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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 03/10/2026

Quandong crostata. Neighbourhood tree is having a very good year

A latticed tart filled with quandong jam

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 01/10/2026

Office interruption. We call this move “mic drop”

A blue heeler in a doorway with a freshly dropped shoe and a demanding expression

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 19/09/2026

Spring garden. Proud of this abundant chaos. Was 80% lawn <4 years ago

Sprawling backyard full of natives, vege beds and flowers

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 12/09/2026

Sea swim / sleepy lizard. Firsts of the season

A sleepy lizard (tiliqua rugosa) on a sand dune

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 10/09/2026

Three this morning. Make it stop

An insanely long email subject header from a spambot, not worth transcribing

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 07/09/2026

Good to see the local seal looking relaxed and well this morning

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 12/08/2026

Also making the annual joke about reporting this seagull to family services (we would never)

A seagull nesting in a tiny metal cage on top of a pole in the middle of a river. The pole is also holding up an orange sign. Somewhat ironically, there are bird spikes on the sign

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 07/08/2026

Such a joy to be involved in this magical public artwork ‘RAIN,’ by Laura Wills and Will Cheesman, and wonderful to see it all lit up at the launch last night. Stunning work. Go check it out, in the dark if you can: www.npsp.sa.gov.au/culture_and_...

A detail from a rain moth drawing, cut into steel and lit up in blue

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 23/07/2026

Please be encouraged by my office rainbow.

A rainbow in a blue sky over suburban rooftops, criss-crossed with power lines

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 19/07/2026

And today I pulled a few test prints! Very happy with the results. This machine is 103 years old. Hope to keep her going for a few more decades Fuck capitalism

A woodcut in the press bed with the printed paper being lifted away

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 19/07/2026

Last week i put her back together and got her up on a bench (with help - she may be small but she weighs ~90kg)

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 19/07/2026

I’ve been fixing her up the last few weekends, cleaning off rust, oiling etc

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 19/07/2026

Seizing the means of production is extremely satisfying, a thread: So last month I bought a little second hand proof press (a Poco 0). Here she is at the auction house

A small cast iron printing press looking a bit rusty and neglected, bits of furniture and rugs in background

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 16/07/2026

Resisted purchasing this niche publication from the op shop. Great title

A black and white book cover with some portrait photos of men and the title BARNACLES AND PARASITES - independent members of the south australian parliament, 1927-1970

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 13/07/2026

I’m growing goth radishes now

A black radish on a chopping board with a little knife beside it

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 01/07/2026

The @asauthors.bsky.social CEO is in Canberra today fighting against the ongoing theft of our books, stories, and illustrations to feed LLMs. Sign the open letter from Australia’s creatives: www.surveymonkey.com/r/WBXGKN7

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 25/06/2026

Will having some regrets about the cold dawn swim today

Incredibly good looking blue heeler lying curled up on a mat looking damp and giving side eye

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 19/06/2026

Well some of us are awake for the game

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 14/06/2026

Great defensive work. Could do with more possession of the ball

A blue heeler standing between me and the football

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 28/05/2026

Entitled to a little happy dance this morning, just kicked the gas forevs

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 25/05/2026

A visitor. Too light on their feet to add anything to the WIP

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 18/05/2026

Willow helping with my homework.

A blue heeler, eyes closed, resting her head on an unopened book on my lap in the sunshine

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 11/05/2026

It’s that time again! Sharing my cultural policy submission on my website to encourage you to write your own: jennifermills.net.au/2026/05/11/c...

Screenshot of my website with the heading “cultural policy submission time!”

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 27/04/2026

“Beaked, furred, fanged, tusked, clawed, hooved, snouted, they will settle in us…” Revisiting Malouf’s An Imaginary Life. Queer ecofiction circa 1978

A page from David Malouf’s An Imaginary Life: “But I know now that this is the way. Slowly I begin the final metamorphosis. I must drive out my old self and let the universe in. The creatures will come creeping back—not as gods transmogrified, but as themselves. Beaked, furred, fanged, tusked, clawed, hooved, snouted, they will settle in us, re-entering their old lives deep in our consciousness. And after them, the plants, also themselves. Then we shall begin to take back into ourselves the lakes, the rivers, the oceans of the earth, its plains, its forested crags with their leaps of snow. Then little by little, the firmament. The spirit of things will migrate back into us. We shall be whole. Only then will we have some vision of our true body as men.”

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 08/04/2026

Chilling stuff from the premier’s dept www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

In response to the email, department executive Clare Mockler thanked Mr Hobba for his "comprehensive consideration" and asked him for his "assessment" of other invited writers "that would fall into the category, on either side of the discourse, whose inclusion could be deemed as contrary to supporting community cohesion".

