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AustLit@austlit· 25d

Introducing the AustLit Essay Prize! AustLit is delighted to launch an annual prize for the best scholarly essay that makes use of AustLit data to generate new insights and/or arguments. Full terms and conditions are available on our About pages: www.austlit.edu.au/about

On a dark green background, two hands, one brown and one tan, hold fountain pens. In a yellow box, text reads: Introducing the AUSTLIT ESSAY PRIZE

Text reads: find out more

Awarded annually at the ASAL Conference, this prize is for the best use of AustLit data to generate a new argument or insight about the Australian literary, publishing or cultural landscape in a scholarly essay.

To be first awarded in 2027 for an essay published in the previous two years. Subsequent prizes for essays published in the previous twelve months.

Text reads: find out more
Full terms and conditions are available on AustLit’s About page.

Key details include:

The award comprises an AU$1000 cash prize.
Entries for the inaugural prize will be accepted until 31 January 2027 (and that same date each subsequent year).
Entries are welcome from scholars writing in English anywhere in the world.

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Interested in submitting your work?

Full terms and conditions available at the link below

www.austlit.edu.au/about

AustLit@austlit· Jul 22

Have you ever wondered why some records on AustLit have separate notes? Here's a quick video guide reading affiliation notes. Video has captions but no sounds.

AustLit@austlit· Jul 16

Following on from our most recent information trail, on historical fiction, this quick search video walks you through searching AustLit by temporal settings. Video has captions, no sound. Happy searching! #austlit25

AustLit@austlit· Jul 12

Last week, we published one final quick search video for NAIDOC week: searching on language. The examples are Aboriginal language, but this works across our entire language thesaurus. Happy searching!

AustLit@austlit· Jul 7

For NAIDOC Week, today's quick search video is on searching by cultural heritage, whether you're looking for all First Nations authors or seeking information on a writer from a specific Country. Happy searching! #naidocweek2026 #blackwords #austlit25

AustLit@austlit· Jun 26

Our latest 25 for 25 trail is Notables! How did we determine notability? We looked at stamps, currency, statues, and street names. Check it out at: www.austlit.edu.au/25th-anniver... #AustLit25

#AustLit25
NOTABLES
Continue to explore the trail!
#AustLit25
INFORMATION TRAIL 11 OF 25:
AustLit’s 25th Anniversary special:

Adam Lindsay Gordon
Best known for ‘The Dying Stockman’
#AustLit25
Adam Lindsay Gordon is memorialised with busts, obelisks, and plaques across the country. Most delightful of all, perhaps is his former horse-hitching post outside the Marine Hotel in Brighton, Victoria.
(Left: Gordon Reserve, Melbourne, statue).
Continue exploring

Steele Rudd
Best known for the Dad and Dave stories
#AustLit25
Steele Rudd is memorialised with a road and a park on the site of his family’s selection in Queensland, complete with a replica shingle hut.
There’s also a statue to him in Brisbane’s King George Square.
Continue exploring
(Right: King George Square statue).

P.L. Travers
Best known for Mary Poppins and its sequels
#AustLit25
P.L. Travers’ statues are more often of her famous creation: the magical nanny appears in Leicester Square, London, and in Maryborough, Queensland, and both Bowral and Ashfield, New South Wales.
Continue exploring
(Left: Leicester Square statue)

AustLit@austlit· Jun 19

Please consider supporting AustLit this EOFY. For 25 years, AustLit has connected readers, writers, researchers & educators to the literature that shapes our culture. Your donation helps ensure AustLit flourishes for the next 25. All gifts processed securely through UQ. donations.uq.edu.au/austlit

AustLit@austlit· Jun 17

Interested in the complexities of the kinds of books the Banned in Australia project highlights? This video will walk you through how to search *within* an AustLit project, leveraging the power of the Advanced Search exclusively on a specific subset of records. #austlit25

AustLit@austlit· Jun 3

This week, we're celebrating Australian fantasy, by drawing attention to a unique set of teaching resources published on AustLit. We've highlighted Anthony Eaton below, but there's more to explore! Check out the full list at: www.austlit.edu.au/teachingwith... #AustLit25

On a blue background, text reads:
AustLit's 25th Anniversary special:
For teachers:
Below the text, a black-frame banner shows five book covers, from left to right: a fragment of Isobelle Carmody's The Gathering, Ambelin Kwaymullina's The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf, Anthony Eaton's Nightpeople, Sean Williams' The Stone Mage and the Sea, and a fragment of Alison Goodman's Lady Helen and the Dark Days Club.
Below the image, text reads:
Teaching with Fantasy
Continue to explore the project!

