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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Read Jane Downing's "About a Friend" now in Sūdō Journal Volume 6: Disconnect. sudojournal.com/disconnect/

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

''I’m no fool. His eyes moved off my lips, the spell was broken and I recognised his charm as the type my dad called smarmy. You couldn’t help falling for it in the moment; you’d be desperate to scrub it off your skin after the fact."

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Volume 6: Disconnect is now live! In this sixth volume of Sūdō Journal, we hope you find, as we did, both solace and a call to action; connection in a time of division; something worth striving for. sudojournal.com/disconnect/

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

FROM THE ARCHIVE Volume 1: Blood, Sweat and Tears "Feminine substantiality covers the contours of formerly patriarchical social space: sickening, fuggy air fills our nostrils to the brim..." From "Soft, Black, and Liquid" by Mark Horvath, in Sūdō Journal volume 1. shorturl.at/5XH5l

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

FROM THE ARCHIVE Volume 2: Hot Under the Collar "Travis says nothing as gets his breath back. He stares straight ahead as speed runs hard through his brain. The sensation is electric but he knows he has a job to do." From "Wonderland" by Sean O'Leary. sudojournal.com/hot-under-th...

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

FROM THE ARCHIVE Volume 4: Touch Wood "Her child—starving on airless blood Her breath—uncaught and drowned Her breasts—buoyed and bloated Not sculpted" From "Women of Pearling: Bedford Park" by CE Collins, in Sūdō Journal volume 4. sudojournal.com/touch-wood-2/

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

FROM THE ARCHIVE Vol 4: Touch Wood "I am, by nature or by trauma (or both) a competitive perfectionist type, with the added bonus of low self-esteem. So when I look at my art, I always think it's not good enough." From "Change is Coming, Change is Here" by Rebekah Lisciandro.

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NonWayne @nonwayne.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

The Australian première of Existence is Resistance with @louisarmand.bsky.social in the heart of the nation's cultural scene (i.e. Townsville, northern Queensland), courtesy of @sudojournal.bsky.social with support from FALS and Mary Who? Bookshop

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

FROM THE ARCHIVE Volume 1: Blood, Sweat and Tears "O but that thump thump thump Is only the cry of life awaiting Death. The pulse of these veins Pumps in vain like anchors Drowing in a well." From "Sinking" by Toddryck Noël, in Sūdō Journal volume 1.

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

FROM THE ARCHIVE Vol 1: Blood, Sweat and Tears "The men and machines were moved out and the land the airfields sat on sold off. For many fields this was the inevitable outcome; Reid River was no different." From "A Retrospective..." by Andrew Sibley.

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

FROM THE ARCHIVE "A policeman arrived just in time, yet he did not clap a single man into handcuffs. Instead he simply clapped. Elsie was dumbstruck; he had actually given the mob a round of applause." "Here on the Home Front" by Rodney Williams. sudojournal.com/burning-brid...

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

FROM THE ARCHIVE Volume 4: Touch Wood ""Honestly,” the internet sensation demanded of its audience, “haven’t you anything better to do? Read Voltaire. Read Wittgenstein. Read. Anything. You plonkers.”" From "Possum Hunt" by Jane Downing.

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

FROM THE ARCHIVE Volume 3: Burning Bridges "And you, Narcissus? You will burn in those foul, dark flames. The forest pool in which you find your deeply loved reflection will evaporate in the heat." From "Risen" by Amy Windsor.

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

FROM THE ARCHIVE Vol 3: Burning Bridges "She is happy for them. She is happy that their sadness and anxiety was temporary and had a fixed locus. But she is also reminded that her sadness was never their sadness at all." From "Stop the Bus and Pray for Me" by Lianda Burrows. shorturl.at/AJZSW

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

The sixth volume of Sūdō Journal asks what it is to disconnect in an increasingly connected world. Is it ethical to extract yourself from social and political upheaval? How can we retain our humanity if we are not connected? Is disconnection even possible?

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

We want to read your work! Submissions are now open for Sūdō Journal volume 6: "Disconnect." Submissions close June 30, 2025 for our December 2025 issue. sudojournal.com/submissions

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

FROM THE ARCHIVE Vol 3: Burning Bridges "Suddenly he hoisted the sledgehammer over his head then brought it down top of the TV with impressive force and stunning violence." From "Uncle Kev" by Peter Horgan. shorturl.at/AJZSW

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NonWayne @nonwayne.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

In case you missed it: Jade Croft and I wrote a piece on our experiences of studying the humanities in regional Australia and how they are at the pointy end of a long, international decline in the humanities in the English-speaking world doi.org/10.56449/146...

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Situating Narratives of Decline: Surveying the Literature of Crisis from a Regional Humanities Student Perspective – AHR

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

FROM THE ARCHIVE Vol 2: Hot Under the Collar "The feeling I had was akin to that feeling you get when you’re watching a movie with your parents and a sex scene comes on. It was silently, yet undeniably, awkward." "Ways of Seeing Sex" by Emma Maguire.

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

FROM THE ARCHIVE Volume 2: Hot Under the Collar "A silver mask, eerily animated, in perfect repose, faces the worshippers. Serene and benign but still powerful. Enduring." From "Take Me to Church" by Tina Morganella, in Sudo Journal volume 2.

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

FROM THE ARCHIVE Volume 4: Touch Wood "The tree has arms. The sky has eyes. We will drink water from the river, on the way to ourselves." From "Two Poems Translated in English with the Original in Russian" by Ivan de Monbrison, in Sudo Journal v4.