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 07/04/2026

HCBs for breakfast (tho maybe i shoulda made TACOs)

A fresh batch of sourdough hot cross buns

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 27/02/2026

Constellations: Not Writers Week begins tomorrow. Over 100 authors are participating in more than 50 events across 20 venues. And we have raised enough donations to pay them all ASA rates, plus print these paper programs. bit.ly/constellationsfestival for details January Tiser oped for scale

A paper program for Constellations with lots of events listed. Beside it a newspaper opinion headline complains of “the sheer audacity of these whiny writers”

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 09/02/2026

I guess we just don’t find war criminals all that comforting.

A protest on Kaurna Yarta on the steps of parliament. A sign in the foreground quotes Randa Abdel-Fattah:

“Please remember that the genocide of Palestinians continues and that all of this is a smokescreen. I am not the story. Palestine is.”

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 05/02/2026

Also today: stopped in at Dymocks, saw this heartening table of books by authors who withdrew from Writers Week, and signed the copies of #Salvage I found there

A table of books with a sign that says Tribute to the Authors

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 05/02/2026

Dropped by the Pink Shorts Press office today to collect some author copies of A Concise Compendium of Wonder, launching in a few short weeks! 💖

Author Jen Mills and the Margot half of PSP holding books and smiling in a v cute office

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 22/01/2026

I’m in a fringe show. Will be what it says on the box

Books & Beers

A literary tasting sensation with Alex Cothren, Jennifer Mills, Jake Dean, Amy Matthews & Andrew Roff

Thursday 26 Feburary, 6.30 pm Brightstar Brewing | $15

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 16/01/2026

The dog would like readers to note that her career is not toast and she is just getting started

Me and my dog in an AAP article about the economic impact of Adelaide Writers Week being cancelled

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 14/01/2026

For goodness’ sake Pete stop digging and start apologising

He said he did not "take responsibility for" AWW's cancellation. "That's a function of a bunch of authors making their own decisions and Louise Adler and her role in that," Mr Malinauskas said.

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 09/12/2025

Gadigal/Sydney based authors & readers, support the Berkelouw/Harry Hartog bookshop workers strike this weekend! Image via RAFFWU

Harry Hartog + Berkelouw books workers’ strike - sat 13 Dec 12pm outside berkelouw leichhardt. Poster shows a bunch of bookshop workers with raised fists

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 13/11/2025

A privilege and a joy for my first public duty as new Chair of @asauthors.bsky.social to MC our annual celebration, the Colin Simpson Memorial Keynote, held in Naarm last night.

Kirsty Murray looking overjoyed while receiving the ASA medal from Sophie Cunningham

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 05/11/2025

I love working longhand. The rough draft happens by accretion, almost unseen. A physical process, embedded with the marks of mood and energy and memory. More like carving or knitting something than typing.

A close up showing the corners of three stacked notebooks, red and black

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 31/10/2025

It’s the happiest day of the year! Samhain/Oíche Shamhna baking 2025 feat. special guest star, Karenia mikimotoi 🦠💀👻

Ginger biscuits, iced to resemble cute ghosts, skulls and algae

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 20/10/2025

Over the weekend I had the very joyful experience of seeing my work adapted for the stage by the wonderful Slingsby. It was enchanting to see this co-imagined story brought to dreamy life by a bunch of absolute geniuses.

A poster for The Childhood of the World, white text on a plain black background, is displayed on the wall inside Waterside Workers Hall. Brooms, lights, and a stage in the background. A smaller plywood structure is just visible to one side.

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 17/10/2025

Obscene levels of rosebush happening in my garden right now. Seriously OTT

A rose in pink and yellow ombre, blooming outrageously

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 14/10/2025

RALLY AGAINST RACISM on Kaurna yarta. 11:30 Sun 19/10 Tarntanyangga (Vic sq)

RALLY AGAINST RACISM on Kaurna yarta. 11:30 SUNDAY 19th OCT - TARNTANYANGGA (VIC SQ)

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 14/10/2025

Canberra Writers Festival on the 26th - www.canberrawritersfestival.com.au

Canberra Writers Festival SALVAGING THE EARTH? WITH OMAR EL AKKAD, JENNIFER MILLS, MADELEINE WATTS
SUN 26 OCT 11:00 AM LOWITJA O'DONOGHUE CULTURAL CENTRE | AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Canberra Writers Festival
CAN BIG TECH REALLY SAVE HUMANITY?
WITH PIP FINKEMEYER, SAUL GRIFFITH AND RICHARD KING
SUN 26 OCT • 3:30 PM NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA

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