Tash
@natashaseymour.bsky.social
Advocate for Australian books + writing, Managing Editor (@overlandlitmag), writer, scared of AI, cat mum. Part settler-Australian, part Indo-trinidadian. 🇹🇹 Living and working on unceded Wurundjeri Country. Always was, always will be. #freepalestine 🇵🇸
I wrote about shark nets and a very niche part of Sydney history from the other side of the fence (pun intended) for @overlandjournal.bsky.social
“Historian Bill Gammage’s warning that “fences on the ground make fences in the mind” ring in the ears as shark nets are erected along Australia's coastlines each year.”
For @copower.bsky.social, our own Natasha Seymour on Australia’s neverending “shark era”.
overland.org.au/2025/09/fenc...
For @copower.bsky.social, our own Natasha Seymour on Australia’s neverending “shark era”.
overland.org.au/2025/09/fenc...
Fences in the sea: Australia’s neverending “shark era” - Overland literary journal
Historian Bill Gammage’s warning that “fences on the ground make fences in the mind” rings in the ears as shark nets are erected along Australia's coastlines each year. The legacy of Sydney’s 1930s sh...
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September 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I wrote about shark nets and a very niche part of Sydney history from the other side of the fence (pun intended) for @overlandjournal.bsky.social
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The truth emerges.
The campaign to silence writers - which imploded the Bendigo Writers Fest - was waged by an anonymous group of pro-Israel academics, 5A.
(A group that has no compunction naming and defaming individual writers, btw).
Important scoop:
The campaign to silence writers - which imploded the Bendigo Writers Fest - was waged by an anonymous group of pro-Israel academics, 5A.
(A group that has no compunction naming and defaming individual writers, btw).
Important scoop:
Pro-Israel group lobbied La Trobe and Bendigo Writers Festival over Palestinian academic's institution
A leaked letter reveals pressure from a pro-Israel group in the lead up to the Festival
www.deepcutnews.com
August 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The truth emerges.
The campaign to silence writers - which imploded the Bendigo Writers Fest - was waged by an anonymous group of pro-Israel academics, 5A.
(A group that has no compunction naming and defaming individual writers, btw).
Important scoop:
The campaign to silence writers - which imploded the Bendigo Writers Fest - was waged by an anonymous group of pro-Israel academics, 5A.
(A group that has no compunction naming and defaming individual writers, btw).
Important scoop:
"When prominent voices withdraw en masse, they are not just declining to participate but making a statement about the conditions under which meaningful cultural dialogue can occur."
Bendigo Writers Festival: Culture, Codes, and Crisis
The Bendigo Writers Festival crisis strips away any remaining illusions about the state of cultural leadership in Australia.
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August 18, 2025 at 4:51 AM
"When prominent voices withdraw en masse, they are not just declining to participate but making a statement about the conditions under which meaningful cultural dialogue can occur."
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MEDIA RELEASE: Workers from across Australia’s media, creative and entertainment sectors are calling on the government to introduce regulation of Artificial Intelligence, amid widespread concerns about stolen work and future job losses.
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meaa.io/46A34Mo
Government urged to act on AI and stop theft of nation’s creative assets as critical productivity talks approach
Workers from across Australia’s media, creative and entertainment sectors are calling on the government to introduce regulation of Artificial Intelligence, amid widespread concerns about stolen work…
www.meaa.org
July 30, 2025 at 1:13 AM
MEDIA RELEASE: Workers from across Australia’s media, creative and entertainment sectors are calling on the government to introduce regulation of Artificial Intelligence, amid widespread concerns about stolen work and future job losses.
meaa.io/46A34Mo
meaa.io/46A34Mo
"In this reality — the reality we actually live in, today — the ethics of spending $2 million per year on your personal science experiment, for increasingly marginal health benefits, are clearly bad. When Johnson claims that “death defenders” are “helpless”, he unwittingly gets to the point."
