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WikiProject Australian literature is a collaboration space and central forum for editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Australian literature. Relevant articles will be categorised so they can be easily accessed for assessment and cleanup, gaps in coverage of core topics will be identified, and resources will be available to help improve article quality. If you're interested in Australian writers and writing (fiction or non-fiction, poetry or prose, high brow or pop) and would like to see Wikipedia become an excellent source of information about Australian literature, join in and Be Bold!. The project acts as a joint general literature and narrative prose "work group"/"task force" of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia and the Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels.

Australian literature articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Total
FA			1			1
FL				4		4
GA			3	3		6
B	1	11	20	41		73
C	5	25	105	284		419
Start	2	30	185	1,681		1,898
Stub		3	98	1,312		1,413
List		2	3	213		218
Category					539	539
Disambig					2	2
File					1	1
Project					2	2
Redirect			5	69	21	95
Template					23	23
NA				2	1	3
Assessed	8	71	420	3,609	589	4,697
Total	8	71	420	3,609	589	4,697
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 19,911			Ω = 5.22

General goals

To coordinate and improve articles related to Australian literature;
To foster collaboration between editors in the Australian literature and other literature projects;
To establish appropriate linkages with the Wikipedia Australia project and portal;
To ascertain and identify the Australian literature component of other Wikipedia projects;
To seek peer review and collaboration of editors in other Wikipedia projects.

Specific goals

To encourage coverage of historical and contemporary Australian literature to give balance to historical and contemporary contexts.

To improve iconic and high-profile Australian literature articles to GA and FA quality.

People: Writers, dramatists, essayists, poets.
History: Australian regional and State and territory literary histories. Nineteenth century Australian literary history, Twentieth century Australian literary history.
Genres: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Essays.
Controversies: Fraud, Hoaxes, Critical,

Project scope

WikiProject Australian Literature maintains and improves articles within the Australian Literature category structure.

Australian literature

Works by Australian writers

Australian writers

ALS Gold Medal–winning works

Australian literature by state or territory

Australian literature by year

Australian literary awards

Bibliographies of Australian writers

Book publishing companies of Australia

Australian books

Bookshops of Australia

Bulletin Debate

Australian children's literature

Literary festivals in Australia

Australian fiction

Grunge lit

Grunge lit authors

History of literature in Australia

Indigenous Australian literature

LGBTQ literature in Australia

Australian literature-related lists

Literary magazines published in Australia

The Man from Snowy River

Miles Franklin Award–winning works

Australian non-fiction literature

Novels set in Australia

Works originally published in Australian periodicals

Plays set in Australia

Australian poetry

Tasmanian literature

Australian literature websites

Australian writers' organisations

Article alerts

Articles for deletion

18 Nov 2024 – Michael Cohen (writer) (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by FOARP (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 25 Nov 2024; see discussion (4 participants)

Proposed deletions

28 Nov 2024 – The Best Australian Poetry 2007 (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by LibStar (t · c): Unreferenced for 17 years. A search in google news and books yielded nothing. Fails GNG.
22 Nov 2024 – Marilla North (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Axad12 (t · c) and endorsed by Bearian (t · c) on 26 Nov 2024 was deproded by Perry Middlemiss (t · c) on 28 Nov 2024

Articles to be merged

29 Oct 2024 – Les Wicks (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Meuse Press by Lizthegrey (t · c); see discussion

Portal

For overview of Portals - see Wikipedia:Portal/Directory

This project is directly related to the:-

Portal:Literature

Parent portals

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Portal:Poetry

Guidelines

To keep to the guidelines as designated in Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide

Also see: Wikipedia:Writing about fiction

Useful templates:

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/ArticleTemplate}} - article template for novel articles
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/InfoboxCode}} - infobox for novel articles
{{Template:Infobox Writer}} - infobox for writer biographies

For novel articles, please note the official Wikipedia policy regarding plot summaries:

"Wikipedia articles on works of fiction should contain real-world context and sourced analysis, offering detail on a work's achievements, impact or historical significance, not solely a summary of that work's plot. A plot summary may be appropriate as an aspect of a larger topic."

