Delighted that “Summer of Shipwrecks” by the fabulous
@shivaun.bsky.social is shortlisted for the Queensland Children’s Book Award! Judges’ comment: “A quintessentially Australian coming-of-age novel with a huge heart.”

#bookSky #UQP #childrensbookaward #MG #middlegrade

Spotted in the wild! This gorgeous title “Worst Perfect Moment” by the fabulous @shivaun.bsky.social was spotted at Melbourne Southland’s Cook & Young bookshop. Love the neon green signage.

#worstperfectmoment #booksky #YA #ozYA

Excited by the launch of #AntoniaPont's book: "Plain Life".

"We may not need to do more and be more..."
#booksky #plainlife

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Ping: @kmoruzi.bsky.social @gilbertcaluya.bsky.social @rebeccacroser.bsky.social @jodimca.bsky.social @deakinuniversity.bsky.social

Am enjoying “Why didn’t I tell you a million times?” on Netflix. A friendly ghost romance/crime story that goes to grim places but still lays on the schmaltz. Matsuyama Kenichi enjoys himself as a goofy police detective who inconveniently starts seeing ghosts.
#松山ケンイチ #100万回言えばよかった

Vale Terence Stamp

Are you itching to get a middle grade or young adult fiction idea on the page? Join @shivaun.bsky.social at the fabulous online course through the Faber Writing Academy.
#YA #MG #KidsLit #WritingLife

Do you have a middle grade or young adult fiction idea that you’d love to get on the page? Join @shivaun.bsky.social at the fabulous online course through the Faber Academy.

#YA #MG #alwayslearning #writinglife #justwrite

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Terry Young teases and praises Dr @sophiecouchman.bsky.social as an “historical therapist” at the launch of her family histories podcast at the Chinese Museum in Melbourne.

So enjoying the launch of Dr @sophiecouchman.bsky.social podcast with a beautiful live music performance by Dr Wang on the shang.
#oralhistory #familyhistory #ChineseMuseum #CAFHoV

Took a child to an event down the Great Ocean Road to Wye River — raining, foggy, gorgeous scenery. Seeing #kangaroos in the late afternoon is still a thrill.

#afternoondrive #notazoo

The location for writing retreats makes a huge difference. @tseenster.bsky.social found a beautiful room at the Burwood campus library at Deakin University for the #AcWriMo retreat. Look at the internal architecture, and large scale art.

@suaw.bsky.social #DeakinRDA

Fortunate to join the #AcWriMo writing retreat, jointly run by #DeakinRDA & LaTrobe Uni, from the "Glass Room". Feels like we're in a gallery display! Almost the end of day 2/3.

Fun to co-host with:
@drmeagantyler.bsky.social @wadekelly.com @jod999.bsky.social @tseenster.bsky.social #suaw

At #shutupandwrite symposium: @rellypops.bsky.social is exploring the "I, we and us" systems thinking approach to wellbeing and #SUAW.

Excited that Narelle Lemon's new book has come out: "The How of self-care for teachers".
#self-care

At #shutupandwrite symposium: @rellypops.bsky.social is sharing multiple ways that SUAW is 1000 times more than productivity -- including wellbeing and self-care.

Nothing says "Welcome to England" like seeing an iconic Royal Mailbox at Heathrow airport. Okay, so to get to my hotel I had to walk through arrivals, but it still counts.

It was beyond exciting to wake up on Tuesday in Coventry and see snow falling. Here's the view from my 10th story hotel room. Growing up in Melbourne, this was the first time I'd seen snow falling!
#snow #earlyXmas #Arcticsnap

At #shutupandwrite symposium: Colleen M discusses self-efficacy and academic writing. High writing self-efficacy would mean a graduate researcher/PhD/PGR has confidence they can write as required for that publication.
Colleen argues for self-efficacy as a proxy for the impact of SUAW. #metrics

Next at the #shutupandwrite symposium: Jason Murphy and Lisa Hodge from the innovative #MelbourneWriteUp format for SUAW remind us of the challenging contexts that researchers can be working within.