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The Miles Franklin Literary Award - Australia's Culture Portal

The annual Miles Franklin Literary Award is one of the most illustrious events on the Australian literary calendar. The award, now worth $42,000, was bequeathed by the will of Australian novelist, Miles Franklin for a 'published novel or play portraying A...

The Australian Bush - Australia's Culture Portal

The bush has an iconic status in Australian life and features strongly in any debate about national identity, especially as expressed in Australian literature, painting, popular music, films and foods. The bush was revered as a source of national ideals b...

Australian children's books - Australia's Culture Portal

Australian children's literature rests on the enthusiasm and talents of many individuals, including a great many more Australian writers, illustrators and books than can be listed in this article. The earliest books published for children were mostly ins...

Australian female filmmakers - Australia's Culture Portal

Australian films and filmmakers receive acclaim on the world stage, and the achievements of Australian women onscreen are celebrated. The play's success encouraged Kate to turn the play into a film (1920), which she co-directed with Charles Villiers, mak...

Jacket magazine - Australia's Culture Portal

He has brought to the Internet, Jacket, a website dedicated to Australian literary history, reviews, articles and interviews and everything to do with poetry. Extensive content relating to the Ern Malley affair appears in Jacket 1, including some of Mall...

Australian literary magazines - Australia's Culture Portal

From the Australian Magazine's debut in 1821, Australia's magazine industry developed rapidly in the late nineteenth century through popular titles such as the Bulletin and Melbourne Punch. Alongside these more mainstream publications, a series of small,...

Australian novels - Australia's Culture Portal

Australian novels are an impressive collection of written works, and represent a dynamic body of excellent writers, some with significant international awards to their credit. The Australian poet Alec Hope said that, 'The Bunyip of Australian literature ...

Australian language, letters and literature - Australia's Culture Portal

Australian language, letters and literature in Australia has been influenced by Aboriginal storytelling, convict tales and the desire by colonists to relate their experiences in a new country. Similarly, the bush ballads of Henry Lawson and Andrew 'Banjo...

Modern Australian poetry - Australia's Culture Portal

Modern Australian poetry seeks to tell Australian stories and truths with a poetic significance so that 'they sear into the soul and can never be untold' (Dorothy Porter). The Jindyworobaks encouraged Australian writers to express themselves in language ...

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Flood Manuscripts   (more info)

Flood Manuscripts offers assessment, editing and mentoring for published and unpublished writers by Miles Franklin winning author Tom Flood. See website for fees and services.

ETT Print   (more info)

ETT IMPRINT represents nearly one hundred Australian authors and Estates, many of which were purchased from the Angus & Robertson backlist in the mid-1990s. ETT Imprint aim to keep Australian literary classics available. Authors include Judith Wright, Ken

Trust Foundation   (more info)

The Trust Foundation administers the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Portia Geach Fund Memorial Award, the Kathleen Mitchell Award for Young Writers, the Martin Bequest Travelling Scholarships, Sir Robert Askin Operatic Travelling Scholarship, the Max

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Jill Roe wins Adelaide prize for Miles Franklin biography - RN Book Show - 2-March-2010 -   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

Today we revist a conversation I had with biographer Jill Roe in November 2008, when the book was first published. Stella Miles Franklin: A Bioraphy has just won the 2010 Adelaide Festival Award for Literature (Non-fiction). Jill RoeAuthor of Stella Miles...

Audio Books Direct: Miles Franklin - My Brilliant Career   (website Audio Books Direct )

With this warning, Sybylla confesses to her rich and handsome suitor that she is given to writing stories and bound, therefore, on a brilliant career. In this ironically titled and exuberant novel by Miles Franklin, originally published in 1901, Sybylla ...

The Miles Franklin Literary Award - Australia's Culture Portal   (website Culture Portal )

The annual Miles Franklin Literary Award is one of the most illustrious events on the Australian literary calendar. The award, now worth $42,000, was bequeathed by the will of Australian novelist, Miles Franklin for a 'published novel or play portraying A...

Miles Franklin on ASO - Australia's audio and visual heritage online   (website australianscreen )

My Brilliant Career (1979) ,Äî writer of original material This list shows all the titles currently on australianscreen that include Miles Franklin in a principal role. It is not a comprehensive screenography....

Miles Franklin longlist: Bail, Jordan · Text Publishing   (website Text Publishing )

Text also publishes books for young adults and younger readers. The longlist for this year's prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award contains two books published by Text last year: Murray Bail's The Pages, and Toni Jordan's debut novel, Addition. Text...

Edited Book - Yarn spinners : a story in letters, Dymphna Cusack, Florence James, Miles Franklin - The Australian Women's Register   (website Australian Women's Archive Project )

An initiative of The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) in conjunction with The University of Melbourne Yarn spinners : a story in letters, Dymphna Cusack, Florence James, Miles Franklin University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Qld, 2001, 4...

Book - Guide to the papers and books of Miles Franklin in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales - The Australian Women's Register   (website Australian Women's Archive Project )

An initiative of The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) in conjunction with The University of Melbourne Franklin, Miles, 1879-1954 -- Bibliography -- Catalogues. Franklin, Miles, 1879-1954, correspondence and literary papers, 1887 - 1954, Mf...

Miles Franklin - The Book of the Waratah Cup, 1902-1908, 1944-1954 - The Australian Women's Register   (website Australian Women's Archive Project )

Autograph book known as Miles Franklin's Waratah Book. One cover is embossed 'Writing Album'. The other cover is inscribed ' The Book of the Waratah Cup"....