Ren Wyld
@wyld.bsky.social
K.A Ren Wyld
Writer of books, poetry, fiction, narrative nonfiction, shopping lists, art reviews, opinion pieces etc.
Aboriginal person (Martu)
They/she/Mx.
Bluesky has locked my DMs :/
Links > https://linktr.ee/KarenWyld
Writer of books, poetry, fiction, narrative nonfiction, shopping lists, art reviews, opinion pieces etc.
Aboriginal person (Martu)
They/she/Mx.
Bluesky has locked my DMs :/
Links > https://linktr.ee/KarenWyld
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The Nightmare Sequence is out now in Australia, the UK, North America and is coming soon to Italy through Wojtek Edizioni, translated into Italian by Enrico Terrinoni 🙏🏽💜
December 10, 2025 at 4:52 AM
The Nightmare Sequence is out now in Australia, the UK, North America and is coming soon to Italy through Wojtek Edizioni, translated into Italian by Enrico Terrinoni 🙏🏽💜
I can't access DMs anymore, so message me elsewhere if you need to. Bluesky has also blocked me from seeing nudity/nsfw content. These restrictions won't force me to give Bluesky more of my personal info. To be honest, I'm not going to miss DMs or adult content
a cartoon of snow white surrounded by birds in a forest
Alt: a cartoon of snow white surrounded by birds in a forest
media.tenor.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I can't access DMs anymore, so message me elsewhere if you need to. Bluesky has also blocked me from seeing nudity/nsfw content. These restrictions won't force me to give Bluesky more of my personal info. To be honest, I'm not going to miss DMs or adult content
Some good news, for a change: I signed a book contact with UQP in late October, and resisted the urge to do a happy dance until they did the official announcement >
www.uqp.com.au/blog/uqp-acq...
www.uqp.com.au/blog/uqp-acq...
December 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Some good news, for a change: I signed a book contact with UQP in late October, and resisted the urge to do a happy dance until they did the official announcement >
www.uqp.com.au/blog/uqp-acq...
www.uqp.com.au/blog/uqp-acq...
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The CA/ASA Developmental Leadership Program is now open for applications from Australian writers and illustrators! Thanks to the Copyright Agency's Cultural Fund, this program builds on the successes of the ASA’s long-running Award Mentorship Program.
Apply now: www.asauthors.org.au/award/award-...
Apply now: www.asauthors.org.au/award/award-...
December 9, 2025 at 10:55 PM
The CA/ASA Developmental Leadership Program is now open for applications from Australian writers and illustrators! Thanks to the Copyright Agency's Cultural Fund, this program builds on the successes of the ASA’s long-running Award Mentorship Program.
Apply now: www.asauthors.org.au/award/award-...
Apply now: www.asauthors.org.au/award/award-...
I can't access Bluesky DMs unless I do a face scan, give them credit card info or supply other ID??? Nope. No way. Fuck that
December 9, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I can't access Bluesky DMs unless I do a face scan, give them credit card info or supply other ID??? Nope. No way. Fuck that
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Both the Judith Wright Poetry Prize and the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize submissions have been extended until midnight this Friday! Links below:
December 9, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Both the Judith Wright Poetry Prize and the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize submissions have been extended until midnight this Friday! Links below:
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Like Louise, we founded the Jewish Council because the conservative, legacy Jewish organisations don't speak for us.
If you, or anyone you know feels the same way, head to the link below and sign our statement of values. Join us, become a supporter, today! bit.ly/3KIxNOF
If you, or anyone you know feels the same way, head to the link below and sign our statement of values. Join us, become a supporter, today! bit.ly/3KIxNOF
December 8, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Like Louise, we founded the Jewish Council because the conservative, legacy Jewish organisations don't speak for us.
If you, or anyone you know feels the same way, head to the link below and sign our statement of values. Join us, become a supporter, today! bit.ly/3KIxNOF
If you, or anyone you know feels the same way, head to the link below and sign our statement of values. Join us, become a supporter, today! bit.ly/3KIxNOF
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We'd love to see your photos of "First, The Future" and where you like to read it!
One of our interns enjoys reading Southerly at the lovely green spaces around UNSW Kensington.
#australianliterature #southerlylitmag #southerly #newfiction
One of our interns enjoys reading Southerly at the lovely green spaces around UNSW Kensington.
