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...
The 2022 Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature4–8 July 2022nipaluna /Hobart, lutruwita /Tasmania conference website: asal2022.org Deadline: 31 January 2022 The 2022 ASAL Annual Conference will be hosted by the College of Arts, Law, and Education Centre at The University of Tasmania in nipaluna/Hobart from 4–8 July...
ASAL postgraduates are warmly invited to submit an essay for the A.D. Hope prize.The A.D. Hope Prize is awarded to the best essay based on a paper presented by a postgraduate ASAL member at the 2021 ASAL conference (aka. Texts and Their Limits symposium). The essay judged the...
Elizabeth McMahon (School of Arts and Media, UNSW) is presenting the next paper in the seminar series for the new Centre for Australian Literary Cultures (CALC).via zoom on Thursday August 19, 4.30-6pm.Jessica Anderson published four novels between 1970 and 1980: The Last Man’s Head (1970), The Commandant (1975), Tirra Lirra by...
Welcome Event (online) | 1:30pm Thursday 19 August 2021, University of Sydney“The Charles Perkins Centre requires a collaborative and multidisciplinary approach, and it has been fascinating to see how our innovative research can intersect with the arts – with powerful and often emotional effect.”Professor Stephen SimpsonAcademic...
