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Melbourne City of Literature Office @melcityoflit.bsky.social · Dec 8

Keen to keep across everything we do?

Well you are in luck as we have created a list all the places we communicate!

Through our News Alerts we do all of our major call outs as well as announce all of our sister Cities of Literature and their residencies and projects

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Melbourne City of Literature Office @melcityoflit.bsky.social · 29d

Meet Stadtbibliothek Bremen!

www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/202...

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Created in partnership with Books + Publishing, this article series highlights libraries from some of our sister Cities of Literature. Read more about them at the link in the Linktree (bio).

Melbourne City of Literature Office @melcityoflit.bsky.social · Sep 9

Meet Martynas Mažvydas National Library!

www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/202...

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Created in partnership with Books + Publishing, this article series highlights libraries from some of our sister Cities of Literature. Read more about them at the link in the Linktree (bio).

Melbourne City of Literature Office @melcityoflit.bsky.social · Aug 28

Meet St Joseph’s College Devagiri Library!

www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/202...

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Created in partnership with Books + Publishing, this article series highlights libraries from some of our sister Cities of Literature. Read more about them at the link in the Linktree (bio).

Melbourne City of Literature Office @melcityoflit.bsky.social · Aug 26

Meet Seattle Public Library!

www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/202...

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Created in partnership with Books + Publishing, this article series highlights libraries from some of our sister Cities of Literature. Read more about them at the link in the Linktree (bio).

Melbourne City of Literature Office @melcityoflit.bsky.social · Aug 26

Meet Reykjavik City Library!

www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/202...

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Created in partnership with Books + Publishing, this article series highlights libraries from some of our sister Cities of Literature.

More articles at the link in the Linktree (bio).

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Melbourne City of Literature Office @melcityoflit.bsky.social · Aug 12

RESIDENCY ALERT! Apply for Bucheon's Residency Program in 2025! Open to writers, poets, translators, graphic novelists who have at least one published work and are from a City of Literature.

Applications close on 31 August 2025. - lnkd.in/gBupJm9G

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Melbourne City of Literature Office @melcityoflit.bsky.social · Jul 22

RESIDENCY ALERT! Apply for an international writing residency in the creative hub of Vilnius!

Application deadline: August 15, 2025

lnkd.in/grMMXy2v

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Melbourne City of Literature Office @melcityoflit.bsky.social · Jul 21

RESIDENCY ALERT! Apply for an international writing residency in Dilberg Castle, Heidelberg!

Closes 17th of August

lnkd.in/gRaHt3WT

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Professional Historians Association (Vic & Tas) @phavictas.bsky.social · Jun 16

Do you know a group or individual that has advocated for the value of history, the work of historians and/or the importance of an education in history in the last year? The Jane Hansen Prize for History Advocacy is now open for applications.

www.historycouncilvic.org.au/jane_hansen_...

#phavictas

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Melbourne City of Literature Office @melcityoflit.bsky.social · Jun 16

LAST CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - VIC-BASED WRITERS 📚

Apply for the paid opportunity to connect with writers from Slemani in a virtual writers' room with a focus on work on writing characters!

cityofliterature.com.au/the-inkubator/

Closing tonight at 9:00pm (AEST)!

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Melbourne City of Literature Office @melcityoflit.bsky.social · Jun 9

Have you seen what the #citiesoflit picked for Bookclub of the Cities of Literature for the Bendigo Writers Festival

www.bendigowritersfestival.com.au

A graphic with " Cities of Literature Bookclub" It lists the following Cities - Angouleme, Barcelona, Dublin, Dunedin, Edinburgh, Lviv and Quebec City

A graphic with "Cities of Literature Bookclub" It shoes the cover of the book Querelle of Roberval with the sub title Quebec City

A graphic with "Cities of Literature Bookclub" It shows the cover of the book "Looking at Woman, Looking at War"lwith the sub title Lviv.

A graphic with "Cities of Literature Bookclub" It shows the cover of the book "Midnight and Blue" with the sub title Edinburgh

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Australian Poetry @australianpoetry.bsky.social · Jun 6

Submissions are now open! Best of Australian Poems 2025 accepts published & unpublished poems from 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025. Guest editors: Nam Le & Jill Jones! 🔥

Close of submissions: 30 June 2025.

