ALT The shortlisted book covers appear on a starry sky background with the ASAL logo and the ALS Gold Medal shortlist Randa Abdel-Fattah, Discipline (UQP) Ender Başkan, Two Hundred Million Musketeers (Giramondo) Raaza Jamshed, What Kept You? (Giramondo) Luke Patterson, A Savage Turn (Magabala) Omar Sakr & Safdar Ahmed, The Nightmare Sequence (UQP) Madeleine Watts, Elegy, Southwest (Ultimo)

ALT Against a starry night sky background, the six book covers for the Magarey Medal for Biography longlist: Judith Brett, The Fearless Beatrice Faust Helen Ennis, Max Dupain: a Portrait Brenda Niall, Joan Lindsay: the hidden life of the woman who wrote Picnic at Hanging Rock Jane Smith, One Free Woman: The true Story of Convict Hannah Rigby Diana Thorp, Code of Silence: How Australian Women Helped the War Susan Wyndham, Elizabeth Harrower: the Woman in the Watch Tower And the ASAL (Association for the study of Australian literature) logo in the bottom corner.

ALT A poster of a dark starry sky with the Mary Gilmore Award and ASAL logo and the covers of the seven shortlisted books, Kay L Are, A Sonogrammar (Puncher & Wattmann) Ender Başkan, Two Hundred Million Musketeers (Giramondo) Jacinta Le Plastrier, these memories require (Puncher &Wattmann) Belle Ling, Nebulous Vertigo (Tupelo Press) Liv Moriarty, Gravity and Gravel (No More Poetry) Luke Patterson, A Savage Turn (Magabala Books) Lili Ward, Easily Enlightened (No More Poetry)

ALT A collection of pictures of the longlisted books front covers in two rows on a starry background, with the heading 'Longlisted for the ALS Gold Medal' and the ASAL logo in the bottom left corner.

ALT The image has a pale blue background. The text is dark brown, framed by a simple line-frame in a lighter brown colour. The bottom third of the image is taken up with the logo of The Literary Encyclopedia: Exploring literature, history and culture

ALT The image is a pale brown with black text. The images of four women are featured in the bottom right corner. One is holding a small dog. The text reads: Roderick Centre Public Seminar Community Publishing in Regional Australia: Writing, Editing, Distributing and Marketing. Date: Wed 5 November Time 4-5.30pm AEST Where: Online. Follow the link to register now!

ALT The image is a teal blue colour, with black text. It features the silhouette of a round shape in the bottom right corner. Pictured on the right side is Dr Keyvan Allahyari, standing with his arms crossed smiling at the camera. The text reads: Roderick Centre Public Seminar Dr Keyvan Allahyari. (De-)colonial Blues: Waterborne Method and the Inter-discipline’s Resource Frontiers Date: Wed 29 October Time: 4–5:30pm AEST Where: Online Follow the link register now!

ALT The image has a dark orange background. The top of the image reads: CFP: ASAL Mini Conference Audiobooks and Australian Literary Studies. In large text written in diagonal across the rest of the image it says: NEW DEADLINE! In capital letters.

ALT The image is a dusky pink with dark brown text. In the bottom left corner there is a black and white photo of a man looking towards the camera. The text reads: From Capricornia to Carpentaria: the Literary Legacy of Xavier Herbert 2025 Fryer Lecture in Australian Literature. Upcoming Event: 2025 Fryer Lecture in Australian Literature to be delivered by author and literary critic Geordie Williamson. Date: Friday, 3 October 2025 Time: 6pm Where: UQ, St Lucia. Follow the link in our bio to register now!

ALT The text of the image reads: Roderick Centre Public Seminar Dr Meg Brayshaw Finding gold in the literary history of mining in North Queensland: The politics and pleasures of reading Sarah Campion’s Burdekin trilogy in place. Date: 27 August Time: 4–5:30pm AEST Where: Online. Register now to secure your place! The image has a dark orange background, and an image of Dr Meg Brayshaw is featured in the bottom right corner. She has short blonde hair and her glasses have black frames.

ALT The text of the image reads: Submissions Open A.D. Hope Prize 2025 Submissions are now open for the A.D. Hope Prize 2025! The prize will be awarded to the best essay based on a paper presented by a postgraduate ASAL member at the 2025 ASAL conference. The essay must be: A substantial re-writing/expansion of your conference paper Between 4500-6000 words Submitted by a postgraduate ASAL Member Submit by 1st December 2025

ALT The image has a dark orange background, with dark brown text. It says: CFP: ASAL Mini Conference Audiobooks and Australian Literary Studies Submissions are now open for the Audiobooks and Australian Literary Studies ASAL Mini conference happening at ANU in Feb 2026! Abstracts due: Friday 12 September 2025 Email: millicent.weber@anu.edu.au Potential topics include, but are not limited to: readings—close, distant, computational, or otherwise—of audiobooks; audiobooks and/of Australian literature; audiobooks and/of Indigenous literature; audiobooks and disability; audiobooks and the politics of speaking/listening; phenomenological and/or empirical studies of audiobook listening; audiobooks and systems of value and prestige, including reviewing and prizing Follow the link in our bio for full details!"