I’d like to continue this conversation about how comics are excluded from literary spaces & begin to find ways to address it.
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multi-artist, graphic novelist, band: Bing/Santospirito. Co-director of guest curator of comics for 2023
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Guys! I'm heckin' pumped to spill that I've signed with the amazing lit agent !
Together, we’re gonna find my queer graphic memoir a home, work on my queer YA spec-fic manuscript as well as heaps of future writing/art goodness! #LoveOzYA 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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Submissions are open today for our general AND kids list. In autumn, our brilliant kids team are looking for new and emerging illustrators and illustrator-designers to work across all facets of children’s book illustration. Head to our website for all the details.
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I hope Cate Blanchett wins the Oscar for Tár for the main reason that the time she won Best Actress for that Woody Allen film looked suuuuuper awkward and it’s all I can remember about the whole thing.
We recently had some #goodnews, our collab with & , to safeguard the #easternquoll in Tas, has been supported by The Aus Research Council's Linkage Projects scheme. TLC's will part of the #quollity team! More info: tinyurl.com/4857xvj6
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Federal funds to address Indigenous disadvantage must make it to Central Australia, leaders say
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Will Writers Australia succeed where other peak bodies have not? Ideas similar to the proposed new Australian literary entity have been tried in the past, often with what could best be called mixed results #AustralianLiterature #WritersAustralia
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Who do we @ when talking about Writers Australia? Want to ensure that comics / graphic narratives aren’t forgotten in the foundation (the ground level might be too late) of this new government literary institution.
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The 2023 Minicomic Award Winners Have Been Announced!
Check out this treasure chest of indie comics goodness.
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Thank you to everyone who joined us – in person and online – for the #2023StellaPrize longlist announcement at the last night!
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Does it occur to Litmags that comics is “the written image” and that they should be supporting/including graphic narratives as well? From the outside it looks like it is all a bit hard. I’m aware of the many of the issues, but I’m convinced they can be solved if we just start.
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Currently I’m mentoring a bunch of comics legends through Island Magazine’s Nanna Project and I saw some other mentoring programs through Litmags across Aus open up with lots of writer/poet/word mentors but no comics. When island’s program ends, will it all be over?
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We were so excited to see longlisted for the Stella Prize. This book is incredible, get a copy if you haven’t already!
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Still reeling from being longlisted for the Stella Prize. I'm not very good at these things; i always feel like i miss someone out when i write them so i will just say a huge thank you to the judges and to the other wonderful longlistees & all the Stella prize people!!!
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beautiful longlist! im excited to see and louisa lim on here - but also excited to discover some others that has gone under my radar over the last twelve months 🤍
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We are thrilled to announce the 12 outstanding books longlisted for the #2023StellaPrize
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Huge congratulations are in order for two of our amazing creators! We are so excited for Eloise Grills , whose stunning illustrated memoir big beautiful female theory has been longlisted for . #2023StellaPrize
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Argh!!! They are just fkn beautiful!!
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A well deserved recognition for this amazing non-fiction book that’s part comic. Congratulations! 👏👏🎉🎉
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Still reeling from being longlisted for the Stella Prize. I'm not very good at these things; i always feel like i miss someone out when i write them so i will just say a huge thank you to the judges and to the other wonderful longlistees & all the Stella prize people!!!
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Also being longlisted for the is a welcome continuation of the Stella’s inclusion of graphic works in a literary prize ~ basically this is the utopian vision we have for all prizes. Comics being considered as literary works. Just love it. Love it.
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Still reeling from being longlisted for the Stella Prize. I'm not very good at these things; i always feel like i miss someone out when i write them so i will just say a huge thank you to the judges and to the other wonderful longlistees & all the Stella prize people!!!
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EXCELLENT to see comics included more consistently in major festival programming atm such as in as well as at the and at
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" transforms writings (impressive in their own right) into visual essayistic feasts...At times theoretical, heavy but not dense, her work attends to an under-examined body in OZLit". judges' report for bbft
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"In the best way, a provocation" – 's "remarkable", "formally explosive", "observant, attentive, frank, at times outrageous" big beautiful female theory by here (from 33:30) #2023StellaPrize
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Congratulations to Eloise Grills (), longlisted for the #2023StellaPrize for big beautiful female theory, published by .
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Congratulations to Eloise Grills (@grillzoid), longlisted for the #2023StellaPrize for big beautiful female theory, published by @AffirmPress.
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As a general rule, I don’t read reviews of my books, but I was sent this one for Home Time and I’m crying with laughter.
I think this is my ideal reader-response. ✨💖✨
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doing this public prezzo next thursday night, about art and organising. come!!!!!!!! there’ll be some food n some time for questions at the end i think. thanx to Centre for Stories, Unions WA and CFMEU WA
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I don't know if I ever shared my newspaper-page-size comic that I did for the TALE TOWN: Hermit Kingdom anthology.
Curated by Elizabeth Marruffo in a collab between the Perth Comic Arts Festival and Milktooth School of Art and Stories featuring comics about the pandemic in Perth
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Grimmish withdrawn from shortlist for Christina Stead Fiction Award
Due to the fact that Grimmish was self-published before it was published at Puncher and Wattmann, the fineprint means it is ineligible for the NSW Premier’s Literary Prize for Fiction, the Christina Stead Award.
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I didn't realise I had drawn all my double page splashes at the wrong dpi until the very end of my book. Was dreading it but going in and adding in all this extra detail ended up being a really nice way to finish off the project. Anyway, here's 2/4 of the double pages :)
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Bleak Tales explores the downbeat side of Owen Heitmann’s art. Each page turn takes you to a world of despair, where characters are haunted by their pasts, thwarted by fate & plagued by inner demons. Buy in , and our webstore: buff.ly/3IM6jUk!
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Did you know: phimosis (tight foreskin that can’t retract past the glans) is super common and natural!
And if you want to change it up and stretch it out (literally) then clue into this funky comic to know how 🥰💖✨
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The Mystery of Phimosis 
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This topic is so near and dear to my heart and I'm finally ready to tackle it! Read the full comic on @OhJoySexToy to unravel the spellbinding cases of tight foreskins!
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Glad that Australia will have a poet laureate! Let’s also note that Vermont, one single US state has a three-year term CARTOONIST LAUREATE! twitter.com/cartoonstudies…
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All comics and graphic novels no matter how long or short by Australian creators are eligible. Submission period ending soon
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DEADLINE EXTENSION! 5 MARCH! SPREAD THE WORD!
If you've been too busy creating to submit an entry for this year's Awards (projects from 2022), well, here's your last chance! Hit the link:
ledgerawards.org/2022-call-for-
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Who else requires religious contemplative silence after listening to ‘Wish You Were Here’?
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🐻 The Mystery of Phimosis 🕵🏾♂️
ohjoysextoy.com/mysterious-phi
This topic is so near and dear to my heart and I'm finally ready to tackle it! Read the full comic on to unravel the spellbinding cases of tight foreskins!
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Seriously, what an honor for The Greatest Thing to make the long lists for notable books with both and now . I’m overwhelmed with gratitude!
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When you’re an artist for a long while who does wildly different things you tend to get mildly known in each of the different categories of things you do. But the audience in each area is unaware of the other things: bad practice for the algorithm & good practice for the ♥️
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