It's Monday morning and you're writing your to do list for the week. Why not add "write abstract for JAS 50.4 special issue" on that list?
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50In 2026, the Journal of Australian Studies publishes its 50th volume. To mark this occasion we propose a special issue for release in late 2026. For this volume, we would like to invite scholars to revisit its back issues - perhaps with nostalgia, perhaps with criticism, but always with the purpose of evaluating what Australian Studies has been, what it currently is, and what it can be. We seek articles of that can do one or more of the following: Select a particular article or special issue from the past to speak to from a contemporary perspective Revisit one of your own articles published in JAS to critically revise, update - or perhaps redact past scholarship Scholarly reflections of editorial experiences with the journal focused on characterising “Australian Studies” at the time Critical personal reflections Debates and disputes in Australian studies (on the pages and off of JAS ) A critical history of/commentary on JAS and its relationship to the field of Australian Studies more broadly Critical reviews of key themes the journal has covered (or not covered) over its history Critical reviews of the role of disciplines and disciplinarity within the interdisciplinary formation of Australian Studies We also welcome other proposals and suggestions. Please note that we are open to a wide range of lengths and formats in this context, as appropriate to the form of your contribution, and we invite contributors to specify a nominal word count in their proposal, noting that this cannot exceed 8000 words (inclusive of footnotes). We invite all contributors to provide a 300-500 word abstract proposal for their article by 30 March 2026 . This is to allow us to identify and remedy any potential overlaps, and to identify peer reviewers in advance. Outcomes and feedback on abstracts will be provided by 3 April at the latest. Please submit your abstracts to: journalofaustralianstudies@gmail.com with the subject line: Attn: JAS at 50 Special Issue.
Initial manuscripts are due in ScholarOne by 17 July 2026 ; however, we welcome early submissions. All manuscripts will be peer reviewed. In the spirit of collaboration, we ask that contributors to the special issue also assist with peer reviewing other contributions. After revisions based on the peer review are made, manuscripts will undergo an editorial review, after which they may be returned for further revisions. After this round of editorial revisions, the manuscripts will then be forwarded to our copyeditor by no later than 28 August. Final manuscripts (including peer review, revision, copyediting, and revisions after copyediting) are due by 9 October 2026. If you have any questions, please email the Editors: jess.carniel@unisq.edu.au and chris.hay@flinders.edu.au Production timeline at a glance Abstracts: 30 March 2026 Notification of acceptance: 3 April 2026 Initial manuscript submission: 17 July 2026 Peer review and revision process completed by: 28 August 2026 Final manuscripts (including peer review and copyediting) : 9 October 2026 Publication: December 2026
To celebrate our 50th volume, JAS invites you to contribute to a special issue on (the Journal of) Australian Studies at 50.
Please see the CFP below for details - and please circulate it far and wide!
@intlausstudies.bsky.social
#CFP #OzStudies #OzLit #OzHist #auspol #AustralianStudies
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2026 CBCA Book of the Year Awards season begins - here are the books longlisted for Older Readers, Younger Readers, Early Childhood, Picture Book of the Year, and Eve Pownall Awards #ozlit #kidlit
cbca.org.au/2026-notables/
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Used paperback in cardboard box of books. Top book says The Hand That Signed The Paper and says the author is Helen Demidenko.
You never know what you’ll come across at the tip shop.
#auslit #ozlit #IYKYK
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Screenshot of journal article. Title: George Turner's Down There in Darkness and the Future of Humanity. Author: Anne Maxwell (University of Melbourne). Abstract: This article proposes that Australian author George Turner's posthumous novel Down There in Darkness (1999) belongs to the category of science fiction novels recently labelled “critical dystopias” by Tom Moylan. I argue that Turner's novel can be situated in the context of the Anthropocene in its exploration of the disappearance of the human both to climate catastrophe and to our own technologies in storytelling inspired by events occurring during Turner's own lifetime. I then explore Turner's novel in the context of the “postcolonial turn” to show how it anticipates many aspects of the critical dystopian trajectories explored by Indigenous science fiction writers today.
The penultimate article of 49.4:
Maxwell examines George Turner's Down There In Darkness as a critical dystopia on the cusp of a postcolonial turn in science fiction.
#OzLit #SciFi #FirstNations #posthumanism #dystopia #OpenAccess
tinyurl.com/3amcr3e8
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Screenshot of journal article. Title: Subverting Social Order: Recovering the Intelligent Woman Farmer in John Naish’s That Men Should Fear (1963). Author: Elizabeth A. Smyth (James Cook University). Abstract: In a 1985 lecture, Australian literary scholar Bruce Bennett said that people associated with farming are commonly regarded as intellectually impoverished. John Naish’s farm novel That Men Should Fear (1963) subverts the literary social order that Bennett described by portraying a farmer who is characterised as highly educated. Naish’s first novel, The Cruel Field (1962), has appeared in recent georgic studies and ecocritical scholarship, and in analyses of the migrant experience and labour systems. In this article, I recover his second novel, That Men Should Fear, and argue that Naish’s characterisation of the farmer as university educated subverts the literary “scale of civilisation” noted by Bennett while enabling insights into a class division based on ownership of farmland. This article centres on Naish’s portrayal of a strong and independent woman farmer at a time when women felt sidelined in Australian literature and society. I argue that Naish’s That Men Should Fear reshapes the genre of the Australian farm novel by expanding traditional representations of women and class. It also enriches the farmer’s perspective offered in Naish’s The Cruel Field.
