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Hosted by the Centre's Director Associate Professor Stephen Carleton, The UQ Book Club will launch in May, taking us through self-isolation and into a post-pandemic era. Each month, the book club will champion and discuss works of Australian literature as part of an interactive online community.

This edited collection of twelve essays from an international range of contemporary Shakespeare scholars explores the supernatural in Shakespeare from a variety of perspectives and approaches, generating new knowledge and presenting hitherto unexplored avenues of enquiry across the Shakespearean canon.

Designed to give staff and postgraduate writing students a dedicated time and space to devote to writing each week, Write Club meets from 8—11am each Wednesday morning in the brand new Writers Studio, adopting Francesco Cirillo’s ‘Pomodoro Technique’ by way of methodology.

News of the death of Emeritus Professor Laurie Hergenhan AO will be greeted with sadness by the community of scholars of Australian Literature throughout Australia and overseas.

CCCW partners, AustLit and the Fryer Library, are pleased to announce an exciting digital monograph that has resulted from the 2017 Fryer Library Fellowship.

Congratulations to four of our former playwriting students who have just been selected for inclusion in Playlab's 'Incubator' program.

Congratulations to Belle Ling for winning the Peter Porter Prize for poetry. Belle answers our questions about what the prize means to her and the role and function of poetry in her life.

Graham Akhurst is an Aboriginal writer hailing from the Kokomini of Northern Queensland. He has been published in Australia and America for poetry, short fiction, and creative non-fiction. His debut novel Borderland will be released in 2019 with Hachette. Graham is currently enrolled in an MPhil of Creative Writing at the University of Queensland.

Julienne van Loon is the author of three critically acclaimed novels: Road Story, Beneath the Bloodwood Tree and Harmless

Behrouz Boochani: detained asylum seeker wins Australia's richest literary prize