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Event: Monique Rooney: “Inky Comradeship:” Writing, Mutual Help and the Marriage of Ruth Park and D’Arcy Niland Biography Workshop National Centre of Biography (ANU) 10:30am-12.00pm, Thursday 27 July 2023 In Person: Seminar Room 6.71 Level 6 RSSS Building 146 Ellery Crescent In a 1939 letter addressed to Australian writer D’Arcy Niland, New...

Call for Nominations for the 2023 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship: The Australian Universities Heads of English (AUHE) is calling for nominations for the 2023 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship, which will be awarded to the best book of literary scholarship published by an Australian-based author...

Call for Papers: JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, The University of Adelaide Political Lives: Political Biography, Memoir and Australian Democracy Date: Monday and Tuesday, 4-5 December 2023 Confirmed Speakers Include Judith Brett Frank Bongiorno Jennifer Hocking Jacqueline Kent Stuart Ward The JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice is pleased to call for papers...

Recentring the Region July 4-7, co-hosted by RMIT University and Deakin University, Melbourne   Registrations are now open. Early bird registration rates end on June 10. See the conference website: https://www.regionsconference2023.org/ A partnership between ASAL (Association for the Study of Australian Literature) and ASLEC-ANZ (Association for the Study of Literature, Environment...

  The aim of this biennial prize is to celebrate a work of criticism (understood broadly, to include writing about literature published online and in print, in review and scholarly publications) written by a First Nations critic in Australia and published within the period of 30 April 2021...

Conference hosted by South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies & Challenging Precarity: A Global Network29 November – 1 December 2023University of Wollongong Sydney Campus, AustraliaSubmission of abstracts: 1 July 2023 In the wake of rising neoliberal extractive processes, contemporary society has reached a crisis point...

Pursuant to section 65 of the South Australian Equal Opportunity Act 1984 and the University of Adelaide’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Employment Strategy, applications are invited from Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander people only. The JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice First Nations Fellowships support the...

ASAL in collaboration with Copyright Agency CA is delighted to announce the recipients of the writers' fellowships for 2023.  ASAL aims to promote the study, discussion and creation of Australian writing, and these fellowships intend to strengthen connections between writers, readers, students, and scholars of Australian literature....

John Barnes was an enthusiastic and beloved teacher and researcher in Australian Literature. John spent much of his career at La Trobe University in Melbourne, but he also taught at Melbourne University, and the University of Western Australia, where he was an editor of Westerly in the...