Contemporary Australian Women's Fiction

Dear Colleagues,

The 2021 trifecta achieved by Amanda Lohrey, when her novel The Labyrinth won the Miles Franklin Award, The Voss Prize, and the Prime Minister's Literary Award, situates Lohrey as among the most heralded of an impressive variety of twenty-first-century Australian women novelists which also includes such eminent writers as Michelle de Kretser, Carmel Bird, Sara Dowse, Anna Funder, Sofie Laguna, and Gail Jones. This Special Issue will examine contemporary Australian women's fiction (including trans women and non-binary authors). How constructions of gender and identity shape responses to Indigenous women writers, such as Melissa Lucashenko, Anita Heiss, Larissa Behrert, Alexis Wright, and Tara June Winch, is a focus of particular interest; as well as authors whose global reputations have emerged in the past ten years such as Emily Bitto, Heather Rose, Jane Harper, and Charlotte Wood. These names, however, are merely proffered as examples, and any writer, literary movement discourse or configuration, or imaginative mode that potential contributors wish to explore is welcome as a possible subject.

Please send proposals to Nicholas Birns at nb2003@nyu.edu by 15 March, 2022; completed essays are due 1 September, 2022.

Prof. Dr. Nicholas Birns
Guest Editor

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