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I’ll ask her about AustLit. Cheers!
September 21, 2026 at 4:51 AM
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A) is she on AustLit yet?
B) Jesus wept
September 20, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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This week on the Southerly Blog, Axel-Nathaniel Rose explores the “travel” of poetry—attending to Omar Sakr’s “Algo in the Genocide” and the uses of poetry in protest.

Read now, comment, and share: southerlylitmag.com.au/on-the-trave...

#southerly #austlit #poetry
A cover image for the blog. It reads, 'On the “travel” of poetry and Omar Sakr’s “Algo in the Genocide”' by Axel-Nathaniel Rose An excerpt from the blog. It reads, "Mainstream Australian publishers stopped investing in poetry long ago, and while Australia’s small presses (University of Queensland Press, Five Islands Press, Puncher and Wattman, Calanthe, Giramondo…) have continued to develop, publish, and promote Australian poetry, poetry remains unsung in much of Australia’s public literary life. Despite this, poetry lives: it travels. Organisations form and sustain it: The Bankstown Poetry Slam, Red Room Poetry, Sweatshop Western Sydney, the Australian Poetry Board of Directors. Much has been written on the fragmentary and self-contained nature of many of these poetic ventures; how much do they feed each other? How unified is their mission? Seeing Omar Sakr’s words clinging to the bodies of hundreds of people from protest to protest, read by thousands in person, read by millions from their screens, read aloud to one another, hearing them breaking in my own throat ..." (Character limit reached.)
September 18, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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It's almost Book Week, and that means it's time for AustLit's suggestions for simple costumes based on Australian books. Most of these come together with only three or four accessories. Happy Book Week 2026!
August 18, 2026 at 11:17 PM
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AustLit's latest newsletter went out yesterday! Keen to read all our exciting news, hot off the presses?

Check it out below:
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AustLit News 2023
Welcome to AustLit eNews: Winter 2026 edition A word from AustLit's Director... Welcome to our second newsletter edition of 2026!
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August 5, 2026 at 4:15 AM
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Applications for the AustLit Creative Writing Fellows now open! Closing 31 Aug.
Two early/mid-career Fellowships of $15,000, one designated for an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander writer, to use AustLit data as the inspiration for a new and original work.

Full details: www.austlit.edu.au/about
August 3, 2026 at 12:33 AM
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Have you used AustLit in a recent or upcoming publication? Have you cited us? And would you like to rewarded for doing so? Because if the answer to all of those is yes, then we have good news!
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Introducing the AustLit Essay Prize!

AustLit is delighted to launch an annual prize for the best scholarly essay that makes use of AustLit data to generate new insights and/or arguments.

Full terms and conditions are available on our About pages:
www.austlit.edu.au/about
On a dark green background, two hands, one brown and one tan, hold fountain pens. In a yellow box, text reads: Introducing the AUSTLIT ESSAY PRIZE Text reads: find out more Awarded annually at the ASAL Conference, this prize is for the best use of AustLit data to generate a new argument or insight about the Australian literary, publishing or cultural landscape in a scholarly essay. To be first awarded in 2027 for an essay published in the previous two years. Subsequent prizes for essays published in the previous twelve months. Text reads: find out more Full terms and conditions are available on AustLit’s About page. Key details include: The award comprises an AU$1000 cash prize. Entries for the inaugural prize will be accepted until 31 January 2027 (and that same date each subsequent year). Entries are welcome from scholars writing in English anywhere in the world. Text reads: Interested in submitting your work? Full terms and conditions available at the link below www.austlit.edu.au/about
July 28, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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Introducing the AustLit Essay Prize!

AustLit is delighted to launch an annual prize for the best scholarly essay that makes use of AustLit data to generate new insights and/or arguments.