Submission guidelines + how to submit: www.australianpoetry.org/ap-projects/...

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Melbourne City of Literature Office @melcityoflit.bsky.social · Jun 10

Giramondo Publishing @giramondobooks.bsky.social · May 14

‘I had an idea that would enable me to conceptualise my long-held desire to adapt Nirvana’s song ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ as an artwork. The idea was that I would boil an egg for as long as the song…’

Read three excerpts from Michael Farrell's new book: giramondopublishing.com/excerpts-the...

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Pepper • 🇨🇴 • 🏳️‍🌈 • 🩷💛🩵 @pepper.bsky.social · Jun 9

Society’s next orcas

So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · Jun 9

Yes
YES
The foxes are occupying Google.

Google battling 'fox
infestation' on roof of £1bn
London office
Foxes have 'begun to dig burrows' in soil of rooftop garden at the as yet unopened King's Cross headquarters

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The Wheeler Centre @wheelercentre.bsky.social · Jun 6

[READ] Mid-Year Round-Up! The Wheeler Centre team has provided their 2025 mid-year round-up of everything they are loving - from books and podcasts to films and YouTube finds. Explore now to be inspired to find your next obsession now:

www.wheelercentre.com/news-stories...

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Melbourne City of Literature Office @melcityoflit.bsky.social · Jun 9

and not forgetting

Melbourne City of Literature Office @melcityoflit.bsky.social · Jun 9

Have you seen what the #citiesoflit picked for Bookclub of the Cities of Literature for the Bendigo Writers Festival

www.bendigowritersfestival.com.au

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Melbourne City of Literature Office @melcityoflit.bsky.social · May 21

INKubator , a virtual writers' room created in partnership with @SlemaniCityOfLit is now open for applications! - cityofliterature.com.au/the-inkubator/

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Melbourne City of Literature Office @melcityoflit.bsky.social · May 27

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The Evil Within by S.M Hardy
The Fall by Rachael Blok
Kill A Stranger by Simon Kernick

Melbourne City of Literature Office @melcityoflit.bsky.social · May 27

This week, we are highlighting the top 5 most borrowed books from Exeter Library in Exeter City of Literature (@exetercityoflit.bsky.social)‬.

These are the top 5 most borrowed books during March Friday 7th to Friday 14th (in no particular order):

A Beautiful Spy by Rachel Hore

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MEAA @withmeaa.bsky.social · May 25

On Sorry Day, we reflect on the harm caused by the forced removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families - policies that created the Stolen Generations and the inter-generational trauma that continues to this day.
#SorryDay #SorryDay2025

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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · May 23

Powerful Stella prize speech from Michelle de Kretser:

“In Australia today it isn’t those applauding mass murder who have cause to be afraid, but those speaking out against it. Principally targeted are Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims, First Nations people, people of colour, queers.”

‘Serious consequences for Australian democracy’: Author uses prize speech to warn against censorship

Australian author Michelle de Kretser described feeling afraid of speaking publicly about the conflict in Gaza as she accepted the 2025 Stella Prize for her book Theory & Practice.

www.theage.com.au

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Catriona Menzies-Pike @catrionamp.bsky.social · May 21

This is very useful reporting about the disgraceful decision to rescind Ren Wyld's black&write! fellowship - and it's confirming a pattern of serious consequences for Australian artists - especially First Nations and Arab artists - who speak out on Gaza.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

First Nations writer speaks out after being stripped of $15,000 State Library of Queensland award over Gaza tweet

Library says it will review all its awards after last-minute cancellation of ceremony to present black&write! fellowship to Karen Wyld

www.theguardian.com

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Melbourne City of Literature Office @melcityoflit.bsky.social · May 21

INKubator , a virtual writers' room created in partnership with @SlemaniCityOfLit is now open for applications! - cityofliterature.com.au/the-inkubator/

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Australian Poetry @australianpoetry.bsky.social · May 19

AP announces the INAUGURAL Theresa Matheson Bequest Award 2025 🎉. This new award (with a prize of $1,000) is for poets who have not had a poem published, outside self-publication or via their Social Media. The 2025 judge is Claire Gaskin

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