Michelle Scott Tucker

What an honour. Winners announced on Friday. For more info about the book, and about the Torres Strait, and about our collaboration, try my website - deets in the bio. @AllenAndUnwin #middlegrade #amreading #AaronFaAoso

Police decision to arrest him on his birthday was absolutely deliberate, just sayin. 🤣

@WaterfallWay @icelandcricket Done.

@MST_Writes @icelandcricket I'm taking the Volcanos and will track this through 26 for a lunch, MST

Icelandic cricket is comprised of us, the governing body, and our five clubs sides. Who will you be supporting in 2026?

@Jeff_Sparrow @lakelady2282 Huge congratulations 🥂

Something about writing fiction.I spent two hours cleaning my chicken coop. 5 wheelbarrows of dirty wood chips.Then replace with clean litter. Scrape and clean nesting boxes. Now I know how that scene can go. Just because a writer isn't writing doesn't mean they are not writing.

@EvelynBarbalet @gomichild No obligation! Everyone likes different things - entirely as it should 😊🤷‍♀️

@MST_Writes @gomichild Oh, thank you! I'll give it a go.

@EvelynBarbalet @gomichild As the series develops, so does LeGuin’s feminist outlook. The second features a young woman as the central character and the subsequent books are genuinely feminist.

@MST_Writes @gomichild I finally read the first late last year. So male-centred. For teenage boys perhaps. Not me.

Today? I’m writing about Henry Lawson’s first book. Want to guess who published it in 1894? Yep, you’re right. His mother (printer, editor and journal proprietor) Louisa Lawson. Click on pic to see it full size #biography #australianwomenwriters #LouisaLawson #amwri̇ti̇ng

Today? Checking to see if my ponies remembered how to load in case we have to evacuate. 🤷‍♀️ 🔥 Years since either has floated but they stepped up and stood like champions. Then happily unloaded & had a good feed. Fingers crossed we (& everyone else) can stay safe at home tomorrow.

@gomichild @potcalling So so sorry for your loss. Dear little dog.

I got home from the workshop, we settled in for a break. Life was normal. During his nap, Drum passed away. I am so absolutely heartbroken.

american craftsmanship is declining. 20 years ago, if you wanted to manufacture a reason for a war, you had to make a map and do a little presentation at the UN. now you just say anything.

@mikerdot That’s astonishing. The past is sometimes much closer than we think.

@MST_Writes Living memories make for lively research, writing and reading. In ‘Confederates in the Attic’ Tony Horwitz recounts his rush to speak to an elderly woman who was formerly the extremely young wife of a Confederate soldier in the American Civil War.

Today’s writing adventure? Speaking to an academic whose Nana (as a child) knew Louisa Lawson (her elderly neighbour). Mrs Lawson ‘was poor, poorer than us.’ And Henry? Well he was ‘a nasty piece of work’. Gold. #biography #amwri̇ti̇ng #australianwomenwriters #louisalawson

@FionaLeitc18957 Oh, what a nice thing to say. Thank you.

@iPaulie And the happiest of new years to you too

Happy New Year gorgeous beautiful friends. 2025 was a fucking challenge at times just to survive, but we gonna thrive in 2026. Kindness is the key I reckon. Be kind to others. Be kind to yourself…. that’s all you can do right? Much love x

@StuartKells @MeritaTabain @HardieGrant And to you.

@MeritaTabain @HardieGrant And Happy New Year btw 🙂🎉

A nice find inside a book today: a Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board ticket, c.1940-45, with a Snow’s advertisement on the reverse #Snows #PenguinFounders @HardieGrant

@gomichild I feel seen

@wtb_Michael What a brilliant list. Well done. You make the world a better place.

- Finally saw chestnut rail in Darwin and noisy pitta in Brisbane - ran some incredibly fast fun runs way beyond what I imagined I could do - made some excellent friends, turned more people onto birds - was elected president of the academic society that has been key to my career

@JaneCaro Huge congratulations

Thrilled Lyrebird is longlisted for Indie Fiction Book of the Year award and in such great company too! Congratulations to all the finalists.