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Kiera Lesley @kieralesley.bsky.social · 11h

Sunny Sunday after a lot of recent rain and a bonus 2am earthquake a few nights ago - used it to go pat baby goats and get a late brunch. Recommend.

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

‘Be very angry about how the world is being fucked.’ King Guillermo, I adore you. 👑♥️ [Not my video! Saw on Reddit!]

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Emma Osborne 🍉 @redscribe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hey pals, I am opening short story critiques for charity again! I’m happy to read something of yours (either a sensitivity read or a story critique) up to 5k words, for a donation of any amount to either Pets of the Homeless or a local shelter near you: www.petsofthehomeless.org.au

petsofthehomeless.org.au

Pets Of The Homeless | Keeping Best Friends Together

Pets Of The Homeless works to keep vulnerable people and their pets together by providing essential pet care during times of hardship.

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Kiera Lesley @kieralesley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Read this one recently and the exercises and plain explanation of key, basic concepts was really good. Worth your time!

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Telathiel | Tasha @telathiel.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I don't like this trend of people being afraid to experience (negative) emotions when consuming art. Experiencing things outside of your own point of view makes life a lot more interesting, and is honestly necessary to understand the world and people around you.

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Keri @keriknutson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I have so many ideas! And a drawerful of unfinished works, which every writer has. The notion of having some glorified Magic 8-ball to complete them is appalling, like on a visceral level. I earned every novel and story I wrote, motherfuckers.

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Kiera Lesley @kieralesley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If you haven’t checked Grief Eater out yet what on earth is stopping you? It’s the queer zombie novella of the year 🖤

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The number of newsletters by people who are otherwise not terrible that stay on substack and help them pay Nazis is astonishing.

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Eugenia Triantafyllou @foxesandroses.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Strange Horizons is back!!

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Aussiecon5 @aussiecon5.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

And #BrisbaneIn2028 #MeanjinIn2028 is returned as the 2028 worldcon! This will be the last time I post this logo. It's been lovely! We will be #Aussiecon5!

First line Meanjin
Middle line In 2028
Third line Brisbane

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is why we signal boost each other, review and blurb good books, and try to support each other when life pours it on. Without community, you'd only have the abyss. And the abyss is one of those friends who's only really good in group settings. Never ride home alone with the abyss.

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Christopher Ruz, Aussie Author @ruzkin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

OH HEY WHAT'S UP TEAM It's time for another Melbourne writer's meet! SUN 30 AUGUST, 12-4PM Quiet write-in from 12-2, then chats and hangs 2-4 Whitehart Bar, 22 Whitehart Lane, Melbourne CBD See y'all there!

A poster describing a meetup for Melbourne-based writers.

The important details are:
SUN 30 AUGUST, 12-4PM
Quiet write-in from 12-2, then chats and hangs 2-4
Whitehart Bar, 22 Whitehart Lane, Melbourne CBD

See y'all there!

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Kiera Lesley @kieralesley.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I have new story out today! How Proprietress Hailey Bested the Huntmaster (without crossing a line) is about finding your people, sticking it to the (antlered) man and going down swinging. I’m so so glad it found a home in these badass anthologies ❤️

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Kiera Lesley @kieralesley.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

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Hopes for Writers @hopesforwriters.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I hope you know persistence matters more than anything else

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Kiera Lesley @kieralesley.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This weekend! Write with us ❤️

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Kiera Lesley @kieralesley.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

👀 👀 👀 Some cool looking anthologies incoming…

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Kiera Lesley @kieralesley.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Did you miss Melbourne writer hangs last month? Good news! It’s on again this month plus bonus mystery book swap

Oi! Do you write? Then come chill with us at a low pressure Melbourne writers meetup. Sunday 26 July, 12pm - 4pm whitehart bar, 22 whitehart lane, Melbourne cbd.
12-2pm: a relaxed write in. Bring a laptop, grab a beer and do some writing sprints.
2-4pm: laptops down! Chat, talk plots and publishing, make new friends.
Aspiring writers, published writers, comic writers, poetry, games… if you write, you’re a writer and you’re welcome.

Plus book exchange! Bring a book you no longer want, wrapped in plain paper or newspaper, then exchange for a mystery book. Could be great! Could be terrible! Let’s find out!

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Zera / Corey Jae 🏳️‍⚧️ @coreyjwhite.com · 15/07/2026

My story, Nowhere Town, is available now in Interzone #305. It's long, it's personal/vulnerable, and should come with a CW for childhood abuse and sexual assault (nothing graphic though). I really hope people check this one out. interzone.press/iz-305/ shop.interzone.press/b/h2rDl

Interzone 305 promo image all in red and white, featuring an image of a bearded man with a quiver and scant clothing.

Featuring: Aliya Whiteley, Nick Lowe, Josh Pearce, E.G. Conde, Ben Tufnell, Mame, Bougouma Diene, Rachael Cupp, Corey Jae White, Rebecca Zahabi, Una McCormack, Kelly Jennings, Paul Kincaid, Nick Mamatas, Paul McAuley, Val Nolan, Alexander Glass.

Cover Art based on a detail from Philoctetes in the Island of Lemnos by James Barry

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Kiera Lesley @kieralesley.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Why am I like this?! — me, writing content warnings for a submission to spare the poor first reading team.

