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English at UTAS @utasenglish.bsky.social · 2d

Love writing? Curious about how to get published? Teaching creative writing? Come join a vibrant community of writers at Read, Write, Publish: Hobart on Monday 27th October! www.facebook.com/share/19hBVu... @utas.edu.au

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Dr Fergus Edwards @drfergusedwards.bsky.social · 1d

The (idiosyncratic) Nobel Prize for Literature is announced tomorrow

One Australian has the best the odds (Gerald Murnane), another (Alexis Wright) is seen as a genuine possibility

(FWIW, if it's Tom Stoppard I'm here for all your media inquiries... 🤓)

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Here are the bookies’ odds for the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature.

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced next week, on Thursday, October 9. As always, to prepare myself (emotionally, I guess?), I consulted the UK betting site NicerOdds (nicer than w…

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Dr Fergus Edwards @drfergusedwards.bsky.social · 4d

2nd at the Coastal Pathway 64km (5h12)

(and a 50km PB (4h) en route)

🥳

Wonderful crew, good running weather, lovely day out all round

Now for a nap and all the food

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Dr Fergus Edwards @drfergusedwards.bsky.social · 6d

Very kind, thankyou!

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Dr Fergus Edwards @drfergusedwards.bsky.social · 6d

Running the first Coastal Pathway 64km Ultra on Sunday

🏃‍♂️

Latrobe -> Ulverstone -> Latrobe

Hoping for dry(ish) and still(ish)

🌦️

As always, it will be hardest on the (wonderful) crew...😬

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Dr Fergus Edwards @drfergusedwards.bsky.social · 9d

Looking forward to chatting about Kate Kruimink's novel 'Heartsease' with @helenshield.bsky.social on ABC Hobart, tonight at 21:15

2025 Tasmanian Premier's Prize for Fiction Winner, with, among other things, a fair bit of middle-class Hobart in it...

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Dr Fergus Edwards @drfergusedwards.bsky.social · 19d

"You can be an academic badass and a track goddess"

BA in English (Cam) *and* 200m silver medallist (22.14s) at the World Athletics Championships

If you need a sporting role model, you could do a lot worse than Amy Hunt...

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...

‘You can be an academic badass and a track goddess’ – GB sprinter Amy Hunt revels in shock 200m silver

Hunt powers from sixth to second with the kind of fearless attitude that helped her come back from a quadriceps rupture

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Fergus Edwards @drfergusedwards.bsky.social · 28d

This was a joy to listen to - intelligent, humble, informed, and, unexpectedly, intensely moving. I cannot imagine a better case being made for King Lear.

Thankyou Douglas Schatz, Mark Lawson, and Michael Billington

🎭

open.spotify.com/episode/4od4...

The Play Podcast - 101 - The 101 Greatest Plays

open.spotify.com

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Dr Fergus Edwards @drfergusedwards.bsky.social · Sep 8

Written by @catrionamp.bsky.social

Dr Fergus Edwards @drfergusedwards.bsky.social · Sep 8

Teaching HEN319: Literary Cultures @utasenglish.bsky.social, and the treatment of Meanjin is an obscene paragon of what we're studying

www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/08/m...

Meanjin's 'financial' shutdown doesn't add up

Melbourne University reported a $273 million surplus in 2024 on an operating income of $3.2 billion. It is against these figures that the 'purely financial decision' to close Meanjin has raised eyebro...

www.crikey.com.au

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Dr Fergus Edwards @drfergusedwards.bsky.social · Sep 6

Grateful for @jamesley's most recent SRB piece. The key (the call to arms is elsewhere):

Neo-liberalism's "transference of the emancipatory language of rights and freedoms to capital makes the rights and freedoms of actual people secondary and conditional."

sydneyreviewofbooks.com/reviews/bast...

Bastards! | Sydney Review of Books

From economic rationalism to libertarianism, neoliberalism appears under many guises. Reviewing Quinn Slobodian’s new book on neoliberal thought, James Ley shows that what its founders share with latt...

sydneyreviewofbooks.com

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Dr Fergus Edwards @drfergusedwards.bsky.social · Aug 31

Enjoyed Diana Souhami chatting Bryher, Sylvia Beach, Gertrude Stein, Natalie Barney, and alternative titles for her book:

'No Modernism Without Women Who Had Special Relationships With Other Women That They May Not Have Known How To Define'

or

'Lesbians Galore!'

open.spotify.com/episode/4qF7...

