Northern Tasmania has one of the richest regional literary heritages in Australia. CA Cranston’s Along These Lines: from Trowenna to Tasmania (2000) includes more than 50 excerpts from writing about the region. These range from Louisa Meredith and early settlers through Robert Drewe’s Savage Crows, Mudrooroo’s Doctor Wooreddy’s Prescription for...
CfP: JASAL special issue: Exchange and Imagination: Research on Chinese and Australian Speculative Fiction Speculative fiction—an expansive generic category encompassing science fiction, fantasy, utopia/dystopia, alternate history, and all forms of alternative reality narratives—has gained unprecedented academic attention and cultural influence worldwide in recent years. Once dismissed as marginal “genre...
The Literary Provocations Hub at UNSW are hosting a public event to mark the launch of the JASAL special issue on the work of acclaimed author, Michelle de Kretser. All welcome, information here: https://www.unsw.edu.au/arts-design-architecture/our-schools/arts-media/research/research-hubs-networks/literary-provocations-hub/events/who-travels...
The ASAL AGM 2025 minutes can be accessed at the following link: https://www.asal.org.au/download/asal-agm-minutes-2025/...
Our friends from the American Association of Australasian Literary Studies are warmly inviting ASAL members to attend their June seminar series. The sessions have been designed to accommodate multiple time zones; Please visit our website for details about all seminars: tinyurl.com/AAALS2026WEB To register to attend a seminar, please complete...
18–20 November 2026 Duplication: Originals, Copies, and Interpretative Communities Reception, including reading, listening and viewing, occurs at the tail-end of a complex process of production and reproduction that can create a significant distance between the authors who begin the process and the individual recipients who enact multiple,...
As ASAL members and friends will be aware, the Federal Government recently called for submissions to help shape its next National Cultural Policy. Please follow this link to view ASAL’s submission: ASAL submission National Cultural Policy ...
Registrations for the ASAL2026: Australian Literature in the Digital Age are now open. You can register through the conference website: https://www.austlit.edu.au/asal2026/ The early bird rate offers a significant discount on the full price so get in early! We have included information about the venue and the conference dinner and there...
Edited by Associate Professor Jessica White and Dr Amanda Tink Deaf authors Judith Wright and Henry Lawson wrote that they became writers partly as a result of being deaf. Similarly, Les Murray said that autism was the main catalyst for his poetic creativity, and Alan Marshall...
To present at the 30th Congress of FILLM Congress 8-11 December 2026, At Victoria University (Melbourne) in Narrm, Australia This is the 2nd Call for Proposals to present at the 30th Congress of the International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures (FILLM). Theme for the Congress is Talking Country: we are looking...
