Jane O'Sullivan
@sightlined.bsky.social
Art writing & fiction in Vault, Meanjin, Apollo, Art Guide, Art Monthly, Okay Donkey, Milk Candy Review & New Flash Fiction Review
Secret sewing habit 🪡
janeosullivan.com.au
Secret sewing habit 🪡
janeosullivan.com.au
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Homage to the Square: Apparition by Josef Albers, 1959
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137401
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137401
November 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Homage to the Square: Apparition by Josef Albers, 1959
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137401
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137401
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Big Tech is using the art, music and work of Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander people to train AI algorithms, with no respect for cultural protocols or its spiritual and historic significance.
Support our campaign here: meaa.io/3IUYC0M
#PayUp #StopAITheft @microsoft
Support our campaign here: meaa.io/3IUYC0M
#PayUp #StopAITheft @microsoft
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Big Tech is using the art, music and work of Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander people to train AI algorithms, with no respect for cultural protocols or its spiritual and historic significance.
Support our campaign here: meaa.io/3IUYC0M
#PayUp #StopAITheft @microsoft
Support our campaign here: meaa.io/3IUYC0M
#PayUp #StopAITheft @microsoft
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The abrupt and indefensible closure of Meanjin makes me ask, what can be done to shore up the future of literary journals in this country? How about funding the arts to the OECD average. That would mean an extra $5b per year.
With thanks to @jocaseau.bsky.social for her ever-excellent edits on this
With thanks to @jocaseau.bsky.social for her ever-excellent edits on this
Meanjin was closed – but new Australian literary journals are springing up around the country
Literary journals are breeding grounds of talent – including the new Splinter, rebooted Southerly, and First Nations journal Sovereign Texts, launching next year.
theconversation.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM
The abrupt and indefensible closure of Meanjin makes me ask, what can be done to shore up the future of literary journals in this country? How about funding the arts to the OECD average. That would mean an extra $5b per year.
With thanks to @jocaseau.bsky.social for her ever-excellent edits on this
With thanks to @jocaseau.bsky.social for her ever-excellent edits on this
oh no I'm meant to be doing edits on this essay but I'm just making it worse
November 24, 2025 at 4:02 AM
oh no I'm meant to be doing edits on this essay but I'm just making it worse
November 24, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Marveling at this essay on a sentence that's a parable for our times
Hannah Smart spent a year diagramming, against the advice of well-meaning family and friends, a 900-word David Foster Wallace sentence. Here's what the experience taught her: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/nothing-ever-happens-mister-squishy-and-the-year-of-the-sentence-diagram/
November 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Marveling at this essay on a sentence that's a parable for our times
that feeling when you file a critical essay and you've gone ~ out there ~ but you won't know for a couple of weeks whether it was a good or bad idea
November 21, 2025 at 1:39 AM
that feeling when you file a critical essay and you've gone ~ out there ~ but you won't know for a couple of weeks whether it was a good or bad idea
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“Scrivener is designed for creative writers to create, not to have a data center create for them.”
Fuck yeah, @scrivenerapp.bsky.social & @kirkville.com. Good work. www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/scriven...
Fuck yeah, @scrivenerapp.bsky.social & @kirkville.com. Good work. www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/scriven...
Scrivener and AI: Why Do I See AI Prompts in My Scrivener Projects on Mac? - Literature & Latte
www.literatureandlatte.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:27 PM
“Scrivener is designed for creative writers to create, not to have a data center create for them.”
Fuck yeah, @scrivenerapp.bsky.social & @kirkville.com. Good work. www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/scriven...
Fuck yeah, @scrivenerapp.bsky.social & @kirkville.com. Good work. www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/scriven...
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This weekend, the Australian Short Story Festival is on in Adelaide. It's always a great vibe, so get along if you can. I'll be moderating a couple of sessions. On Saturday night, there's a 'Complaint Letters' event that should be good fun. More here: australianshortstoryfestival.com/2025-program/
2025 Program – Australian Short Story Festival Inc
australianshortstoryfestival.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:17 AM
This weekend, the Australian Short Story Festival is on in Adelaide. It's always a great vibe, so get along if you can. I'll be moderating a couple of sessions. On Saturday night, there's a 'Complaint Letters' event that should be good fun. More here: australianshortstoryfestival.com/2025-program/
by the by, Island does such a great job with the illos on fiction pieces
islandmag.com/read/hellsit...
islandmag.com/read/hellsit...
November 18, 2025 at 6:06 AM
by the by, Island does such a great job with the illos on fiction pieces
islandmag.com/read/hellsit...
islandmag.com/read/hellsit...
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We’re back!
After pestilence, after pain, after wholeness, after emptiness, after life, after death, after a long hiatus, Southerly, Australia’s oldest literary journal, has returned with issue 80.1 ‘First, The Future’.
Purchase a copy of Southerly today: southerlylitmag.com.au/shop-subscri...
After pestilence, after pain, after wholeness, after emptiness, after life, after death, after a long hiatus, Southerly, Australia’s oldest literary journal, has returned with issue 80.1 ‘First, The Future’.
Purchase a copy of Southerly today: southerlylitmag.com.au/shop-subscri...
November 17, 2025 at 4:27 AM
We’re back!
After pestilence, after pain, after wholeness, after emptiness, after life, after death, after a long hiatus, Southerly, Australia’s oldest literary journal, has returned with issue 80.1 ‘First, The Future’.
