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Call for Papers: Frankenstein 2018: two hundred years of monsters 12-15 September 2018, The Australian National University, and National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra Nearly two centuries after its anonymous publication on 1 January 1818, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus remains as topical as ever. Its...

Event: The 7th annual Francis Webb Reading 2-4pm, Saturday 25 August, Willoughby Library Chatswood, NSW This is a free event, all welcome. It's a five minute walk from Chatswood train station. The library asks that you RSVP for numbers, so please use the following link for this and to...

6-8pm, Friday 13 July 2018, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Baylis Street, Wagga Wagga, NSWEllen van Neerven is Mununjali from the Yugambeh language group of South East Queensland on her mother’s side. Her first book, Heat and Light (UQP, 2014), was the recipient of the David Unaipon Award,...

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...