Bryan Johnson vs the death defenders - Overland literary journal
When Johnson claims that “death defenders” are “helpless”, he unwittingly gets to the point. The majority of the world does not have the cash to pay a team of doctors so that they may live. If you wan...
overland.org.au
July 30, 2025 at 1:20 AM
"In this reality — the reality we actually live in, today — the ethics of spending $2 million per year on your personal science experiment, for increasingly marginal health benefits, are clearly bad. When Johnson claims that “death defenders” are “helpless”, he unwittingly gets to the point."
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In response to the prompt of a publisher's campaign, Luke Horton offers an extended reflection on the value of literature and the work of writing (and reading) in the current moment.
Books are essential - Overland literary journal
Books are essential because — and yes, it seems now I dare to say it — they give us hope. But, more precisely, they give us the energy to seek new and better ways to understand, or to recognise. To se...
overland.org.au
May 2, 2025 at 2:30 AM
In response to the prompt of a publisher's campaign, Luke Horton offers an extended reflection on the value of literature and the work of writing (and reading) in the current moment.
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"almost every night since Oct 2023, even during his hospitalization, Pope Francis made a daily phone call to the only Catholic parish in the Gaza Strip to check on their safety and offer words of prayer and support. His last public act, the day before he died, was to call for a ceasefire in Gaza."
BREAKING: Pope Francis Dies at 88. Here's How He Should Be Remembered
The late pontiff was a progressive pope who was outspoken on Trump, Gaza, the climate, and more.
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April 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
"almost every night since Oct 2023, even during his hospitalization, Pope Francis made a daily phone call to the only Catholic parish in the Gaza Strip to check on their safety and offer words of prayer and support. His last public act, the day before he died, was to call for a ceasefire in Gaza."
Some good thoughts on short story vs novel writing by Natalia Theodoridou this in Lithub!
April 12, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Some good thoughts on short story vs novel writing by Natalia Theodoridou this in Lithub!
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The Israeli military has completed trials of an advanced weapon designed and built by Australian company Electro Optic Systems (EOS). It can strike targets up to 2km away. Albo is still claiming Australia doesn't export weapons to Israel
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
Australian weapon trialled by Israel's military ahead of potential sale
The Defence Department told the ABC that “Australia has not supplied weapons or ammunition to Israel” since the Gaza war began in 2023.
www.abc.net.au
April 10, 2025 at 11:47 PM
The Israeli military has completed trials of an advanced weapon designed and built by Australian company Electro Optic Systems (EOS). It can strike targets up to 2km away. Albo is still claiming Australia doesn't export weapons to Israel
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
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We're beginning to unlock materials from issue #256 of Overland this week, and the place of honour firmly belongs to the beautiful speech (plus new poem!) that outgoing poetry editor Toby Fitch delivered at our 70th anniversary last December. overland.org.au/previous-iss...
A farewell and a poem from poetry editor Toby Fitch, 2015–2025 - Overland literary journal
Overland is committed to the political project that is poetry, a project that must go beyond diversity quotas, empty acknowledgments, and pat didacticism. And it must decry the kind of depoliticised l...
overland.org.au
April 7, 2025 at 2:13 AM
We're beginning to unlock materials from issue #256 of Overland this week, and the place of honour firmly belongs to the beautiful speech (plus new poem!) that outgoing poetry editor Toby Fitch delivered at our 70th anniversary last December. overland.org.au/previous-iss...
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Really pleased to have this statement from MEAA today for #TDOV2025
"Trans & gender diverse people disproportionately experience unemployment and insecure work, making trans justice part of the work of our union"
#transdayofvisibility
"Trans & gender diverse people disproportionately experience unemployment and insecure work, making trans justice part of the work of our union"
#transdayofvisibility
Statement from the MEAA Diversity Committee for Trans Day of Visibility 2025:
meaa.io/426Fh2A
#TDOV #transdayofvisibility🏳️ #transrights #transrightsarehumanrights
meaa.io/426Fh2A
#TDOV #transdayofvisibility🏳️ #transrights #transrightsarehumanrights
March 31, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Really pleased to have this statement from MEAA today for #TDOV2025
"Trans & gender diverse people disproportionately experience unemployment and insecure work, making trans justice part of the work of our union"
#transdayofvisibility
"Trans & gender diverse people disproportionately experience unemployment and insecure work, making trans justice part of the work of our union"
#transdayofvisibility
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As Jumana Bayeh argues in her scholarly close reading, Universities Australia's definition of antisemitism has one purpose only — to silence voices in support of Palestinians.
