SALVAGE – BUY NOW
Support your local independent bookshop, obviously.
A Concise Compendium of Wonder
Three radically reimagined fairytales, staged by Slingsby, published by Pink Shorts Press
Challenge-response, a new short story in The Saturday Paper
Salvage shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year
Sign the open letter from Australia’s creatives on AI. Don’t trade our work away to big tech!
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My submission to the National Cultural Policy 2026
Women Who Win
In conversation with Antoinette Lattouf on May 12, 2026 for her launch, presented by Burnside Library and Imprints
Dog-Eared Readings
In conversation with Fiona Kelly McGregor on April 23, 2026
Constellations
I was proud to help organise a decentralised, community-led festival that took place on Kaurna Yarta instead of the cancelled Writers Week 2026. Here’s an ABC Arts story about it.
Salvage featured on ABC RN Book Show
Gary Shteyngart, Jennifer Mills and Rhett Davis ask what’s next
Dog-Eared Readings [FB] 2025
Canberra Writers Festival 2025 on Ngunnawal and Ngambri country, October 2025
Creative Australia fellowships: career-defining support for 16 artists
Writers Assemble! A new writers festival at the State Library of SA, September 20-21
I spoke with InDaily about the Botanic Gardens of SA quietly dropping their naming rights arrangement with Santos for the MEB – four years early! A win for fossil fuel divestment in arts & cultural spaces. See our 2023 open letter for more.
“Festivals should not be playing the role of policing what writers can and can’t say.”
I spoke with the ABC about Bendigo Writers Festival and Code of Conduct overreach.
The ASA opposes a TDM exception.
I spoke with The Wire about AI theft, protecting creators and the value of copyright.
MEAA video: Stop Killing Journalists
SA’s algal bloom disaster: The brutal reality of the climate crisis [gift link] The Saturday Paper
Running Water Community Press
In Meanijn: on the formation of Australia’s first author-owned and run book publishing co-operative
KYD course: Writing Political Essays – a useful on-demand course for our times
ASA statement on freedom of expression, Creative Australia and the Venice Biennale
Bodies of Work – A Symposium
Labour rights for artists, cultural democracy for workers
My Year as a Salaried Artist
Meanjin
The artist as essential worker
Overland
Art in the Works: Vitalstatistix’s Adhocracy Program 2022
Artlink
Overland signs the Freelance Charter
MEAA news
An open letter to the Adelaide Botanic Gardens from South Australia’s Arts Community
End Santos sponsorship of the Museum of Economic Botany!
Sick Leave
A grant application proposing to pay sick leave to artists.
Unnatural Being
Sydney Review of Books
Dystopia Creep
Meanjin
Artists Organise!
August 5 @ Nexus Arts Tarntanya (Adelaide)
recording available on YT
The Funeral
Meanjin
It’s Time… To Demand Fair Pay in the Arts
Meanjin
‘Writing for Tomorrow’, my address to the Living Landscapes festival at Yerta Bulti
Vitalstatistix
A Liveable Income Guarantee should support artists—and artists should support a UBI
Overland
The Trouble with (non)Violence
Sydney Review of Books
The Body Problem
Oliver Reeson reviews The Airways in the Sydney Review of Books
Gender is a kind of haunting: Jennifer Mills explores the queer potential of the ghost story in The Airways
Interview in The Guardian
Watch me launching The Airways on YouTube
The Book Shelf on Radio National – Kate Evans discusses The Airways
The Book Show on Radio National – An interview with Claire Nichols
Review of The Airways by Fiona Wright at The Guardian
Australia squandered its Covid advantage – and wealth is deciding who makes it home
The Guardian
Full Story podcast: how pandemic solidarity can help us tackle climate change and inequality
The Guardian
Fire, Flood, Plague
Penguin Books
Archive Ethics
Meanjin
The Call
The Saturday Paper
Cracks in the Glass
Overland
Trouble Breathing
The Guardian
The melancholic background
Overland
Spring is not enough
Meanjin
I will not be taking questions
The Saturday Paper
Interview with Astrid Edwards
State Library of Victoria
The Rhythms of These Numberless Days
Meanjin
Agents of Care
Overland
Writers report from Italy, France and USA
The Book Show, ABC Radio National
Italy in Lockdown
Adelaide Review
Working from Lockdown
Medium/@paythewriters
The Unconcerned
Sydney Review of Books
Battling the False Narratives Around Australia’s Devastating Bushfires
Lithub