My chapter on 20C publishing sits alongside a host of chapters on the history of the Australian novel in this volume. Congrats to David Carter for bringing this volume into the world.
Love this @ArtsUnimelb display case of Genre Worlds, The Frankfurt Book Fair and Bestseller Business, The Frankfurt Kabuff, and some research objects linked to them! Sleaze-o-meters, letter press manifesto, embroidery and more
If you are in Townsville or Cairns, please join FALS for the annual Colin Roderick Memorial Lecture: Jock Serong, “Historical Crime is Our True Genre”. https://t.co/Y5RwnImHVC
I am proud to be a part of this team, and look forward to working with ASAL members and the broader community in support of the rich array of Australian writers and storytellers, past, present, and future.
Congratulations to the newly elected ASAL executive, with President Roger Osborne, vice president Tanya Dalziell, and immediate past president Julieanne Lamond! Full details are available here: https://t.co/6RmON1FIN1
To be continued … is a new podcast made with the fiction from To be continued: the Australian newspaper fiction database by @fantrails with brilliant story readings and interviews from experts in different genres and forms including … https://t.co/TMqvVWFFcm
Congratulations to Roger Osborne, @TomCollinsAndCo on winning the Walter McRae Russell Award for his book "The Life of Such is Life".
Buy your copy here: https://t.co/6TWHpI4XWG
Joint winners of the 2023 Walter McRae Russell are Julieanne Lamond with her “sprightly, incisive… and unorthodox” LOHREY and Roger Osborne with THE LIFE OF SUCH IS LIFE, praised as “a labour of love”.
Are you working in a public library in Australia? Please respond to a short survey about the resources and services available for people with print disability in your library: https://t.co/mUZNEuImGl Please RT. #AccessibilityMatters#PublicLibrary#AusLibChat
"Each contender for these awards was a work of high quality literary scholarship that had been years in the making," says Monique Rooney (@monique_rooney), who judged the WalterMcRae Russell Award & the Alvie Egan Award with Michael Griffiths and Robert Clarke.
A very special congrats to Fellows @BGriffenFoley for her well-deserved linkage grant to dive into the @ABCaustralia's archives to enable deeper understandings of it in the lives of Aussies. We can't wait to see what you find!
We have a new forthcoming event! Zine making with @torika_bola and @SKKArchive at Mildura library. Places are very limited! Thursday July 6. More details here: https://t.co/3d68j8gUDD