What are you doing for International Women's Day? Next Wednesday join author Emily Paull where she'll be discussing the expectations of women in Australia today through her debut collection of short stories, Well-behaved Women. Details here:

#Fridayread: 'Getting people talking across the identity aisle is fundamental to meaningful progress of a kind we can believe in. Decolonising means coming into a new understanding of how we can see ourselves and each other, collectively so.'—Robert Wood https://t.co/k1s0ZMtdOH

For her final post as our blogger Tiffany Hastie remembers when her sister told her she shouldn't refer to ibises as bin-chickens since they actually have a distinguished history – this moment and the story she wrote from it allows her to reflect on 2020. https://t.co/Uw1CD0lj4t

'It feels as if the past decade, but particularly this year, time has receded in a tide, never to break back on land. I don’t know where I’ve been.' Tara June Winch and Behrouz Boochani in conversation about time for our Friday read. https://t.co/BRvjMUuzDr

For her third post with us as blogger Tiffany Hastie remarks on the first 100 pages of the book she’s currently reading and it’s gender diversity, or lack there of, in today’s cultural context, and considers her own writing in the process. Read it here:

'Repeated editing and fact-checking processes had taken place, but when it came to anything ‘ethnic,’ big, glaring blunders went undetected, again and again.' Reena Gupta on care and biases for our #Fridayread. https://t.co/t7Uz9njkFI

‘It was empowering not just to learn, but to openly hear words like menstruation and tampons and period said out loud with confidence.’ For her second post with us as our blogger, Tiffany Hastie writes about the monstrous feminine in art. Read it here:

Organised by Jen Bowden Writers for WA is an initiative to support those affected by the bushfires in WA. Read work by local writers in exchange for making a donation. It includes work from MRP authors Laurie Steed, Emily Paull and Leslie Thiele. https://t.co/FrKHZ3VTDl

"The night-hope of art: to finally run out of itself & be emptied into something else, like superannuation." Three poems - "my parents never let me watch Event Horizon as a child", "Anna Paquin" and "Nothing" - by Andrew Sutherland for our #Fridayread. https://t.co/USF5otFjhP

Tiffany Hastie is our latest blogger. For her first post she explores about what might be gained or lost in moving from a first draft to a revision - especially when she's had a great success with raw, first drafts, that have won prizes. Read it here:

Our friends at the Centre for Stories have just announced a new journal from and for the Indian Ocean: Portside Review. It's a new digital space for diverse writers. More information here:

'Never shying away from a hard hitting topic or a brutal plot twist, Skyglow often makes for uncomfortable reading – in all the right ways, of course... capturing a variety of voices and genres as they do.' Jodie Sloan reviews Leslie Thiele's Skyglow. https://t.co/ySoXNtH5lq

‘Growing up undocumented, I learned that the price of my innocence was the guilt of my parents.' Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s ‘Waking Up From the American Dream’ for our Friday read. https://t.co/zZLQcRz7jI

Join Well-behaved Women author Emily Paull at the City of Vincent Library for International Women's Day to discuss the expectations of women in Australia today through her debut collection of short stories. Details here:

'I have battered the pages of my copy with orange tabs marking my favourite stories and my favourite quotes... From front to back, Skyglow is a pleasure to read. It is seamlessly profound and the mark of true literary talent.' Dylan Dartnell review:

'Leslie Thiele’s debut short story collection Skyglow gracefully explores an array of issues that will sit with you long after closing its cover..' Read the full review for Leslie's debit published by Writing WA here:

'No matter how much I studied the language, there were still words I didn’t understand, sounds my tongue couldn’t make, and gestures that felt wrong in my hands.' Theo Dunne for our Friday read. https://t.co/3CXM5GK4qi

In her last post with us, and the fourth part to her series 'People = Male' blogger Kathy Prokhovnik writes of when she finally swung around to books by women about women in her early 20s, considers where are now, and where we still need to go. https://t.co/DFGeU69FMx

'In Hong Kong everything was crammed, jammed but cosy and familiar. We did a lot together as family, like sardines in synchronised motion. By contrast Australia was an explosion of space.' Benjamin Lee on food and family for our Friday read. https://t.co/h30nZqe4ho

For her third post with us as blogger of the month, Kathy Prokhovnik delivers part 3 of 'People = Male', reflecting on what she read as a child and how it informed her. Read it here: