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"As a writer and a reader I am attuned to how literature and art of all kinds expands our sense of life and our understandings of it ... I often reflect on the relationships between living and writing" Get Close Reading with @VanessaBerry closereading.co

We heard you like words, so we made you a newsletter. Close Reading is a fortnightly dispatch of literary obsessions. Each edition features a guest writer who shares one word, one quote, one poem, one book, and one other thing. Subscribe for free at closereading.co

We heard you like words, so we made you a newsletter. Close Reading is a fortnightly dispatch of literary obsessions. Each edition features a guest writer who shares one word, one quote, one poem, one book, and one other thing. Subscribe for free at closereading.co

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Woolgather is a purpose-driven studio dedicated to social, cultural & environmental projects. Sometimes these worlds dovetail, as they did with On a Floating World, a publication that gathered stories of how water shapes us, for @CityNewcastle & @PortofNewcastle.

“We have produced more than 8 billion tonnes of plastic pollution, enough to cover the surface of Australia with a crust 20 centimetres thick" To combat this growing crisis, bioplastics are positioned as a green alternative. But are they what they seem? heathkillen.com/dream-in-seawe…

“It was our second anniversary, we were in Bermagui, and my shoes were filling with blood.” An accident cut our trip short, but saved us from driving into a bushfire. I wrote about that day, and our changing climate, in a story called The Lost Holiday. heathkillen.com/the-lost-holid…

My work has always been divided between words and images, but at the end of last year, I decided to dedicate myself to the words. In this transition, one creature has occupied my thoughts and has become a totem: the bogong moth. This is why: heathkillen.com/information

It has been a particularly gloomy season in Australian literature, so QUT saving @Meanjin is very welcome win. The name Meanjin is a Turrbal/Yagara word for land on which Brisbane is located, so this is a homecoming too. Love to see it. qut.edu.au/news?id=203300

The Territories was part research lab, part publishing imprint, unearthing lost Australian histories. Founder @heathkillen brought these stories to life through alternative printing methods, proving that inventiveness can step in when budgets are tight.

“Storytelling is the essential skill for any form of corporate communication and is incredibly hard to do well, but the relentless barrage of AI slop means reaching your audience is becoming increasingly difficult”. thetimes.com/business/compa…

How do you create a cultural brand? Start with a great name and then tell the stories of people and place. Woolgather founder @heathkillen did this for MTNS MADE, building a movement to grow local creative industries through quality creative and authentic publishing.

In Wild Air was a weekly newsletter featuring guest editors—from artists to ecologists—sharing five things they loved. Woolgather founder @heathkillen saw the creative opportunity in newsletters well ahead of the boom. At Woolgather, we believe there’s still untapped potential.

Woolgather founder @heathkillen elevated Desktop magazine through topical themes & innovative features, resulting in record sales, repositioning a lightweight publication into an industry leader. We draw from this experience to provide purposeful content that deepens engagement.