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@creatorsofcolornet event 3: pride 🌈

“wow man last year i was sleeping on my sisters floor, had no money, struggling to get plays on my music, suffering from daily headaches, now i’m gay.” —Lil Nas X

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Colorful things

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Neuroticarium

tomorrow Sarah Jansen is launching her new quarterly zine, Neuroticarium issue 1! It’s a zine  that’s all about mental health and neuroses and all that kinda jazz.

I will be reading, and so will Jess Knight and Sharmini Kumar. Tomorrow (19th) from 2pm at The Burrow in Fitzroy. Snacks provided (very good) and also if youbuy a copy of the zine you get a lolly bag!

The event is on facebookif you…

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YA lit fest This Saturday at Doncaster Library there will be a whole bunch of cool YA stuff happening! Come and see Alice Pung, Rebecca Lim, Melissa Keil and me talk about .......... YA ......... stuff. There will be food trucks and book signings and we can hang out! It's free!

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2019

I have two very big things coming out in 2019.

The first is Highway Bodies, a book about queer teens who have to rely upon each other to survive during a zombie apocalypse. It’s set in Australia, and there are three POV characters:

Jojo, a non binary DORK whose town goes into lockdown when some weird things start happening at the local hospital

Dee, the bi drummer in a band who has gone to a…

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IDAHOBIT, Feminist Writers Festival and Continuum

IDAHOBIT, Feminist Writers Festival and Continuum

Hey folks, I am doing a few things in the next four weeks and they’re all a bit different.

On May 17 for IDAHOBIT (international day against homophobia, biphobia, intersexphobia and transphobia) me and Katherine Back (Concrete Queers) and Erin Kyan (Love and Luck Podcast) are gonna talk about zines. It’s also the launch of a free zine created by locals around the area to celebrate IDAHOBIT. It…

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Aurealis awards

Ida has been shortlisted in the Aurealis awards!! (update from last post, Ida won the People’s Choice award at the Vic Prems awards!) Alongside some of my fricken fav books, too!!! The other shortlistees are: In the Dark Spaces by Cally Black Frogkisser! by Garth Nix This Mortal Coil by Emily Suvada Psynode by Marlee Jane Ward The Undercurrent by Paula Weston HOW COOL IS IT

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the victorian premier's lit awards

the victorian premier’s lit awards

IDA IS NOMINATED!!!!!!!!! WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In the young adult category (of course), alongside Living on Hope Street by Demet Divaroren and Because of You by Pip Harry which are both great. (!!!!) WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All the other nominations you can see on the Wheeler Centre’s website here. AND IDA’S ON THERE!!!!???? And, if you are so inclined, you can vote for Ida in the people’s choice…

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found family

This weekend I only ended up doing one of my Continuum panels, Queering Space, because I was sick. An audience member asked us the question: what do we look for in sci fi stories that isn’t necessarily explicit queer representation, but rather what themes resonate with us as queer people. I thought about it for a bit because I wanted to say something positive, because I’m finding lately that I am…

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emerging writers festival + continuum con

emerging writers festival + continuum con

hey friends, I’m doing some things soon and it’d be real nice if people came. First up is Continuum 13, a fan-run convention for all things nerdy and SFF. It goes for four days, 10-13 of June. I’ll be there on the 12&13th, on Monday I’ll be doing a panel about how pronouns other than he and she are used in spec fic. It’s gonna be great. On Tuesday I’m doing two panels, one on ZINES and another on…

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reading matters

The Centre for Youth Literature run a conference called Reading Matters, which is all about children’s literature. It’s a biannual conference and it ran over the past four days. I was invited to speak there and it was The Best. (I could only attend on the Friday, which makes me eternally sad). There were SO MANY cool people there and I had a blast, so here’s some word vomit. (more…)

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handy links for writing

handy links for writing

OK so one of the things I’m very bad at is thinking of names for stuff. There is a cafe in my short story Wolfskin that is a central location in the story, the River and Wheel. I got the name from this hipster business name generator. Basically it takes two random words and puts an “and” in the middle, gives you a nice font, it even generates a logo. And then you’ve got a business. This saves me…

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#asianlitbingo

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The tiger is a metaphor (is it????????????????????)

Hey folks!! I have a new short story up over at Slink Chunk Press, which is run by the fabbo Tegan Elizabeth Webb! It’s called The Tiger is a Metaphor and it’s about a tiger who appears in a kitchen for no apparent reason. You can read it for free here.

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spring wlw | flowers in her hair 

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Honestly sometimes I go to DA and look at all the really unpolished and clearly beginner-level stuff being produced and I think to myself “Look!  Looky there!  There are the artists whose work I will be admiring enviously fifteen years from now!  They’re still new!” and I don’t know, it just makes it impossible to see the art as terrible, and it also makes me really emotional.

I don’t care if you’re 90 years old and just picked up a pencil yesterday, your art is good and amazing and you are going places and every work of art is an act of bravery.

PLEASE DON’T STOP IF YOU THINK YOU ARE BAD AT THINGS.

BEING BAD AT THINGS IS HOW YOU GET GOOD AT THINGS.

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a story about ladies who shoot guns and kiss each other, available for pay-what-you-want (including free) over here: https://gumroad.com/l/QZIs#