2022 RTP RECONNECTING TO RIVERS INDIGENOUS CREATIVE WRITING PHD Applications close: 30 August 2021 ‘Reconnecting to Rivers’ is a Curtin research project that explores how waterways of the Swan Coastal Plain have been utilised, managed and valued over time, both by Indigenous and non-Indigenous community members. The...
a symposium on the work of Amanda Lohrey 18 November, from 10am-4pm, at Australian National University in Canberra ‘It’s a strange relationship you have with a reader. You don’t see them. You don’t know them. It’s kind of like sending out a message in a bottle. And...
AMANDA LOHREY, ‘GRAND DESIGNS: WRITING THE DOMESTIC DWELLING IN THE NOVEL.’ The Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Copyright Australia Cultural Fund, and ANU School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics present the 2021 ASAL Patrons Lecture by Miles Franklin award-winning writer, Amanda...
CARPENTARIA BY ALEXIS WRIGHT: “A SELF-GOVERNING LITERATURE THAT BELONGS TO PLACE” https://www.univ-brest.fr/hcti/menu/Actualites/Appels___Communication/Carpentaria In-person and virtual conference. “The imaginative literary mind is as boundless as it is borderless and bountiful in its way, finding ways of powerfully creating anew the already imagined with the unimagined or unimaginable.”Alexis Wright [1]This international...
Thursday 5 August, 4.30-6pm, zoom.Fiona Morrison is presenting the next paper in the seminar series for the new Centre for Australian Literary Cultures. Titled ‘Deep Digging’: Henry Handel Richardson, Transnational Allegory and the Unsettled Epic’, it is happening via zoom on Thursday 5 August, 4.30-6pm.Contact [email protected] for...
Congratulations to the poets shortlisted for the 2021 Mary Gilmore Award:Luke Best, Cadaver Dog (University of Queensland Press)Chris Brown, Hotel Universo (Puncher & Wattmann)Ella Jeffery, Dead Bolt (Puncher & Wattmann)Em König, Breathing Plural (Cordite)Thuy On, Turbulence (UWAP) ...
Thursday June 17, 4.30-6pm, to take place via zoom. Please join us on zoom for the next paper in ANU's new Centre for Australian Literary Cultures (CALC) seminar series. Professor Nicole Moore will be presenting on the Australasian book society and the making of working class literary cultures....
Congratulations to Dr Susan Lever, newly minted OAM for service to Literature. Well deserved recognition for a lifetime of dedication, including untiring work for ASAL and Australian Literature. The Australian Honours list includes David Carter AM, Kevin Brophy AM, James Bradley OAM, Lily Brett OAM, Diane...
Warmest congratulations to all the authors shortlisted for the 2021 Walter McRae Russell Award for the best work of literary scholarship on an Australian subject published 2019-2020:Joseph Cummins, The ‘Imagined Sound’ of Australian Literature and Music (Anthem, 2019)Tanya Dalziell, Gail Jones: Word, Image, Ethics (Sydney UP, 2020)Susan Lever, Creating Australian...
Bravo, Matteo Dutto, Daniel Hempel and Susanne Julia Thurow, shortlisted for the 2021 Alvie Egan Award, for the best first book of literary scholarship on an Australian subject, published in 2019/2021 by an early career researcher:Matteo Dutto, Legacies of Indigenous Resistance: Pemulwuy, Jandamarra and Yagan in...
