Laura Jean McKay

On nonfiction, Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington Garimara, adapted to the film Rabbit-Proof Fence, is extraordinary.

Lovely subject! Annie Proux's short story 'Brokeback Mountain' and Ted Chiang's short story 'Story of Your Life', which became the film 'Arrival', are my favouites (and great for teaching because the short story form adapts so well for film).

I will use the money for some Talcum Powder which I need at the moment.

Beautiful time learning from the confer kaleidoscope that is animal studies with @animalstudies.bsky.social. Especially special to have @laurajeanmckay.bsky.social virtually present through the astute readings of @cbayes.bsky.social et al.

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#Gargantua #sciencefiction #fantasy #prixGargantua

Second Announcement of Keynote Session for AASA Conference 2025! | Australasian Animal Studies Association

The AASA 2025 conference will be our 20th anniversary! 🎊That's why we are excited to announce the opening session of our conference: a conversation between founder Yvette Watt and past chairperson Dinesh Wadiwel. Read more about it in our blog: animalstudies.org.au/archives/13306

Looking Ahead to AASA 2025 | Australasian Animal Studies Association

Only two weeks until our conference! Read more about what our delegates can expect in our latest blogpost, and how the creative arts are embedded in the cross disciplinary conference: animalstudies.org.au/archives/13341

I've just applied! You should too! And if you apply by October 28th, you're entered into a draw for a $250 book prize 🤩

Thank you! 🐳

I'm so happy to be doing another fiction workshop, this time with the wonderful @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social in Ireland - online, join from anywhere (timezones permitting)! munsterlit.ie/fiction-work...
7 pm IST, 2 pm EDT, 9 am PDT, 1 am WIB / 4 am AEST / 6 am NZST (for the keenest beans 😍)

Very excited to be included among this incredible group in the 2025 Seán Ó Faoláin Prize!
Huge thanks to @laurajeanmckay.bsky.social and @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social Congrats to Tim Collyer, @daveyfrankel.bsky.social, Tetiana Suchodolska, Farid Hamka, and JP Garvey

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My advice? Don't wait until your mid-40's to do the thing you always wanted to do. But if you do, don't wait any longer because it's joyous. And we don't want you missing out on joy amidst the weight of the heartbreaking and enraging. @laurajeanmckay.bsky.social @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social

Love this! Thank you!

This article means a huge amount to me. Furthering earlier work on @laurajeanmckay.bsky.social's award-winning novel, it explores the post-colonial invoking of @margaretatwood.bsky.social as a way to advance Animal Sociology #research #postcolonial #SpeculativeFiction #sociology #animals #futures

What is prepping – and how does it work in Australia? Prepping in Australia is distinctive: less about guns and militias; more about food, water and community. While anti-government preppers are a problem, they’re rare.

'Who are the people actively living for the end times? Are sovereign citizens the same as survivalists? Are survivalists different from preppers? And what precisely do people mean when they talk about “The End of the Word as We Know It”?' Tom Doig, Jordan McKenzie theconversation.com/what-is-prep...

The little Meanjin collection that I helped bring into the world as editor. Just a fragment of its 85-year catalogue. What an act of bone-stupid arrogance to kill it.

AASA 2025: Centring Animals Across The Disciplines | Australasian Animal Studies Association

The early bird registration for our 2025 conference closes 10 September. 🦆 This year's conference will be extra special as we celebrate AASA's 20th anniversary year. Come join us for this fabulous milestone! 🎊 Register here: animalstudies.org.au/aasa2025-cen...

AASA 2025: Centring Animals Across The Disciplines | Australasian Animal Studies Association

Early bird registration is now open for the AASA 2025 conference: Centring Animals Across The Disciplines! The conference asks us to pause, reorientate, and engage our imagination, intellect, and practice to place non-human animals at the centre. Register here!
animalstudies.org.au/aasa2025-cen...

Activity Fund 2025-26 Guidelines | Australasian Animal Studies Association

The AASA Activity Fund round is open and welcomes submissions! The fund stimulates activities that improve, enhance, or facilitate AASA members in undertaking activities that could not otherwise proceed without this financial support. Closes 20 September 2025
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AASA 2025: Centring Animals Across The Disciplines | Australasian Animal Studies Association

Abstract submissions for our conference 'AASA 2025: Centring Animals Across The Disciplines' close on 4 August! We're particularly seeking non-traditional research abstracts in art and literature, and warmly encourage First Nations perspectives. #academicsky animalstudies.org.au/aasa2025-cen...

Short story: Cats at the Fire Front, by Laura Jean McKay The first of four consecutive weekly short stories about cats

The swirl of fur and dust and the smell of cat shit both acrid and sweet—the smell of life, for us. The felines appeal through the bars as I waddle through the caged aisles.

@laurajeanmckay.bsky.social, ‘Cats at the Fire Front’ (newsroom.co.nz/2023/02/24/s... )

A fantastic new edition of Animal Studies Journal - 'Dairy issue to honour Deidre Wicks' - is out now! www.uowoajournals.org/asj/issue/14...

AASA 2025: Centring Animals Across The Disciplines | Australasian Animal Studies Association

Thrilling conference news from AASA: abstract submissions for the AASA 2025 conference Centring Animals Across The Disciplines have been extended until 4th August! Find out more about submissions, registration and the beautiful location here animalstudies.org.au/aasa2025-cen...

Animal Studies folks!! You can still sneak in an abstract (I hear we’ll still take them on the 30th of June). Come join us in beautiful Toowoomba, it is our 20th anniversary after all 😻

Congratulations to the shortlisted authors of this beautiful prize! #animals #books #academicsky

Book Prize | Australasian Animal Studies Association

Huge congratulations to the shortlisted authors for the 2025 AASA Siobhan O'Sullivan Book Prize: Yamini Narayanan, Mother Cow Mother India, Josh Milburn, Food, Justice and Animals and Doris Schneeberger, Envisioning a Better Future for Nonhuman Animals! animalstudies.org.au/book-prize

I am so thrilled to be judging the Seán Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition this year - entries are now open! Send in your words xx munsterlit.ie/ofaolain-com...

30-minute zoom call about short stories PLUS a signed copy of Gunflower with award-winning author Laura Jean McKay Gunflower is award-winning author Laura Jean McKay's second short story collection, a book that offers glimpses of places where dreams subsume reality, where childhood restarts, where humans embrace t...

Bid for a signed copy of Gunflower plus a 30-minute online chat about short stories for
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‘Whipped in front of everyone’: three women on being flogged by the Taliban Hundreds of women forced to confess to ‘moral crimes’ they did not commit have been publicly lashed in Afghanistan

We must not forget the situation of the women of Afghanistan, in a situation we played a big part in making

#HumanRights #WomensRights
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Writing History with Pre-Loved Objects Writing History with Pre-Loved Objects

This perfect workshop! Writing History with Pre-Loved Objects events.humanitix.com/writing-hist...