Sam Elkin's Starter Pack
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@australia.theguardian.com
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@cameronwilson.bsky.social
the only Australian on the internet. www.cameronwilson.com.au i write @thesizzle.com.au and report at @crikey.com.au
@lrb.co.uk
The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of politics, literature, history and ideas, published every fortnight. Read: https://lrb.co.uk Subscribe: https://mylrb.co.uk/QUEXT0225B
@cockremover.bsky.social
surprisingly annoying unserious dutch transgendered convicted murderer. I'm™ your favorite poster's favorite poster. (i'm™ your favorite poster) 💙Impeach Vance💙 she™/her™ My best posts ^~^: https://shorturl.at/zm25a
@yassmin.bsky.social
Writer of books, articles, television. Social advocate. Former engineer. Interested in society, politics, culture, technology, how to live meaningful lives and build just societies. Weekly newsletter yassmin.substack.com. @yassmin_a on most other socials
@squigglyrick.bsky.social
I write. Author of Mean Streak and other things. Day job: senior reporter The Saturday Paper. I write a decent newsletter: https://rick-morton.ghost.io
@epistemophagy.bsky.social
Isabelle. 30. she/her. Founding editor @severalproblems.press. Bluesky banned Bill Kezos because Singal told them to. Please help me eat: https://ko-fi.com/epistemophagy
@roycerk2.bsky.social
Journalist. Author of The Death of Holden (2016), Just Money (2020) and others. Buy Slick: Australia's Toxic Relationship with Big Oil (2024) now: https://www.slickthebook.com.au/ For more me: https://www.roycekurmelovs.com/
@omarsakr.bsky.social
Queer Muslim, Arab-Turkish Baba. Author of four poetry collections and a novel. Now: The Nightmare Sequence (UQP, 2025). Greens candidate for Blaxland. https://linktr.ee/OmarjSakr
@bridie.bsky.social
Associate editor (audio & visual) at Guardian Australia, have I mentioned I wrote two books???????
@sandyosullivan.bsky.social
Aboriginal trans/non-binary/queer/ND doing anti-colonial work on museums/art/gender/culture @IndigFutures. ARC Future Fellow. I mostly make jokes about museums. I'm 59! them/sib/kin
@jennaprice.bsky.social
recovered academic, columnist, journalist, editor, grandmother of four dragons, still tired after all these years jennapricejournalist@gmail.com
@wyld.bsky.social
K.A Ren Wyld Writer of books and posts. Aboriginal person (Martu) Free Palestine from the river to the sea! Links to other sites, books and stuff > https://linktr.ee/KarenWyld
@charlottewood.bsky.social
2024 Booker shortlisted author ‘Stone Yard Devotional' & other books. Sydney. Here for goodwill & generosity; long smart reads; cooking & gardens; slow, careful attending. https://charlottewood.substack.com
@alisoncroggon.bsky.social
I write words. Award-winning poet, novelist, critic, theatre writer. Arts editor The Saturday Paper. She/her. Living on unceded Yalukit-Willam Country. http://www.alisoncroggon.com/
@overlandjournal.bsky.social
Overland Journal – radical Australian literature and culture since 1954
@lizduckchong.bsky.social
post-fertile funny girl 💘 writer, carpenter, makes film/music & runs a reclaimed timber shop 🏳️🌈 still masking full time 😷 proud trans woman (she/they) please tag me in your best photos of trees. www.lizduckchong.com
@drwaus.bsky.social
We fight for human rights in the digital age. www.digitalrightswatch.org.au
@vidyarajan.bsky.social
screenwriter/comedian/ performance art goblin based in aust 🌈 often at the intersection of art and tech but like non yuck version 💀 insta: @vidyarrrr
@leahjing.bsky.social
@jocaseau.bsky.social
Professional book nerd (writer, editor, critic - former publisher, bookseller). Deputy Editor, Books & Ideas, The Conversation: @aunz.theconversation.com. Co-editor, Someone Like Me: An Anthology of Autistic Writers (UQP).
