The ALS Gold Medal is awarded annually for an outstanding literary work in the preceding calendar year. The Medal was inaugurated by the Australian Literature Society, which was founded in Melbourne in 1899 and incorporated into the Association for the Study of Australian Literature in...
Submissions for the Mary Gilmore Award are now invited.The Mary Gilmore Award is for a poet’s first book which contains 32 or more pages of poetry.SubmissionsThere is a 2-step process.1. Deadline for the application form is 1 December 2021.Application forms must be emailed to [email protected]. Publishers will need...
SECRETS, SUBTERFUGE AND SILENCE: 13-16 June, 2022 The 2022 AULLA Conference will be hosted by the College of Indigenous Futures, Education, and the Arts at Charles Darwin University in Darwin, from 13–16 June 2022 in the lead up to the Northern Territory Writers Festival. The conference will...
Thursday 14 October 2021, 5.00 pm (AEST Queensland time)Watch online or join us at Central Plaza, JCU Townsville to watch together at Central PlazaSupported by the Copyright Agency, ASAL is partnering with the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies to sponsor the annual Colin Roderick Memorial...
6pm 14 October, USC Art Gallery Join award winning author Mirandi Riwoe as she delivers the ASAL Patrons Lecture followed by a brief Q and A session. Mirandi Riwoe is the author of the novella The Fish Girl, which won Seizure’s Viva la Novella V...
17th Biennial Conference of the Gesellschaft für Australienstudien | German Association for Australian StudiesTrier University, 27 September – 2 October 2021Australia’s past and present are closely connected to the sea: In coastal regions, maritime areas are an integral part of Country and thus play a...
6.30pm, Wednesday 29 September 2021, State Library of NSW, Zoom eventPlease join us to celebrate the launch of Leaping into Waterfalls: The Enigmatic Gillian Mears by Bernadette Brennan.To be launched by Susan WyndhamRSVP: Please register online at https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/leaping-waterfalls ...
It with great sadness that ASAL mourns the passing of Professor Emerita Lydia Wevers of Victoria University Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. Lydia was both admired and loved by so many of us in Australian Literary Studies as a scholar, teacher, colleague, friend and mentor....
Online Event, 17 September 2021.Anne Jamison at Western Sydney University is hosting an online symposium on the role writing can play in generating new knowledge and understandings around gender. It will be a great way to get together online with some wonderful authors and talk about...
TWELVE WEEKS WRITING IN TASMANIA The University of Tasmania is seeking established writers for a unique Tasmanian residency.Applications are open for the second Hedberg Writer in Residence program, with the prize open to all established writers, in any field or genre, resident in Australia.The...
