Call For Papers ASAL mini-conference April 20-21 2023 at UNSW Sydney “Who Travels?” The Writing of Michelle de Kretser ASAL – “Who Travels?” The Writing of Michelle de Kretser (miniasal2023.org) https://www.miniasal2023.org/ “I don’t sit down to write a cosmopolitan book or say to myself that I’m...
INVITATION TO ASAL POSTGRADUATES ASAL postgraduates are warmly invited to submit an essay for the 2023 A.D. Hope prize. The A.D. Hope Prize is awarded to the best essay based on a paper presented by a postgraduate ASAL member at the 2022 ASAL conference. The essay judged the winner of...
– Six-part speaker series featuring nine of Australia’s top writers5.30pm to 7pm, Wednesday 27 July, Bradley Forum (H5-02), Level 5 Hawke Building, UniSA City West Campus or remotely,Tarndanya,(the University of South Australia). On Wednesday 27 July, the University of South Australia’s Creative People, Products and Places Research Centre (CP3)will host...
The call for entries for the AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship closes on August 1 For further information please see the following link: https://auhe555190908.wordpress.com/2022/06/17/call-for-nominations-for-the-2022-auhe-prize-for-literary-scholarship/ ...
ASAL notes the passing of scholar and teacher of Australian literature, and President of ASAL from 1987-1988, Brian Matthews. Born in St Kilda in 1936, Matthews went on to teach at Flinders University, University of Exeter, the University of Oregon and several European universities. He...
ASAL mourns the death of writer Frank Moorhouse. Born in Nowra in NSW, Moorhouse went on to a career as a journalist before making a name as a writer. In the 1970s he became known as one of Australia’s foremost experimentalists in fiction, working with...
Tuesday to Friday 11-14 OctoberBermagui on the far south coast of NSW has been a popular place for writers to live and holiday. Situated between Moruya in the north and Bega in the south, it is one of the most beautiful towns on the coast,...
4.30- 6pm, Thursday 16th June, in person or online Keen to witness the amazing things that can happen when art meets science here in Tropical North Queensland? Please join us in person or online at 4:30pm on Thursday June 16 to hear from the 6 writers who’ve...
It’s Time…Again30 November – 2 December 2022. The ANU Australian Studies Institute is delighted to host the International Australian Studies Association (InASA) biennial conference this year at ANU and Old Parliament House, Canberra. Extended Deadline: 31 July 2022 The Conference committee is calling for abstracts of 150...
Focus on Fiction: Literary Imaginings for Change In its 45th year of continuous publication Social Alternatives seeks to again focus on fiction. Literary fiction’s power to speak to the journal’s objective to advocate for principles of social justice and alternatives to current conditions has always been...
