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...
It is with much sadness that ASAL acknowledges the passing of one of Australia’s major writers, David Malouf. Among his many international awards and accolades, David Malouf was the three-time recipient of the ALS Gold Medal – in 2010 for his last novel, Ransom; in 1983...
Elizabeth Morrison, a member of ASAL and great contributor to Australian cultural history, died in her sleep early on Sunday morning, 1 March. Liz became an expert on the journals and newspapers of nineteenth-century Australia, working on new editions of lost novels and writing biographies...
Publishing Research Quarterly Volume 43, Issue 1, March 2027 Environmental Sustainability and Book Publishing Edited by Angela Meyer (RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia) We invite submissions for a special issue of Publishing Research Quarterly focused on “Environmental Sustainability and Book Publishing”. This issue aims to bring together research, tools and practices relevant...
Association for the Study of Australian Literature Annual Conference Australian Literature in the Digital Age 29 June -3 July, 2026 The University of Queensland 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/ contact: [email protected] In 2026, ASAL celebrates AustLit. It will be...
The American Association of Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) invites proposals for a Virtual Seminar Series held during the month of June 2026 over Zoom. This seminar series will take place in lieu of the 2026 AAALS conference. Seminars can be of two types: A) panel or B)...
Waterborne Method and the Inter-discipline’s Resource Frontiers Day: Wednesday 29 October 2025 Time: 4–5:30pm AEST Where: Online, please register here: https://jcu.zoom.us/meeting/register/PcabwaeRReew3cQnmUms8w In the past decade, the Blue Humanities has enjoyed a theoretical purchase on an increasingly expansive geographical range, including a shift from the Anglo-American centre to...
You are warmly invited to attend an online Public Seminar by Dr Mykaela Saunders, Macquarie University, supported by the Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing. Stories Accumulate Like Time: First Nations Speculative Fiction Day: Wednesday 24 Sept 2025 Time: 4–5:30pm AEST Where: Online, please register here: https://jcu.zoom.us/meeting/register/kwWWz1UoTiimVxxad0laew This seminar...
