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Angela Meyer

@literaryminded.bsky.social
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Author: JOAN SMOKES, A SUPERIOR SPECTRE, MOON SUGAR ✨ writing & publishing lecturer ✨ former publisher & bookseller✨ bi ✨ linktr.ee/AngelaMeyer

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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 15h
Earthquake!
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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mum, I have ten rainbow hearts in my body. (Shows me where they are in a line from her head down to her toes.)
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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Baby C has arrived & the fog I carried through pregnancy has lifted. I am HUNGRY for books again, reading in every small moment I can. Audiobooks, ebooks, print, a friend’s manuscript. So relieved to feel like myself again, even in the messy, tiring early postpartum period.
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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Meniscus 14.1 is out with a new poem by me about Kafka at work (preview below). Delighted to be in such excellent company. Check out the issue: www.meniscus.org.au/_files/ugd/7...
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Emma Osborne 🍉 @redscribe.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Naarm Melbourne people, I am having a physical launch for GRIEF EATER! Come hang! events.humanitix.com/book-launch-...
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Book Launch: Grief Eater by Emma Osborne
A rageful zombie rising. A blood-soaked road to vengeance. Join Emma Osborne in conversation with Suzanne J Willis to launch GRIEF EATER.
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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
New article in Journal of Writing in Creative Practice. I hope I’ve contributed something useful in thinking about both the creation and reception of artworks (particularly when those works are engaging w the climate crisis). JWCP is available via uni libraries but hit me up if you don’t have access
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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Judge EOI is open for the Nib Literary Award for research-based literature. Two positions open – one for the usual 3-year term and one covering my maternity leave. Happy to answer qs in my DMs. haveyoursay.waverley.nsw.gov.au/nibliterarya...
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Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award Judge EOI
Waverley Council invites experienced and emerging writers, academics, literary critics, and industry professionals to join Award Judging Panel for a two-year tenure
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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Omg the first bite of food after you do the pregnancy blood glucose test
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a man with his eyes closed in a dark room with blue lights behind him
ALT: a man with his eyes closed in a dark room with blue lights behind him
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Emma Osborne 🍉 @redscribe.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I have just joined my “international stores” thread to this one, would love a boost! Thanks in advance 🥰
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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Love this book! See my words below. Excited that it’ll be out in the world soon! 🧟
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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Haven’t published an at-length review for a while & certainly laboured over this one! Thanks, Cordite, for having me back. cordite.org.au/reviews/meye...
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Angela Meyer reviews Louis Armand and Sarah Temporal
Louis Armand’s Infantilisms and Sarah Temporal’s Tight Bindings (both Puncher & Wattmann, 2024) are disparate collections which overlap in their ability to make the parts speak for the whole. …
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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
A weirdly good combo: pregnancy + a nihilistic mum writing in ‘snatches’ + Lestat: ‘You and your malady of mortality, your malady of goodness’ (as says Nicolas)
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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
The work kitchen is full of hideously thin forks
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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Much to fuel anxiety in the middle of the night at the moment, but that doomsday clock… so specific. I can hear it ticking down.
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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Exploring how conflict and tension operate in literary fiction via MJ Hyland’s excellent novels (very much with teacher voice on here) 📖 text + audio 🎧 angelameyer.substack.com/p/an-uneasy-...
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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Oh, disgusting apple.news/ALtAbydSiTD-...
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Renowned author accused of engaging with pedophiles, sharing child abuse material — SBS News
Craig Silvey has been charged with possessing and distributing child exploitation material between 7 and 9 of January.
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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Took P outside for a bit once the cool change came through but realised there were tiny particles of ash raining down on our skin. Had thoughts exactly like this below. And just thinking of the people fighting the fires, in such extreme conditions. Awful & devastating.
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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Richard Flanagan on point: "But with this act of utter folly and appalling weakness, the Adelaide Festival board – and the politicians who direct it – have, by scapegoating a Palestinian writer, now destroyed Adelaide Writers Week for the foreseeable future..." www.smh.com.au/national/if-...
