It with great sadness that ASAL mourns the passing of Professor Emerita Lydia Wevers of Victoria University Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. Lydia was both admired and loved by so many of us in Australian Literary Studies as a scholar, teacher, colleague, friend and mentor....
Online Event, 17 September 2021.Anne Jamison at Western Sydney University is hosting an online symposium on the role writing can play in generating new knowledge and understandings around gender. It will be a great way to get together online with some wonderful authors and talk about...
TWELVE WEEKS WRITING IN TASMANIA The University of Tasmania is seeking established writers for a unique Tasmanian residency.Applications are open for the second Hedberg Writer in Residence program, with the prize open to all established writers, in any field or genre, resident in Australia.The...
The 2022 Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature4–8 July 2022nipaluna /Hobart, lutruwita /Tasmania conference website: asal2022.org Deadline: 31 January 2022 The 2022 ASAL Annual Conference will be hosted by the College of Arts, Law, and Education Centre at The University of Tasmania in nipaluna/Hobart from 4–8 July...
ASAL postgraduates are warmly invited to submit an essay for the 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 2021 ASAL conference (aka. Texts and Their Limits symposium). The essay judged the...
Elizabeth McMahon (School of Arts and Media, UNSW) is presenting the next paper in the seminar series for the new Centre for Australian Literary Cultures (CALC).via zoom on Thursday August 19, 4.30-6pm.Jessica Anderson published four novels between 1970 and 1980: The Last Man’s Head (1970), The Commandant (1975), Tirra Lirra by...
Welcome Event (online) | 1:30pm Thursday 19 August 2021, University of Sydney“The Charles Perkins Centre requires a collaborative and multidisciplinary approach, and it has been fascinating to see how our innovative research can intersect with the arts – with powerful and often emotional effect.”Professor Stephen SimpsonAcademic...
2022 RTP RECONNECTING TO RIVERS INDIGENOUS CREATIVE WRITING PHD Applications close: 30 August 2021 ‘Reconnecting to Rivers’ is a Curtin research project that explores how waterways of the Swan Coastal Plain have been utilised, managed and valued over time, both by Indigenous and non-Indigenous community members. The...
a symposium on the work of Amanda Lohrey 18 November, from 10am-4pm, at Australian National University in Canberra ‘It’s a strange relationship you have with a reader. You don’t see them. You don’t know them. It’s kind of like sending out a message in a bottle. And...
AMANDA LOHREY, ‘GRAND DESIGNS: WRITING THE DOMESTIC DWELLING IN THE NOVEL.’ The Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Copyright Australia Cultural Fund, and ANU School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics present the 2021 ASAL Patrons Lecture by Miles Franklin award-winning writer, Amanda...
