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Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Cracking interview with legendary editor Hilary McPhee about how OzLit – and the role of editors – has changed over the years (I can't even imagine being edited over the phone or, gasp, in person)

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The Trailblazing Women Who Transformed Australian Publishing — Kill Your Darlings

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Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Australian authors long wrote under the looming shadow of Britain. Hilary McPhee, along with her friend Diana Gribble, set about to help change this with their iconic publishing house McPhee Gribble. Read our new interview with the pioneering publisher in KYD: bit.ly/4uodR5o

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Mez of Gryffsville @mezofgryffsville.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I just read this story in @kydmagazine.bsky.social - yes, it is funny! Do read if you like quirky characters & situations.

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Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Congratulations to past mentee Isabelle Li, whose novel The Northern Tomb was published by Puncher and Wattman! Isabelle developed her manuscript with Mireille Juchau as part of the 2023 KYD Mentors Program. 💡 Mentors Program applications close this Sunday 11 October. Learn more: buff.ly/q6HAgkR

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Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ben Brooker on what the befuddled Brits of gonzo journalism get wrong about the manosphere. Link in bio.

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Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

New in the magazine! Ben Brooker reviews The Castle by Jon Ronson. Read more: buff.ly/hhuzfM7 📘 The Castle in out now via Penguin Books Australia.

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Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Want to work one-to-one with Gail Jones? Our Mentors Program supports early-career writers in developing a long-form work, with guidance from experienced, award-winning mentors like Gail. 💡Applications close 11:59pm Sunday 11 October—learn more: buff.ly/q6HAgkR

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Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Read the inaugural winner of the KYD Poetry Prize, ‘The Youth Who Turned into Cockroaches’ by Saanjana Kapoor. Online now: buff.ly/TcrvTRh

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Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We're delighted to announce Saanjana Kapoor as the winner of the KYD Poetry Prize 2026! Read the winning poem in KYD magazine now, along with the judges’ report by Ender Başkan, Sara M. Saleh and KYD editor Suzy Garcia: buff.ly/TcrvTRh

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Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🔔 Deadline Extended! 🔔 Applications for the KYD Mentors Program now close Sunday 11 October Find out more: buff.ly/q6HAgkR

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Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Appearances could be everything in this comic short story by one of the Australia’s funniest writers. Read more: buff.ly/GOWWh84

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Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We're excited to add this one to our TBR list 📚 Exit Party is the new mind-bending epic from @emilystjohnmandel, the bestselling author of Station Eleven—a story of crimes committed and loves lost across space and time. Out now from Macmillan: buff.ly/eYeEyJF

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Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What's the cost of love? Find out in this very funny short story by Chloe Wilson. Find out more: buff.ly/GOWWh84

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Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What are the future of Australian literature thinking about? We asked six new exciting young voices what keeps them inspired and writing. Read more: buff.ly/cOQQTwI

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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"We’d like to honour appropriate remuneration of creatives in Australia. It’s been delightful to say to writers that this is what we’re able to pay you." Establishing editor Ashley Hay on the revived @meanjin.bsky.social over at @kydmagazine.bsky.social www.killyourdarlings.com.au/article/what...

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What's Next for Meanjin

An interview with establishing editor Ashley Hay

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 21/09/2026

“Something we have decided is that we’ll be paying writers MEAA rates. We’ll pay $1.12 a word. And we’ll pay ASA rates for the illustrations and graphic storytelling as well... We’d like to honour appropriate remuneration of creatives in Australia.” 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 @asauthors.bsky.social

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Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

What's next for @meanjin.bsky.social? We spoke to establishing editor Ashley Hay about the literary journal's next chapter at Queensland University of Technology. Read more: buff.ly/ZyugEr9

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Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It was almost closed for good, but Australia's second-oldest literary journal has been given a new life. Read our interview with Meanjin's establishing editor Ashley Hay about the magazine's new crossroads: buff.ly/vRrY29Z

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Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We delighted to announce the shortlist of the KYD Poetry Prize 2026. Find out more about the six poems that are in the running for the $1000 top prize: buff.ly/WYVHcIf

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Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Don't miss this funding opportunity of up to $50,000. The Fellowship is available to Australian writers intending to study outside of Australia, leading to publishing a book relating to English literature of the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries. Applications close 5 October: buff.ly/8H7wHCV

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Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

✨️ New extract from Our Dark Unravelling, a thrilling modern YA gothic tale from Margot McGovern, the award-winning author of This Stays Between Us. 📚️ Our Dark Unravelling is out now via @penguinbooksaus 🔗 Read more: buff.ly/oXsYywu