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Text reads:
Teaching with Fantasy
Teaching with AustLit
Teaching with Fantasy is the outcome of a 2018 professional development event for teachers titled Teaching with Fantasy: Australian Fantasy Writers in Conversation and in the Classroom.

The event has resulted in a collection of teaching and learning resources for seven young adult fantasy texts.

This project delivers audio and video author interviews, and lesson plans related to the Australian Curriculum.

Continue exploring

On a light-blue background, a grey text box. Text reads:
Sample lesson plan: Nightpeople
Includes:
Video interview with author Anthony Eaton
Suggested lesson focus
Before reading activities
Close reading, interpretation, and critique
Creating and responding
Further reading and viewing
Black Line Masters
In the top right-hand corner of the text box is a section of the cover for Nightpeople, showing a futuristic tower in a post-apocalyptic landscape, surrounded by flying machines.

On a light-blue background, text reads:

AustLit is celebrating
25 years in 2026
For this momentous anniversary, we have a year’s worth of celebrations planned, from in-person and online events to project highlights, video guides, and information trails.

Celebrate with us by following, sharing our content and using #AustLit25 to share your Australian literature discoveries.

Visit our website for more details!
25 years of discovering Australian stories

AustLit@austlit· Jun 1

Last week, we posted our speculative fiction trail, as part of AustLit's 25 Trails for 25 Years. To follow up, this week's short video is on searching genre in the database. Video has captions, no sound. Happy searching! #austlit25 #discoveraustralianstories #readaustralian #readgenre #databases

AustLit@austlit· May 25

To mark Reconciliation Week 2026, AustLit has launched a new BlackWords information trail, compiled by Juliette Davis. This year’s theme, 'All In', encourages active participation in reconciliation from all communities across the continent. Explore the trail at: www.austlit.edu.au/reconciliati...

On a buttery yellow background, the covers for Jeanine Leane's Walk Back Over, Aunty Fay Muir's Always Was Always Will Be and Anita Heiss's Am I Black Enough For You?
Below them, a light-blue banner with the text: Taking place between the anniversaries of the 1967 referendum (27 May) and the 1992 High Court Mabo decision (3 June), National Reconciliation Week is an important time to reflect on and strengthen relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples, for the interests of all Australians.
Under this, the covers for Melissa Lucashenko's Edenglassie, Greg Driesse's Common Wealth, and Kim Scott's Taboo.

On a butter yellow background, the covers for Race, Colour & Identity, Anita Heiss's Our Race for Reconciliation, and Thomas Mayo's Always Was Always Will Be.
Below this, a light-pink banner with the following text: Works included in this trail range from 19th-century poems that criticised contemporary colonial brutality, through early twentieth century attempts to grapple with historical atrocities and mistreatment, to the increase in First Nations voices in poetry, on stage, and in novels.
Below this, the covers for Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman's The Seven Stages of Grieving, Monica Clare's Karobran, and Sonia Borg and Hyllus Maris's Women of the Sun.

On a butter yellow background, three banners: light pink, then light blue, then light pink again.
In the top banner, text reads: This trail was compiled by Juliette Davis during an AustLit internship, with support and guidance from the AustLit staff.
In the middle banner, text reads: The colours of these tiles are drawn from the 2026 National Reconciliation artwork, Gaagal, by Gumbaynggirr Bundjalung artist
Otis Hope Carey.
For more information, see
https://www.reconciliation.org.au/our-work/national-reconciliation-week/
In the bottom banner, text reads: Explore the full trail at
https://www.austlit.edu.au/blackwordstrails

AustLit@austlit· May 13

Yesterday, we highlighted Dr Millicent Weber's audiobooks project. Today, our quick search video is on searching for audiobooks: it's easier than you might think! Video has captions but no sound. Are there aspects of the database you'd like more guidance on? Ask for a video guide! #austlit25