#australianliterature #southerlylitmag #southerly #newfiction
December 6, 2025 at 10:27 PM
We'd love to see your photos of "First, The Future" and where you like to read it!
One of our interns enjoys reading Southerly at the lovely green spaces around UNSW Kensington.
#australianliterature #southerlylitmag #southerly #newfiction
One of our interns enjoys reading Southerly at the lovely green spaces around UNSW Kensington.
#australianliterature #southerlylitmag #southerly #newfiction
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Macquarie is purging Arab and Palestinian women from its staff.
Two were forced out. One suspended.
Three Arab women targeted in one year.
This is a crisis of racism in Australian academia.
If you’re outraged, hit repost.
Two were forced out. One suspended.
Three Arab women targeted in one year.
This is a crisis of racism in Australian academia.
If you’re outraged, hit repost.
December 5, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Macquarie is purging Arab and Palestinian women from its staff.
Two were forced out. One suspended.
Three Arab women targeted in one year.
This is a crisis of racism in Australian academia.
If you’re outraged, hit repost.
Two were forced out. One suspended.
Three Arab women targeted in one year.
This is a crisis of racism in Australian academia.
If you’re outraged, hit repost.
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This is the next project. Please get in touch, or save this until next year.
December 6, 2025 at 2:39 AM
This is the next project. Please get in touch, or save this until next year.
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Today is the last day of the Future Fellowship that I’ve been doing for the last five years. If any of the work we’ve done in thinking about queer in Indigenous lives, creativity, the colonial project of gender and everything else has had an impact on your work or life I’d love to hear from you.
December 4, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Today is the last day of the Future Fellowship that I’ve been doing for the last five years. If any of the work we’ve done in thinking about queer in Indigenous lives, creativity, the colonial project of gender and everything else has had an impact on your work or life I’d love to hear from you.
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Hi everyone! We've got a bunch of lovely past Southerly issues (and our current issue!) that would look fabulous on your bookshelf (or coffee table)!
Please consider purchasing a copy on our website, especially any issues in this photograph.
Your support means the world to us!
Love,
Southerly team
Please consider purchasing a copy on our website, especially any issues in this photograph.
Your support means the world to us!
Love,
Southerly team
December 4, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Hi everyone! We've got a bunch of lovely past Southerly issues (and our current issue!) that would look fabulous on your bookshelf (or coffee table)!
Please consider purchasing a copy on our website, especially any issues in this photograph.
Your support means the world to us!
Love,
Southerly team
Please consider purchasing a copy on our website, especially any issues in this photograph.
Your support means the world to us!
Love,
Southerly team
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What's your best book of 2025? If you share today, you might end up in our newsletter tomorrow.
(Also, I just want to know!)
theconversation.com/best-books-o...
(Also, I just want to know!)
theconversation.com/best-books-o...
Best books of 2025: our experts share their picks
We found out the favourite 2025 books of 35 expert readers – and the Books & Ideas team shares our own picks, too.
theconversation.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:45 AM
What's your best book of 2025? If you share today, you might end up in our newsletter tomorrow.
(Also, I just want to know!)
theconversation.com/best-books-o...
(Also, I just want to know!)
theconversation.com/best-books-o...
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Feel like a winner? One lucky person will receive an EPIC Magabala Books x Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantatjara Yankunytjatjara Women’s Council Aboriginal Corporation package - just in time for Christmas!
Head over to our Instagram or Facebook accounts for the deets 👀
Head over to our Instagram or Facebook accounts for the deets 👀
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Feel like a winner? One lucky person will receive an EPIC Magabala Books x Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantatjara Yankunytjatjara Women’s Council Aboriginal Corporation package - just in time for Christmas!
Head over to our Instagram or Facebook accounts for the deets 👀
Head over to our Instagram or Facebook accounts for the deets 👀
Australian kids could always run their own servers/communities on Mastodon, and set their own rules for moderation - keeping all the Malcom Roberts out.
PS this new social media ban for under 16s is ridiculous. Raised on technology, they'll figure it out quickly
PS this new social media ban for under 16s is ridiculous. Raised on technology, they'll figure it out quickly
December 2, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Australian kids could always run their own servers/communities on Mastodon, and set their own rules for moderation - keeping all the Malcom Roberts out.
