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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.

  • 985,535 works
  • 186,086 creators
  • 30,077 subjects
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AustLit is... scholarship

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

  • 152,122 works
  • 26,175 authors
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AustLit is... BlackWords

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

  • 25,012 works
  • 7,218 authors
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AustLit is... theatre, film, television, and the radio

Discover the history of Australian performance works.

  • 22,880 works
  • 14,723 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.

  • 57,958 works
  • 27,211 authors and illustrators
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Celebrate Twenty Years of AustLit

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

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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The Miles Franklin Rights Project

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

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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The Writer’s Press

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

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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Growing Up Indigenous in Australia

Read poignant and empowering stories of growing up in Australia as an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander. New stories published in 2020.

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COVID-19

The 2020-2021 Global Pandemic in the Australian Arts

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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Swimming Wild

The various ways that swimming wild has shaped Australian literature

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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Australians and Adaptations From 1900

The importance of adaptation for the Australian screen and stage

First compiled in 2014 and fully updated in 2020, Australians and Adaptations from 1900 highlights some key moments and events related to adaptation as it affects Australian writing, from the silent screen to international adaptations of Australian works.

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AustLit 20th Anniversary

In 2021, AustLit celebrates twenty years since its launch online in September 2001. Celebrate with us!
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