Nicole Priest

Reader, sometimes writer

[Kate @Katieboozel]

@SkyNewsAust Credit where credit is due.

[Michelle Scott Tucker @MST_Writes]

👇🏻Please support the two Wendys at Bookish. It’s a beautiful little shop.

[Omar Sakr @omarsakrpoet]

Bendigo Writers Festival sent out a Code of Conduct form speakers must abide by which includes the bogus IHRA definition of antisemitism… the day before the festival starts. Hard to imagine a bigger, more absurd own goal. Several authors and festival staff have now left.

[Michelle Scott Tucker @MST_Writes]

I too have withdrawn from my participation in the Bendigo Writers Festival. https://t.co/WAjFnB1tnj

[Samah Sabawi @gazaheart]

It shouldn't be left to writers to walk out, but also publishers, editors, book sellers and of course, audiences... EVERYONE has an obligation to turn their back to the Bendigo Writers Festival. Any writer or anyone in the industry who plays along pretending business can go on as usual will be tarnished. Your presence is a statement. Also, if writers and speakers were to follow the festival's instructions to" avoid language or topics that could be considered inflammatory, divisive, or disrespectful" then there wouldn't be much use in speaking or writing anymore. #bendigo_writers_festival #censorship #SanctionIsraelNow #palestinegaza https://t.co/buSoltf8cf

[evelyn araluen @evelynaraluen]

If you’re a secret Zionist just don’t program me. Don’t wait until the last minute to let me know that you’re a Zionist and hope I’ll just go through with the event anyway. There isn’t a price tag or a career inconvenience that will make me accept your propaganda.

[The Novelry @thenovelry]

We’re delighted to announce The Next Big Story prize! Write just three pages and you could win $100,000. We’re on a mission to find the next fresh voice in fiction—could it be you? Visit https://t.co/N22wVPqlo6 for terms and conditions and enter for your chance to win! 🎟️

[Graeme Innes @Graemeinnes]

Jetstar to improve passenger services after blind passenger left stranded in airport lounge

https://t.co/QmA9Ldykxa

[Allen & Unwin @AllenAndUnwin]

💛Freebie Fridays 💛

Happy Valentine's Day book lovers! This week we're giving away this ENTIRE Valentine's Day inspired book stack to one lucky person out there!

To enter, follow us ✅ like ❤️ and repost 🔁this post!

The winner will be drawn next Friday. AUS entries only.

[Ren Wyld @1KarenWyld]

An essay in which I unpack Evie Wyld's dehumanisation of Blak people & coopting of Blak trauma in her latest sad white girl novel. With a reference to Portlandia's Put a Bird On It woven in.
https://t.co/KakUdf09lt

[Elizabeth Knox @ElizabethKnoxNZ]

Opinion | As a Climate Scientist, I Knew It Was Time to Leave Los Angeles - The New York Times https://t.co/W5UQ4sJv6z

[Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk]

Richard Flanagan: "It's time for the government … to respect Australian writers … otherwise, we'll find ourselves back where we were in the 1950s — [a] cultural desert." An old chestnut this one... https://t.co/6d0Zo8KqWC

[Annette Pierce @annettepierce2]

@criprights Dear little wee man, & his dad 🥺🥺🥺💙💙💙💔💔💔#StoriesForGiddy

[Jenny Hedley | PhD candidate | Writeability mentor @JennyHedley2]

Covering I’m Not Myself, You See by @ArianeBeeston (@BlackIncBooks) and Gulp, Swallow by @brookeboland (@UpswellP) for Griffith Review

[Workshops4Gaza @Workshops4Gaza]

We’ve had almost no sign-ups for the last few days. Without consistent sign-ups, donations, and collective support this project can’t continue. If you’re unable to sign up for a workshop please share with a friend or volunteer to do some outreach for us! https://t.co/AaUqnQ1tWh

[anna spargo-ryan 🍉 @annaspargoryan]

Last week I applied for a job with a disability services org, and an AI platform emailed a list of everything that's wrong with me as a person.

Way more Australian companies are using this platform than I realised.

Here's what I wrote about it.

https://t.co/frjPbped6I

[Julie Crisp @julieacrisp]

And @kellinthewoods' UPON A STARLIT TIDE, a remix of The Little Mermaid and Cinderella, is just gorgeous - inside and out.

"The tales always said that sea maids were the loveliest of creatures known, that their beauty and their voices led men to their delight or their doom."

[Hachette Australia Books @HachetteAus]

APPLICATIONS CLOSING THIS FRIDAY! This is an exciting opportunity to start your publishing career with one of Australia’s leading book publishers.

✨ Apply here: https://t.co/bm96NHRGrt

[Hannah McCann @binarythis]

I went to a poetry workshop this morning hosted by @Workshops4Gaza and it was transformative. I highly recommend signing up for one (and tip: if you can’t attend because of time differences they can record the session for you): https://t.co/FzNZv3q7hU