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...
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) Registrations are now open for the ASAL2022 Conference, "Coming to Terms, 30 Years On: The Mabo Legacy in Australian Writing." Register soon and catch the Early...
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Throughout the coming two years, we are pairing 10 Australian poets with 10 Korean poets, asking them to write a series of collaborative responses (poems, letters, ephemera, etc.), so as to exchange thoughts relating to land, place, culture, and history (and the...
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 Announcing the newly launched ASAL 2022 conference website! This can be found at: asal2022.org Members and friends are invited to visit the website for information about the conference, and for updates. You can...
