Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 02/10/2026So if it’s not the baby, the toddler, the dog waking me up… 😂 (Srsly tho, seemed small but hope everyone is okay) 210
Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Mum, I have ten rainbow hearts in my body. (Shows me where they are in a line from her head down to her toes.) 140
Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Thanks Harry! He’s a cutie. Hope married life is treating you well :) xx 010
Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Baby 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. 4130
Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Meniscus 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... 021
Reposted by Angela MeyerEmma Osborne 🍉 @redscribe.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Naarm Melbourne people, I am having a physical launch for GRIEF EATER! Come hang! events.humanitix.com/book-launch-...events.humanitix.comBook Launch: Grief Eater by Emma OsborneA rageful zombie rising. A blood-soaked road to vengeance. Join Emma Osborne in conversation with Suzanne J Willis to launch GRIEF EATER. 3147
Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 23/03/2026New 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 051
Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Judge 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...haveyoursay.waverley.nsw.gov.auMark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award Judge EOIWaverley Council invites experienced and emerging writers, academics, literary critics, and industry professionals to join Award Judging Panel for a two-year tenure 010
Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 06/03/2026It’s such an endurance test. Had to do it twice this pregnancy bc over 40 🤢 but omg that egg roll afterwards 010
Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Omg the first bite of food after you do the pregnancy blood glucose testmedia.tenor.coma man with his eyes closed in a dark room with blue lights behind himALT: a man with his eyes closed in a dark room with blue lights behind him 150
Reposted by Angela MeyerEmma Osborne 🍉 @redscribe.bsky.social · 28/02/2026I have just joined my “international stores” thread to this one, would love a boost! Thanks in advance 🥰 051
Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 25/02/2026For sure. I reckon Next Gen will be the first, as I remember watching that myself quite young. Excited to (hopefully) raise some Trekkies 😊 110
Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Love this book! See my words below. Excited that it’ll be out in the world soon! 🧟 141
Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Thanks, Michael! Just saw the news re your new book out soon. Excited to read it 😊 010
Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Haven’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...cordite.org.auAngela Meyer reviews Louis Armand and Sarah TemporalLouis 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. … 042
Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 03/02/2026You are absolutely not too old for either of these things ❤️ 010
Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 03/02/2026A weirdly good combo: pregnancy + a nihilistic mum writing in ‘snatches’ + Lestat: ‘You and your malady of mortality, your malady of goodness’ (as says Nicolas) 140
Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 03/02/2026The work kitchen is full of hideously thin forks 130
Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Much to fuel anxiety in the middle of the night at the moment, but that doomsday clock… so specific. I can hear it ticking down. 040
Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Exploring 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-... 020
Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Oh, disgusting apple.news/ALtAbydSiTD-...apple.newsRenowned author accused of engaging with pedophiles, sharing child abuse material — SBS NewsCraig Silvey has been charged with possessing and distributing child exploitation material between 7 and 9 of January. 140
Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Took 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. 053
Reposted by Angela MeyerMartin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Richard 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-...smh.com.auIf Tony Abbott is welcome at Adelaide Writers’ Week, Randa Abdel-Fattah should be tooAustralia’s best writers festival could collapse within days as international and local writers boycott it in protest at the removal of Randa Abdel-Fattah. 512936
Reposted by Angela MeyerDr Susie Walsh @susiewalsh.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Hi, 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 318490
Reposted by Angela MeyerKatharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 02/01/2026And if you’re thinking, “I’m just one person, what difference can I make?” my pinned post has you covered: 310530
Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 28/12/2025Thanks Gordon! Hope you’ve had a great reading (& everything) year :) 010
Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 27/12/2025Would help if I included the link… angelameyer.substack.comangelameyer.substack.comAngela Meyer | Substack'Possibility was not a bag or box that could be closed and sealed, it was a vast open chute which received everything, everything; one could not choose or direct or destroy the powerful flow of possib... 000
Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 27/12/2025Mostly Aus lit in the list this year, and many more on the tbr! Also soft launch of some personal news in this post… 😊 272
Reposted by Angela MeyerHenry @maxiedoggie.bsky.social · 15/12/2025www.lifeblood.com.au Urgent need for blood #auspol #bondibeach #bondi #sydney 013
Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 30/11/2025apple.news/AtHCvaMClQoa...apple.newsChernobyl Fungus Appears to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability — ScienceAlertIt's thriving. 120
Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Haven’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. 0102
Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 13/11/2025I’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!literaryminded.com.auCall for papers: Publishing Research Quarterly – Environmental Sustainability and Book PublishingHi 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 … 065
Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 06/11/2025In 2nd sem the students continued their work by gathering the reports into an online publication, Bound (also led by Sarah). If you’re interested in publishing & sustainability (particularly in an Aus context), check it out! bowenstreetpress.com/bound2025 Thanks to the APA for partnering w us toobowenstreetpress.comBound25_Landing Page — Bowen Street Press 030
Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Sarah 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. 140
Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Oh yes, trying to remember how Cara describes that: ‘the birthday of someone special who lived long ago’?? We have a box set so we read them a lot! 010
Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 05/09/2025On grief dreams, planting trees, and figuring out how to talk about loss and death with the toddler (w cameo from Grug)angelameyer.substack.comA great grinding noiseA short memoir piece on recurrence, resurrection, regeneration 161
Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Meanjin 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. 0192
Reposted by Angela MeyerMartin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 05/09/2025I 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. 1186
Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 05/09/2025My 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. 070
Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · 24/07/2025www.endalznow.org/resources/ne...endalznow.orgResearch Continues to Strengthen Connection Between Routine Vaccines and Lower Dementia RiskThe 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. 010