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If Tony Abbott is welcome at Adelaide Writers’ Week, Randa Abdel-Fattah should be too
Australia’s best writers festival could collapse within days as international and local writers boycott it in protest at the removal of Randa Abdel-Fattah.
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Dr Susie Walsh @susiewalsh.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Hi, bushfire survivor here and NSW RFS volunteer. If you think you are going to stay and defend your property...Don't. You are not prepared for the intense radiant heat, the ember showers, the smoke, the collapse of all of your energy. If you have been instructed to leave. Leave early. #Bushfire
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 02/01/2026
And if you’re thinking, “I’m just one person, what difference can I make?” my pinned post has you covered:
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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Mostly Aus lit in the list this year, and many more on the tbr! Also soft launch of some personal news in this post… 😊
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Henry @maxiedoggie.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
www.lifeblood.com.au Urgent need for blood #auspol #bondibeach #bondi #sydney
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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
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Chernobyl Fungus Appears to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability — ScienceAlert
It's thriving.
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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Haven’t been able to read much lately for various reasons but an Alex Cothren story from Playing Nice Was Getting Me Nowhere once or twice a week is cutting through the fog. Bloody excellent short fiction.
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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I’ll be editing a special issue of Publishing Research Quarterly on environmental sustainability and book publishing. The call for papers is out now. Please share if you have relevant networks!
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Call for papers: Publishing Research Quarterly – Environmental Sustainability and Book Publishing
Hi everyone, I’m excited to share the call for papers for a special issue of the international academic journal Publishing Research Quarterly on the topic of environmental sustainability and …
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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Sarah Gory and I wrote for B+P about incorporating sustainability research into the RMIT Master of Writing and Publishing program this year, w broader insights into the benefits of W&P programs getting students involved in industry/global(!) issues, and partnering w industry on these.
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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
On grief dreams, planting trees, and figuring out how to talk about loss and death with the toddler (w cameo from Grug)
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A great grinding noise
A short memoir piece on recurrence, resurrection, regeneration
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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Meanjin 66.1, 2007, ordered in at a regional bookstore and enthusiastically pored over by a baby writer discovering the incredible landscape of Australian literature. Meanjin 82.4, 2023, author copy received when a mid-career writer published a short story, The Station, in her dream journal.
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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
I think we should agree that the explanation proffered yesterday by the MUP board chair for Meanjin’s axing (“purely financial reasons”) is a nonsense. Which begs the question: what was the real reason? This is a scandal.
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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
My novel/novella in progress instinctively seems to have five parts; I’ve just finished drafting part four. Have some vague notions of how it all comes together and I hope I can nail it over the summer once classes are done! It might involve moss, childbirth, a house disappearing into a forest.
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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
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Research Continues to Strengthen Connection Between Routine Vaccines and Lower Dementia Risk
The flu and shingles vaccines provide protection to individuals against these illnesses. Research also indicates that these and other routine adult vaccinations may lower the risk of dementia. Read on to learn how a recent study strengthens this link with the shingles vaccine and why these findings are significant.
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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Strewth, finished copies of @roffwrites.bsky.social’s debut novel emerge! Out very soon from Adelaide’s Wakefield Press! #HereAreMyDemands
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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Help give gorgeous Jess a proper celebration of her life 🩵 gofund.me/e6daa029
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Donate to In memory of Jessica Knight, organized by Giselle Nguyen
On July 7, 2025, we very suddenly lost our dear friend Jess Knight. Jess was a wonderfu… Giselle Nguyen needs your support for In memory of Jessica Knight
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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Gorgeous reading night @ Bibliotheca Bar: Nicholas Jose, Jen Mills, Danielle Clode, Lisa Hannett, Heather Taylor-Johnson, Amelia Walker, Lauren Fuge. What a treat 📖 #StoryandtheSelf
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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
At the IABA (International Auto/Biography Assoc) x ASAL (Assoc. for the Study of Aus Lit) #StoryandtheSelf conf in Adelaide, speaking this morning on rereading Garner’s The Spare Room after life experience (accumulation & loss) & thinking about rereading as a practice in general
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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
To him, music was like breathing. So genuine an artist & a huge inspiration for me. I’ve loved the Beach Boys through all eras of my life. Was so lucky to see the Pet Sounds tour ❤️ www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
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Brian Wilson, visionary creative spirit for the Beach Boys, dies aged 82
Musician, who suffered from mental health problems, wrote and produced the 1966 album Pet Sounds – seen by many as the greatest album of all time
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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
‘I rested the breast pump on top of Gender Trouble and pale milk pooled on its cover.’ I love this so much islandmag.com/read/a-natur...
