Clare Millar

Andy Griffiths: ‘I think it’s a pity that reading is being lost through neglect’ The multimillion copy-selling children’s author on his freewheeling childhood, the joy of being unproductive and life after the Treehouse series

A pleasure to interview Andy Griffiths! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

This discourse about freedom of speech, Bendigo Writers Festival & principled writers withdrawing is good. But keep speaking up for Palestine, centre Palestinian voices & don't let media turn you into the main story/a distraction. Solidarity: from the river to the sea, always was always will be ✊🏾

It's bad enough that a writers' festival pulls this crap. The writers are boycotting rather than mass disobedience? Sigh plus side-eye. Show up and speak up!

They *are* speaking up, just not at the festival.

And their “boycott” is an explicit piece of moral & political action: they’re withdrawing their labour.

Every withdrawal makes it clearer how a) the festival desperately needs this labour to exist; and b) the La Trobe policy threatens this labour.

This is one of the things that irks me, beyond the censorship and the genocide, writers, specifically progressive left wing writers, as a commodity for programming to get attendance when there is conservative value or pressure behind the programming.

Getting a little sick and tired of this new unofficial Australian arts policy of "have no political opinion, or alternatively just shut up about Palestine"

Social post from Ren Wyld with details of being told her award was rescinded

Social post from Ren Wyld with details of being told her award was rescinded

Social post from Ren Wyld with details of being told her award was rescinded, including an email from a journo at The Australian sent 20 minutes before she was told.

Social post from Ren Wyld with details of being told her award was rescinded

The day author Ren Wyld was due to receive the Black & Write $15k Indigenous fellowship she was told it had been rescinded. A journo from the Oz seemed to know before she did. Appalling to see QLD govt cave to Murdoch press to punish a First Nations writer for speaking out in support of Palestine.

Thanks for sharing!!

Next week, millions of children across the globe will read this Australian book at the same time In its 25th year, the National Simultaneous Storytime event is inviting children from Australia and beyond to read a gentle story of migration, belonging and family – starring an inquisitive cat and a...

Westside kids book author, Deb Frenkel, read The Truck Cat for us at Footscray West Writers Fest. Wild to see that it will be read by millions of kids across the world next week for National Simultaneous Storytime.

Thanks for sharing Jess!

Next week, millions of children across the globe will read this Australian book at the same time In its 25th year, the National Simultaneous Storytime event is inviting children from Australia and beyond to read a gentle story of migration, belonging and family – starring an inquisitive cat and a...

I wrote about the delightful National Simultaneous Storytime! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

pleased to see an AI declaration as part of this year's mid-year Walkley submissions

have been noticing more Aus middle grade novels, in particular, more overtly addressing class, which I think is very interesting in a society that doesn't like to talk about it!

"... a stunning, magical and confronting verse novel for young readers" review by @claresmillar.bsky.social‬ of #MG #VerseNovel LITTLEBONES by @aussie_kids_books Heads up @bklynlibrary.bsky.social @doucette515.bsky.social @jholmblad.bsky.social @librarianages.bsky.social @rurooie.bsky.social

Little Bones Verse novels have been a particular strength of Australian writing for children and young adults over the past few decades. Little Bones, a lyrical and eerie debut middle-grade verse novel by Sandy Bi...

I reviewed Little Bones by Sandy Bigna in today’s @thesaturdaypaper.com.au www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/book...

Best of Australian reading in 2024 Meanjin writers share their favourite books of 2024.

The @meanjin.bsky.social online reviews section is back for 2025! This month, I asked avid readers & critics @claresmillar.bsky.social @nedhirst.bsky.social @clairecao.bsky.social & Sonia Nair what their favourite Ozlit books were in 2024. Read on: meanjin.com.au/latest/best-...

Missed you too!!!!

Best of Australian reading in 2024 Meanjin writers share their favourite books of 2024.

Wrote about my picks for best local books of 2024 over at @meanjin.bsky.social. Loved reading the other critics’ picks too. Thanks @mxcreant.bsky.social! meanjin.com.au/latest/best-...

Hello!!! I raced out to get a copy as soon as it was on shelves 🐞🐞🐞

We Speak of Flowers From award-winning poet Eileen Chong comes a dazzling book-length poem, comprising 101 interconnected fragments that can be read in any order, inviting the reader to construct multiple interpretations.

She’s here! Book number 10. A poem for my ancestors in 101 fragments to be read in any order. A dreaming. An offering. ✨

www.uqp.com.au/books/we-spe...

I was not prepared for the readings website to change that much 😂😭

Spice cream

When was this published!

But it’s yoghurt!

Revisiting the First Fleet Santilla Chingaipe’s debut work of ‘Australian’ history is a work of rigorous research that reframes the historical narrative of the continent, reminiscent of the cultural reckoning brought on by t…

A pleasure to be back online for Meanjin, with a review of Black Convicts by Santilla Chingaipe meanjin.com.au/latest/revis...

That’s what I said!

Just learned about ‘YoPro’ as an alternative term for yuppie???

Glassblower (hobby, mostly, but can connect you with working glassblowers!)

I started wearing my Christmas dresses late last week so ✅✅✅

Video essay: We broke the economy in Flamecraft, here’s how

people who use goodreads: jeff bezos owns goodreads and if you want a better alternative there is a black woman owned company called storygraph that you can use to replace it. you can transfer all of your data from goodreads to storygraph and have your mind be free of trumpie jeff bezos! win win. 💙