PS this new social media ban for under 16s is ridiculous. Raised on technology, they'll figure it out quickly
PS this new social media ban for under 16s is ridiculous. Raised on technology, they'll figure it out quickly
Recently MUP quietly released First Nations Writing: Meanjin 1977 to today. Co-editors Jeanine Leane & Dan Bourchier selected First Nations pieces published in Meanjin that represented "Writing about us, by us". Meanjin is gone but we're still writing/storytelling
www.mup.com.au/books/meanji...
www.mup.com.au/books/meanji...
www.mup.com.au
December 1, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Recently MUP quietly released First Nations Writing: Meanjin 1977 to today. Co-editors Jeanine Leane & Dan Bourchier selected First Nations pieces published in Meanjin that represented "Writing about us, by us". Meanjin is gone but we're still writing/storytelling
www.mup.com.au/books/meanji...
www.mup.com.au/books/meanji...
Profanity.accountant.australia
Hey mate in 1500 posts you only wrote "fuck" 1,000 times. Are you even Australian cunt? Now get out there and do better mate.
Hey mate in 1500 posts you only wrote "fuck" 1,000 times. Are you even Australian cunt? Now get out there and do better mate.
December 1, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Profanity.accountant.australia
Hey mate in 1500 posts you only wrote "fuck" 1,000 times. Are you even Australian cunt? Now get out there and do better mate.
Hey mate in 1500 posts you only wrote "fuck" 1,000 times. Are you even Australian cunt? Now get out there and do better mate.
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#WhoAreYou?
We are the wet laundry hanging on the fences of shelter schools.
We are the black tiles of aid organizations.
Wording contd. in the image.
Abdullah is a writer. He's recovering from surgery and he's gotten almost no donatlons at all in the last 6 weeks.
gofund.me/9b40645f5
We are the wet laundry hanging on the fences of shelter schools.
We are the black tiles of aid organizations.
Wording contd. in the image.
Abdullah is a writer. He's recovering from surgery and he's gotten almost no donatlons at all in the last 6 weeks.
gofund.me/9b40645f5
November 30, 2025 at 6:38 AM
#WhoAreYou?
We are the wet laundry hanging on the fences of shelter schools.
We are the black tiles of aid organizations.
Wording contd. in the image.
Abdullah is a writer. He's recovering from surgery and he's gotten almost no donatlons at all in the last 6 weeks.
gofund.me/9b40645f5
We are the wet laundry hanging on the fences of shelter schools.
We are the black tiles of aid organizations.
Wording contd. in the image.
Abdullah is a writer. He's recovering from surgery and he's gotten almost no donatlons at all in the last 6 weeks.
gofund.me/9b40645f5
Insta keeps showing me ads targetted at thin-lipped post menopausal white women. Feels like only yesterday I was getting bombarded with products for toddlers. Next week it will be funeral plans, no doubt
November 30, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Insta keeps showing me ads targetted at thin-lipped post menopausal white women. Feels like only yesterday I was getting bombarded with products for toddlers. Next week it will be funeral plans, no doubt
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This is genocide.
'Women are afraid to get pregnant': Fighting mercury poisoning from illegal gold mining in Brazil. news.sky.com/story/women-...
'Women are afraid to get pregnant': Fighting mercury poisoning from illegal gold mining in Brazil. news.sky.com/story/women-...
'Women are afraid to get pregnant': Fighting mercury poisoning from illegal gold mining in Brazil
Munduruku people in Brazil are battling miscarriages and loss of sight and sound, a community leader tells Sky News.
news.sky.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:49 AM
This is genocide.
'Women are afraid to get pregnant': Fighting mercury poisoning from illegal gold mining in Brazil. news.sky.com/story/women-...
'Women are afraid to get pregnant': Fighting mercury poisoning from illegal gold mining in Brazil. news.sky.com/story/women-...
Waiting for them to dry. Turned out a bit odd, but (mostly) free drawn and bad eyesight, so not too concerned about imperfections. It's like a butterfly inside a butterfly. Or it has an aura? First time lino-printing since the late 70s.
November 30, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Waiting for them to dry. Turned out a bit odd, but (mostly) free drawn and bad eyesight, so not too concerned about imperfections. It's like a butterfly inside a butterfly. Or it has an aura? First time lino-printing since the late 70s.
