Editor, writer, podcaster, grade-one pen-licence failure. Host of Triple R's Backstory. She/her. https://nitter.cf/t.co/oppMdurvaG
Joined August 2009
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Melissa Cranenburgh retweeted
Nova Weetman’s gorgeous grief memoir about her playwright partner Aidan Fennessy, a stunning love story, reminded me of being young & prioritising a creative life.
I also loved Sloane Crosley’s grief memoir, an ode to friendship & book publishing.
inreview.com.au/inreview/boo…
Melissa Cranenburgh retweeted
We have launched the Jewish Council of Australia, an expert voice on antisemitism and racism.
We founded the Council because our Jewish representative organisations fail to represent Jews who are critical of Israel and support a free Palestine.
jewishcouncil.com.au/media/j…
Melissa Cranenburgh retweeted
Virginia Woolf's own copy of her first novel – with notes in her handwriting – was lost, then found in a University of Sydney library. It's now been digitised.
Mark Byron has examined it and shares what it reveals about her life & work. @ConversationEDU
theconversation.com/virginia…
Melissa Cranenburgh retweeted
Big W has with drawn Yumi Stynes & Melissa Kang’s Welcome to Sex from physical stores to protect staff from customer abuse.
But teen sex education books can help keep young people safe - and are not new.
Expert @emmawhatman explains @ConversationEDU
theconversation.com/big-w-ha…
Melissa Cranenburgh retweeted
Excellent piece on the disgraceful, dwindling state of arts funding and infrastructure in SA.
Thank you, Jane Howard @ConversationEDU for commissioning & publishing this. It’s important. 🙏
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Melissa Cranenburgh retweeted
Good job going at my work! ACMI X is hiring a new community coordinator🌟 Studio managers, producers, events people, apply: jobs.careers.vic.gov.au/jobt…
Melissa Cranenburgh retweeted
Jacinta Parsons: 'How I learned to embrace solitude'
it always feels exposing when you share a bit of da truth of living in this skin - but I know a lot of people go through this at various times...
abc.net.au/everyday/jacinta-…
Melissa Cranenburgh retweeted
You can help!
Pretend you're interested in my book/me. What question would you ask if I was at a writers' festival or giving a lecture, hypothetically?
Melissa Cranenburgh retweeted
In the age of AI, what we do at @ConversationEDU –carefully checking facts, as we help experts communicate their work to a wide general readership –is more important than ever.
If you have the capacity to donate, however much or little you can, now is a good time. 🙏
THREAD: The Washington Post recently published this article. On their list of the top 200 sites that are providing “facts” to teach AI, @ConversationEDU came in at 153. But we aren’t in good company.
This makes what we do even more important.
washingtonpost.com/technolog…
Melissa Cranenburgh retweeted
Book banning is in local news again today, with the Aus classification board's good decision NOT to restrict readership of #genderqueer appealed.
Let's not go down the path of the US, where book banning for race & LGBTQ themes is rife. @ConversationEDU
theconversation.com/penguin-…
Melissa Cranenburgh retweeted
I loved Marijane Meaker's YA novels, written as M.E. Kerr, as an 80s teen. Amazed to discover when she died that she also wrote the first lesbian pulp fiction hit & was Patricia Highsmith's lover!
Terrific piece by @mandytreagus today @ConversationEDU
theconversation.com/spring-f…
Melissa Cranenburgh retweeted
Gabrielle Carey’s body of work ‘not only demonstrates how to examine a life with grace as well as candour, but also how the genre of life-writing may be constantly refreshed’.
Debra Adelaide’s beautiful obituary remembers a ‘modern-day pilgrim’.
smh.com.au/national/gabriell…
Melissa Cranenburgh retweeted
“The end of ParentsNext also should draw attention to the broader mutual obligations regime governing the lives of people relying on social security payments”
good gear from @lukehgomes theguardian.com/australia-ne…
Melissa Cranenburgh retweeted
A privilege to publish Russell Smith's (@ANUmedia) stunning tribute to his friend Gabrielle Carey
@ConversationEDU
'Her passion for things had that quality of enlarging your experience, making the world a richer and more beautiful place.'
theconversation.com/gabriell…
Melissa Cranenburgh retweeted
Congratulations to Sarah Holland-Batt (@the_shb), the winner of the #2023StellaPrize!
'This is a poet who knows exactly what she is doing,' writes @JVLamond in her superb @ConversationEDU piece on the win
theconversation.com/sarah-ho…
I had such a blast with @NovaWeetman @bethanyaq @ElizabethFlux and @vidyarrrr — talking about trams and stories and…trams. 🚃
Thanks to everyone that come out last night to celebrate our forthcoming pod Tramlines with @MelCityofLit 🚊
Special thanks to @rmitculture and The Capitol for hosting, and to @thetwits2 for her excellent moderating.
Episodes released from May 8.
broadwavepods.com/tramlines