Full terms and conditions are available on our About pages:
www.austlit.edu.au/about
On a dark green background, two hands, one brown and one tan, hold fountain pens. In a yellow box, text reads: Introducing the AUSTLIT ESSAY PRIZE Text reads: find out more Awarded annually at the ASAL Conference, this prize is for the best use of AustLit data to generate a new argument or insight about the Australian literary, publishing or cultural landscape in a scholarly essay. To be first awarded in 2027 for an essay published in the previous two years. Subsequent prizes for essays published in the previous twelve months. Text reads: find out more Full terms and conditions are available on AustLit’s About page. Key details include: The award comprises an AU$1000 cash prize. Entries for the inaugural prize will be accepted until 31 January 2027 (and that same date each subsequent year). Entries are welcome from scholars writing in English anywhere in the world. Text reads: Interested in submitting your work? Full terms and conditions available at the link below www.austlit.edu.au/about
July 28, 2026 at 12:07 AM
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Have you ever wondered why some records on AustLit have separate notes? Here's a quick video guide reading affiliation notes.
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July 22, 2026 at 3:46 AM
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Today's highlighted project is Australian Colonial Narrative Journalism, led by Dr Willa McDonald. The project began at Macquarie University, and aims to trace narrative journalism's history in Australia since 1788.
Explore below!
www.austlit.edu.au/research
Slides designed by Monica Clayton.
July 21, 2026 at 4:03 AM
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Following on from our most recent information trail, on historical fiction, this quick search video walks you through searching AustLit by temporal settings.
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Happy searching!
#austlit25
July 16, 2026 at 3:44 AM
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The latest 25 works for 25 years trail is on historical fiction. From ancient Rome to WW2, explore these 25 works that revisit, reframe, and interrogate the past.
#austlit25 #historicalfiction #readaustralianstories
July 15, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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Are you teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writing? Not only is BlackWords generally a fantastic resource for you, but there are specific teaching resources for you to check out, including National Curriculum aligned material.
www.austlit.edu.au/education
#naidocweek2026 #blackwords
July 9, 2026 at 2:58 AM
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How could we not mark NAIDOC Week by highlighting BlackWords, our single biggest and most significant dataset: records for over 27,000 works by nearly 8000 First Nations authors.
BlackWords is led by co-ordinator Dominique Chen (Gamilaroi), supported by the AustLit team.
#blackwords #naidoc2026
July 8, 2026 at 3:17 AM
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Please consider supporting AustLit this EOFY.
For 25 years, AustLit has connected readers, writers, researchers & educators to the literature that shapes our culture. Your donation helps ensure AustLit flourishes for the next 25.
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June 19, 2026 at 3:35 AM
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Interested in the complexities of the kinds of books the Banned in Australia project highlights? This video will walk you through how to search *within* an AustLit project, leveraging the power of the Advanced Search exclusively on a specific subset of records.
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June 17, 2026 at 2:10 AM
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Following on from last week's (gasp!) literary scandals, today we're highlighting Professor Nicole Moore's Banned in Australia project, a bibliography that is currently (and horrifyingly) topical once again.
www.austlit.edu.au/banned
Gorgeous slides designed by Monica Clayton again!
#austlit25
June 16, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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Our latest 25 Works for 25 Years information trail is live, and this one is on literary scandals. Just in time to take advantage of Bluesky's expanded image carousel, so you can enjoy all of Monica Clayton's beautiful slides.
Explore more at:
www.austlit.edu.au/25th-anniver...
#austlit25
June 11, 2026 at 5:30 AM
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This week, we're celebrating Australian fantasy, by drawing attention to a unique set of teaching resources published on AustLit. We've highlighted Anthony Eaton below, but there's more to explore!
Check out the full list at:
www.austlit.edu.au/teachingwith...
#AustLit25
