Sign in

Jo Case

@jocaseau.bsky.social
1.5K followers 1.3K following 352 posts

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).

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Jo Case
Ella Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
"I just think if you’re going to enjoy his music, let’s also consider the fact that he liked to have sex with children and see how that affects your enjoyment, in all honesty."
hollywoodreporter.com
“People Just Don’t Care”: ‘Leaving Neverland’ Director on Why Michael Jackson Won the Court of Public Opinion
Seven years after his explosive HBO doc, Dan Reed watches Hollywood cash in on a man he calls "worse than Jeffrey Epstein" with the biopic 'Michael' — and explains why nobody seems to mind.
12010
Reposted by Jo Case
Jane Howard @janeannehoward.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
abc.net.au
Festival chief warned author's removal would 'decimate' Writers' Week
An extraordinary series of emails sheds light on the reservations that preceded, and internal fallout that followed, the decision to scrap Randa Abdel-Fattah's Writers' Week appearance.
162
Reposted by Jo Case
Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The Guardian has partnered with the Australian Historical Association to use history to explain stuff. Today I do the University crisis. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
Australia's universities have found themselves in crisis. But it has been decades in the making | Hannah Forsyth
Rather than a set of teaching and learning relationships, universities have become a bunch of metrics to be gamed. Unwinding these systems will take effort
24017
Reposted by Jo Case
Imogen Wegman @imoweg.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
This was a fun little piece to write with @baibi.bsky.social from our @everydayheritage.bsky.social research. #history
theconversation.com
Why doesn’t Hobart have a Chinatown?
Early Chinese communities might seem to have left little tangible trace. But such an absence does not necessarily mean the absence of a Chinese history.
094
Reposted by Jo Case
Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Israel is responsible for two in three journalist killings across the globe in 2024 and 2025. The Israeli military has committed more targeted killings of journalists than any other government’s military since CPJ began documentation in 1992. Read more in CPJ’s #2025KilledReport: cpj.org?p=553549
1142145
Jo Case @jocaseau.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The Conversation only publishes affiliated academics AND doesn't publish opinion pieces – if I was editor at a different publication, I'd commission you myself! So go for it – you have a great angle on a hot news story, I reckon.
410
Jo Case @jocaseau.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
You should propose an opinion piece on this somewhere - quick!
100
Reposted by Jo Case
Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
ah yes, the rise of the populist right marks the perfect time to make services worse, and families poorer archive.is/M1LCu
Sydney morning herald article by Paul Sakkal, headlined, "‘No nice-to-haves’: Albanese demands ministers find billions in savings for May budget"
1015757
Jo Case @jocaseau.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Yes, when Bert gifts his employees Ayn Rand, it's when they've shown a willingness to do anything to get ahead. It's a compliment from Bert, but not so much from the show to the characters.
010
Jo Case @jocaseau.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Never not called them sneakers! What do you call them?
100
Jo Case @jocaseau.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Very cute piece by Jane Howard about her enormous laugh.
030
Reposted by Jo Case
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
If you're combing through the Epstein files with an LLM, or are reading people who are, I'd exercise a degree of caution. Watch this test from tiktok of various models to do something simple like count the spells in the Harry Potter novels & think about the complexity of typo ridden emails (1/2)
161
Reposted by Jo Case
Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Lawrence Krauss being endearing again: "good news btw is that woman on conciliation committee seems like a sweetie.. she is old…. not some young metoo bitch."
29686118
Jo Case @jocaseau.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
BUT, yes, of course it's important and a wonderful thing in its own right! Go QUT for doing it!
000
Jo Case @jocaseau.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I feel like it's a smart acquisition for a university with a creative writing program, in that it signals being serious & invested in the area, at a time many programs are closing. And if you're a student choosing where to enrol, the uni with a serious literary journal stands out among options.
200
Reposted by Jo Case
The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 11/02/2026
Master clown and French theatre guru Philippe Gaulier has died at 82. His influence will live on in generations of artists from New Zealand.
theconversation.com
‘New Zealanders are inventive by necessity’: how the master clown Philippe Gaulier shaped NZ theatre
043
Jo Case @jocaseau.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Haha, you are free to disagree with me (even grumpily) any time, and I won’t hold it against you! 😂
010
Jo Case @jocaseau.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Well, that will remain a mystery re Melb, yes … And obvs course fees & cost of living are driving the decline in creative courses. But surely it will help make QUT stand out to those students who do want to study one. And marks them as serious about investing in lit.
140
Jo Case @jocaseau.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Hooray for QUT's resurrection of Meanjin! @aunz.theconversation.com Angela Glindemann reports. reflecting on how it's a smart move for QUT, at a time when creative arts courses are in crisis. Might Meanjin be an enrolment drawcard? theconversation.com/meanjin-has-...
theconversation.com
Meanjin has been resurrected by QUT, in a clever move
Cancelled Australian literary journal Meanjin returns to its origins in Brisbane, where it was founded in 1940. It’s a good move for more than one reason.