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Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Rebecca Starford explores a recent article on Australian literature’s ‘moral hygiene’, and finding familiar scapegoats for the publishing industry’s problems. 🔗 Read: buff.ly/WaU1kcL

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Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Tense, timely and propulsive, Jessica Mansour-Nahra’s new novel The Burn examines the myths we believe about ourselves and the people we love. With survival at stake, who do we become? Read an excerpt now in KYD. Read more: buff.ly/AlUv7H0

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Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

ICYMI: Sam Twyford-Moore uses Yumna Kassab's Parramatta as a guide through a burgeoning literary hotspot. Read more: buff.ly/UoHnF1E

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Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

‘I took much of my editors’ advice because it was brilliant and they were right, but there were a handful of things I was stubborn about. In the eyes of a professional—in the eyes of many people, probably—certain inclusions were unnecessary, inaccessible or superfluous.’ buff.ly/07j9w0z

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Resisting the Predictable by Isobel Beech

Our cultural obsession with efficiency is killing original and inventive writing.

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liz duck-chong @lizduckchong.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Really wonderful work coming out of KYD at the moment. www.killyourdarlings.com.au/article/resi...

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Resisting the Predictable

Our cultural obsession with efficiency is killing original and inventive writing.

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Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Our cultural obsession with efficiency is killing original and inventive writing, writes Isobel Beech. Read more: buff.ly/07j9w0z

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Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Read an extract from Hell Days, a brilliant new exploration of hormonal mood disorder by Laura Elizabeth Woollett, out now via Scribe. Find out more: buff.ly/VXoObcP

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Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Wondering if the KYD Mentorship program is right for you? Swipe to see some frequently asked questions from our applicants. Learn more and apply: buff.ly/PsFm2ty

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Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Applications now open! The Lockie Fellowship offers research support for writers undertaking an original creative or critical project which advances the study of literature within Australia. Applications close Monday, 28 September 2026. Learn more and apply: buff.ly/BbMJzKy

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Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Melbourne & Adelaide! We’re excited to share that author and experienced teacher Rebecca Starford @rebeccastarford_author will be hosting two special in-person sessions of our popular Writing Boot Camp, designed to kickstart your writing routine. Learn more: bit.ly/3V2B2Fn

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Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Calling all crime readers 🫆 There's a brilliant new voice in Australian literary crime. In Plain Sight is a character-driven crime novel that asks whether we can ever truly know what those closest to us are capable of. Learn more: buff.ly/QvvfaMl

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Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New week, new SUBSCRIBERTHON prize list! ⭐️ Join, renew or gift a KYD Membership any time during September and you’ll go into the draw for that week's prize bundles—plus you’ll be automatically entered into the Major Prize draw at the end of the month! Learn More: bit.ly/4yhwE3S

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Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Sam Twyford-Moore on Yumna Kassab's Parramatta. Read more: bit.ly/3UytDO1

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Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Our September Spotlight is People With Money by Jess Ho💰️ Don't miss this darkly funny novel, and stay tuned for more from @thatdamnjessho later this month. Learn more: bit.ly/4heCTzu

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Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Join KYD Critic Sam Twyford-Moore as he goes on the road to Australia's burgeoning literary hotspot with Yumna Kassab’s Parramatta: A Dictionary of Place and Memory. Read more: buff.ly/UoHnF1E

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Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

ICYMI: @lauraelizabethwoollett on the literary novel that's got the tabloids talking. Read more: buff.ly/mtIRWPT

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Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A family home comes under siege of mysterious disappearances. Can religious purification save them? Read more from this vivid, darkly comic story by Bobuq Sayed. Read more: buff.ly/r9lSkHz

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Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Our Biggest Subscriberthon Ever is live! Join, renew or gift a KYD membership any time during September and you’ll go into the draw for that week’s prize bundles—plus you’ll be automatically entered into the Major Prize draw.

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Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

‘Until recently, professing to enjoy Cusk would have seemed like the height of pseudo-intellectual poses: an announcement that I had taste; that I knew what autofiction was; that whatever that conch-shell meant, I was in on it.‘ —Laura Elizabeth Woollett buff.ly/mtIRWPT

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The Negative Space of Literary Gossip

Celebrity culture is at the heart of the modern writers’ predicament in Rachel Cusk’s Life of M, writes Laura Elizabeth Woollett.

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Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Rachel Cusk is known for blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction. Read this new review by Laura Elizabeth Woollett, where she explores Cusk's latest literary venture, a highly publicised meditation on celebrity. Read more: buff.ly/mtIRWPT

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Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Read our interview with Jake Wighton, co-founder of Varnish Literary Journal, about the mission of this bold new magazine. Read more: buff.ly/qN6UxJP

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