On a blue background, text reads: AustLit's 25th Anniversary special: For teachers: Below the text, a black-frame banner shows five book covers, from left to right: a fragment of Isobelle Carmody's The Gathering, Ambelin Kwaymullina's The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf, Anthony Eaton's Nightpeople, Sean Williams' The Stone Mage and the Sea, and a fragment of Alison Goodman's Lady Helen and the Dark Days Club. Below the image, text reads: Teaching with Fantasy Continue to explore the project! On a light blue background, a grey text box. Text reads: Teaching with Fantasy Teaching with AustLit Teaching with Fantasy is the outcome of a 2018 professional development event for teachers titled Teaching with Fantasy: Australian Fantasy Writers in Conversation and in the Classroom. The event has resulted in a collection of teaching and learning resources for seven young adult fantasy texts. This project delivers audio and video author interviews, and lesson plans related to the Australian Curriculum. Continue exploring On a light-blue background, a grey text box. Text reads: Sample lesson plan: Nightpeople Includes: Video interview with author Anthony Eaton Suggested lesson focus Before reading activities Close reading, interpretation, and critique Creating and responding Further reading and viewing Black Line Masters In the top right-hand corner of the text box is a section of the cover for Nightpeople, showing a futuristic tower in a post-apocalyptic landscape, surrounded by flying machines. On a light-blue background, text reads: AustLit is celebrating 25 years in 2026 For this momentous anniversary, we have a year’s worth of celebrations planned, from in-person and online events to project highlights, video guides, and information trails. Celebrate with us by following, sharing our content and using #AustLit25 to share your Australian literature discoveries. Visit our website for more details! 25 years of discovering Australian stories
June 3, 2026 at 11:04 PM
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I still wanna list this on austlit so bad lmao
June 2, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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To mark Reconciliation Week 2026, AustLit has launched a new BlackWords information trail, compiled by Juliette Davis. This year’s theme, 'All In', encourages active participation in reconciliation from all communities across the continent.
Explore the trail at:
www.austlit.edu.au/reconciliati...
On a buttery yellow background, the word RECONCILIATION on a light-green banner. Below this, the BlackWords logo of a red stylised figure rising from blue waves against green hills. A light-green banner at the bottom of the page reads A new BlackWords information trail in honour of National Reconciliation Week On a buttery yellow background, the covers for Jeanine Leane's Walk Back Over, Aunty Fay Muir's Always Was Always Will Be and Anita Heiss's Am I Black Enough For You? Below them, a light-blue banner with the text: Taking place between the anniversaries of the 1967 referendum (27 May) and the 1992 High Court Mabo decision (3 June), National Reconciliation Week is an important time to reflect on and strengthen relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples, for the interests of all Australians. Under this, the covers for Melissa Lucashenko's Edenglassie, Greg Driesse's Common Wealth, and Kim Scott's Taboo. On a butter yellow background, the covers for Race, Colour & Identity, Anita Heiss's Our Race for Reconciliation, and Thomas Mayo's Always Was Always Will Be. Below this, a light-pink banner with the following text: Works included in this trail range from 19th-century poems that criticised contemporary colonial brutality, through early twentieth century attempts to grapple with historical atrocities and mistreatment, to the increase in First Nations voices in poetry, on stage, and in novels. Below this, the covers for Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman's The Seven Stages of Grieving, Monica Clare's Karobran, and Sonia Borg and Hyllus Maris's Women of the Sun. On a butter yellow background, three banners: light pink, then light blue, then light pink again. In the top banner, text reads: This trail was compiled by Juliette Davis during an AustLit internship, with support and guidance from the AustLit staff. In the middle banner, text reads: The colours of these tiles are drawn from the 2026 National Reconciliation artwork, Gaagal, by Gumbaynggirr Bundjalung artist Otis Hope Carey. For more information, see https://www.reconciliation.org.au/our-work/national-reconciliation-week/ In the bottom banner, text reads: Explore the full trail at https://www.austlit.edu.au/blackwordstrails
May 25, 2026 at 12:55 AM
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This time we're celebrating Audiobooks and Digital Book Culture, led by Dr Millicent Weber. This ongoing project materialises and makes available for research the relationships and entanglements of audiobook production.
Slides by Monica Clayton.
Explore at www.austlit.edu.au/audiobooks
#austlit25
