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Professor David McCooey and Associate Professor Maria Takolander ‘s New Publications

Professor David McCooey and Associate Professor Maria Takolander have had poems chosen for publication in The Best Australian Poems 2016, Black Inc’s annual anthology. Their work will also be...

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Reminder: Geelong’s 2016 Word for Word Non-fiction Festival Starts in One Week!

Come along to Geelong’s 2016 Word for Word Non-fiction Festival – Australia’s largest non-fiction writing festival — which will be held at “The Dome” or the Geelong Library and...

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Associate Professor Maria Takolander Judge of Newcastle Short Story Award

Associate Professor Maria Takolander will be one of the judges (along with Peter Goldsworthy) of the 2017 Newcastle Short Story Award, a national competition that opens for submissions on...

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Reminder: Geelong’s 2016 Word for Word Non-fiction Festival

Come along to Geelong’s 2016 Word for Word Non-fiction Festival – Australia’s largest non-fiction writing festival — which will be held at “The Dome” or the Geelong Library and...

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Associate Professor Maria Takolander on Radio National

Maria Takolander was on Radio National’s Book and Arts program discussing Ben Okri’s magical realist novel The Famished Road. Listen to the podcast. The Famished Road by Ben Okri follows the trials...

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Geelong’s 2016 Word for Word Non-fiction Festival

Come along to Geelong’s 2016 Word for Word Non-fiction Festival – Australia’s largest non-fiction writing festival — which will be held at “The Dome” or the Geelong Library and...

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History Seminar Series: Panel Discussion Number Three

Contemporary Histories Seminar Series: Trimester Two, 2016 – Panel Three Panel Three: Telling the Past That is Still with Us: The Historiographical and Literary Challenges Posed by Contemporary Histories...

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History Seminar Series: Third Panel Discussion Begins Tomorrow

The next panel discussion in the History Seminar Series is tomorrow: Telling the Past That is Still with Us: The Historiographical and Literary Challenges Posed by Contemporary Histories. A...

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Associate Professor Maria Takolander on Magical Realism and Unfinished Histories

Maria Takolander is an Associate Professor in Writing and Literature at Deakin University in Geelong. In addition to being an award-winning fiction writer and poet, she is also the...

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Dr Alyson Miller Reports on World Poetry Day, 2016

 Dr Alyson Miller attends a celebration of UNESCO’s World Poetry Day in Geelong. I recently attended a celebration of World Poetry Day, hosted by Geelong Library and Heritage Centre,...

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World Poetry Day Tuesday 22 March, Geelong Library and Heritage Centre

Contemporary Histories Research Group members, Dr Alyson Miller, Professor David McCooey and Associate Professor Maria Takolander, will read their poetry from Black Inc’s The Best Australian Poems 2015 for World Poetry...

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Book Launch The Intervention: An Anthology

 In this historic anthology, award-winning writers Rosie Scott and Dr Anita Heiss have gathered together the work of twenty of Australia’s finest writers, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, together with...

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