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• ASA Announces Picture Book Illustrators’ Grants
  The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced five recipients of Picture Book Illustrators’ Initiative Grants for 2012. The initiative ‘aims to establish a “best-practice...
• National Biography Award to ANU Historian
  Dr Martin Thomas, an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the School of History at The Australian National University, is the winner of the 2012 National Biography Award. Thomas won the $25,000 award for his 2011 biography, The Many Worlds of R. ...
• Josephine Ulrick Winners Announced
  The winners of the 2012 Josephine Ulrick prizes have been announced in Queensland. The prizes, for a short story and for poetry, are administered by Griffith University's School of Humanities. The 2012 literature prize was awarded to Matthew Lamb, editor ...
• Miles Franklin Shortlist Announced
  The shortlist for the 2012 Miles Franklin Literary Award has been revealed by the award’s trustee, The Trust Company. This year’s short list comprises five books, including three by women, one of whom is a first-time novelist. The shortlisted ...
• Jeanine Leane Shortlisted for New Commonwealth Prize
  Jeanine Leane is one of four Australians shortlisted for the inaugural Commonwealth Book Prize. Leane, a former co-ordinator of AustLit’s BlackWords Research Community, is shortlisted for her intertwined collection of stories, Purple Threads. Other ...
• Vogel Win for Melbourne Writer
  Paul D. Carter, a Melbourne secondary school teacher, is the winner of the 2012 Australian/Vogel&rsq...
• Remembering Bruce Bennett
  Friends and colleagues of the late Professor Bruce Bennett are invited to share their thoughts and memories via the comments function on AustLit’s News Blog. We begin with the following words from US scholar Nicholas Birns: 'With the passing of ...
• Champion of Australian Literature Dies in Canberra
  Emeritus Professor Bruce Bennett, AO, has died at his home in Canberra. A Rhodes Scholar, Professor Bennett was a graduate of the Universities of Western Australia, Oxford and London. He taught at the University of Western Australia from 1968 to 1992 and ...
• Queensland Literary Awards to Proceed under New Management
  Members of Queensland’s literary and arts communities, under the guidance of writers Matthew Condon and Krissy Kneen, have banded together to ensure that literary awards will be offered in their home state in 2012. The Queensland Literary Awards ...
• NSW Premier’s Awards ‘Reinvigorated’ Following Review
  New South Wales Premier Barry O’Farrell has announced that the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and the state’s History Awards are to be managed in future by the State Library of New South Wales. Winners of the 2012 awards will be announced ...
• 2012 Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards Cancelled
  New Queensland Premier Campbell Newman has decided not to proceed with the state’s literary awards in 2012. In a brief statement on 3 April, the website for the awards simply acknowledges ‘all the sponsors, judges, stakeholders, entrants and ...
• New AustLit Features - LORE, Resource Maps and Trails
  Over recent years, AustLit users will have noticed new features provided by the Aus-e-Lit Project (2008-2011). A Federated Search that targets a number of external databases has been available since 2010. More recently, a Toolkit has provided an ...

• Re: Remembering Bruce Bennett
  Bruce was always so supportive of everyone, so very generous. He was always so welcoming and so cheerful himself, whatever the circumstances. He was and will remain a role model for many of us. Perhaps that is the best way to remember him.
• Re: Remembering Bruce Bennett
  An obituary in the Canberra Times from Adrian Caesar
• Re: Remembering Bruce Bennett
  I only met him twice, but I could feel he was a warm, passionate man who supported so many writers and scholars, especially those of us who felt on the outer sometimes. His foundational scholarship was a true inspiration. He won't be forgotten.