AustLit

Northern Western Australian Literature came into being in 2008 as the team of researchers who had worked on the Writers of Tropical Queensland project, based at James Cook University in Townsville, began opening up the comparatively unexplored literature associated with the Northern Territory and northern Western Australia as areas of specific AustLit research focus.

Use this data by and about authors who were born in, lived in, visited or wrote about Western Australia north of the Tropic of Capricorn to discover features that distinguish the literature of the Australian Tropics from works produced in more temperate southern zones. This project also collected information about journalists, columnists, editors, newspapers, periodicals and associated companies and individuals important to the cultural life of the region.