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a natural sort of being – by Miriam Jones | Australian Literary Arts Magazine | ISLAND
At home we were a newborn, a toddler, a man, and a non-binary me. For three months we lived outside of normal time and normal social life. The privatised home is not known for nurturing gender improvi...
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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Well, the fight has been lost. Watched these huge old red gums begin to be fed into the wood chipper this morning and sobbed. dandenong.starcommunity.com.au/news/2024-04...
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Gum trees' fate in council's hands | Dandenong Star Journal
The fate of two towering gum trees controversially approved for removal in central Noble Park seemingly remains in Greater Dandenong […]
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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Am reading a recently published Aus narrative nonfiction book in which every piece of dialogue is incorrectly punctuated. All punct. is outside quote marks & if there’s punct. within (like a !) they’ve added an EXTRA FULL STOP on the outside. How does this happen?
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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
The emergency vehicles on the way to the CFA protest was a sight to see this morning! So loud! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
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Calls for Vic premier to 'hold a hose' as firies rage against new levy
Volunteer firefighters and farmers say the Victorian government's new tax is "totally unfair" and will send communities to the wall. As the budget looms, they are in the state capital to raise their v...
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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
When I became a mum I was already a carer for my own mum (& with my dad already gone) but we’re in a golden period, with her illness progressing slowly & her living close by. Three generations getting to spend time together, mostly walking the dog, snacking & colouring in. Highlight of my weeks ❤️
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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Kaliane Bradley on The Ministry of Time w Claire Nichols. I loved when she spoke about a novel’s relationship with/representation of time, deepening the time travel chat: you decide ‘what is history, what’s narrative, how your reader will travel through your story’. #mwf2025
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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Writer as Witness, Evelyn Araluen, Amy McQuire, Hasib Hourani, Micaela Sahhar. Writing in response to complicit (imperial) media, how writing can inform activism & how certain practices & methodologies (especially relational, communal, etc.) can subvert dominant or prescribed norms. Moving. #mwf2025
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Jodi McAlister @jodimca.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
of *course* on his very last election Antony Green would have all his technology fail him and have only his little notebook to guide him, this is the hero's journey but for psephologists #AusVotes
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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
‘Some of her earnings were spent on riotous living, but Kerry gave a lot of it away without fanfare to those who really needed it: fellow authors down on their luck, impecunious neighbours and, above all, to charities.’ What a legend. Vale, KG.
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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
❤️‍🔥 sunbookshop.com/events/feast...
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Australian Society of Authors @asauthors.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
❗️Authors and illustrators: have your books been used to train AI? Today the Atlantic published a search tool allowing authors to search for their books in the LibGen dataset, which has been used to train Meta's AI system. Search here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Loved this one, JB open.substack.com/pub/aliensid... @birmo.bsky.social
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Temu Tony Stark does not feel your pain.
“Empathy is for losers”, says the guy whose lack of empathy has lost him about 250 billion dollars in the last couple of weeks.
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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Reading w Penny on the train & a man said, You must spend a fortune on books! I said, They’re from the library. We stock up every week. He said, Libraries still exist? They must be empty, no one knows! I said, Our local is busy! 📚 Strange the parallel worlds we live in. Glad he knows now 😊
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