Angela Meyer

Love this book! See my words below. Excited that it’ll be out in the world soon! 🧟

That’s lovely feedback, thank you :)

Thanks, Michael! Just saw the news re your new book out soon. Excited to read it 😊

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. …

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...

You are absolutely not too old for either of these things ❤️

Thank you!!

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)

The work kitchen is full of hideously thin forks

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.

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-...

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.

Oh, disgusting apple.news/ALtAbydSiTD-...

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.

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.

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-...

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

And if you’re thinking, “I’m just one person, what difference can I make?” my pinned post has you covered:

Thanks Gordon! Hope you’ve had a great reading (& everything) year :)

Angela 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...

Would help if I included the link… angelameyer.substack.com

Mostly Aus lit in the list this year, and many more on the tbr! Also soft launch of some personal news in this post… 😊

www.lifeblood.com.au

Urgent need for blood
#auspol
#bondibeach
#bondi
#sydney

They shall inherit Earth!

Chernobyl Fungus Appears to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability — ScienceAlert It's thriving.

apple.news/AtHCvaMClQoa...

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.

I’m getting so many of these! Hate.

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 …

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!

In 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 too

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.

Oh 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!

A great grinding noise A short memoir piece on recurrence, resurrection, regeneration

On grief dreams, planting trees, and figuring out how to talk about loss and death with the toddler (w cameo from Grug)

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.

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.