉
Amy @missayme.bsky.social Dreadfully woke, design, sustainability, nerdery, sewing, knitting, painting, history, books, dogs etc. I’m too tired to learn another new thing. Meanjin/Brisbane, Australia. She/her
egg morning 🐣 @mdixonsmith.bsky.social Writer, editor, bookseller living on unceded Gadigal land. She/her. ITYSL memes always welcome here. 
Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com I miss you when you’re around.
https://www.todayontrail.com
https://www.todayintabs.com
Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social Chief Economist at @australiainstitute.org.au
Columnist on economics and politics for Guardian Australia.
Dollars & Sense podcast https://australiainstitute.org.au/news/category/podcasts/dollars-sense/
Tim Newport (they/them) @teanewport.com I work in books (not the fun kind), play ice hockey and make things.
Naarm's keenest bean. 🇨🇦🏳️🌈
Yes, I know my site is down.
McKinley Valentine @mckinleaf.bsky.social Writer/Researcher 🔶 ABC's Hard Quiz 🔶 The Whippet, a newsletter of science, history, language & weirdness: https://thewhippet.org 🔶 she/her
Richard Cooke @rgcooke.bsky.social Reporter & Author. 
"max" @ringworm.bsky.social kick damn ass and rock on!!!!!!!!!! check this out infinitegossip.ghost.io
linktr.ee/maxlavergne
dan nolan @dannolan.bsky.social keyboard peacekeeper
Nick Schadegg @nickschadegg.bsky.social follow me on twitter dot com, the internet’s most exciting social media platform 
CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social the only Australian on the internet.
I am the ABC's national AI reporter
you can find ways to e-meet me here: www.cameronwilson.com.au
Bec Shaw @brocklesnitch.bsky.social Big Honking Dyke
Jim Malo @maloism.com Naarm journalist. I like to write about renting.
Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social https://www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/patricia-lockwood
alison evans @alisonevans.bsky.social author, zinester 👽 they/them 🏳️⚧️ Wurundjeri land 🍃 alisonwritesthings.com 🛸 (can't access DMs, pls @ me)
James Colley @colley.bsky.social buy me book, watch me shows, love me til my heart stops
Bridie Jabour @bridie.bsky.social Associate editor (audio & visual) at Guardian Australia, have I mentioned I wrote two books???????
James @cashbonez.bsky.social I like to type things into bluesky sometimes. My employer wants you to know that my opinions do not represent theirs, which is understandable.
elle hardy @ellehardy.bsky.social wrote a book on Pentecostals, writing one on the Moonies, words and voice in all sorts of places
ellehardy.com