Bianca Martin

Spirals exist in nature and have always been here - Overland literary journal On any given day they could be trying to legislate / that you’re not a woman. / On any given day we could be spooning in bed / archival as ammonite / the cats mirrored as new fern’s Fibonacci beside us.

“On any given day we could be spooning in bed
archival as ammonite”

Our latest #fridaypoem is SPIRALS EXIST IN NATURE AND HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE by Rae White. overland.org.au/2025/10/spir...

It’s Never Too Late To Come Out: Sumner Locke Elliott’s Fairyland Episode 4 of the Queer Critics Podcast with Sam Twyford-Moore

What was it like to be an Australian gay man in the 1930s and 40s? This week @samtwyfordmoore.bsky.social joins @rebeccastarford.bsky.social on the podcast to talk about a fictional insight into the Sydney queer scene and one man's lifelong journey to love.

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I’ll be hosting a zine workshop at the 2025 SEQ Queer Writers Festival this year on Saturday 15 November! 🥳🎉🌈

This workshop will give participants an understanding of zines and zine culture, as well as the tools they need to start working on a small zine on a topic of their choice.

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the King’s brother In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy and powerful men, and how everyone knew what was going on

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the King’s brother

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

1/ The first excerpt of Virginia Giuffre's posthumus memoir is out and it is gutting: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I am honestly so sick of seeing the wide embrace of generative AI as an "inevitability" without even a sniff of discussion about any of the horrible things about it.

still hold onto the Other App for some reason, bashed AI on it yesterday (in a way that actually felt very subdued compared to other things I've said on that app), and now I can't log on

go check this out! first issue of a great new lit mag!

Strange Daze - Issue 1 by Strange Daze Magazine inaugural issue of a lit mag inspired by daydreams and nostalgia

Issue 1 is now live! 🎉

Putting together this inaugural issue has been a huge labour of love & we're excited for you to read the amazing pieces by the contributors!

Download for free below. Plain text also available.

#strangedazemag #strangedaze #literarymag #litmag #onlinemag #poetry #writers

I get sent SO MANY recommendations for books/tv/movies that contain sexual violence but nobody sent me this article?! Anyway go read this and check out all of these books.

What I Wish I’d Known About Newsletters Writers share some of the unexpected and useful things they’ve learned along the way about newsletter publishing platforms like Substack.

To Substack, or not to Substack? We asked some well-versed writers what they've discovered in using the burgeoning platform.

LinkedIn will use your data to train AI – how to opt out | Proton LinkedIn will share your public data with Microsoft to train AI. Find what this means for your privacy and how to opt out.

9am and I've reached a whole new level of living in a hellscape: "LinkedIn will soon use your data to train AI."

proton.me/blog/linkedi...

We are delighted to share the Call for Papers for our Spring Seminar Series 2026:

The Kill Your Darlings Podcast Books Podcast · Interviews, readings and discussions about books, culture and the arts in Australia and beyond, brought to you by Kill Your Darlings magazine.

🌈📚 Introducing our new limited series podcast: Queer Critics Series 🎙️
Launching Monday 29 September — listen to the trailer and subscribe now!

YouTube video by JCU: James Cook University, Australia Stories Accumulate Like Time: First Nations Speculative Fiction

Have a listen to this Public Seminar by Dr Mykaela Saunders, University of Sydney, supported by JCU’s Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing.
youtu.be/2mJBfBGnD5g

New statue on National Mall celebrates ‘long-lasting bond’ between Trump and Epstein Bronze statue by an anonymous creator shows the two men frolicking and holding hands with a foot kicked back in joy There’s a new statue on the east end of the National Mall for Washington DC residents and tourists to enjoy. The bronze statue shows two men frolicking, grinning wide and holding hands, each with a foot joyously kicked back. “We celebrate the long-lasting bond between President Donald J. Trump and his ‘closest friend,’ Jeffrey Epstein,” a plaque at the bottom of the spray-painted bronze installation reads. A permit from the National Park Service will allow the statue to stay on the National Mall grounds through 8pm on Sunday. Continue reading...

New statue on National Mall celebrates ‘long-lasting bond’ between Trump and Epstein

“No Guernicas, no sacred places”: On the closure of Meanjin - Overland literary journal Australia’s literary culture depends for its life on its journals. Literary journals are not just clearing houses for pithy snatches of commentary and readable middlebrow fiction — they’re incubators ...

“If we’ve learned anything from the recent slew of Zionist attacks on culture in Australia, it’s that institutions — mainly universities — are often a poisoned chalice for writers and editors.”

Deputy editor Eli McLean on the closure of MEANJIN.

Israeli Settler Colonial Genocide The article examines the combined violence of settler colonialism in Israel and the US in two parts. The first part discusses the Jewish supremacism at the heart of Israeli settler colonialism, foc...

Our series of essays and commentary relating to the ongoing genocide in Gaza is free to read, share and download until the end of September 2025. #OpenAccess @jich.bsky.social

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● Raz Segal, "Settler Colonial Genocide" (doi.org/10.1080/0308...)

Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca Solnit Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture

I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.

Decision to close Meanjin criticised as act of ‘utter cultural vandalism’ Shutting long-running literary journal, which published emerging writers as well as the cream of Australia’s literary talent, described as ‘enormous loss’

Rather buried in here is the extraordinary-in-the-context statement: “The publication recently secured a $2m grant from Creative Australia to fund its next two years of operation”. The plot doth thicken... #Meanjin www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Ok I've done it!

Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.

If we need further proof of the way the arts and humanities just aren't valued in Aus at the moment... www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...

Trying hard not to let this top 100 books of the past 25 years voting take over my life but the pressure is real

Top 100 Books of the 21st Century | Vote now Vote now in Radio National's Top 100 Books of the 21st Century

Voting is officially OPEN for Radio National's Top 100 Books of the 21st Century!

Select up to 10 of your favourite books published between 1 January 2000 and 31 August 2025

Vote now! top100books.abc.net.au

@austlit.bsky.social

A bold, lino-cut style protest illustration on a bright yellow background. At the top, black hand-lettered text reads “UNLESS YOU’RE FIRST NATIONS,” above the head of an indignant black koala with yellow accents, staring directly forward and raising its middle finger. Below, more hand-lettered text reads “YOU’RE A DESCENDANT OF IMMIGRANTS. NO GATEKEEPING ON STOLEN LAND.” The word “STOLEN” is in red for emphasis.

Unless you're First Nations, you're a descendant of immigrants. No gatekeeping on stolen land 🖤💛❤️

“… it’s to fight and erase Palestinians” - Overland literary journal While Gaza City is being systematically taken over, house by house, Australia has condemned Israel's plan to build E1 — a settlement which will cut the West Bank into two. But condemning Israel's plan...

In her latest comic for Overland, Sofia Sabbagh responds to Israel’s E1 settlement plan, illustrating a quote by American-Palestinian journalist and writer Mariam Barghouti.

Universities have lost their way, but cost-cutting and consultants are not the answer

Last week in Sydney, we saw a melodrama acted out that could stand in for the state of Australian universities more generally.

I feel like I'm going to need to have a quiet lie down in a dark room with soothing music playing soon

Woke up in an absolutely foul mood today and just remembered I spent too many hours last night down a j*ffrey e*stein rabbit hole