AustLit@austlit· May 12

This time we're celebrating Audiobooks and Digital Book Culture, led by Dr Millicent Weber. This ongoing project materialises and makes available for research the relationships and entanglements of audiobook production. Slides by Monica Clayton. Explore at www.austlit.edu.au/audiobooks #austlit25

On a light blue background, an enormous pair of headphones, represented in black outline, cover four audiobooks: Zadie Ma and the Dog Who Chased the Moon, Red Dust Running, The Will of the Many, and The Silent Listener.
Text reads: AustLit's 25th Anniversary special: Research Project 7 of 25. Audiobooks. Continue to explore the project!

On a blue background, a grey text box. Header text reads: About Audiobooks & Digital Book Culture. Project start: 2024.
In the text box, text reads:
The Audiobooks and Digital Book Culture project has allowed us to gain a deeper understanding of the Australian audiobook industry.
Four audiobook covers are shown in a row: Seven Little Australians, The Spill, The Drover's Wife, and Terra Nullius.
Text below the image reads:
For the first time, full bibliographic details about
Australian audiobooks have been integrated into the AustLit database.
This project materialises and makes available for
research the relationships and entanglements of audiobook production.

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Text reads:
During this project, the way in which AustLit manages audiobook data within the database has changed.
Although we do not yet know the full breadth of ways in which we will manage audio material, we have already established some changes to the data model.
An image is shown of a pair of white corded headphones resting on a blue-covered book.
Below the image, the text reads:
Explore the Audiobooks Digital Book Culture project on AustLit to learn more about how we are managing audiobooks and the direction we are headed.

AustLit@austlit· May 7

Yesterday, we posted our latest information trail: women writers. And was it a tough one to get to 25 items! So today, we're offering a brief video on searching the database by gender. Video has captions but no sound.

AustLit@austlit· May 7

Our newest information trail is out, and it was as hard as it sounds to bring 'women's writing' down to 25 writers. But remember, we have many more trails coming! Explore the whole trail at: www.austlit.edu.au/25th-anniver... #austlit25 Beautiful slides by Monica Clayton; trail by Dr Cherie Allan.

On a red background, text reads: AustLit's 25th Anniversary special: Information trail 8 of 25.

In the middle of the page, a banner of three cover images: from left to right, Oriel Gray's Exit Left: Memoirs of a Scarlet Woman, Debra Dank's We Come with this Place, Catherine Helen Spence's A Week in the Future. Women's silhouettes in green, yellow, and pale blue run across the bottom of the banner.

Text below reads: Women's Writing. Continue to explore the trail!

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Text reads: Did you know ... Catherine Helen Spence wrote her feminist novel A Week in the Future in 1888?

Protagonist Emily Bethal, given two years to live, chooses to trade the time for one week living in the distant future of 1988.

Serialised in 1888, this novel wasn’t published in book form until 1987.

In the top left-hand corner, the cover of A Week in the Future.

On a red background, a grey text box. Text reads: Did you know ... Oriel Gray was the joint winner of the 1955 Playwright’s Advisory Board Competition ... with Ray Lawler’s Summer of the Seventeenth Doll?

Her play, The Torrents, was only produced once, in 1956, and not again until 1996, while Summer of the Seventeenth Doll went on to broad acclaim.

In the top left-hand corner, the cover of Exit Left: Memoirs of a Scarlet Woman.

On a red background, a grey text box. Text reads: Did you know ... Debra Dank’s We Come with This Place absolutely swept the awards field, winning an unprecedented four awards at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards in 2023, including Book of the Year, the Indigenous Writers' Prize, the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction, and the Glenda Adams Award for New Writing. It also won the ALS Gold Medal and a Queensland Literary Award, and was shortlisted for a Prime Minister's Literary Award and the Stella Prize.

In the top left-hand corner, the cover for We Come with This Place.

