@Lili Zeng wow, I got a message from a friend recently about one book he read that was 'beautiful' and moved him (not poetry? from a sports journo: cricket) and the other relevant to my intellectual interests: financial anti-capitalism. Instead of making genuine, non-performative friendships in private, I and the student creatives around me do a lot of self-marketing constantly, without even being aware. #socialmediaalgorithmEra

Disability, emergence(y), pride, movements etc... As the disability pride movement blossoms online and IRL, the fight for justice rages on against a backdrop of discrimination and government let-downs. Where does this leave disabled writers and artists? For our next issue, DISABILITY, The Suburban Review is looking for fiction that celebrates disruption and divergence, comics that explode ableism, and art that embodies the invisible. Send us your playful odes to community and interdependence, and essays (or manifestos!) written out of, or into, disabled joy. Note: Submissions for this issue don’t need to be ‘about’ disability at all, but we are only accepting work from writers and artists with disability (self-declared). Submissions are open until 11:59 p.m. (AEDT) Sunday 27 October 2024. We allow simultaneous submissions. If it’s been accepted elsewhere just flick us an email at support@thesuburbanreview.com

2. Online free Youtube event in 3 hours (11am-1pm AEDT) Thursday 12 September 2024. https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/state-of-emergence/ hosted by Writers Victoria & other org representing Deaf artists <3. 3. New book out edited by Andy Jackson, Esther Ottaway and Kerri Shying. puncherandwattmann.com/product/raging-grace-australian-writers-speak-out-on-disability/

I'm tryna read less... but listening more: to musical poets 🎶 🎵, the ppl around me (I'm lucky enough that sometimes when I lurk in public being "writerly"/idle-looking but scribbling, people start to share their feelings and reflections and their stories/some un-dammed bits pour forth...)

Hello I'm Haoyi (e/hir) - likely to be socially online between 10 - 11AM (gmt+10) ➡️ I decided to join The Unexpected Shape Café because I'm committed to staying in community with regional & remote writers and writers with disabilities. I'm also interested in connecting with creatives with mental illness, and sharing tips about how we manage everything, as @Esme Wang has kindly demonstrated with the 10-Day-MFA newsletter series, and this online sandbox community. ➡️ My favourite book is the one I can't put down, but I'm unfortunately doing uni coursework for credit. Can't put down but I do: Jessie Tu's "The Honeyeaters". Mary Robison's "Why Did I Ever". periodicals Prescribed: Aristotle's "Poetics". Toni Morrison's "Beloved". Shaun Tan's "the Arrival". Writing reference: Viet Thanh Nguyen's "The Sympathizer". Ouyang Yu's "The Kingsbury Tales". whatever sells. As a reader, I'm on Fable, Goodreads, Storygraph & Instagram as wayofhaoyi. Message here for book club type chats. ➡️ I'm interested in writing poetry and other critical forms including audio, see Bramble Journal... about gendered violences, Chinese diaspora and political economy. As a new writer, I'm clearing my throat on Substack and you can email me at abirbreadsnwrites at Gmail.

ages ago but Demos Journal (Issues I-IV)