Australian literature; Australian writers and poets, blogs; a list of websites
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Aboriginal texts
Sacred Texts Archive
An online resource for early European texts on Aboriginal religious ideas and traditions.
Arts Hub
Jobs, careers and news for the arts and creative industries.
AustLit
AustLit is a non-profit collaboration between twelve Australian Universities and the National Library of Australia providing authoritative information on hundreds of thousands of creative and critical Australian literature works relating to more than 100,000 Australian authors and literary organizations. Its coverage spans 1780 to the present day.
Australian Academy of the Humanities
Australian Book Review
ABR is widely regarded as offering the fullest coverage of Australian books and literary culture. But it is not just interested in writers and writing – their interests lie everywhere, and encompass current affairs and the broader culture.
Australian Bush Poets Association
Membership of the Australian Bush Poets Association (ABPA) is comprised of writers, performers and individuals who are interested in bush poetry and enjoy written and live stories in rhyme and metre.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).
Australian Literature Gateway (AustLit)
Search by author.
Australian Literary Management.
Australian Literary Management, Sydney, was founded in 1980 in Melbourne to look after the business affairs of authors around the world, negotiating their contracts and managing their careers.
Australian Literary Agents’ Association
Australian Literature Database
Australian literature e-texts (from Sydney University).
Australian Poetry Centre
The Australian Poetry Centre is a not-for-profit, incorporated association established to promote reading, writing and publishing activities associated with Australian poetry in all of its forms. The APC is supported by the State Government of Victoria.
Australian Writing Centre/Writing Bar
Writing Bar is the blog of the Australian Writers’ Centre. You’ll find resources, tips, videos, podcasts and a range of guidelines to help you in all aspects of writing.
Authors
Australian authors;
short bios, with webpage links.
Awards
The Australian Literature Society Gold Medal Awards
Wikipedia entries
Book Awards of the World
Literary Awards Australia provides results from over 250 of the worlds leading book awards. Winners. Shortlists. Longlists. Authors. Books. News Service.
Allen & Unwin – The Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award
Annual award for unpublished manuscripts by authors younger than 35 years old; with entry forms. Miles Franklin Literary Award
Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards
Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards
Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards
Blogs
ANZ LitLovers LitBlog
For lovers of Australian and New Zealand literary fiction.
Writing Bar
Writing Bar is the blog of the Australian Writers’ Centre. You’ll find resources, tips, videos, podcasts and a range of guidelines to help you in all aspects of writing.
Bibliodyssey
Books, illustrations, book art, science, history.
Cordite newsblog
The blog of online poetry journal Cordite.
The Deletions
Pam Brown, poet, co-editor of Jacket poetry magazine.
Seizure Online
The Australian Book Review
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The Children’s Book Council of Australia
Cordite
Australian poetry journal.
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Etexts
Australian Literary and Historical Texts
A collection of digitized full text 19th and early 20th century Australian literary, historical and political works from the University of Sydney. Classic Australian Works On demand access to full text classic Australian works that are out-of-print but mostly still in copyright.
Pandora: Australia’s Web Archive
National Library of Australia
Project Gutenberg Australian library:
etexts by Australian authors, about Australia and works of interest to Australians. This Australiana page boasts many ebooks by Australian writers, or books about Australia. There is a diverse range, from the journals of the land and sea explorers, to the early accounts of white settlement in Australia, to the fiction of ‘Banjo’ Paterson, Henry Lawson and many other Australian writers.
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Fellowship of Australian Writers
Festivals
Literary Festivals in Australia and New Zealand
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Jacket Magazine
A popular Australian literary journal founded by John Tranter to showcase lively contemporary poetry and prose.
Journals, magazines
Australian Book Review
Australian Humanities Review
Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL)
Australian Literary Review Colloquy
Colloquy is a peer-reviewed online journal published biannually by postgraduate students in the School of English, Communications and Performance Studies at Monash University.
Cordite. Australian poetry journal
Quadrant Online
Monthly print magazine; with book reviews, poetry, and essays.
Southerly
Australia’s oldest literary journal.
Voiceworks
Voiceworks is a national quarterly magazine that features exciting new writing by young Australians. It features the best fiction, nonfiction, poetry, illustrations, and graphic art by under 25-year-olds around the country.
