Welcome to the Australian Literary Compendium, a creative and academic collaboration between the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL), which funded the project through the CAL Cultural Fund, ABC Radio National, Australian and international universities, writers and literary organisations.
The project aims to introduce new readers, writers and researchers in Australia and internationally to a diverse range of Australian writers and writing.
The website offers teaching resources, links and profiles and a refereed, scholarly e-journal. Each of these components will be updated on a regular basis. In offering such a resource, the project coordinators and the Board will establish an on-going conversation about contemporary as well as earlier Australian writing, offering opportunities for scholarship in traditional Australian literary studies as well as cultural studies and more practice-based creative writing approaches to Australian writing.
Twice each year a series of indepth radio programs on Australian writing will be produced for ABC Radio National and these will be posted on this website with accompanying transcripts, podcasts and essays by some of Australia's leading scholars. This material is available for schools , universities individuals interested in broadening their understanding of Australian writing and can be down loaded free of charge.
As well as these teaching resources, a refereed e-journal will be posted twice a year and these will contain peer reviewed papers about Australian writing. Creative fiction, ficto-critical writing, photographic or new media pieces will be included so the notion of 'new' Australian writing can be explored in all its connotations.
We hope you enjoy using this resource and any suggestions regarding useful materials for your scholarship would be welcomed. You may also register to receive updates about our work. Please feel free to direct any enquiries you may have about the project to the co-ordinators:
Professor Catherine Cole Catherine.Cole@rmit.edu.au
Dr Lyn Gallacher Gallacher.Lyn@abc.net.au
