AustLit: Discover Australian Stories

AustLit is... Australian storytelling

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

1,034,650 works
197,943 creators
30,245 subjects

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AustLit is... scholarship

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

158,285 works
27,587 authors

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AustLit is... BlackWords

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

26,984 works
7,654 authors

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AustLit is... theatre, film, television, and the radio

Discover the history of Australian performance works.

24,017 works
15,917 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.

64,325 works
29,645 authors and illustrators

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In 1998, eight Australian universities and the National Library of Australia began planning an Australian Literature Subject Gateway, to replace the long-running AUSTLIT database and to house a range of bibliographical and data-gathering projects. From September 2021, celebrate twenty years with AustLit, as we launch a digital history of the database and more.

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Led by Dr Airlie Lawson, literary sociologist and cartographer, the Miles Franklin Rights Project creates a comprehensive data set of international editions of award-winning and shortlisted novels from 2000-2020, creating a basis for future empirical research into the impact of the award on international rights sales.

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Edited by Craig Munro and first published by UQP in 1998, The Writer’s Press offers valuable insights into the history of UQP, as well as being an important resource for publishing studies.

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In the midst of a global pandemic, AustLit seeks to record for posterity the impact of COVID-19 on the Australian arts sector, from works whose content or conditions of production have been influenced by the pandemic to the cancellation or postponement of festivals and performances. This challenging project is bibliography as it happens, in the midst of a time of great change and uncertainty.

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Led by Dr Rebecca Olive, Swimming Wild is a dataset of works about swimming outside chlorinated, symmetric pools—swimming in oceans, lakes, rivers, canals, ponds, dams, and other open bodies of water, with all its uncertainties, risks, and thrills.

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AustLit: Discover Australian Stories

AustLit

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

AustLit is... Australian storytelling

AustLit is... scholarship

AustLit is... BlackWords

AustLit is... theatre, film, television, and the radio

AustLit is... writing for children and young adults

Celebrate Twenty Years of AustLit

Marking the twentieth anniversary of AustLit’s launch online in September 2001

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The Miles Franklin Rights Project

Examining the impact and value of this very local award from a global perspective

The Writer’s Press

Making this significant collection of essays on the University of Queensland Press (UQP) available in a digital edition

Growing Up Indigenous in Australia

COVID-19

The 2020-2021 Global Pandemic in the Australian Arts

Swimming Wild

The various ways that swimming wild has shaped Australian literature

Australians and Adaptations From 1900

The importance of adaptation for the Australian screen and stage