1131
Jo Case @jocaseau.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I love this essay by Sally Breen. She grew up in fearing Queensland cops – then she got curious. The stories she uncovered in her interviews with 17 Gold Coast homicide detectives sit under her skin, 'like lava'. @aunz.theconversation.com theconversation.com/friday-essay...
theconversation.com
Friday essay: I grew up fearing Queensland cops. Then I hung out with 17 Gold Coast detectives
Sally Breen wanted to know more about real police work after she met a Queensland top cop who seemed good. The stories she found sit under her skin like lava.
010
Jo Case @jocaseau.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
If you do this (or find someone who has), please share! I'd like to read it too. It would need someone to ask a lot of questions ... and would be well worth reading, of course.
010
Jo Case @jocaseau.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Interesting! And maybe, yeah ... I also think it's interesting how festivals have recovered from Covid and that time of no funds, or VERY little. That's pretty impressive, really. Though it's still left many lit orgs, especially events based ones, in more precarious positions.
110
Jo Case @jocaseau.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Publishing expert @alicektg.bsky.social takes the pulse of Australia's literary festivals & their challenges – cancellations, culture wars, climate change and new hate speech laws – as Adelaide announces Constellations: Not Writers Week. @aunz.theconversation.com theconversation.com/what-is-the-...
theconversation.com
What is the future of Australia’s embattled writers festivals?
Australia’s literary festivals are under threat from culture wars, climate risks, new hate speech laws and ongoing funding scarcity.
093
Reposted by Jo Case
Alice Grundy @alicektg.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
With threats from culture wars, climate disaster and insecure funding, Australia's thriving writers' festivals face an uncertain future. Read more in @theconversation.com theconversation.com/what-is-the-...
theconversation.com
What is the future of Australia’s embattled writers festivals?
Australia’s literary festivals are under threat from culture wars, climate risks, new hate speech laws and ongoing funding scarcity.
1229
Reposted by Jo Case
Jane Howard @janeannehoward.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
This was a fun story to work on: Rocket or arugula? How a salad vegetable mapped the Italian diaspora theconversation.com/rocket-or-ar...
theconversation.com
Rocket or arugula? How a salad vegetable mapped the Italian diaspora
The words used to describe this peppery green are a linguistic fossil record revealing the history of Italian migration.
011
Jo Case @jocaseau.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Oh, thank you Gabe! That makes me happy. Yes, I loved doing those workshops over many years. And it’s such an important organisation. Writers centres do so much invisible work!
000
Jo Case @jocaseau.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
If we looked into it, I think we’d find SO MANY authors who got their start through a writers centre.
220
Reposted by Jo Case
Ellie Marney @elliemarney.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Polished the manuscript of my debut novel, Every Breath, at a Writers Victoria workshop. Met my first publisher (and editor) at a Writers Victoria panel discussion. I wouldn't have what is now a decade+ author career without my state writers org, now defunded. theconversation.com/writers-vict...
theconversation.com
Writers Victoria has been defunded – but writers’ centres are ‘fundamental’ to literary culture
Authors Hannah Kent and Toni Jordan got their start through writers centre initiatives. If Victoria loses its centre, it will be the only mainland state without one.
1105
Jo Case @jocaseau.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Writers Victoria has been defunded – but writers’ centres are ‘fundamental’ to literary culture. So many writers have found work and been discovered through their programs – and they support the next generation of your favourite writers. @aunz.theconversation.com theconversation.com/writers-vict...
theconversation.com
Writers Victoria has been defunded – but writers’ centres are ‘fundamental’ to literary culture
Authors Hannah Kent and Toni Jordan got their start through writers centre initiatives. If Victoria loses its centre, it will be the only mainland state without one.
121
Reposted by Jo Case
Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Amy Thunig-McGregor expresses what we need to hold onto, for succour and sanity: the goodness in real connections & feelings, our (chosen) families, our friends and communities, in the face of chaos, misinformation & feeling powerless. thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
thepoint.com.au
In our age of AI and constant crisis, real-life community is powerful and precious
So much is deeply wrong with the world right now, but when it comes to the sphere of life that is within my own influence – my home, my heart and my place within my community – I am the happiest I hav...
0209
Reposted by Jo Case
Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I wrote this some time ago - with all of us knowing this day would come, and Rob, of course, fighting like the bloody-minded bastard he was to the very end. He irrevocably changed my life - and how our country saw itself. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
theguardian.com
Rob Hirst was a force of nature, a born showman who led Midnight Oil from the back
Phenomenal drummer and percussionist was an equally accomplished songwriter who embodied the band’s bloody-minded spirit
21303104
Reposted by Jo Case
Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 20/01/2026
“Devastated literary figures have been working hard behind the scenes” This community 📚❤️✊🏼 www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in...
indailysa.com.au
Read the room: Guerilla Writers’ Week is happening - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia
Organisers of an alternative Writers’ Festival have vowed to push ahead after receiving support at an Adelaide City Council meeting.