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Libraries
Australian Libraries Gateway (ALG)
TROVE
Find and get over 382,236,062 Australian and online resources: books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music, archives and more.
The State Library of New South Wales
The State Library of South Australia
The State Library of Western Australia
Manuscripts
Australian manuscript collection, National Library of Australia.
A guide to Australian literary manuscripts.
Meanjin, a leading Australian literary magazine.
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Novelists
A list of Australian novelists, from Wikipedia,
The best young Australian novelists. Sydney Morning Herald
50 ‘Must Read’ Australian novels (by popular vote) Booktopia
Organizations
Fellowship of Australian Writers NSW Inc
Council of Australian Societies of Editors
Oxford Book of Australasian Verse
The Wheeler Centre
The Wheeler Centre is the Melbourne home of the Victorian Government’s City of Literature initiative.
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Poetry
Oxford Book of Australasian Verse
Australian poets, a web list from Wikipedia.
Australian Poetry Centre
The Australian Poetry Centre is a not-for-profit, incorporated association established to promote reading, writing and publishing activities associated with Australian poetry in all of its forms. The APC is supported by the State Government of Victoria.
Poetry Resource.org
The Poetry Resource was created in 2006 as a reference site for students of poetry or lovers of poetry. Since that time they have added 100 or so poets with more added each week.
Publishers
Australian Publishers Association
Publishers of Australian Poetry
Australian Publishers: A List of publishers in Australia.
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Schools, writing courses
Australian College of Journalism
Australian Communication and Writing Courses Online
Open Colleges
Creative Writing Courses – Australian Writers’ Centre
Postgraduate Creative Writing Courses in Australia.
Writers’ Studio
Their goal is to give you tools and techniques that make your writing and stories come alive on the page.
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Wikipedia entry on Australian literature.
Australian authors and poets
AustLit Australian author information.
Wikipedia entries on Australian poets
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Carey, Peter
Peter Carey
Wikipedia entry.
Edgar, Stephen
Stephen Edgar
Poems at The Clive James website.
Hodkins, Philip
Philip Hodgins
AusLit
Flanagan, Richard
Richard Flanagan. Wikipedia entry.
Richard Flanagan. The Guardian
Hodkins, Richard
Philip Hodgins
Wikipedia
James, Clive
Clive James website. Clive James.com
Clive James
BBC discussion with Clive James, Marcus du Sautoy and Slavoj Zizek.
Clive James Talking in the Library
Video interviews with writers and actors.
James, Phillip
James Phillip. Biographical Entry
adbonline.anu.edu.au
Keneally, Thomas
Thomas Keneally
Wikipedia entry.
Thomas Keneally
Random House Australia
The Life and Works of Thomas Keneally
Koch, Christopher
Christopher Koch
Random House
Christopher Koch
Wikipedia
McAuley, James Phillip
James McAuley
Wikipedia
James McAuley
The Rathouse
Murray, Les
Les Murray. The Poetry Foundation
Paris Review.The Art of Poetry No. 89,
Les Murray. The Poetry Archive
A life in writing: Les Murray. The Guardian
Les Murray. London Review of Books
Les Murray. The Australian Poetry Library
Les Murray
Wikipedia entry.
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Nicholson, Peter
Paterson, Banjo
Banjo Paterson Poems. Wallis & Matilda
Porter, Peter
Peter Porter
Wikipedia
Peter Porter
The Guardian
Peter Porter
The Clive James website. Poems, with video and audio dialogues.
The Rest on the Flight: Selected Poems by Peter Porter Review from The Guardian.
Peter Porter
The Oxonian Review
Wallace-Crabbe, Chris
Chris Wallace-Crabbe. Wikipedia
The Australian Poetry Library
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
The poetry Foundation
White, Patrick
Patrick White. Nobel Prize Archive
Patrick White reviews, webpage links,
Patrick White. Introduction, list of works.
Winton, Tim
Tim Winton. Biography and bibliography
Tim Winton. British Council website.
Wright, Judith
Judith Wright. Wikipedia entry.
Judith Wright, an introduction.
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