Diana Souhami, "No Modernism Without Lesbians" (Head of Zeus Book, 2020)

open.spotify.com

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Dr Fergus Edwards @drfergusedwards.bsky.social · Aug 28

Cozy fan tutte

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Dr Fergus Edwards @drfergusedwards.bsky.social · Aug 13

A pleasure to chat with @helenshield.bsky.social about Zadie Smith's 'The Fraud' - historical fiction that begins with a floor of a house collapsing under the weight of its books.

📚📚📚📚📚

Arguably a consummation devoutly to be wished...

Here, from 2:27:30

www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Evenings - ABC listen

Learn how Fremantle in Western Australia is feeling with the Spirit of Tasmania IV on its four-day stopover and Arianne Struik explains what EMDR therapy is and how it is being used in the North West ...

www.abc.net.au

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English at UTAS @utasenglish.bsky.social · Jul 29

The launch of a new Tasmanian publisher (Evercreech Editions) and a new Tasmanian novel (My Heart at Evening, by Konrad Muller), on August 7 at Fullers. Launched by Geordie Williamson, Adam Ouston and Richard Flanagan. www.fullersbookshop.com.au/event/my-hea...

My Heart at Evening | Konrad Muller

www.fullersbookshop.com.au

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Naomi Milthorpe @drmilthorpe.bsky.social · Jul 28

Repeal the “inequitable, “pernicious,” and “perverse" Jobs Ready Graduate Policy! openpetition.org/!repealjrg

Repeal Job-Ready Graduates Policy Now: Restoring Equity in Higher Education - Online petition

We sign this petition in solidarity with those who signed the Open Letter to the Prime Minister on 28 July 2025 (https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jul/28/open-letter-to-australian-govern...

openpetition.org

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Dr Fergus Edwards @drfergusedwards.bsky.social · Jul 26

24 hours in Melbourne: Sport (2/2)

Lions! Wallabies! MCG! (Rugby Union!)

A game that I suspect many more than 90,000 might claim to have attended...

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Dr Fergus Edwards @drfergusedwards.bsky.social · Jul 26

24 hours in Melbourne: Literature (1/2)

Homer! Virgil! Bookshops! Library!

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Dr Fergus Edwards @drfergusedwards.bsky.social · Jul 17

There is a cloud over Launceston this morning.

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · Jul 16

Work in libraries? Tell me a bit about your experiences with library work and mental health (as well as your perceptions of them).

Anonymous survey running through August 1. Details in the form for more info.

skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · Jul 13

**Libraries & Mental Health Survey**

I'm updating my research and subsequent talks related to mental health in the library. I'd love insight from library workers of all backgrounds + experiences, and I've got a handy survey. Please take & share widely. Thank you!

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Image of a Canva graphic. It says "Survey! Librarianship & Mental Health" with the link to the survey via Google docs at tinyurl.com/library-mh-25. It has an image of books on shelves. Below the image, it says "Open through August 1. Answers anonymous and encouraged from *all* levels of library workers."

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Dr Fergus Edwards @drfergusedwards.bsky.social · Jul 16

Chatted about Adam Ouston's 'Waypoints' - and reading it in a glass box in Hobart...

🛩️

The conversation's here, from 02:28:30

www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Evenings - ABC listen

Find out what makes a good scone at the Great Zeehan Bake Off and learn why the Australian Himalayan Foundation is holding a special fundraiser at a Nepalese pub in Tasmania.

www.abc.net.au

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Dr Fergus Edwards @drfergusedwards.bsky.social · Jul 12

Sam Jinks - Mortal Reflections - at Launceston's QVMAG.

Life size, hyperreal sculpture; intensely moving.

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Dr Fergus Edwards @drfergusedwards.bsky.social · Jul 9

Theme tune writes itself.

Crabb and Swan, Crabb and Swan,
Renovating today to live a long-
er tomorrow

Swan and Crabb, Swan and Crabb,
Breakfasting right now out the back of a cab-
riolet vehicle

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Dr Fergus Edwards @drfergusedwards.bsky.social · Jul 9

Pick a, b, or c for a new ABC format!

Julia Zamiro / Adam Hills / Tony Armstrong

presents a new show about

Dogs / Crime / Food

at the

Beach / Office / School Room

with

Hilarious / Shocking / Heart-warming

consequences!

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Naomi Milthorpe @drmilthorpe.bsky.social · Jul 8

New equity in teaching survey is dropping as part of our ACSES-supported project, "Supporting academics with inclusive & equitable curricula, teaching and learning"!

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