AustLit
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2019
recipient Better Reading $8,000 for Better Reading on Writing - Diversity in Children's Writing Podcast.recipient Australian Children’s Laureate Foundation $52,800 for its Australian Children's Laureate stipend.recipient (Editing) Australian Publishers Association $30,000 for its Residential Editorial Program for Editorsrecipient (Programs for School Students) Poetry in Action $22,727 to develop a new school’s program Riots and Revolutionsrecipient (Programs for School Students) The Literature Centre $10,000 for its Talented Young Writers Program (Years 6-12) in Albany, Bunbury, Busselton, Geraldton, WArecipient (Programs for School Students) Australian Library and Information Association $60,000 over two years for Australian Reading Hourrecipient (Professional Development for Teachers and Educators) y AustLit : The Australian Literature Resource AustLit : Australian Literature Gateway; AustLit : The Resource for Australian Literature; AustLit Kerry Kilner (editor), 2002- Z1105521 2002- website index bibliographyAustLit: The Australian Literature Resource is a web-accessible database providing authoritative information on creative and critical Australian literary works, authors and organisations.
The AustLit team, which is distributed around Australia at participating universities and libraries, indexes and describes Australia-identified literature published in a range of print and electronic sources. It also makes available selected critical articles and creative writing in full text.
AustLit also supports specialist research across a wide field of interests in Australian literary, print, and storytelling history.
AustLit was established in 2000. Since 2002 AustLit has been led by The University of Queensland and since 2014 most of the indexing work and content development has been undertaken there.
recipient (Professional Development for Teachers and Educators) Australian Association for the Teaching of English $8,000 for Australian Association for the Teaching of English Conference 2020recipient (Professional Development for Teachers and Educators) Australian Literacy Educators' Association $8,000 to Literacies of our Learners Conference: Understanding, Responding, Connectingrecipient (Theatre) Urban Theatre Projects $8,000 for Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Sarah Ayoub and Omar Sakr to create novellas rewriting the dominant narratives around the lives of second-generation Lebanese-Australian citizens.recipient (Visual Art) Institute of Modern Art $15,000 for Creolization: supporting new work by Australian artistsrecipient (Writers) MPavillion $10,000 for MPavilion Emerging Indigenous Writer In-Residence Programrecipient (Writers) PEN Melbourne Centre $6,000 to FreeSpeak Project: Promoting literature, Defending Freedom of Expressionrecipient (Writers) Fremantle Press $5,750 for training authors in media promotion and showcasing to festival directorsrecipient (Writers) University of Queensland Press $10,000 for a First Nations Story Anthology edited by Ellen van Neervanrecipient (Writers) Association for the Study of Australian Literature $45,000 over three years for the ASAL Public Events Program 2020-22 including writers lectures, panels and conferencesrecipient (Writers) The Sydney Morning Herald $30,000 support for Best Young Australian Novelist Award 2020-2022.