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...
1-2 May, 2020, UNSW, Kensington Given Eleanor Dark's signature experiment with temporality in the mid-century Australian novel, it is tempting to cite the timeliness of this call to address her rich body of work. However, this invitation is not merely timely, it is overdue. Overtime,...
YWrite Prison Writing Project ASAL Seed grant statement: The grant secured Adelle Sefton-Rowston’s conference travel to the AAALS conference in Alaska. “The ASAL SEED funding was invaluable to my growing project and meant that I could share my work with peers abroad. As an ECR there is an expectation...
Earlier this year, I was the Australian delegate at the inaugural “Global Transformations” conference on “Spaces and Places” in Bruges, Belgium after my research, The Drover’s Wife Reading Project, was awarded an ASAL ECR Seed Funding Grant. Inspired by my on-going conversations with Goa-Gunggari-Wakka Wakka Murri writer...
