A very special congrats to Fellows Bridget Griffen-Foley for her well-deserved linkage grant to dive into the ABC Australia'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 Dr Torika Bolatagici and Stéphanie Kabanyana Kanyandekwe (she/her) 💉💉💉💉 at Mildura library. Places are very limited! Thursday July 6. More details here: eventbrite.com.au/e/665069720437

"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.

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: sydney.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0A… Please RT. #AccessibilityMatters #PublicLibrary #AusLibChat

It is an absolute honour to share this award with Julieanne Lamond.

Just re-upping this because... we love it so much. Harry Reid won the Mary Gilmore Award on Tuesday night. Here he responds to being shortlisted...

Yes, special moment.

Congratulations to Roger Osborne, RogerOsborne on winning the Walter McRae Russell Award for his book "The Life of Such is Life". Buy your copy here: ow.ly/uGCA50P3zua

Canberra-based folk, this is on this Sunday:

Looking for a new podcast? Here it is, including me on aeroplanes and modernity in a future episode.

Here it is! My copies of my scholarly edition of Joseph Conrad’s NOSTROMO have been delivered. Stay tuned for live and online launch date and time.

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.

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”. jcu.edu.au/foundation-for…

Love this Faculty of Arts 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

From 225 down to 15: The longlist for the 2023 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award is out! jcu.edu.au/foundation-for…

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.

I’m back. What did I miss?