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Today marks the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, a day to reaffirm commitment to justice, equality, and human rights.
Free Palestine Reading List for November 29 – December 5 (2025): publishersforpalestine.org/2025/11/29/f...
Free Palestine Reading List for November 29 – December 5 (2025): publishersforpalestine.org/2025/11/29/f...
November 29, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Today marks the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, a day to reaffirm commitment to justice, equality, and human rights.
Free Palestine Reading List for November 29 – December 5 (2025): publishersforpalestine.org/2025/11/29/f...
Free Palestine Reading List for November 29 – December 5 (2025): publishersforpalestine.org/2025/11/29/f...
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Five animals I’ve seen in my very suburban neighbourhood (within 5 minutes walk)
Shingleback/sleepy lizard
Pobblebonk frogs
Grey headed flying fox
Boobook owl (technically heard, not seen)
Koala
Shingleback/sleepy lizard
Pobblebonk frogs
Grey headed flying fox
Boobook owl (technically heard, not seen)
Koala
I'm guessing the QT post going around about animal sightings 'in the wild' means uncaged or perhaps non-suburban, but we all coexist with wildlife everyday.
Switching it up >
Five animals I've seen in my neighbourhood:
Echidnas.
Wedge-tailed Eagles.
Grey Kangaroos.
Brown snakes.
Great White Shark
Switching it up >
Five animals I've seen in my neighbourhood:
Echidnas.
Wedge-tailed Eagles.
Grey Kangaroos.
Brown snakes.
Great White Shark
November 29, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Five animals I’ve seen in my very suburban neighbourhood (within 5 minutes walk)
Shingleback/sleepy lizard
Pobblebonk frogs
Grey headed flying fox
Boobook owl (technically heard, not seen)
Koala
Shingleback/sleepy lizard
Pobblebonk frogs
Grey headed flying fox
Boobook owl (technically heard, not seen)
Koala
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"The wild" is a daft idea.
5 animals I saw in my neighbourhood (Townsville example)
Snubfin dolphin (seen while at Kokoda Poo)
Bush stone-curlew (nest in the backyard)
Olive backed sunbird (nest on the front verandah)
Black flying fox (inside the house once)
Great bowerbird (bower down the street)
5 animals I saw in my neighbourhood (Townsville example)
Snubfin dolphin (seen while at Kokoda Poo)
Bush stone-curlew (nest in the backyard)
Olive backed sunbird (nest on the front verandah)
Black flying fox (inside the house once)
Great bowerbird (bower down the street)
I'm guessing the QT post going around about animal sightings 'in the wild' means uncaged or perhaps non-suburban, but we all coexist with wildlife everyday.
Switching it up >
Five animals I've seen in my neighbourhood:
Echidnas.
Wedge-tailed Eagles.
Grey Kangaroos.
Brown snakes.
Great White Shark
Switching it up >
Five animals I've seen in my neighbourhood:
Echidnas.
Wedge-tailed Eagles.
Grey Kangaroos.
Brown snakes.
Great White Shark
November 29, 2025 at 2:38 AM
"The wild" is a daft idea.
5 animals I saw in my neighbourhood (Townsville example)
Snubfin dolphin (seen while at Kokoda Poo)
Bush stone-curlew (nest in the backyard)
Olive backed sunbird (nest on the front verandah)
Black flying fox (inside the house once)
Great bowerbird (bower down the street)
5 animals I saw in my neighbourhood (Townsville example)
Snubfin dolphin (seen while at Kokoda Poo)
Bush stone-curlew (nest in the backyard)
Olive backed sunbird (nest on the front verandah)
Black flying fox (inside the house once)
Great bowerbird (bower down the street)
I'm doing a linoprint workshop tomorrow. Not made a lino block for nearly 50 years, and drawing is not something I'm good at. But I need a creative challenge. The workshop's theme is Winged Insects. The novel I'm writing has a grotesque butterfly-man narrator, so I'll use him for inspiration. 1/2
November 29, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I'm doing a linoprint workshop tomorrow. Not made a lino block for nearly 50 years, and drawing is not something I'm good at. But I need a creative challenge. The workshop's theme is Winged Insects. The novel I'm writing has a grotesque butterfly-man narrator, so I'll use him for inspiration. 1/2