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Literary awards

List of Australian literary awards – each award needs to be checked and updated, as necessary, with recent winners and shortlists and references

Novelists

Former novelists

Gavin Casey (1907–1964) - ADB
Dorothy M. Catts (1896–1961) - ADB
Peter Corris (1942–2018) - improve
Alice Nannup (1911-1995) - author of When the Pelican Laughed
Rebecca Phillips (1872–1942) - ADB

Contemporary novelists

Wayne Ashton (born 1959)
Inez Baranay (born 1950)
Mark Henshaw (born 1951)
Mudrooroo (Colin Johnson) - improve
Leonie Norrington
Boori Monty Pryor - improve
Georgia Savage
Jennifer Scoullar
Tracy Sorensen - stub
Renate Yates (Renate Raubitschek)

Poets

Former poets

Niall Brennan (1918-2005)
Charles Buckmaster (1950-1972) (stub only)
Robert Clark (poet) (1911-2004)
Laurence Collinson (1925-1986) (stub only)
Alexander Craig (poet) (1923-1996)
Max Dunn (1895-1963) (stub only)
Anne Elder (1918-1976) - improve references
W. S. Fairbridge (1918-1950)
Edwin Gerard (1891-1965)
J. W. Gordon (Jim Grahame) (1874-1949)
Paul Grano (1894-1975) (stub only)
H. M. Green (1881-1962) (stub only)
Edward Harrington (1895-1966) (stub only)
Martin Harrison (poet) (1949-2014) - needs refs
William Hart-Smith (1911-1990) (stub only) - unreferenced
Peter Hopegood (1891-1967)
Flexmore Hudson (1913-1988)
J. A. R. McKellar (1904-1932)
Harley Matthews (1889-1968)
Ernest G. Moll (1900-1997)
R. D. Murphy (born 1910)
James Picot (1906-1944)
J. R. Rowland (1925-1996)
Winifred Maitland Shaw (1906-1977)
Ken Taylor (poet) (1930-2014)
Charles R. Thatcher (1831-1878) (stub only)
Brian Vrepont (1882-1955) (stub only)

Contemporary poets

Timoshenko Aslanides (born 1943) - improve references
Eric Beach (born 1947) (stub only)
Anthony J. Bennett (born 1950)
Peter Boyle (poet) (born 1951) (stub only)
Adrian Caesar (born 1955)
Kieran Carroll (born 1968)
Lucy Dougan (born 1966) (stub only)
Chris Edwards (poet) (born 1955)
Diane Fahey (born 1945) - imp refs
Michael Farrell (poet) (born 1965) (stub only)
Jamie Grant (born 1949)
Philip Hammial (born 1937) - improve refs and format
Margaret Irvin (born 1916)
Evan Jones (Australian poet) (born 1931) (stub only)
S. K. Kelen (born 1956) - improve refs
Frederick Kesner (poet) (born 1967)
Lee Knowles (born 1941)
Anthony Lawrence (born 1957) - improve refs
Cassie Lewis (poet) (born 1974)
Ruark Lewis (born 1960)
Myron Lysenko (born 1952)
Rhyll McMaster (born 1947) - improve refs
Philip Mead (poet) (born 1953)
Peter Minter (born 1967)
Mark O'Connor (poet) (born 1945) - improve refs
Marcella Polain (born 1958) - improve refs
Nigel Roberts (poet) (born 1941)
Michael Sharkey (born 1946) - improve refs and format
Alex Skovron (born 1948)

Other writers, critics, editors etc.

To create

Jack Beasley (critic) (born 1921), Red Letter Days
Mark O'Flynn, playwright
Bill Wannan (1915-2003)

Stubs

Richard Beynon (1927-1999)
Peter Craven (literary critic)
Louis Esson (1879-1943), playwright

Books and journals

Books

A House is Built - stub
A Secret Country (John Pilger)
Extinctions (novel) - redirected to Josephine Wilson
I am what I am (book) (John Marsden)
How to Build a Time Machine - stub, improve
On Dearborn Street (Miles Franklin)
The Accidental Universe (Paul Davies)
The Australian Legend - redirected to Russel Ward
The Australian Ugliness - needs references
The Last Three Minutes (Paul Davies)
The Misery of Beauty (Louis Nowra)
The Night Country (Bryce Courtney)
The Roaring Nineties (Katharine Susannah Prichard)
The Twelfth of Never (novel) (Louis Nowra)
The Unchosen Land (Robert Ingpen)
The Watcher on the Cast Iron Balcony (Hal Porter)
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (novel) (M. Barnard Eldershaw)
Warne's World (Louis Nowra)
When the Pelican Laughed (Alice Nannup)

