Connecting you with Australian culture online
AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource (more info)
AustLit offers libraries, students, teachers and researchers a single entry point to enhanced high quality scholarly print and electronic information and full text resources about Australian literature in all genres.
Australia's The Well Bookshop (more info)
The Well Bookshop is an online bookstore where customers can browse, read reviews and buy books online. It contains a database for easy browsing and purchases are done securely online or via fax. The Well provides special orders and personalised serv...
Australian Authors and Illustrators for Young People (more info)
This site is a directory of websites and web pages with information on authors and illustrators of Australian children's and young adult works, and a number of adult works of interest to school students.
Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) (more info)
The Association protects and promotes the interests of booksellers throughout Australia. Members range from small independent bookshops to large chains.
Australian literary and historical texts (more info)
The University of Sydney's SETIS Collections contains more than 300 Australian literary and historical texts.
Australian Literary Management (more info)
Australian Literary Management, based in Balmain in Sydney, represents and manages the business affairs of around one hundred Australian authors. Most of ALM's authors are represented on the ALM website with a photo or a book cover, and a description...
Australian Literature - Selected websites (more info)
The National library of Australia's Australian literature sites are for researching Australian literature on the Internet and provide a starting place for researchers in this field. They provide a diverse range of information on Australian literature...
Australian Literature Resources (more info)
The Australian literature section at the State Library of Western Australia holds an extensive range of references to Western Australian literature, Australian literary collections and biographies as well as journals and reviews. Its resources also i...
Australian Writers Online (more info)
This group is for Australian writers, editors, illustrators, agents and publishers to mingle online.
There is a distinct Australian flavour to the postings, the links, files and resources available.
The purpose of this group, Australian Write...
Australian Writers' Guild (AWG) (more info)
The Australian Writers' Guild (AWG) is a professional association for writers in the areas of television, radio, screen and stage. The website gives information about the Australian Writers' Guild, a comprehensive writers' directory, information on h...
Australian Writers' Resource (more info)
This website provides information about competitions, publishers and writers' groups.
A general site for homesick Australian: it includes news, a shop to buy Australian goods, downloads of Australian screensavers and global gatherings forum to link up Aussies in different countries.
Website to promote young writers nationally. Schools who subscribe can submit original works, with the best entries published on the Internet.
Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service (SETIS): Australian Literature Database (more info)
TheSETIS provides access to a large number of networked and in-house full text databases and primarily source texts within the humanities. Many of these are commercially licensed texts and available only to users at the University of Sydney.
Society of Editors ( Queensland ) (more info)
The Society of Editors (Queensland) Inc. is an association of professional editors, and who are dedicated to fostering the highest standards of language, communication and publishing. Through the activities they offer, and the festivals, competitions...
Think Lyrical is a website created for Western Australian students in years 8, 9 and 10 as a constantly evolving platform for free verse expression. Students from invited schools in WA can submit one poem per month using topics provided by the websit...
Write21 is an Australian based resource centre for writers in the 21st century. Various articles aim to provide writers, especially new writers, with an insight into the world of fiction writing, and the site provides links to more comprehensive writ...
Professional writers and editors online. Provides services for writers and informative listings of writers so that people can locate the right writer for their specific needs.
Young Australians' Best Book Awards Council (more info)
The website of the Victorian Children's Choice Book Awards Program - the award that is decided exclusively by young readers themselves. YABBA encourages young readers to consider, discuss and express their opinions on Australian fiction books. The si...
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