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Scholarship on Emerging Writers or Filmmakers Ongoing Call Dec/Jan submissions will be fast-tracked Antipodes invites articles for a new special feature in Antipodes, journal of the American Association for Australasian Studies (AAALS), that provide a scholarly engagement with the work of an emerging writer or film maker from Australia, the Torres...

CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian and New Zealand Literature Australia And . . . Priority Deadline 1 Jan 2025 Antipodes invites articles for a special feature section in Antipodes, journal of the American Association for Australasian Studies (AAALS) that considers a literary or cultural work...

conference: The Story and The Self:  Navigating Truth Genres in Literature 1-4 July 2025, Flinders University, Adelaide + Online Keynote speakers include: Associate Professor Julieanne Lamond (ANU) (Dorothy Green Lecture) Dr Eloise Faichney (U Melbourne) (ASAL Early Career Researcher Keynote) Dr Chloe Green (ANU) (IABA Asia-Pacific, Whitlock Early Career Researcher Keynote) Association for the Study of Australian Literature...

4th Triennial Australian Literary Studies Convention: ‘Chaos and Order’  July 2-5, 2024, Western Sydney University Parramatta South Campus     www.australianliteraryconvention.com  This triennial event brings together major associations for the study of literature in Australia and welcomes  scholars and postgraduate students working on any aspect or field of literary studies. We seek papers on the...

Australian Literature has lost one of its finest and most innovative critics and theorists. In the 1980s and -90s Sneja Gunew’s name became synonymous with the emerging field of migrant, later multicultural writing, and her pioneering work in the promotion, documentation, and analysis of texts...

Call for papers: Mini-ASAL conference: “A Window of Life:” The Writing of Ruth Park Australian National University, February 14-16, 2024 In a 1942 letter to her penfriend and fellow writer D’Arcy Niland, Ruth Park wrote:“I feel, and I know you do too, that I'm a window of...

4th Triennial Australian Literary Studies Convention: ‘Chaos and Order’  July 2-5, 2024, Western Sydney University Parramatta South Campus         www.australianliteraryconvention.com  This triennial event brings together major associations for the study of literature in Australia and welcomes  scholars and postgraduate students working on any aspect or field of literary studies. We seek papers on the...

Call for Submissions: Recentring the Region JASAL Special Conference Issue   The 2023 ‘Recentring the Region’ conference was a collaboration between the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) and the Association for the Study of Literature, Environment and Culture, Australia (ASLEC-ANZ). Submissions are now invited...

Stories From The South: A public Book Club   6:30-8.00pm on Tuesday 31 October 2023, Dymocks Adelaide (Regent Theatre, Rundle Mall) REGISTER for this free in-person event here: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1123573 This month we are reading a bitter-sweet story by award winning Indigenous writer, Kim Scott, that squarely acknowledges the traumas of the past, while finding...

The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) is the peak body for the teaching and writing of Australian literature. ASAL acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as the country’s first storytellers and pays respect to all past, present and emerging writers, teachers and...