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Call for Papers: SHARP 2018: 'From First to Last Texts, Creators, Readers, Agents' the 26th annual conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) Monday 9 July to Thursday 12 July, with an optional excursion (details TBC) on Friday 13 July, 2018....

ASAL ECR Breakfast event at The Literary Interface: Literary Studies Convention 2018 7.30am, Thursday 5 July, The Cupping Room, 1/1-13 University Ave. CanberraAll early career researchers who are members of ASAL are invited to attend an informal breakfast get together, taking placing on Thursday 5 July,...

2018 Literary Studies Convention: The Literary Interface The Convention will be held at Australian National University, Canberra, from 4-7 July 2018. This convention will bring together scholars working across the broad field of literary studies to discuss the literary as an interface between different forms of knowledge...

Call For Papers: Risk Anything!: Modernist Women Between Centre and Periphery Friday 6 April 2018, UNSW Sydney, Australia A symposium presented by the Australasian Modernist Studies NetworkKeynote: A/Prof Natalya Lusty (The University of Sydney) “Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those...

Call for Papers: 2018 ASAL Vets Call for Papers: Writing and writers of Gippsland: ASAL vets, Gippsland 201819-23 March 2018, Paynesville, GippslandGippsland, in Eastern Victoria, has inspired many writers to rhapsodise about its mountains and fern forests, its coastal reaches and lakes. Patrick Morgan characterises it as...

2018 ASAL Mini Conference (Darwin) 8 – 9 February 2018, Hosted by Charles Darwin University.  The ASAL mini conference webpage is now live and can be accessed here: http://conference-desert-lines.cdu.edu.au/ The Association for the Study of Australian Literature Conference will be held in Darwin, Australia. The conference theme focuses on creative writing...

Call for Papers: 2018 Mini Conference 8 – 9 February 2018, Hosted by Charles Darwin University. The Association for the Study of Australian Literature Conference will be held in Darwin, Australia. The conference theme focuses on creative writing at the borderlands of Australian literature and asks its contributors to...

Thursday 2 November 6.30 pm: ASAL Patrons’ Lecture, Kate Forsyth, followed by conversation with Kelly Gardiner, Donkey Wheelhouse, 673 Bourke St, Melbourne. Kate Forsyth wrote her first novel at the age of seven, and is now an internationally bestselling and award-winning author of almost forty books, ranging...