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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 14/07/2026

when i write something? it's in conversation with something else. usually several somethings. a piece is never just: "Oh I wrote this cause I had an idea." the idea is the seed. and that seed took a bunch of other things to grow. something a friend said once, an article i read yesterday, a song...

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

"Ich fedde thys nightmare hounde all the bookes from everye librarye. It hath everye stolen storye burblinge ynside. And it doth befoul all pooles from which it drinketh. Arounde it are waste, and stynke, and noyses that keepe folk up at nighte. Why do you not want to take the hounde for a walke?"

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Aussiecon5 @aussiecon5.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Site Selection is open at LA Con V. Your vote provides start up money for #Meanjin2028 #Brisbanein2028. You can also support us as Mates/Virtual Mates. These only need the WSFS supplement (bought with Site Selection) to be full memberships, this is the cheapest way to join the convention

brisbane28.org

Support the Bid - Brisbane in 28

Buy merch, contribute donations, grab an attending membership! Your gateway to support the Brisbane in 28 bid.

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Emma Osborne 🍉 @redscribe.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Australian writers, the Aurealis Awards are now open for fiction published in 2026! Go! Enter! queenslandwriters.org.au/aurealis

queenslandwriters.org.au

Aurealis Awards — Queensland Writers Centre

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Kiera Lesley @kieralesley.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Related to this morning’s commentary. The work takes time.

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Kiera Lesley @kieralesley.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

And when/where/how you find the time is going to change and look different. It’s whatever works.

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Kiera Lesley @kieralesley.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Looking to be a sunny winter day in Naarm. Bring your writing tools and come hang with us ❤️

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Christopher Ruz, Aussie Author @ruzkin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine has always been one of my dream mags. Thanks to an amazing decade-long collab with Rich Larson, that dream is becoming reality. VISITING SKINS is about a bunch of terrible friends making appalling decisions out in the woods; I hope it'll sink its hooks into you.

A screenshot of the front page of Asimov's Magazine of Science Fiction, previewing their next issue where a story called VISITING SKINS by Rich Larson and Christopher Ruz will be featured.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Do not speak to me of "barriers to entry". Every act of creation is slicing out a thin sliver of light from the existential darkness of the human condition. You not being able to pick up a fucking pencil and risk failing does not even register.

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Kiera Lesley @kieralesley.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

On again this month! (Accessibility info in the next post)

Oi! Do you write? Then come chill with us at a low pressure Melbourne writers meetup. Sunday 28 June, 12pm - 4pm whitehart bar, 22 whitehart lane, Melbourne cbd.
12-2pm: a relaxed write in. Bring a laptop, grab a beer and do some writing sprints.
2-4pm: laptops down! Chat, talk plots and publishing, make new friends.
Aspiring writers, published writers, comic writers, poetry, games… if you write, you’re a writer and you’re welcome.

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Emma Osborne 🍉 @redscribe.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Listen. I’m disabled with depression, neurodivergence and also chronic pain. I would rather put a fork in my eye than use AI to express any kind of creativity. Like, I’m a writer, and I would absolutely never use it for writing. I can’t draw. I’d still rather do a shitty drawing than use AI.

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M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

If you have ever emailed a writer to let them know you enjoyed something they wrote, you are among the noblest and best and most saintly in this entire world, and I hope you sleep really well tonight.

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Kiera Lesley @kieralesley.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Relevant note from past me to current me

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RJ BaHarker @rjbarker.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Someone asked me how I can continue to write fiction where people find a way to be better when the world now shows it's not the case. And fella, nothing the fash want you to do more than give up on hope but you really must not. If it's getting too dark to see you don't turn out the lights.

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Drink tea. Read books. Tax billionaires.

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Emma Osborne 🍉 @redscribe.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

So!! Grief Eater is out on Monday!! (Tuesday for the US, sorry, we beat you to it!) (Also if you haven’t seen my cover, holy shit, thank you Dante Luiz 🖤) I’d love to answer some questions, please AMA 🥰

Grief Eater by Emma Osborne (cover by Dante Luiz)

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Kiera Lesley @kieralesley.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

So hype for this one. I love found footage stuff!

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Kiera Lesley @kieralesley.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Melbourne/Naarm writing friends! This month’s writer hangs is on next Sunday 31 May - join us! Whitehart bar from 12-4ish Writing time from 12-2ish, socialising after. Drinks/pizza available for purchase, accessibility notes in the next post

An open MacBook with a “write it anyway” sticker near the track pad next to a sticker-covered notebook, a Lamy pen and a beer.

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Kiera Lesley @kieralesley.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

When will my kobo return from sea

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Kiera Lesley @kieralesley.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I’ve put my kobo down somewhere in the house. Who knows where that location is. I started Jade City two days ago. If anyone needs me, I’ll be turning my whole house upside down…

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Kiera Lesley @kieralesley.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Cozy snoot tucked under tail for the timeline

A greying black greyhound curled up among cushions on a couch, his nose tucked under the end of his tail. Backlit by a lamp

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Emma Osborne 🍉 @redscribe.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Just FYI we are rescheduling this! Will likely be 28/29th June instead :) Stay tuned!

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