@alicektg.bsky.social
Managing Editor, Australia Institute Press Anne Kantor Fellow Research Manager, The Australia Institute Austlit editing and publishing aficionado Opinions own
@alisonevans.bsky.social
writer, zinester 👽 they/them 🏳️⚧️ Wurundjeri land 🍃 alisonwritesthings.com
@roxanegay.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/roxanegay Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
@jessielilley.bsky.social
Creative Director, Writer, Broadcaster - host Spin Cycle on RRR plus podcast platforms. Living in Naarm. Baker of bread. Here we go again.
@paperbackbookshop.bsky.social
Keeping Melbourne in good books since the 1960s. 60 Bourke St, Melbourne VIC, Australia https://paperbackbooks.com.au
@aliciasometimes.bsky.social
Poet, broadcaster, love astronomy & quantum physics, sci-art, collaborator
@melcityoflit.bsky.social
The official Blue Sky account for the Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature office.
@daniellebinks.bsky.social
Author • Literary Agent • Creative Writing Teacher • https://linktr.ee/DanielleBinks
@mireillejuchau.bsky.social
Writer, Critic. The World Without Us (Bloomsbury), Burning In (Giramondo). Essays here and there. Researching archives, dreams and war. www.mireillejuchau.com
@clairegcoleman.bsky.social
Noongar writer - Novels: Terra Nullius, The Old Lie, Enclave [Hachette Australia]. Non-fiction: Lies, Damned Lies [Ultimo Press]. Writer also of essays, verse, opinion, and criticism.
@lucytreloar.bsky.social
Writer: Salt Creek (2015), Wolfe Island (2019), Days of Innocence and Wonder (2023); Agent: Curtis Brown Australia; haphazard but enthusiastic gardener. Love my family and my darling whippets.
@shelleyrae.bsky.social
Mostly I’m about #bookish stuff http://www.bookdout.wordpress.com but have eclectic interests so you can expect the occasional diversion https://linktr.ee/shelleyrae_bookdout
@felicity-plunkett.bsky.social
she / her Poet, critic, editor Vanishing Point, A Kinder Sea, Seastrands, Thirty Australian Poets (ed.)
@withmeaa.bsky.social
The union & industry advocate for Australia's creative professionals. Authorised by Erin Madeley, 245 Chalmers St, Redfern NSW 2016. Phone: 1300 65 65 13
@laurajeanmckay.bsky.social
Writer. THE ANIMALS IN THAT COUNTRY winner of The Arthur C Clarke Award and The Victorian Prize for Literature. Latest collection GUNFLOWER. She/her. Views mostly other people's. laurajeanmckay.com.au On Meeanjin - Turrbal and Jagera Country. Anti gen AI
@georgiarybanks.bsky.social
Reading books from around the world. Riding bikes. Walking dogs. Watching sport. Lifting weights. Growing food. Drawing critters.
@anatolitis.bsky.social
art – tenacity – democracy Writer and arts advocate Editor @meanjin.bsky.social Creative strategy, Test Pattern Governing Council, National Gallery of Australia Co-Chair, Australian Republic Movement Hon A/Prof, RMIT School of Art estheranatolitis.net
@catrionamp.bsky.social
Editor and critic at large. SYD →YVR. I write a newsletter about literature and the internet called Infra Dig. https://infradig.substack.com/
@mrconnorobrien.bsky.social
Run a design studio for non-profits (http://studiosometimes.com) + write stuff for lazy environmentalists (Change is Hard). Born: 351.41 ppm CO2
@jasperpeachsays.bsky.social
Writing about parenting, disability, queer things. General flavour is dismantling misplaced shame. 📖 You’ll be a Wonderful Parent (@hardiegrant 2023) 🏳️⚧️🌈
@marleejaneward.bsky.social
Author & visual artist. Middle-aged goth aunt. linktr.ee/marleejaneward
@samhellkin.bsky.social
🎙️🏳️⚧️📚🍉Author of Detachable Penis (Upswell) and co-host of Queer View Mirror (Triple R). Living on unceded Wurundjeri land. Samelkin.com