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  • History of Creative Writing on AustLit

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    The history of creative writing on AustLit is the history of Australian Literature itself.

    From 1999, when AustLit's consortium of scholars and librarians was first formed, AustLit has worked to create and enhance rich bio-bibliographical records on Australian literature, story-telling, and print culture, serving as a repository for the ways in which Australians tell stories and for the stories that are told about Australia.

    AustLit records creative writing from the earliest stories to the most recent publications, from literary fiction to all genres, from collected works of poetry to autobiography and memoir, as well as the works that are written about these works.

    'Creative Writing', in this context, includes all the AustLit data that is not specifically addressed in the other categories of Stage & Screen, Children's & YA Literature, Criticism, and BlackWords. Under the umbrella of 'Creative Writing' comes life writing of all forms, novels, short stories, graphic novels, correspondence, and poetry.

    AustLit is also home to rich research projects about the multitude of creative writing produced by Australians and about Australia, from analyses of steampunk, pulp fiction and medievalism to surveys of archival holdings on censored books, from projects about belonging and leaving to explorations of moments of extreme socio-political impact, such as World War I.

  • AustLit records details of tens of thousands of novels, auto/biographies, poetry collections, and short-story collections.

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  • Exhibitions, Trails, and Research Projects

  • AustLit regularly collates specific subsets of our data and presents them as online exhibitions or information trails. We also support and publish research projects by AustLit staff and external researchers.

    You can find all the exhibitions and trails by checking out AustLit's research page, or explore the tiles below for specific exhibitions and AustLit publications.

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      Writing Disability in Australia

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      Waves of Fiction

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      Speculations

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      World War I

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      Beyond Goggles and Corsets

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      Australian Popular Medievalism

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      Pulp Fiction

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      Banned in Australia

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      Australian Multicultural Writers

  • Full-Text Creative and Life Writing

  • AustLit also publishes collections of original and archival creative and autobiographical writing.

    Click on one of the images below to view the collections.

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      Parasols and Prosthetic Limbs

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      Growing Up Indigenous

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      Australian Drama Archive

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