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Michael Winkler

@micwink.bsky.social
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Writer, reader, swimwear model. Last book Grimmish. Next book Griefdogg. michaelwinkler.com.au

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Michael Winkler @micwink.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As if things aren't bad enough already.
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Elias Greig @eliasgreig.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is terrifying — for First Nations kids in particular. Happened to drive past the former Kinchela Aboriginal Boys’ Training Home near Kempsey recently; pulled up to have a look. The shadows around that building were such that I couldn't get out of the car. There are still children buried there.
abc.net.au
Controversial youth justice camps to be rolled out in Queensland this year
Offenders will be based at the regional facilities for up to six months and will be required to wear an electronic monitoring ankle tag.
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
BREAKING Anthony Albanese promises every Australian voter 5,000 carbon credits available via the gambling app of their choice if Labor wins the next election
Anthony Albanese
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Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Im holdind a conversation with authors Michael Winkler and Wayne Marshall this Thursday to discuss their new novels, Griefdogg and Henry Goes Bush at Brunswick Library. Join us for a rowdy chat about Australian stories if you're free. www.eventbrite.com.au/e/meet-the-a...
eventbrite.com.au
Meet the Authors: Michael Winkler and Wayne Marshall with Shay Leighton.
Authors Michael Winkler and Wayne Marshall join us to discuss their new novels, Griefdogg and Henry Goes Bush.
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Elias Greig @eliasgreig.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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youtu.be
Chet Atkins, Dolly Parton "Do I ever Cross Your Mind'
YouTube video by daffydoug
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Patrick Marlborough @cormacmccafe.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
CRAIGIE (a reckoning) “everybody needs a bit of Craigie in them.” coming February 2027 via Wharf Rat Press Kickstarter launches next week.
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Michael Winkler @micwink.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Country motel rooms should always look like this.
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Michael Winkler @micwink.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Wayne Marshall, hardest working man in Australian literature
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Cartoon.
Scene is women's public toilets. A woman in a shirt saying 'TERF PATROL" is on a ladder peering over a locked door into a cubicle. She's saying "Just checking your genitalia to make sure you're not one of those creepy perverts who lurk in women's toilets"
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Michael Winkler @micwink.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
So pleased to see the best book I encountered last year released in a stunning @textpublishing.bsky.social edition. If you haven't read Lara Pawson yet, start now.
Cover of book Spent Light by Lara Pawson
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Michael Winkler @micwink.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Holy hell. ntindependent.com.au/scientist-sa...
ntindependent.com.au
Scientist says Minister’s pole-flip and earth axis-tilt water claims are false | NT Independent
Trade and Business Minister Robyn Cahill’s claim that the Earth’s poles can flip during periods of heavy rainfall in the Northern Territory and that the water causes the Earth’s axis to shift is incor...
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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD TIMES
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Elias Greig @eliasgreig.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
This is happening at the same time the "affordable housing" thing, riding on a wave of imbecilic credulity thanks to the YIMBY movement, has been revealed as the sham it always was. People have nowhere to go. People have NOWHERE to go.
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Michael Winkler @micwink.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Hearing that Barry Dickins has died. A blazing talent, and 100% original.
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Australian Academy of the Humanities @humanitiesau.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Traces of Australian links to Atlantic slavery survive all around us, whether we realise it or not. Research by Prof @janelydon.bsky.social FAHA and Prof Zoë Laidlaw illuminates these connections and prompts us to seek new understandings of the past: lnkd.in/ebZ7dAUR
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Michael Winkler @micwink.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
If you live in any of these places, or know anyone who does, we'd love to say gidday...
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Chris Somerville @chrisomerville.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I like scrolling my bluesky feed because it’s the worst news imaginable and then occasionally a quote from moby dick
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Had a lovely long chat with Don Watson about America on its 250th birthday, about its storied history and strange present. On @3rrrfm.bsky.social
rrr.org.au
Segments: Future Perfect: Don Watson on America’s Storied History And Strange Present — Triple R 102.7FM, Melbourne Independent Radio
On July 4, 1776, 250 years ago this week, the Continental Congress in America officially adopted the Declaration of Independence, which severed the 13 American colonies from Great Britain, and establi...
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𝑭𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒊 𝑻𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒓 🐈‍⬛✨ @frittitailchaser.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
me flirting #art
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Michael Winkler @micwink.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Meanwhile you can go full fash/Elongated Muskrat at the NRL and it's all good fun.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
One Nation and Labor just voted together to double the visa fees for people come to Australia to study, to nearly $5,000. The politics of Labor and One Nation is clear, treating people who come here to be a part of the community as either cash cows or scapegoats.
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Michael Winkler @micwink.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Hooray for this, but it's a bit astonishing in 2026 that you would have three Australian writers spruiking an overseas OzLit festival and not one is First Nations. Nice flags though.
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Michael Winkler @micwink.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
#notallfans But some fans. Not good.
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Elias Greig @eliasgreig.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Thinking about the lack of diversity in news rooms, prominent journalists of colour/migrant backgrounds who've been hounded out, and First Nations journalists who've left due to racism and lack of cultural safety and respect. All of this makes it easier for Hanson.
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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Yasunari Kawabata certainly knew how to write a blurb (for Osamu Dazai).
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Elias Greig @eliasgreig.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
On this ongoing, relentless nonsense about AI resistance being classist, excellence is one of the few, fragile weapons working class people can deploy against privilege. Destroy excellence, or cheapen it to the point of routine, and you reward access and wealth.