AustLit@austlit· Apr 29

Today's quick search video shows you how to search across both form and subject--especially useful if you want to explore the works in yesterday's highlighted project, COVID-19 in the Australian Arts. Video has captions but no sound. #austlit25 #discoveraustralianstories

AustLit@austlit· Apr 28

Today's highlight project is COVID-19 in the Australian Arts, which AustLit indexers began as soon as we went into lockdown in 2020. This project contains works about the virus and works whose production was affected by the pandemic or lockdowns. Explore more at: www.austlit.edu.au/covid19

On a turquoise background, text reads: AustLit's 25th anniversary special: Research Project 6 of 25. COVID-19 in the Australian Arts. Across the middle of the page, three book covers in a black border: from left to right, they are Dear Australia: 50 Playwrights Send Postcards to the Nation, We're all in This Together, and This Devastating Fever.

On a turquoise background, a grey text box. Text on the turquoise reads: About COVID-19: The 2020-2022 Global
Pandemic in the Australian Arts project
Project start: 2020

Text on the grey text box reads:
In the midst of a global pandemic, AustLit seeks,
as always, to record for posterity.

How do you frame this, when the events are ongoing, in a way that makes sense to both an endless present and
an unknown future?

An image banner shows the covers for Rona the Gutterbug, A Twisted Choice, Patient Zero, and Seeing Other People.

Text continues:

AustLit has created the subject 'COVID19' within the database to track works that are about the virus or its impact on the Australian arts sector, or that are written as a direct response to the pandemic.
#AustLit25
Continue exploring

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The project data remains within AustLit's broader scope of works of creative and life writing, as well as critical material on Australian writing and on the development and production of Australian creative works.

An image banner shows three close-up views of a novel coronavirus, in dark blue on a turquoise background. The banner is maroon, and under each image is a header. From left to right, they read: Writing the Virus, COVID-19 and Live Arts, and Library Sector Responses.

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On top of the dataset, case studies and research details on writing the virus, how the live arts were impacted and how the library sector responded, can be explored on the COVID-19 project page on AustLit!

AustLit@austlit· Apr 23

Today's 25th-anniversary trail is Anzac Day, in all its long, complicated, emotional history. We're highlighting works here by Anthea Hodgson (WW2), Noah Riseman & Richard Trembath (First Nations soldiers), & Gary Crew (Vietnam). Full trail: www.austlit.edu.au/25th-anniver... Slides: Monica Clayton.

Red background, with a black banner highlighting three book covers: Anthea Hodgson's The War Nurses (nurse with her back turned against a dark sky), Riseman and Trembath's Defending Country (Aboriginal soldier with a cigarette on his lip stares past the reader's left shoulder), and Gary Crew's Tagged (a boy runs through a deserted industrial building as a hand reaches out for him). Red poppies dance along the bottom of the image.
Text reads: AustLit's 25th Anniversary special: Information trail 7 of 25. Anzac Day.

Red background with a grey textbox. In the upper right-hand corner of the textbox is the cover of Riseman and Trembath's Defending Country, on which an Aboriginal service man with a cigarette on his lip stares out over the left-hand shoulder of the reader.
Header text reads:
Defending Country
criticism/multi-chapter work
Noah Riseman, Richard Trembath
Main text reads:
'Few Australian realise the extent of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
participation in the military. Many enlisted before they had the right to vote, to drink alcohol or even to receive equal wages.
'Defending Country is the first book to document the unique experiences of Indigenous Australian men and women since the Second World War. Using compelling personal narratives and rigorous archival research, it explores how military service impacted the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander recruits. It also reveals how their involvement in Australia's defence contributed to the advancement of Indigenous rights.’

Red background with a grey textbox. In the top right-hand corner of the textbox is the front cover of Gary Crew's Tagged, in which a young boy runs through an industrial space while a hand reaches out for him.
Header text reads:
Tagged
children's/picture book
Gary Crew and Steve Woolman
Main text reads:
‘Jimmy loves to read war comics. Early one Sunday morning, as he walks his dog, he discovers a bearded, scruffy man dozing in a derelict factory and wonders why he is there. The creators of The Watertower present a powerful anti-war book for kids.’

AustLit@austlit· Mar 24

This week, we celebrated the Australian Fantasy Fiction in Japanese translation dataset, so today's quick help video is on searching translations. Ever wondered who has been translated into Mongolian? Or Dhivehi? Or Estonian? This video will show you how to find out. (Video has captions, no sound.)