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

"And the space and the heavy air / of the cabin / envelops us / with something infinite / like an insatiable / feeling of love." Read "Listening to A Moon Shaped Pool by Anton Lushankin in our latest volume, "Eras": sudojournal.com/eras

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

"Bodies engineered for production redefine themselves through the mechanics of attachment, of the experience of palatable human emotions. The slow progression of love, artificial skin finding humanity, is an act of creation. Life is formed, captured, through deviation."

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Read "Lord of Land" by Barlow Crassmont in our latest volume, "Eras": sudojournal.com/eras

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

"He fumbled a large ring on which two dozen keys hung, and riffled through them like a cumbersome deck of cards. When the right key clinked inside the latch, the door swung with the ungracefulness of a dust storm."

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Anna Mills @annamillsoer.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

👍 AI mirage 👎 AI hallucination So many have objected to "hallucination" as a description of faulty AI outputs. We need a term that doesn't suggest conscious delusion. @xolotl.org and I analyzed 80+ alternatives and settled on "mirage." We make the case here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

What looks like a glassy water surface with some rocks protruding from it in the background with sand in the foreground. The water is probably a mirage.

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Read "(In)audible: A Confession" by Mirela Cufurovic in our latest volume, "Eras": sudojournal.com/eras

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

"In the brief moment of unconsciousness, the world around us is quiet, still. And when my mother wakes, the effort to see, to hear, to breathe is so immense that she contemplates, briefly, if she should let the falling snow kiss her skin into oblivion."

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

"I like to leave it bare as words / on a tomb, death, the place / where no one wants to follow." Read "Follow" by Nancy Anne Miller in our latest volume, "Eras": sudojournal.com/eras

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Read "The Body in Time: A Physical Approach to Historical Storytelling" by Todd Barty in our latest volume, "Eras": sudojournal.com/eras

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

"The physical approach enriches this recirculation while creating space for interpretation and discussion, functioning as a distancing or defamiliarisation effect in the style of Epic Theatre."

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Read "Hit Immunity" by @ellectric.bsky.social in our latest volume, "Eras": sudojournal.com/eras

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

"Pop was the most accessible of magic spells because, like a spell, one had to repeat a string of words, and like an incantation, it worked something improbable on the body, a sensation akin to fever, an illness that sedated the brain and worked every limb to the extreme."

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

"My father has always shown his fondness for me. But then, why do I always feel like there is this hidden hate somewhere inside him, waiting to manifest toward me at the right time?" Read "My Father" by Chukwuemeka Famous in our latest volume, "Eras": buff.ly/418VcOA

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

"Proudly displaying its Red Yellow Punk head / Punk attitude With black Abandoned eyes Watching" Read "Lest They Embellish a More Voluptuous Region" by Troy Walsh in our latest volume, "Eras": sudojournal.com/eras

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Read "What Should We Do With #MeToo?" by @beeeeonka.bsky.social in our latest volume, "Eras": sudojournal.com/eras

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

"In the era of #MeToo, stories about sexual assault and gender-based violence are receiving more media attention than ever before. But what are we meant to do with this information? What are we meant to do when every time we turn on the news we are confronted with another story?"

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Read "The Man in the Tan Shoes" by Andrew McKenna in our lastest volume, "Eras": sudojournal.com/eras

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

"The heat and damp swirled as I stepped out of the shade of the palms. At 7 a.m. it was a thick gruel, like Satan had left the door to Hades open. This morning he’d cooked a stew of diesel and mouldy leaves and roadkill."

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Faith Palermo @faith-palermo.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I did the 35 Questions to Fall in Love with ChatGPT (amongst other trials). Super excited to have "Jailbreaking" out with @sudojournal.bsky.social @tenille.bsky.social ! You can find my obsessive research here: sudojournal.com/wp-content/u...

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Read "B is for Bee" by Sharon Bryan in our new volume, "Eras": sudojournal.com/eras

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

"I also stare intently at every plant I pass that has bee-friendly flowers on it when I’m out and about. I can watch the neighbour’s basil for ages. My family, of course, think I’m mad. Then again, they always did, so this isn’t a new development."

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

"Are they aware of other worlds, forces / beyond their small pond – that their universe / has the security and permanence of a junk bond?" Read "The Vivarium" by Jeremy Gadd in our new volume, "Eras": sudojournal.com/eras

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

. . . and where—through decades-long place attachments and memories—I felt that I did or didn’t feel at home." Read "The Untimely “Now”: On the Crystallisation, Stretching and Shrinking of My Various Presents" by Eduardo de la Fuente in our new volume, "Eras": sudojournal.com/eras

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

"As in the case of concrete (which had surrounded me particularly in my professional or workaday life as an academic), it had taken the material-affective qualities of Sydney sandstone for me to start linking biography and place; embodied experience and existential issues to do with migration . . .

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

"I had gone to his motel room that night, I had undressed, he had heaved me, up and down, my arms around his neck, like I was nothing. I liked the feeling of being nothing." Read "Transit" by BLT in our new volume "Eras": sudojournal.com/eras

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

"Last night: I am in a dream world with him. He slashes my face with a scalpel. Left to right. North to South. The soft flesh of my face is scored like a fresh mango." Read "Peach" (and check out the accompanying artwork, "Futile") by Courtney Mason in our new volume, "Eras": sudojournal.com/eras

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

"When the angel came to reap the end of time, some children’s / parties were disrupted. To compensate, I hopped like a frog, / blew a blast on my own plastic bugle." Read "When the Angel Put an End to Time" by Andrew Leggett in our new volume, "Eras": sudojournal.com/eras/

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Sūdō Journal @sudojournal.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

"Your words, your thistle seeds, blow away on the wind in mad anarchy aiming to take root." Read "Variegated, Fissiparous Animations: An Australian Writing Memoir" by Moya Costello in our new volume, "Eras": sudojournal.com/latest-issue/

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