Silencing Palestine: Universities Australia and the new definition of antisemitism - Overland literary journal
I am a researcher of literature and I am invested in understanding the political nature of language, and the context in which that language is embedded — even chaotic and unfocused language. I want to...
overland.org.au
March 31, 2025 at 1:04 AM
As Jumana Bayeh argues in her scholarly close reading, Universities Australia's definition of antisemitism has one purpose only — to silence voices in support of Palestinians.
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“The question of who can claim authority over a culture and engage with it is deeply meaningful. Can there be a genuine cultural exchange unmarred by the spectre of exchange value?”
A formidable #longread by Reina Miura on the current state of Ramen.
A formidable #longread by Reina Miura on the current state of Ramen.
The current state of ramen - Overland literary journal
No longer exclusively the domain of Japanese chefs with deep roots in traditional culinary practices, the new mix of casual dining and simple sweet shops reflect the ever-changing construct of Japan w...
overland.org.au
March 28, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“The question of who can claim authority over a culture and engage with it is deeply meaningful. Can there be a genuine cultural exchange unmarred by the spectre of exchange value?”
A formidable #longread by Reina Miura on the current state of Ramen.
A formidable #longread by Reina Miura on the current state of Ramen.
I have a Substack!
Is Green Dot by Madeleine Gray the great millennial novel?
In theory, the lot of a book reviewer is to render a truthful, subjective report of the merit of a book, notwithstanding the book’s wider public reception.
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March 28, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I have a Substack!
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This is horrific
A Palestinian director of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land has been arrested by the Israeli army after masked settlers attacked his house.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Oscar-winning Palestinian director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested
Hamdan Ballal attacked by armed settlers in West Bank before being handed to Israeli military, witnesses say
www.theguardian.com
March 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
This is horrific
Really enjoying Cher Tan's Peripathetic. Cher is so incisive and clever and wildly funny on stuff I've spent a lot of time thinking about: shit jobs, punk + subculture and being online. "We were fuck-ups but we also had something to sell".
March 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Really enjoying Cher Tan's Peripathetic. Cher is so incisive and clever and wildly funny on stuff I've spent a lot of time thinking about: shit jobs, punk + subculture and being online. "We were fuck-ups but we also had something to sell".
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The Age this morning. Imagine if our news media had shown the cost of this genocide from the start? The more than 20,000 kids killed? The babies starved to death. The destroyed NICU units. Maybe we’d have actually been able to change this miserable’s government’s position.
March 18, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The Age this morning. Imagine if our news media had shown the cost of this genocide from the start? The more than 20,000 kids killed? The babies starved to death. The destroyed NICU units. Maybe we’d have actually been able to change this miserable’s government’s position.
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In the second of our unlocked features from issue #255 of Overland, Sam Ryan retraces the "tangled, literary web of a debate [on state funding of the arts] that so epitomised the journal under Murray-Smith."
We might add: a debate that is always relevant.
We might add: a debate that is always relevant.
“Arts funding is fucked”: Overland 1973 — 1975 - Overland literary journal
. In writing about these historical debates, I do not intend to engage in any specificity around the contemporary funding of the arts with any utterance other than the most simple and correct: it’s fu...
overland.org.au
March 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
In the second of our unlocked features from issue #255 of Overland, Sam Ryan retraces the "tangled, literary web of a debate [on state funding of the arts] that so epitomised the journal under Murray-Smith."
We might add: a debate that is always relevant.
We might add: a debate that is always relevant.
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Nina Culley on the publishing's latest bestselling trend: cosy East Asian literature.
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Read more: buff.ly/21quBhb
March 17, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Nina Culley on the publishing's latest bestselling trend: cosy East Asian literature.
Read more: buff.ly/21quBhb
Read more: buff.ly/21quBhb