Delighted to see @poetry_anna's 'How to Knit a Human' on the Woollahra Digital Innovation shortlist. woollahra.nsw.gov.au/library/whats_… Read the essay here: australianliterarystudies.com.au/articles/writi…

Compelling poetic lecture from well-grounded Jeanine Leane, threading #Wiradjuri purple lands with ‘Native Grasses’ to show the #colonialist erasure in ideas of ‘restoration’. The white work needed is to ‘mend’ and to ‘make amends’. Thanks ⁦@ladyredjess⁩ Copyright Agency

We're busy finalising our last issue of the year, so in the meantime, have a read of our last issue before it ducks behind the paywall, with work from Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell, Gretchen Shirm, Jonah Shallit, Elizabeth Webby and Margaret Harris. bit.ly/3UeCqP6

Congratulations to Andy Jackson for his #pmlitaward. We saw his brilliance in an ALS essay earlier this year. australianliterarystudies.com.au/articles/caesu…

Sneaking in before the end of the year is our latest issue of ALS. Featuring excellent new work from Cheryl O'Byrne, Michelle J Smith, Dr. Matilda Grogan and Sam Cox. All outside the paywall for a limited time only! australianliterarystudies.com.au

JOB OPPORTUNITY! Full-time, continuing, working at UQ on the AustLit database. Applications close 5 Jan. uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/uqcareer…

'Aboriginal scholars Whittaker and Leane ... exhort settler readers to approach First Nations texts cautiously, aware that reading practices & responses – no matter how well-intentioned – can perpetuate colonial power.' Cheryl O'Byrne bit.ly/3FU1WFB

'A significant number of early Australian fairy tales used the bush as a blank slate for the importation of fairies, elves and witches.' Michelle J Smith bit.ly/3VVPACi

'Australian multiculturalism can be seen as an agent that preserves the epistemic privileging of whiteness, rather than displacing it.' Dr. Matilda Grogan on Western Sydney writers Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Luke Carman and Peter Polites. bit.ly/3HA8Q3R

'The very materiality of the antipodean environment, the altern characteristics of which are accentuated by the arid conditions of the interior, challenge perceptual parameters.' Samuel Cox on Patrick White's 'Kingdom of Dust' bit.ly/3FvltuD

The cfp for Australian Literary Studies first-ever issue of scholarly essays on Ruth Park, edited by monique rooney, has been extended. Submit an abstract by June 1 2023. australianliterarystudies.com.au/special-issues

We have a marvellous new issue out today with brilliant work from Temporarily, Kimberley Spragg, Robert Newton and Margaret Harris as well as reviews from Margaret Henderson and Brigid Rooney all out from the paywall for a limited time! australianliterarystudies.com.au/issues/volume-…

'Salt’s corrosive, preservative and healing activity works on body and spirit, as well as supporting and illustrating the internal development of Winton’s characters' writes Kimberley Spragg australianliterarystudies.com.au/articles/sanct…

'While nuclear colonial histories are largely absent from UK & settler Australian nuclear cultures, in First Nations art and writing on nuclear colonialism, the "remnant-traces" of atomic operations come into view' writes Robert Newton bit.ly/3oaq00G

'Fogarty’s poem powerfully indicts the way settler lawmakers such as Forrest and Howard seek to poeticise these disciplinary, eliminatory labour regimes as an act of salvific instruction in a battlerist settler work ethic' writes Temporarily bit.ly/41RlD8y

"Both emergent and established scholars of Australian literature are renovating the field," says Monique Rooney, chairing our scholarly prizes. Here's the shortlist for the Walter McRae Russell Award: Melbourne University Publishing Sydney University Press Monash University Publishing UMass Press

'Lamond makes a convincing case for Lohrey as a novelist of ideas, of uncertainties, & a writer of the politics of the contemporary everyday in which her sparse prose "leans away from the reader" making space for them' Margaret Henderson reviews Lohrey bit.ly/3q71FJT

Announcing the ALS Gold Medal shortlist: congratulations to all! Echo Publishing Text Publishing Pan Macmillan Aus UQPBooks Puncher and Wattmann @MagabalaBooks

For all the Murnaniacs, Brigid Rooney reviews Last Letter to a Reader and find the 'details that wink': bit.ly/43uBj3c

Check out the latest ALS – a themed issue on literary value, available outside the paywall for a limited time. Christopher Conti provides an excellent introduction to the concerns of our contributors: australianliterarystudies.com.au/articles/tippi…