Next in 49.4:
Smyth argues that Naish's That Men Should Fear reshapes the genre of the farm novel through its portrayal of women and class.
#class #LitStudies #OzLit #OzStudies
tinyurl.com/2rbbcute
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Louise Adler resigns as director of Adelaide Writers’ Week www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #ozlit
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Right now, three crime writers on the Blarney stage: Robert M Smith, Tanya Scott and Margaret Hickey! And a full house to hear them! #bookshop #portfairy #ozlit
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how might we put a value on a local books and literary sector, distinct from the larger English-language markets of the Northern Hemisphere and attentive to our own regional and cultural ways of being, doing, and belonging? #ozlit
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#BarryHumphries had a run-in with Kenneth Slessor in a Sydney pub and said “that was the last time I went lion hunting”. Does anyone know more details? #ozlit #auslit Sorry #auspol, but your hashtag is where someone might know something.
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Predicted this 5 months ago. Does this mean Garner’s predictable? And why didn’t they title it Tender Loins? Emotive, sexy yet factual, ahh, poetry. Better than #TheMushroomTapes. #auspol #helengarner #auslit #ozlit #erinpatterson
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
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Congratulations to all the winners of the 2025 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards creative.gov.au/pmlas
The awards recognise the talents of Australian writers, illustrators, poets, and historians. #ozlit
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Rally: Save Meanjin!
Thursday 11 September, 9am
Outside the Melbourne University Publishing office, 715 Swanston St, Carlton @withmeaa.bsky.social
@meanjin.bsky.social #ozlit #auslit #meanjin
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Australian children’s author Morris Gleitzman is back with Childish, a funny and heartfelt story about kids fixing what adults can’t, starting with potholes. #ozlit #kidlit www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Questions I asked a publisher today at Parramatta's Lit! Industry Day about things that impact his decision making when. Considering a manuscript to be published...
#ozlit
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I had a chat with Biographer Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies ahead of the National Biography Prize 2025 winners announcement, it was fun to reflect on my debut memoir after 12 months post release: www.biographersinconversation.com/s0306-sam-el... #ozlit #memoir #trans
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Are you a one-desk or two-desk writer? I could honestly go a third some days, if there were room in my office.
Sometimes you just need to spread, amiright?
#nicolehayesauthor #ozlit #loveozya #australianwriters #melbournewriters #youngadultfiction #writingya #writingdystopian #womenwriters
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Again #PatrickWhite with pug! Where are all the snaps with #schnauzers? #auslit #ozlit
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Patrick White (Australia’s only Nobel laureate for #literature) with pugs, but his reputation is as a miniature schnauzer man.
#auslit #ozlit
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The appropriating succubus steals your words and feeds off your correspondence.
#romantasy #horror #ozlit
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Cover of novella "The thirty-one legs of Vladimir Putin", by P S Cottier and N G Hartland, showing a number of people's legs standing on a tiled surface.
"Autocrats and body doubles go together like Elon Musk and Nazi salutes..."
From my book review: The thirty-one legs of Vladimir Putin, by P S Cottier and N G Hartland: www.timjonesbooks.co.nz/2025/02/03 #australia #auslit #ozlit #ausbooks
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Screenshot of journal article front page. Title: “Painting the Woods into Existence”: Australian Fiction on the Value of the Arts. Authors: Alex Cothren and Tully Barnett, Flinders University.
Need some weekend reading from 48(4)? Cothren and Barnett place fictional depictions of artists into the context of the Australian cultural policy history that they emerged.
#CulturalPolicy #AustralianArts #OzLit #OpenAccess
tinyurl.com/2p9wapfb
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Screenshot of the journal front page. Title: Imaginary Worlds and Child Readers at Kurrajong Heights in the 1890s. Author: Paula Jane Byrne, Visiting Scholar, State Library of NSW
Some 48(4) for your Friday: Byrne examines the gendered borrowing practices of young readers at a Kurrajong Heights library in the 1890s, and the influence of lower middle-class women writers on their imaginary worlds.
#libraries
#reading
#OzLit
#OzHistory
tinyurl.com/53v94zv8
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Screenshot of front page of journal article. Title: Hansard as Literary Reception: The Uses of Poetry in Australian Political Debate, 1901–1950. Authors: Julianne Lamond (ANU), Fiannuala Morgan (University of Melbourne), Sarah-Jane Burton (ANU)
Bonus afternoon 48(4) showcase: Lamond, Morgan & Burton perform a literary analysis on the most unlikely of texts: Hansard! They explore the rhetorical effects of poetry in #Hansard and establish it as part of Australian literary history.
#OzLit #parliament #poetry #OpenAccess
tinyurl.com/3xdrc2r5
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