12915
Jo Case @jocaseau.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
We asked 5 creative writing experts if they would use AI to break writer's block. Their answers surprised us. theconversation.com/would-you-us...
theconversation.com
Would you use AI to break writer’s block? We asked 5 experts
A publishing giant believes AI can help break writers’ block. We asked 5 creative writing experts if they’d use it that way – and the range of results surprised us.
010
Jo Case @jocaseau.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I really love this piece.
000
Reposted by Jo Case
Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
This is not in fact the definition of the “working class.”
322215329
Jo Case @jocaseau.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Classic hyperfocus labour of love ... I will def let you know after I read it. x
010
Jo Case @jocaseau.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
I am sold! Will be buying from the vendor outside Haigh's in Rundle Mall.
110
Reposted by Jo Case
Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 17/01/2026
Basically, every generation of Americans has its own prophets of prosperity and popularity. But the message is always (essentially) the same. And its aim is always to justify massive inequality and pacify the masses by promising that someday they'll be on the winning side, too.
26014
Reposted by Jo Case
Jane Howard @janeannehoward.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Ah yes, famously events with interstate attendees, book sales, coffee carts, wine bars, hundreds of employed artists, dozens of staffers, thousands of daily visitors to the city and, yes, ticketed events, generate "zero revenue". www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in...
When the Premier was asked on Wednesday if he was concerned about the economic hit the state will face through the loss of Writers Week, he said “because the Adelaide Writers’ Week is a free event, it is not a ticketed event, it generates zero revenue. So no, not just at this stage.”
2212738
Reposted by Jo Case
James Ley @jamesley.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Knut Hamsun gave his Nobel medal to Joseph Goebbels in 1943, if anyone is looking for a precedent. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
theguardian.com
María Corina Machado says she presented Trump with her Nobel peace prize medal
The Venezuelan opposition leader did not confirm whether the US president accepted the award
01414
Reposted by Jo Case
Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
The Greens are again urging the Malinauskas Government to investigate these claims of political interference. The allegations that public servants have been told to stall investigations into the toxic algal bloom in order to protect the political interests of Labor are shocking.
414364
Jo Case @jocaseau.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
In storage! If you get it out of storage and manage to read it, please do let me know your thoughts. (Btw, I love your Insta book reviews.)
100
Jo Case @jocaseau.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Oh, thank you! I do feel like the diaries are ripe for republication… I spoke about them at an event late last year and there was a real appetite for reading them. But they’re hundreds of dollars secondhand! I was v lucky to score my copy.
110
Reposted by Jo Case
Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Seems like there are a few issues in Malinauskas’ government www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
abc.net.au
SA ecologist resigns from algal bloom panels, citing government's 'adversarial' approach
South Australian ecologist Dr Faith Coleman has resigned from two state government algal bloom panels and criticised the state government's approach.
79931
Reposted by Jo Case
Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
All education in Australia should be 💯 free and 💯 secular … if parents opt for a private or religious education for their children they should have to fund 💯 of the cost.
412231
Reposted by Jo Case
Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Data today shows rents again at record highs in nearly every capital city in Aus - Sydney at $800 a week! Rental vacancy rates are at record lows & Labor’s policies are incentivising wealthy property investors, which push property prices up & result in skyrocketing rents.
56223
Reposted by Jo Case
marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 15/01/2026
Some media have reported that Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah has dropped her defamation claim against SA premier Peter Malinauskas. That is incorrect. She has resolved her separate defamation claim against Adelaide Festival Corporation.
11385107
Jo Case @jocaseau.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
In this shitty year, sharing a nice thing I wrote for InReview, about artist-writer Barbara Hanrahan's marvellous, long out-of-print diaries: a legend passed around at bookshops and by literary people. “I had just imagined all sorts of people reading me." www.indailysa.com.au/inreview/boo...
indailysa.com.au
‘The only ecstasy in my life’: Reopening Barbara Hanrahan’s diaries - InReview | InDaily, Inside South Australia
As the publication of Helen Garner’s decades-long diaries sparks a late-career revival, critic Jo Case reflects on the similarly expansive and exposing journals of the late artist and writer Barbara H...
150
Reposted by Jo Case
Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 15/01/2026
I’m glad the new board has admitted this was wrong. What an utter waste of everybody’s time, energy and labour www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
abc.net.au
Breaking: Adelaide Festival Corporation apologises to author Randa Abdel-Fattah
The Adelaide Festival Corporation, which oversees Adelaide Writers' Week, has apologised to Palestinian Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah and says she will be invited to speak at its next event in ...
1313
Jo Case @jocaseau.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Oh no! Though this is also kind of lovely to hear?
010