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03 Dec Survey: The Big Picture: Subject English across Secondary and Tertiary Education in Western Australia (Part One: Creative Writing Pedagogies)

Posted at 10:09h in News

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...

03 Dec Extended Deadline: Call for Papers: American Association of Australasian Literary Studies Annual Conference

Posted at 10:06h in News

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...

18 Nov Call for Papers: Beyond Time: Reading Eleanor Dark in 2020

Posted at 16:21h in Conferences, Mini Conference, News

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,...

15 Nov ASAL ECR Seed Funding Grant Report: Dr Adelle Sefton-Rowston

Posted at 11:21h in News, Postgrad & ECR Profiles

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...

11 Nov ASAL ECR Seed Funding Grant Report: Dr Demelza Hall

Posted at 09:58h in ECR Profiles, News

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...

09 Nov UWA Publishing

Posted at 08:57h in News

ASAL joins with colleagues at UWA and across the diverse fields of Australian writing and Australian literary studies to protest in the strongest terms the action currently proposed by the University of Western Australia to close UWAP. This press is an essential and long-standing part of the dynamic field...

06 Nov ASAL Patrons Lecture & Borderlands Magazine Launch

Posted at 12:43h in events, News, Patrons Lecture Dates

5pm -7pm, Wednesday 13 November, Library & Archives, Parliament House, Darwin This year's Patrons Lecture will be delivered by Marie Munkara in conjunction with the launch of Borderlands Magazine - the first literary magazine in the Northern Territory for 20 years. Marie Munkara is an award winning Aboriginal author from the...

06 Nov Call for book contributions: I’m Listening like the Orange Tree: In Memory of Laurie Hergenhan

Posted at 12:43h in News

Antonella Riem, Susan Ballyn, Maria Renata Dolce, David Carter, Simon Farley, Martin Leer and others have decided to honour the life and work of the late Laurie Hergenhan with a volume of studies, pieces, memoirs and stories. The provisional title of this volume is I’m Listening like...

25 Jul Vale Laurie Hergenhan

Posted at 14:51h in News, Uncategorized

News of the death of Emeritus Professor Laurie Hergenhan AO will be greeted with sadness by the community of scholars of Australian Literature throughout Australia and overseas. A graduate of Sydney University and London, where he completed a PhD on George Meredith, Laurie taught...

15 Jul Call for Papers: Anglica

Posted at 10:58h in News

An International Journal of English Studies: University of Warsaw: Enemy Aliens or Captive Allies This special issue of Anglica will be interdisciplinary in nature and devoted to representations of internment in areas including, but not limited to, literature, history, art, music, and film. Submitted papers will examine the...