The shortlist for the Mary Gilmore Prize 2010 has been announced. Click here for the shortlist and the judges’ interim report.

Click here to read Ralph Spaulding’s report on Australian Literature in Tasmania in 2009.

Thursday 13th–Friday 14th January 2011

A symposium hosted by Australian Literature at the University of Sydney

In what ways do writing and reading generate forms of community in Australia? What roles might literature and the literary have in the formation of both publics and counterpublics? This symposium explores a variety of collective relationships among writers, readers and texts, with an emphasis on processes of literary sociability that elide or exceed the ‘imagined community’ of the nation.

Click here for more information and a pdf version of the call for papers.

Applications for the 2010-11 Visiting Professor in Australian Studies at the University of Tokyo are now open.

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ASAL members and friends may be interested in the information about Nellie A. Evans available at the following link: http://www.middlemiss.org/matilda/2009/10/poem-the-lost-poet-by-nellie-a-evans.html#comment-480.