It is with sadness that ASAL acknowledges the death of Australian poet and playwright Ania Walwicz. Ania Walwicz (1951-2020) was born in born in Swidnica, Poland and migrated to Australia in 1963, where she was a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, and Deakin...
As the Australian Parliament enters a period of reflection on their vote on the current proposal to restructure Higher Education funding, The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) urges our Federal representatives to only support policy that increases equitable access to Higher Education...
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE OF AUSTRALIAN LITERARY STUDIES: ‘WRITING DISABILITY IN AUSTRALIA’, EDITED BY JESSICA WHITE AND AMANDA TINK While Australian literature has begun the work of engaging with writing by and about minoritised groups such as those who identify...
It is with sadness that ASAL acknowledges the passing of Emeritus Professor Gerry Wilkes.G. A. Wilkes (1927-2020) took his BA and MA degrees at the University of Sydney before completing his doctoral work at Oxford. His MA thesis was published as a monograph, Brennan's Poems (1913), in...
MLA 2020: SESSION TITLE: RESISTANCE AND PERSISTENCE IN (POST)COLONIAL AUSTRALIA AND AOTEAROA/NEW ZEALAND Rigorous consideration of ongoing and historical colonial contexts of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand through literature and film. Engage with the tension and possibilities of broadly considered acts of resistance and persistence in...
Writing Belonging at the Millennium: Notes from the field on settler colonial place, by Emily Potter (Intellect)In Writing Belonging at the Millennium, Emily Potter critically considers the long-standing settler-colonial pursuit of belonging manifested through an obsession with firm and stable ground. This pursuit continues across the...
Indigenous Writing, Art Cover Prize and Students Awards CategoriesThe $3000.00 Borderlands Prize is made up of three smaller prizes: 1 x First Nations Writing Award (prose up to 2000 words)1 x Art Cover Prize (A5)2 x Student Awards (high school and tertiary) Entry to Borderlands Awards & Prizes...
THE CENTRE FOR CRITICAL AND CREATIVE WRITING PRESENTS A SYMPOSIUM ON ADAPTATION AND THE AUSTRALIAN NOVEL Wednesday June 24 to Friday June 26 2020, The University of Queensland, St Lucia campus, Brisbane.Landmark Australian novels are being adapted for the stage and screen at a rate we’ve...
Claire Jones, Dr. Catherine NoskeCreative Writing academics! We are looking for survey participants!Survey link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/UWACreativeWritingWe invite you to participate in a survey, as part of research into creative writing pedagogy at both secondary and tertiary levels in Western Australia. This project aims to understand the way in...
April 15–18, 2020, Albuquerque, New Mexico Extended Deadline: 20 December 2019 The American Association of Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) invites paper proposals for its 2020 annual conference. Papers addressing any aspect of the literature, film, and/or culture of Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand, and other areas of Oceania are welcome. Papers...