On a light blue background, an enormous pair of headphones, represented in black outline, cover four audiobooks: Zadie Ma and the Dog Who Chased the Moon, Red Dust Running, The Will of the Many, and The Silent Listener. Text reads: AustLit's 25th Anniversary special: Research Project 7 of 25. Audiobooks. Continue to explore the project! On a blue background, a grey text box. Header text reads: About Audiobooks & Digital Book Culture. Project start: 2024. In the text box, text reads: The Audiobooks and Digital Book Culture project has allowed us to gain a deeper understanding of the Australian audiobook industry. Four audiobook covers are shown in a row: Seven Little Australians, The Spill, The Drover's Wife, and Terra Nullius. Text below the image reads: For the first time, full bibliographic details about Australian audiobooks have been integrated into the AustLit database. This project materialises and makes available for research the relationships and entanglements of audiobook production. On a blue background, a grey text box. Text reads: During this project, the way in which AustLit manages audiobook data within the database has changed. Although we do not yet know the full breadth of ways in which we will manage audio material, we have already established some changes to the data model. An image is shown of a pair of white corded headphones resting on a blue-covered book. Below the image, the text reads: Explore the Audiobooks Digital Book Culture project on AustLit to learn more about how we are managing audiobooks and the direction we are headed. On a blue background, text reads: AustLit is celebrating 25 years in 2026 For this momentous anniversary, we have a year’s worth of celebrations planned, from in-person and online events to project highlights, video guides, and information trails. Celebrate with us by following, sharing our content and using #AustLit25 to share your Australian literature discoveries. Visit our website for more details! 25 years of discovering Australian stories
May 12, 2026 at 12:58 AM
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Today's highlight project is COVID-19 in the Australian Arts, which AustLit indexers began as soon as we went into lockdown in 2020.
This project contains works about the virus and works whose production was affected by the pandemic or lockdowns.
Explore more at:
www.austlit.edu.au/covid19
On a turquoise background, text reads: AustLit's 25th anniversary special: Research Project 6 of 25. COVID-19 in the Australian Arts. Across the middle of the page, three book covers in a black border: from left to right, they are Dear Australia: 50 Playwrights Send Postcards to the Nation, We're all in This Together, and This Devastating Fever. On a turquoise background, a grey text box. Text on the turquoise reads: About COVID-19: The 2020-2022 Global Pandemic in the Australian Arts project Project start: 2020 Text on the grey text box reads: In the midst of a global pandemic, AustLit seeks, as always, to record for posterity. How do you frame this, when the events are ongoing, in a way that makes sense to both an endless present and an unknown future? An image banner shows the covers for Rona the Gutterbug, A Twisted Choice, Patient Zero, and Seeing Other People. Text continues: AustLit has created the subject 'COVID19' within the database to track works that are about the virus or its impact on the Australian arts sector, or that are written as a direct response to the pandemic. #AustLit25 Continue exploring On a blue background, a grey text box. Text reads: The project data remains within AustLit's broader scope of works of creative and life writing, as well as critical material on Australian writing and on the development and production of Australian creative works. An image banner shows three close-up views of a novel coronavirus, in dark blue on a turquoise background. The banner is maroon, and under each image is a header. From left to right, they read: Writing the Virus, COVID-19 and Live Arts, and Library Sector Responses. Text continues: On top of the dataset, case studies and research details on writing the virus, how the live arts were impacted and how the library sector responded, can be explored on the COVID-19 project page on AustLit! Text reads: AustLit is celebrating 25 years in 2026 For this momentous anniversary, we have a year’s worth of celebrations planned, from in-person and online events to project highlights, video guides, and information trails. Celebrate with us by following, sharing our content and using #AustLit25 to share your Australian literature discoveries. Visit our website for more details! 25 years of discovering Australian stories
April 28, 2026 at 3:25 AM
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Following Lisa's suggestion, here is the AustLit record for Kitty's War, and we do recommend checking it out!
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April 24, 2026 at 1:27 AM
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Along with discounts on ASA services, events, and resources, did you know that members can also access discounts to industry subscriptions and services like Macquarie Dictionary online, Nielsen BookScan data reports, AustLit and more?

Find out more via your member dashboard 👉 asauthors.org
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March 30, 2026 at 5:56 AM