Purchase a copy of Southerly today: southerlylitmag.com.au/shop-subscri...
After pestilence, after pain, after wholeness, after emptiness, after life, after death, after a long hiatus, Southerly, Australia’s oldest literary journal, has returned with issue 80.1 ‘First, The Future’.
Purchase a copy of Southerly today: southerlylitmag.com.au/shop-subscri...
reading a book where the artwork titles are underlined not italicised and about to invent a new level of hell
November 17, 2025 at 8:21 AM
reading a book where the artwork titles are underlined not italicised and about to invent a new level of hell
I was talking about Anne of Green Gables with my mum the other day so I had another look and that sure is a lot of semi colons for an opening sentence
November 16, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I was talking about Anne of Green Gables with my mum the other day so I had another look and that sure is a lot of semi colons for an opening sentence
BorrowBox a bit confused today
November 16, 2025 at 5:49 AM
BorrowBox a bit confused today
"I couldn't stop them from doing that. That's their business. They're happy, I think, because this is all going on now and they feel they've really seriously generated something, but…It's completely hollow and it's probably, if anything, exposing the stupidity."
'Vault' sculptor denies backing council's 'silly' PR stunt
The artist whose sculpture headlines a regional Victorian tourism campaign says it's a "beat up to get publicity".
www.abc.net.au
November 13, 2025 at 10:33 PM
"I couldn't stop them from doing that. That's their business. They're happy, I think, because this is all going on now and they feel they've really seriously generated something, but…It's completely hollow and it's probably, if anything, exposing the stupidity."
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A cool composite pic of this year’s first baby peregrine falcon to fledge from the Collins Street nest site (9:27am)
November 13, 2025 at 6:06 AM
A cool composite pic of this year’s first baby peregrine falcon to fledge from the Collins Street nest site (9:27am)
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Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 11, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Ed Ruscha, OOF, 1962-63 www.moma.org/collection/w...
November 10, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Ed Ruscha, OOF, 1962-63 www.moma.org/collection/w...
Alex Seton, A kind of human paste, 2025. Rosa Portugal marble, 100kg.
currently on show in Seeing Though Matter, Sullivan+Strumpf Singapore
via www.sullivanstrumpf.com/exhibitions/... and
www.instagram.com/p/DQxNKXhk9S...
currently on show in Seeing Though Matter, Sullivan+Strumpf Singapore
via www.sullivanstrumpf.com/exhibitions/... and
www.instagram.com/p/DQxNKXhk9S...
November 7, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Alex Seton, A kind of human paste, 2025. Rosa Portugal marble, 100kg.
currently on show in Seeing Though Matter, Sullivan+Strumpf Singapore
via www.sullivanstrumpf.com/exhibitions/... and
www.instagram.com/p/DQxNKXhk9S...
currently on show in Seeing Though Matter, Sullivan+Strumpf Singapore
via www.sullivanstrumpf.com/exhibitions/... and
www.instagram.com/p/DQxNKXhk9S...
The faint rustling of cultural institutions everywhere rapidly changing their passwords
The password to the Louvre’s video surveillance system was “Louvre,” according to a museum employee
Password to Louvre’s video surveillance system was 'Louvre', according to employee
According to an employee with knowledge of the system, the password to the Louvre's video surveillance system was simply "Louvre" at the time of the robbery last month.
abcnews.go.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:57 PM
The faint rustling of cultural institutions everywhere rapidly changing their passwords
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New short fiction from me now up online at Island ➰ it's about the bad place #flashfiction
Hellsite – by Jane O’Sullivan | Australian Literary Arts Magazine | ISLAND
Eva fusses with the burner and when it doesn’t ignite, she gets the lighter and rasps it hard. The flames go up with a whoosh. Orange and blue. What colour is that, I wonder? Smauglust, maybe. Glimmer...
islandmag.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
New short fiction from me now up online at Island ➰ it's about the bad place #flashfiction
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"The challenge of flash fiction is, of course, to pick the right words to tell a complete story, since the writer is allowed so few."
Craft: Word Count by Lisa Thornton
jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/w...
Craft: Word Count by Lisa Thornton
jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/w...
jmwwblog.wordpress.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"The challenge of flash fiction is, of course, to pick the right words to tell a complete story, since the writer is allowed so few."
Craft: Word Count by Lisa Thornton
jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/w...
Craft: Word Count by Lisa Thornton
jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/w...
New short fiction from me now up online at Island ➰ it's about the bad place #flashfiction
Hellsite – by Jane O’Sullivan | Australian Literary Arts Magazine | ISLAND
Eva fusses with the burner and when it doesn’t ignite, she gets the lighter and rasps it hard. The flames go up with a whoosh. Orange and blue. What colour is that, I wonder? Smauglust, maybe. Glimmer...
islandmag.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
New short fiction from me now up online at Island ➰ it's about the bad place #flashfiction
"No serious writer working in Australia today should be unaware of, or ungrateful for, the singular position Garner has carved out…she’s made possible new forms of honesty, of writing and speaking in the first person and letting the reader understand the writer’s process in doing so."
Why do we love Helen Garner so much?
From Monkey Grip to How to End a Story, Helen Garner has been writing with clear-eyed precision for the better part of 50 years.
www.artshub.com.au
November 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
"No serious writer working in Australia today should be unaware of, or ungrateful for, the singular position Garner has carved out…she’s made possible new forms of honesty, of writing and speaking in the first person and letting the reader understand the writer’s process in doing so."