AustLit: Discover Australian Stories

AustLit is... Australian storytelling

Discover biographical, bibliographical, and critical information about Australian writers, writing, and publishing.

1,062,897 works
207,034 creators
30,398 subjects

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AustLit is... scholarship

Discover current debates, teaching, and research patterns around Australian literary, print, and narrative cultures.

161,251 works
28,432 authors

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AustLit is... BlackWords

Discover the lives and works of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers and storytellers.

28,761 works
7,940 authors

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AustLit is... theatre, film, television, and the radio

Discover the history of Australian performance works.

24,556 works
16,369 creators

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AustLit is... writing for children and young adults

Discover the diversity of Australian writing for younger readers and a rich collection of teaching resources.

69,293 works
31,563 authors and illustrators

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In September 2001, the new, web-accessible database AustLit: The Australian Literature Gateway went online, taking over from its venerable predecessor AUSTLIT. For the last twenty-five years, it has supported Australian literary, publishing, narrative and Indigenous studies, making it Australia's longest-running digital humanities project. It has become an invaluable resource with information about over one million works and 200,000 agents, and hosting of multiple research projects and curated datasets. Throughout 2026, we're celebrating this unique resources and its extraordinary milesotone with a range of digital outcomes, including new information trails and project highlights. Follow along here and on social media to celebrate this invaluable resource, and check out more details at the link below.

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