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...
2023 Peter Lang Emerging Scholars Competition in Indigenous Studies. Deadline extended Peter Lang Publishing is delighted to announce the 2023 Peter Lang Emerging Scholars Competition in Indigenous Studies. Proposals are invited from emerging scholars in Indigenous Studies for single-author books to be evaluated by a distinguished editorial board. We are particularly welcoming...
Vale Alf Taylor It is with great sadness that we inform members of ASAL of the passing of Nyoongah poet and author Alfred (Alf) Taylor. Alf was born in Perth in 1947 and as a young child was taken into New Norcia Mission, 130 kilometres north of...
Vale Elizabeth Webby It is with enormous sadness that ASAL mourns the death of Emeritus Professor Elizabeth Webby, AM. Elizabeth did more to build the discipline of Australian literature than anyone else in the field. As a scholar, mentor, teacher, and advocate she was extraordinary, and...
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...
This Special Issue aims to explore forms of, and approaches to, creativecritical writing: writing which performs scholarly and creative functions simultaneously. Such blended approaches are no longer new—indeed, they are tracking distinct paths and uses in various contexts inside academia and beyond. As such, this...