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Michael Winkler @micwink.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
A last reup - if you are in Sydney and think that reading is better than deading, love to see you tomorrow night. www.betterreadevents.com/events/micha...
betterreadevents.com
Michael Winkler In Conversation with Giacomo Bianchino | Better Read Events
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Michael Winkler @micwink.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Hunting through old photos, found the other MCG - Marree - not a lot of turf maintenance required.
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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I wouldn't open with it
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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Classic novels simply aren't relatable. Even contemporary literature is often about things I have never personally experienced. My preferred genre is autobiographical fiction that I have written myself
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That guy Maks @callmesipo.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
secondspace.beehiiv.com/p/drag-your-...
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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
The perpetrators of the 2004 spying on #TimorLeste’s maritime boundary negotiating team have asked Attorney-General Michelle Rowland to issue a ‘secrecy certificate’ over why they say they shouldn’t have to confess to the sordid gas theft crime everyone knows they facilitated. #auspol #NoTruth
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Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Disciple of the #QuentinCrisp school of cleaning: "There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years, the dirt doesn't get any worse."
Crisp in his dirty kitchen.
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Michael Winkler @micwink.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
If you're in Sydney or you can get to Sydney or you've ever visited Sydney or you've heard of Sydney or you know someone who knows someone called Sidney, love to see you at the legendary Better Read than Dead on the 15th. www.betterreadevents.com/events/micha...
betterreadevents.com
Michael Winkler In Conversation with Giacomo Bianchino | Better Read Events
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Steve Hayman 🇨🇦 @shayman.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Have you, like me, spent the last 26 years worrying if the Canadian Potato Museum STILL has the display of various potato diseases with potatoes in little coffins? Stop worrying. I checked today. Still there.
A display of diseased potatoes mounted in the wall, each in a little coffin A diseased potato in its coffin.
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Michael Winkler @micwink.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Another quixotic Upswell title. Clara Brack's memoir of her parents takes risks and provides interest.
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Alice Grundy @alicektg.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Last change to apply for a 2027 Anne Kantor Fellowship at the Australia Institute. Along the lines of a grad program, this is a chance to work with some of Australia's leading thinkers, working to change minds. Applications close midnight, 1 June.
annekantorfellowship.org.au
How to apply
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Michael Winkler @micwink.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
A rich Melbourne teenager has become one of the almost 14,000 people to climb Everest. Wall-to-wall media coverage. News value close enough to zilch.
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That guy Maks @callmesipo.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
With disgust I learned Olga Tokarczuk uses AI to help with writing her latest novel - article in Polish, my translation of relevant bit in posts below mycompanypolska.pl/artykul/olga...
mycompanypolska.pl
Olga Tokarczuk zapowiada ostatnią powieść w karierze: „Pisanie długich opowieści jest dziś ekonomicznie nieopłacalne”
Czy w świecie powszechnego pędu i pośpiechu jest jeszcze miejsce na duże, wymagające opowieści? Olga Tokarczuk wyraża obawę, że ta era dobiegła końca. Dlatego najnowszą powieść, uważa za ostatnią w ka...
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Stephanie Convery @gingerandhoney.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Forgive me for sharing this again, but the Kyle Hudson inquest was incredibly affecting – and revealing – about the depth of harm gambling can cause to a young man with no adverse circumstances, the info betting companies have, and crucially, what they do with it. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Flagged for winning, inducements when losing: how betting firms watched a Melbourne man gamble $895,000 before his death at 22
Kyle Hudson joined a betting app on his 18th birthday, and lost his final, $1,300 bet on the morning of his 2021 death. A coroner wants to know if anything can be done to stop it from happening again
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Michael Winkler @micwink.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Yumna Kassab: Goodbye, My Love
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Andrew Roff @roffwrites.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I don't want to alarm anyone, but Wayne Marshall's historical/literary/speculative romp, Henry Goes Bush, is at large and roaming the countryside. Track down a copy however you can.
Henry Goes Bush, a new novel by Wayne Marshall.Henry Goes Bush, a new novel by Wayne Marshall.
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Michael Winkler @micwink.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Grateful to the National Library for inclusion in their new book Postscript: Life, Love and Loss in Australian Letters.
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Michael Winkler @micwink.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Standing room only at today's launch of Henry Goes Bush by the newest Bard of Bacchus Marsh, Wayne Marshall. (Peter Carey and Frank Hardy can shuffle along a spot.)
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Michael Winkler @micwink.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
No-one ever has made a better book launch entrance. Congrats @drkerryjewell.bsky.social you kooky thing.
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Michael Winkler @micwink.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Maks, from you, this means so much. A privilege to be read so well. Thanks.
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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
New Patrick deWitt cover is an excellent Stephen Shore photograph, unfortunately slightly dulled from familiarity through previous use:
Cover of DODGE CITY by Patrick DeWitt, featuring Stephen Shore photograph showing a man's trousered legs and sneakered feet on a 1970s-style hotel bed, with a sad little desk, chair, suitcase, lamp and wall-mounted old CRT TV against the far wall, a brightly lit window illuminating the roomPeter Handke's SHORT LETTER, LONG FAREWELL, with the same photoThe New Penguin Book of American Short Stories, with the same photo
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest the answer to this is "No."
From "The Atlantic": "Had President Trump, we wondered, possibly been reading or at least thumbing through—just maybe—the works of … Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel?"
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Alice Grundy @alicektg.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
🧵In their sub to the Inquiry into the taxation on gas resources, INPEX has a section entitled "the PRRT system is working as designed". The execs repeated this line under questioning last week. So what does "working as designed" look like?
aph.gov.au
Submissions
Submissions
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