Literary career

The article presents an overview of Alex Miller’s literary career and development as a writer and examines his six novels published to date.

In Thomas Keneally's four published novels, tendencies which we have grown familiar with in the fiction of H. H. Richardson Christina Stead, Patrick White, Hal…

One possible and useful means of trying to determine how far Mackenzie may have fulfilled the undoubted promise he showed, is through an examination of…

'The theatre's not a dedication,' says Porter as he walks. 'My plays are more in the nature of plans for novels. They bring in handy…

John Lang, the first Australian-born novelist, has been the subject of recent articles by Dr Colin Roderick and Mr John Earnshaw. The aim of this…

Whatever happened to Alan Seymour? For a time, in the early sixties he was generally considered to rank second only to Ray Lawler among Australian…

It is now eight years since the first book by Kath Walker caused a stir in Australian literary circles; and she has recently published her…

Writers on Henry Lawson have so far failed to give an adequate account of his visits to New Zealand in the 1890s The importance of…

Kirkby discusses Miles Franklin's time in Chicago and the intersection there of her political and literary activities. Kirkby argues that Franklin's work in the American…

Wilding discusses his career as writer and academic, literary influences, the relationship between writing and politics and Australian literary studies more broadly.

Reading Bruce Dawe's uncollected juvenilia written during the mid-1940s (and even the few more conservative poems published in the Jindyworobak anthologies under his pen-name, 'Llewelyn…

This essay reads the novel of expatriate colonial writer Rosa Praed, Outlaw and Lawmaker (1893), as an intervention in the public debate about the Irish…

‘Evidence from the novel, the Franklin Papers at the Mitchell Library, and the wonderfully informative Goulburn Evening Post indicates that while Franklin always insisted “the…

A brief statement on writing from Don'o Kim

A brief statement on writing from editor, translator and poet Rudi Krausmann.

A statement on writing by Frank Moorhouse, discussing the development of his career, his approach to narrative form, genre and layout, and the reception of…

A short statement by David Foster on his career and approach to writing.

A brief statement from Murray Bail, describing his relationship to 'Australian literature' and approach to narrative.

A brief statement by John Forbes on his approach to writing poetry.

An excerpt from an interview with John Tranter by Martin Duwell, primarily focused on Tranter's approach to poetic style and the purpose of poetry.