Unladylike Podcast

A podcast on women and writing. Co-hosts @snarkywench and @kmjgardiner. Find us on Audioboom, iTunes and your favourite podcast app.

[Claire Parnell @cparnell_c]

One (1) month until abstracts are due for the academic day of the @smallpressau Independent Publishing Conference! PhD, grad students, ECRs and people adjacent to the academy are encouraged to apply.

[Unladylike Podcast @ItsUnladylike]

Well done, Kelly!

[La Trobe University @latrobe]

Creative writing lecturer @kmjgardiner developed 'Goddess' during her PhD. Hollywood has taken note, and the extraordinary life of Julie d'Abuigny—a feisty star of Louis IV's court—will soon come to the screen. Listen in to hear how the story came to life. https://t.co/GXhwho617C

[Auckland Writers Festival @AklWritersFest]

The first-ever anthology of Asian New Zealand creative writing will launch at #AWF21. From Indonesia to Japan, China to the Philippines, high school students to retirees, ‘A Clear Dawn’, edited by Paula Morris and Alison Wong, is a ground-breaking contribution to NZ literature.

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

Emily Dickinson died on this day in 1886, having loved for thirty years the woman who inspired her staggering body of work. Here are the poet's breathtaking letters to the love of her life: https://t.co/xhsZSIWC8L

[Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz]

I'm seeing so much resistance to the obvious and self-evident point that, the richer and more connected you are, the easier it is to succeed as a writer. We're so committed to the myth of the publishing meritocracy that we can't look this fact in the eye.

https://t.co/AxsOYWxzme

[Books+Publishing @BplusPNews]

Shokoofeh Azar has been longlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize for The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree (@WildDingoPress): https://t.co/tsQqRYjV2v

[Asian Australian Studies Research Network (AASRN) @aasrn]

.@wheelercentre Hot Desk Fellowships currently open for applications! To apply you must complete the online application form, which includes a 500-word sample of writing (or equivalent as detailed below), by 5.00 pm Monday 24 February 2020.
https://t.co/RnkJtJak6N

[Books+Publishing @BplusPNews]

Magabala Books publisher Rachel Bin Salleh has won the inaugural Writing WA Literary Lions Medal: https://t.co/cZigCwLQx6

[Sarah Expand the Court Burnes @sarahburnes]

I could not enjoy this more.

[Unladylike Podcast @ItsUnladylike]

Starts today! Check #AuthorsForFireys for amazing things to bid on - signed books, ms appraisals, illustrations - to help the firefighters battle #AustraliaFires

[Readings @ReadingsBooks]

Our annual list of 100 great reads by Australian women published in 2019 is out! This year we've expanded the list to include gender diverse authors.

https://t.co/BIQbt7ZI5R

[Unladylike Podcast @ItsUnladylike]

One of the most fascinating, intelligent, generous, powerful festival panels we've ever witnessed. #broadside2019

[Jacinta Di Mase @Jacinta_DiMase]

“True intersectionality is making what seems invisible, visible.” @Sisonkemsimang #broadside2019

[Priyanka Nair-Turkich @pri_nairturkich]

There. I said it. #broadside2019

[Jacinta Di Mase @Jacinta_DiMase]

In a time when our political landscape is so awful, artists can shine. @tressiemcphd #Broadside2019

[Unladylike Podcast @ItsUnladylike]

Thread.

[The Wheeler Centre @wheelercentre]

Next up at #Broadside2019 is the amazing @tressiemcphd in conversation with @aminatou! Tressie McMillan Cottom is an award-winning academic and the author of THICK: And Other Essays, an incredible book that situates Black women’s intellectual tradition at its centre

[Unladylike Podcast @ItsUnladylike]

Closing the gender gap: Book reviews women can count on https://t.co/VrAzvuxvPA via @smh

[Readings @ReadingsBooks]

The wonderful contributors of Growing Up Queer in Australia and Readings booksellers share the LGBTIQ+/Queer reads that were important to them or that they wished they had growing up.

https://t.co/pFmBM9HKF9