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AustLit

Discover Australian Creative Writing Criticism BlackWords Stage & Screen Children's & YA

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AustLit is... Australian storytelling

Discover biographical, bibliographical, and critical information about Australian writers, writing, and publishing.

  • 895,153 works
  • 163,944 creators
  • 28,647 subjects
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AustLit is... scholarship

Discover current debates, teaching, and research patterns around Australian literary, print, and narrative cultures.

  • 135,860 works
  • 21,803 authors
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AustLit is... BlackWords

Discover the lives and works of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers and storytellers.

  • 23,208 works
  • 6,281 authors
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AustLit is... theatre, film, television, and the radio

Discover the history of Australian performance works.

  • 20,895 works
  • 10,651 creators
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AustLit is... writing for children and young adults

Discover the diversity of Australian writing for younger readers and a rich collection of teaching resources.

  • 35,727 works
  • 16,550 authors and illustrators
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AustLit is a primary resource for teachers and students of Australian literature, theatre, film, television, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies.

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The Australian Drama Archive

The Australian Drama Archive is a ground-breaking project, led by AustLit's Director, unearthing and bringing to life plays and archival material by Australian writers who wrote for the stage, radio, and film. Explore original playscripts, fabulous ephemera, and richly researched stories of some of our forgotten and under-recognised writers working before the 1960s.

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The Players

Australian Actors talk Stage, Screen, and Life

Actors are the public face of the performing arts, carrying the immediate responsibility for the success of each show. Yet they are sometimes left out of theatre history. This collection of lively biographical essays by Anne Pender explores the lives and careers of some inimitable Australian performers including John Clarke, Julia Blake, Denise Scott, and Tony Sheldon.

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Growing Up Indigenous in Australia

Read poignant and empowering stories of growing up in Australia as an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander.

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Literature of Tasmania

An Introduction to Tasmania in the Literary Imagination
by Professor Philip Mead
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Contemporary Settler Literature

Compiled in 2017 by Fulbright scholar Travis Franks of the Department of English at Arizona State University, this is an introduction to settler colonial theory and contemporary settler colonial literature, its major and minor authors, their works, and the ideas involved with settler colonial writing in Australia, and, to a lesser extent, the United States, since the 1990s.

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Parasols and Prosthetic Limbs

The World War I Magazine Fiction of Sumner Locke

On the centenary of her death, AustLit republishes a collection of short stories from Sumner Locke, written between the outbreak of war in 1914 and her death in childbirth in 1917. Locke’s is a brutal, ironic world of bright-parasoled heroines and wounded heroes moving through a perpetual war.

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ASAL

The Association for the Study of Australian Literature

The Association for the Study of Australian Literature promotes the study, discussion and creation of Australian writing. It also seeks to increase awareness of Australian writing in the wider community and throughout the world.

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