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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · Sep 5

Oh yes, trying to remember how Cara describes that: ‘the birthday of someone special who lived long ago’?? We have a box set so we read them a lot!

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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · Sep 5

On grief dreams, planting trees, and figuring out how to talk about loss and death with the toddler (w cameo from Grug)

A great grinding noise

A short memoir piece on recurrence, resurrection, regeneration

angelameyer.substack.com

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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · Sep 5

Meanjin 66.1, 2007, ordered in at a regional bookstore and enthusiastically pored over by a baby writer discovering the incredible landscape of Australian literature. Meanjin 82.4, 2023, author copy received when a mid-career writer published a short story, The Station, in her dream journal.

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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · Sep 5

I think we should agree that the explanation proffered yesterday by the MUP board chair for Meanjin’s axing (“purely financial reasons”) is a nonsense. Which begs the question: what was the real reason? This is a scandal.

Mal Neil @malneil.bsky.social · Sep 4

I worked with meanjin a few years ago on supporting its sales to close the incredibly small gap between its revenue and costs.
It had made progress. The small amount needed to subsidise could be found if UofM saw literary culture as important.
It clearly doesn't.

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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · Sep 5

My novel/novella in progress instinctively seems to have five parts; I’ve just finished drafting part four. Have some vague notions of how it all comes together and I hope I can nail it over the summer once classes are done! It might involve moss, childbirth, a house disappearing into a forest.

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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · Jul 24

www.endalznow.org/resources/ne...

Research Continues to Strengthen Connection Between Routine Vaccines and Lower Dementia Risk

The flu and shingles vaccines provide protection to individuals against these illnesses. Research also indicates that these and other routine adult vaccinations may lower the risk of dementia. Read on to learn how a recent study strengthens this link with the shingles vaccine and why these findings are significant.

www.endalznow.org

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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · Jul 17

Strewth, finished copies of @roffwrites.bsky.social’s debut novel emerge! Out very soon from Adelaide’s Wakefield Press! #HereAreMyDemands

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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · Jul 15

Help give gorgeous Jess a proper celebration of her life 🩵
gofund.me/e6daa029

Donate to In memory of Jessica Knight, organized by Giselle Nguyen

On July 7, 2025, we very suddenly lost our dear friend Jess Knight. Jess was a wonderfu… Giselle Nguyen needs your support for In memory of Jessica Knight

gofund.me

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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · Jul 1

Gorgeous reading night @ Bibliotheca Bar: Nicholas Jose, Jen Mills, Danielle Clode, Lisa Hannett, Heather Taylor-Johnson, Amelia Walker, Lauren Fuge. What a treat 📖 #StoryandtheSelf

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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · Jul 1

At the IABA (International Auto/Biography Assoc) x ASAL (Assoc. for the Study of Aus Lit) #StoryandtheSelf conf in Adelaide, speaking this morning on rereading Garner’s The Spare Room after life experience (accumulation & loss) & thinking about rereading as a practice in general

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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · Jun 21

Oh! My daughter was gifted Being You & we read it a lot. Didn’t realise there were others! :)

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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · Jun 11

To him, music was like breathing. So genuine an artist & a huge inspiration for me. I’ve loved the Beach Boys through all eras of my life. Was so lucky to see the Pet Sounds tour ❤️ www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

Brian Wilson, visionary creative spirit for the Beach Boys, dies aged 82

Musician, who suffered from mental health problems, wrote and produced the 1966 album Pet Sounds – seen by many as the greatest album of all time

www.theguardian.com

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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · Jun 4

‘I rested the breast pump on top of Gender Trouble and pale milk pooled on its cover.’ I love this so much islandmag.com/read/a-natur...

a natural sort of being – by Miriam Jones | Australian Literary Arts Magazine | ISLAND

At home we were a newborn, a toddler, a man, and a non-binary me. For three months we lived outside of normal time and normal social life. The privatised home is not known for nurturing gender improvi...

islandmag.com

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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · May 26

Well, the fight has been lost. Watched these huge old red gums begin to be fed into the wood chipper this morning and sobbed. dandenong.starcommunity.com.au/news/2024-04...

Gum trees' fate in council's hands | Dandenong Star Journal

The fate of two towering gum trees controversially approved for removal in central Noble Park seemingly remains in Greater Dandenong […]

dandenong.starcommunity.com.au

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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · May 23

I haven’t read yours yet! Hopefully the culprit (editor, proofreader?) was tripping and no other author will be affected!

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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · May 23

I’m award-judging now so I don’t want to say, but do I be that guy and write to them?

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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · May 23

Am reading a recently published Aus narrative nonfiction book in which every piece of dialogue is incorrectly punctuated. All punct. is outside quote marks & if there’s punct. within (like a !) they’ve added an EXTRA FULL STOP on the outside. How does this happen?

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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · May 20

The emergency vehicles on the way to the CFA protest was a sight to see this morning! So loud! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Calls for Vic premier to 'hold a hose' as firies rage against new levy

Volunteer firefighters and farmers say the Victorian government's new tax is "totally unfair" and will send communities to the wall. As the budget looms, they are in the state capital to raise their v...

www.abc.net.au

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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · May 11

When I became a mum I was already a carer for my own mum (& with my dad already gone) but we’re in a golden period, with her illness progressing slowly & her living close by. Three generations getting to spend time together, mostly walking the dog, snacking & colouring in. Highlight of my weeks ❤️

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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · May 10

Kaliane Bradley on The Ministry of Time w Claire Nichols. I loved when she spoke about a novel’s relationship with/representation of time, deepening the time travel chat: you decide ‘what is history, what’s narrative, how your reader will travel through your story’. #mwf2025

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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · May 10

Writer as Witness, Evelyn Araluen, Amy McQuire, Hasib Hourani, Micaela Sahhar. Writing in response to complicit (imperial) media, how writing can inform activism & how certain practices & methodologies (especially relational, communal, etc.) can subvert dominant or prescribed norms. Moving. #mwf2025

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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · May 5

So satisfying. I need to add one of these accidentally italicised commas to one of my course assessments!

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Jodi McAlister @jodimca.bsky.social · May 3

of *course* on his very last election Antony Green would have all his technology fail him and have only his little notebook to guide him, this is the hero's journey but for psephologists #AusVotes

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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social · May 3

Well played 😂

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