AustLit@austlit· Mar 23

Today's highlighted research project is Australian Fantasy Fiction and Japan, a really fun collection of translations of Aust. fantasy fiction into Japanese, from Mary Poppins onwards. (Slides by Monica Clayton.) Explore more at: www.austlit.edu.au/australianfa... #AustLit25 #readaustralianfantasy

Banner image shows, on a bed of stars, the covers for Emily Rodda's Deltora Quest (Japanese above, English below); May Gibb's Snugglepot and Cuddlepie (English above, Japanese below), and A. Bertram Chandler's The Road to the Rim / The Hard Way Up (Japanese above, English below).
Text reads: Australian Fantasy Fiction & Japan

日本語に翻訳されたオーストラリアのファンタジー小説

The dataset includes all the works of
Australian fantasy fiction that the project team could identify that have already been translated into Japanese.

Banner image shows, from left to right, the book covers for Jessica Townsend's Wundersmith, in both the English and Japanese editions; Sergio Bambaren's The Dolphin: Story of a Dreamer, in both the English and Japanese editions; and Paul Kidd's White Plume Mountain, in both the English and Japanese editions.

作成されたデータセットは、オーストラリアの
ファンタジー小説の内、すでに日本語に
翻訳されている作品が全て含まれています。

Project Leaders:

Dr Lucy Fraser
Sonia Broad

Project Team:

Samuel Round
Elara Crook
Christiana Palella

Student Researchers:
Dana Durre
Andrew Millar

Translator
Hiroko Tan | 陳弘子

Generously supported by:
Campbell Bequest at The University of Queensland
UQ Summer Research Programme

AustLit@austlit· Mar 19

AustLit's latest newsletter went out yesterday, and what's in it?! Celebrations for #AustLit25 Welcome to our new BlackWords Co-ordinator! An interview with our senior indexer, who has reached 20 years with AustLit! And much more. Read below, or subscribe for more! rb.gy/h1bulr

AustLit@austlit· Mar 17

For St Patrick's Day, we're highlighting the ARC-funded Close Relations: Irishness in Australian Literature, led by Prof. Ronan McDonald, Prof. Kath Bode, and Assoc. Prof. Maggie Nolan. View the tiles (by Monica Clayton) or explore the project pages for more! www.austlit.edu.au/irishness #AustLit25

On a blue background, text reads: AustLit's 25th Anniversary special: Research Project 3 of 25. Irishness in Australian Literature. Continue to explore the project. Across the middle of the page is a banner, in which the green Irish landscape is spliced with the red Australian outback, with an Irish harp imposed over the top.

On a blue background, text reads: Close Relations: Irishness in Australian Literature Project start: 2023. A grey text box. Text reads: Close Relations aims to transform
our understanding of Australian literature by combining existing traditional literary methods, bibliographical approaches
and digital/computational methods to investigate the complexities of Irishness in its production, circulation and reception. A banner image shows the covers of The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, Fanatic Heart, True History of the Kelly Gang, The Harp in the South, The Rides, and Such is Life. Below that, text reads: By exploring the production and reception of Irishness in Australian literature, ‘Close Relations’ will offer a new account of the contested and fissile nature of white Australian identity in relation to class, gender, race and religion.

On a grey text box, text reads: Close Relations: Irishness in Australian Literature is still under development and is projected for completion in 2027 — we welcome feedback on our definitions, our dataset and our methodologies.

Explore the project on AustLit and please contact us if you would like to assist us in understanding what Irishness is, how it’s defined, how it manifests and how it is mobilised in the Australian literary field.

A Celtic knot, an Irish harp, and a shamrock float above and apparently rise out of a green book.

Below that, text reads: AustLit welcomes contributions from scholars and specialists in the area in order to build an authoritative and detailed resource for research and general interest.

AustLit@austlit· Mar 16

The latest 25 for 25 trail is live and, to mark Harmony Week, it's on the theme of migrant voices. Compiled by AustLit intern and CSU student Renee Mirabato, with gorgeous slides by Monica Clayton. As always, check out www.austlit.edu.au/25th-anniver... for the full trail! #AustLit25 #diversity

A red background, with a black banner and, on top of it, a red map of the world: three speech bubbles show vibrant images of a beach, a collage street scene, and a pagoda on top of a cloud-covered skyscraper.

