CfP: JASAL special issue: Exchange and Imagination: Research on Chinese and Australian Speculative Fiction Speculative fiction—an expansive generic category encompassing science fiction, fantasy, utopia/dystopia, alternate history, and all forms of alternative reality narratives—has gained unprecedented academic attention and cultural influence worldwide in recent years. Once dismissed as marginal “genre...
18–20 November 2026 Duplication: Originals, Copies, and Interpretative Communities Reception, including reading, listening and viewing, occurs at the tail-end of a complex process of production and reproduction that can create a significant distance between the authors who begin the process and the individual recipients who enact multiple,...
Edited by Associate Professor Jessica White and Dr Amanda Tink Deaf authors Judith Wright and Henry Lawson wrote that they became writers partly as a result of being deaf. Similarly, Les Murray said that autism was the main catalyst for his poetic creativity, and Alan Marshall...
To present at the 30th Congress of FILLM Congress 8-11 December 2026, At Victoria University (Melbourne) in Narrm, Australia This is the 2nd Call for Proposals to present at the 30th Congress of the International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures (FILLM). Theme for the Congress is Talking Country: we are looking...
Publishing Research Quarterly Volume 43, Issue 1, March 2027 Environmental Sustainability and Book Publishing Edited by Angela Meyer (RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia) We invite submissions for a special issue of Publishing Research Quarterly focused on “Environmental Sustainability and Book Publishing”. This issue aims to bring together research, tools and practices relevant...
Association for the Study of Australian Literature Annual Conference Australian Literature in the Digital Age 29 June -3 July, 2026 The University of Queensland Registrations for the ASAL2026: Australian Literature in the Digital Age are now open. You can register through the conference website: https://www.austlit.edu.au/asal2026/ contact: [email protected] In 2026, ASAL celebrates AustLit. It will be...
The American Association of Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) invites proposals for a Virtual Seminar Series held during the month of June 2026 over Zoom. This seminar series will take place in lieu of the 2026 AAALS conference. Seminars can be of two types: A) panel or B)...
The Story and The Self: Navigating Truth Genres in Literature 30 June -4 July 2025, Flinders University, Adelaide + Online To register follow the link below: Registration page Keynote speakers include: Associate Professor Julieanne Lamond (ANU) (Dorothy Green Lecture) Dr Eloise Faichney (U Melbourne) (ASAL Early Career Researcher Keynote) Dr Chloe Green (ANU) (IABA Asia-Pacific,...
Scholarship on Emerging Writers or Filmmakers Ongoing Call Dec/Jan submissions will be fast-tracked Antipodes invites articles for a new special feature in Antipodes, journal of the American Association for Australasian Studies (AAALS), that provide a scholarly engagement with the work of an emerging writer or film maker from Australia, the Torres...
CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian and New Zealand Literature Australia And . . . Priority Deadline 1 Jan 2025 Antipodes invites articles for a special feature section in Antipodes, journal of the American Association for Australasian Studies (AAALS) that considers a literary or cultural work...
