The six successful applicants for the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies’ (FALS) writing residency have been announced as Claire Corbett, Stacy Gougoulis, Eliza Henry-Jones, Jock Serong, Maria Takolander and Jessica White. The ‘Writing at the Reef’ Residency, sponsored by the Australian Institute of Marine Science, will be...
A Biography of Katharine Susannah PrichardTuesday, 17 May 8:00pm AEST (6:00pm AWST)Please join Nathan Hobby to celebrate the publication of The Red Witch: A Biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard (Miegunyah Press).If possible, wear something red! You may wish to drink a glass of dry sherry (Katharine's favourite drink)...
The 2022 Independent Publishing Conference24-26 November, 2022 as a hybrid conference at the Wheeler Centre, Melbourne, and on Zoom.Book publishing is a forward-thinking cultural sector. There is no shortage of articles, Twitter posts, and think pieces discussing emerging publishing trends and speculating about the future...
Bursaries for honours and postgraduate students: The organising committee for the ASAL2022 Conference is pleased to announce that it will provide up to nine (9) bursaries to support current honours and postgraduate students undertaking projects in Australian literary studies. Each bursary is worth $750 and is intended...
Extended CfP: Coming to Terms, 30 Years On:The Mabo Legacy in Australian Writing: The 2022 Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature4–8 July 2022 nipaluna, lutruwita (Hobart, Tasmania)asal2022.org Registrations are now open for the ASAL2022 Conference, "Coming to Terms, 30 Years On: The Mabo Legacy in Australian...
A GLOBAL JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND LITERATURE Disability Representation in Australian Genre Fiction:Orthodox Approaches and New Directions The emergence of disability studies as an interdisciplinary field in the last 30 years has led to increased theoretical attention directed towards representations of disability and impairment in...
A University of Canberra Conference, December 5-7, 2022 C.D. Wright was described in the New York Times as a poet who “belongs to a school of exactly one.” For Randall Jarrell, “The good in poetry is always a white blackbird, an unusual and unlikely excellence.” Poetry seems to...
Are you a postgraduate student looking to publish part of your thesis as an article? Or a supervisor with a grad student keen to publish in the field? ASAL is running a free mentoring-to-publication program for graduate students in Australian literature. A range of generous scholars...
A University of Canberra Conference, December 5-7, 2022 C.D. Wright was described in the New York Times as a poet who “belongs to a school of exactly one.” For Randall Jarrell, “The good in poetry is always a white blackbird, an unusual and unlikely excellence.” Poetry seems to...
ASAL mourns the death of Melbourne poet Jordie Albiston. Albiston studied flute at the Victorian College of the Arts before completing a Doctorate in English at La Trobe University. Her first collection, Nervous Arcs (1995), won ASAL’s Mary Gilmore Award for a first collection, was runner-up for...