Text reads: AustLit's 25th anniversary special: Information trail 5 of 25. Migrant Voices. Continue to explore the trail

A red background, with black text: Ten Pound Pom. Autobiography, picture book. Carole Wilkinson - author, Liz Aneli - illustrator (2017). A grey text box. Text readds: I don’t want to go to Australia. I have just started grammar school. My best friend Sally goes there too. But it looks like there could be another war and Dad has convinced Mum to go. Because we’re migrants, the voyage is costing Mum and Dad only £10 each. My brother Brian and I are travelling free. It’s a long way to Australia. What if we never come back to England?

'In the 1950s and 60s Australia welcomed thousands of British immigrants as part of the Assisted Passage Migration Scheme. Ten Pound Pom is the true story of award-winning author Carole Wilkinson’s immigration to Australia.'
In the bottom right hand corner of the text box is the book cover, showing a street scene opening up to a large passenger ship with, in the foreground, a family huddling under a black umbrella.

A red background: black text reads 'Donkeys Can't Fly on Planes: Stories of Survival from South Sudanese Children Living in Australia. Anthology, Autobiography, Picture book. A grey text box: text reads In Donkey's Can't Fly on Planes twenty-two refugee children from South Sudan, who now live in Australia, share their personal survival stories. In short, honest texts that are accompanied by mixed-media collage illustrations, the children talk about life in Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, and other African countries. They share experiences of starvation and war, of family separation and death, but they also describe African customs and traditions, everyday life and happy memories.' In the top right-hand corner is the cover of the book, showing a brown donkey against green hills.

A red background. Black text reads, Ghost Cities. Ficti9on, Fantasy Novel. Siang Lu (2024). A grey text box. Text reads: 'Inspired by the vacant, uninhabited megacities of China, Ghost Cities follows multiple narratives, including one in which a young man named Xiang is fired from his job as a translator at Sydney's Chinese Consulate after it is discovered he doesn't speak a word of Chinese and has been relying entirely on Google Translate for his work.

How is his relocation to one such ghost city connected to a parallel odyssey in which an ancient Emperor creates a thousand doubles of Himself? Or where a horny mountain gains sentience? Where a chess-playing automaton hides a deadly secret? Or a tale in which every book in the known Empire is destroyed - then recreated, page by page and book by book - all in the name of love and art?' In the top right-hand corner is the cover of the book, showing a grey-toned fantastical cityscape rising vertically up the cover.

AustLit@austlit· Mar 11

Today's highlight is the Australian Drama Archive, a full-text collection of pre-1960s plays, from the claustrophobic horror of The Flail of God to the absurdity of The Ladder Game. Explore the project in full at: www.austlit.edu.au/australiandr... #AustLit25 Beautiful slides by Monica Clayton!

AustLit’s 25th Anniversary special:
Research Project 2 OF 25:

[Image shows a black stage with five curved rows of black seats in front of it: the image is designed as an icon, not as a representative or illustrative image. On the stage are three images from set design associated with the project. This first shows a man in a grey suit, on the left, kissing the hand of a woman in a white tutu-style skirt; the second shows a grey, two-storey street scene; the third shows a vaguely Greek-looking scene, with pillars and cyprus trees.]

AUSTRALIAN DRAMA ARCHIVE
Continue to explore the project!

About the Australian Drama Archive project

Project start: 2016

The Australian Drama Archive Project is a digitisation project publishing plays and research relating to writers working in the period before the 1960s.

Collaborators at The University of Queensland and the University of New England set out to digitise and research a collection of Australian plays from the twentieth century up to the 1960s and bring them to life again through publication, production, and new research.

The Australian Drama Archive’s dataset includes but is not limited to the following:

> Biographical information — playwrights and writers working in the period before the 1960s.

> Play Information — synopsis, publication details, production details and historical notes.

> Research outcomes

> Digitised transcripts of plays researched in the project.

[Banner image shows a series of pages from the plays included in the project: the pages are text-heavy and the text is illegible at this size.]

Selected plays were scanned and in most cases run through an optical character recognition (OCR) process which generated a plain text file that was subsequently corrected.

In some cases the OCR text was so bad, due to the poor quality of the original manuscript, we determined it was best to manually transcribe the text.

AustLit@austlit· Mar 4

AustLit's tip for the day: did you know you can follow AustLit records? You can even follow your own record! Then you'll know exactly when we add your latest works to the database. You'll only be alerted to substantial updates (i.e., if we add a new work, not if we adjust a comma in your biography).

The AustLit record for Alexis Wright. In the right-hand top corner, an orange box is circled in red. The box reads Follow and includes a space for an email address.

AustLit@austlit· Mar 4

Did you explore our information trail on adaptations yesterday? Today, our quick help video shows you how to search the database for adaptations: both works that have been adapted and works that are adaptations. (Video has captions, no sound.) Happy searching!

AustLit@austlit· Mar 3

The fourth of our anniversary information trails is all about adaptations, in all their forms! Compiled by Charles Sturt student and AustLit intern Erin Richman, and with beautiful slides designed by Monica Clayton, this one is fun from 1885 all the way to 2020. www.austlit.edu.au/25th-anniver...

Red background, on which text reads AustLit's 25th Anniversary special: Information trail 4 of 25. Adaptations. Continue to explore the trail! Image across the middle of the tile shows three covers: Leah Purcell's The Drover's Wife (left), the promotional poster for Chinese TV series Miss S (middle), and Nicki Greenberg's The Great Gatsby (right).

Red background, with a grey textbox. In the top left-hand corner of the text box is the cover of Leah Purcell's The Drover's Wife. Text reads: 'In the Snowy Mountains, Hell hath no fury like a mother scorned. A searing reimagining of Leah Purcell's play and Henry Lawson's classic short story.'

On a red background, a grey textbox. In the top right-hand corner of the text box, the promotional image for the Chinese TV series Miss S. Text reads: 'An adaptation of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, Miss S stars Mai Yi Li as a beautiful and witty socialite who forms an unlikely alliance with a righteous police inspector, solving numerous cases in and around Shanghai in the 1920s.'

On a red background, a grey text box. In the top right-hand corner, the cover of Nicki Greenberg's graphic novel adaptation of The Great Gatsby. Text reads: ‘In homage to F. Scott Fitzgerald's jazz age classic, this acclaimed graphic adaptation brings to life the glitter, the melancholy and the grand and crumpled dreams of Fitzgerald's unforgettable characters. Daisy, Nick, Tom, Jordan and Gatsby himself are rendered true to Fitzgerald's original characterisation, with a difference: they are not human.’

AustLit@austlit· Feb 25

If you saw our celebration of ScreenLit, you might be curious about how to explore AustLit for film or television. This brief video (captions: no sound) will walk you through some of those search options! #AustLit25

AustLit@austlit· Feb 19

Today, we're highlighting one of our bigger research datasets: ScreenLit! This is AustLit's collection of bibliographical records on film and television from the earliest days. Find out more at www.austlit.edu.au/screenlit Beautiful slides by Monica Clayton. #AustLit25

Text reads: AustLit's 25th anniversary special: Research Project 1 of 25.
In the centre of the page, two rows of stylised film, showing title screens from the following films and TV series: top row, left to right, Muriel's Wedding, The Sapphires, Heartbreak High (new series); bottom row, left to right, Ali's Wedding, Puberty Blues (new series), Red Dog.
Text below reads: ScreenLit. Continue to explore the project!

On a blue background, a grey text box. Text above the box reads: About ScreenLit Project start: 2009
In the text box, text reads:
ScreenLit provides information-rich records about
Australian cinema productions (including short and feature films, documentaries, and animated films) and television programs (including made-for-TV movies, series, mini-series, serials and documentaries).
A row of three images show the posters for Ned Kelly (Heath Ledger version), Bran Nue Day, and The Babadook.
Below that, text reads: Chronologically, the resource begins with the emergence of Australian film production in the first decades of the twentieth century.

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and is continually being updated.

Explore the ScreenLit project on AustLit and please contact us if you would like to assist us in expanding information about Australian film, television and other audio-visual storytelling methods.

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AustLit@austlit· Feb 18

Updated calendar for the #AustLit25 celebrations: check out what is coming up next, including trails on adaptations and multicultural writing, as well as projects on screen, drama, and Irishness. More details on the anniversary site! www.austlit.edu.au/25th-anniver...