Journals

Hecate's Australian Women's Book Review
Famous Reporter
Going Down Swinging
HEAT (magazine) - stub, but needs improvement
Island (journal)

Science Fiction & Fantasy (includes Speculative fiction, Horror & Gothic)

Authors

David Conyers - unreferenced

Novels & Misc

Australian Horror Writers Association - improve references

Novel Stubs

Of a Boy - unreferenced
Oscar and Lucinda - unreferenced
Shallows

Our Sunshine - unreferenced
The Lambing Flat - unreferenced
The Rosie Result

Publishers

Black Dog Books - stub
Giramondo Publishing - improve refs
Makar Press
Nelson Books
Scribe - stub
Transit Lounge
University of Queensland Press - improve

Unreferenced BLPs

There are no unreferenced BLPs in Category:WikiProject Australian literature articles.

Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

Satu Suro 06:20, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
baby_ifritah 11:13, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Misarxist 15:35, 8 May 2007 (UTC) mainly contemporary poetry[reply]
—Moondyne 03:12, 11 May 2007 (UTC).[reply]
Fred Interest: non fiction
KteachK joined in 2011. Will contribute mostly biographical information on Australian writers.
Kevinalewis (talk · contribs), joined 17 May 2007 - Interested in fictional prose forms known as Novels, Novellas, Novelettes and Short Stories.
Perry Middlemiss, joined 28 May 2007 - interested in Australian poetry 1850-1939, modern Australian literary fiction, Miles Franklin award, Australian/Vogel Award, Australian crime and science fiction.
Stella started sometime this June 2007 updating categories for writers, mainly Australian women writers. Found lots missing. Currently working through literary awards to find modern writers.
Sterry2607 started editing and creating articles in May 2007, particularly in the area of Australian women writers
Outcast44. Interested in Australian horror fiction and speculative fiction.
Daniel99091 - Interested in novels for young adults.
Lady Nimue of the Lake (talk) 05:41, 11 January 2008 (UTC) - Interested in young adult novels, fantasy, science fiction novels...etc.[reply]
Matilda ^talk 22:55, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Gemma Interested in contemporary Australian fiction and issues related to Australian publishing.
User:Shirt58 Whatever I can help with.
Danie Tei Australian fantasy mostly
Ali Kayn Interest: Work by Australian C20th and C21st authors, especially crimes, science fiction and fantasy
ANZLitLovers, (Lisa Hill) joined 28.2.2009, Interested in Australian Literary Fiction, Biographies of Australian authors & Australian Literary Awards & Prizes
Tyranny Sue: Interested in Kate Grenville and Garth Nix. Could possibly help with any awards lists and want to learn more about categorisation. (Also involved with several Australian comedy articles.)
Peroxwhy2gen^Talk - Interested in the Ranger's Apprentice series by John Flanagan
punkrocker1991^Talk joined 2010-12-17. Interested in Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror (speculative fiction), with a focus on 1991-present.
SenatorSteve Grandmother, Cecilia Brown, was born in 1924 and raised until the age of 22 in Melbourne. Met Ralph Chapin, a US MP on RR from Michigan, US. Made five wonderful children, who sadly only produced three children from one family. (No cousins). Still alive with relatives still in Australia! Slowly, but surely participating!
User:Pizzagreen Interested in Australian fantasy
User:Locochoko Word nerd
User:Oronsay
The_Cardigan_Kid Not a frequent Wiki editor, but my core interest is in Australian literary fiction, especially 20th century.
User:WomenOutLoud Interested in underappreciated Australian Women, particularly literary fiction.
User:michaelgfalk Interested mainly in colonial literature, but I will try to take a look at twentieth-century poetry, fiction and non-fiction when I can!
User:BindiS interested in contemporary Australian literature and also experienced from working in Australian literature for young children

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Articles

Please note that while the project is under construction and getting ready - any - that is any Australian literature articles you know of - need to be gathered in and tagged - or listed on a sub-page of this project - please give some thought to help us 'capture' the Australian literature articles... not yet setup but coming soon

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New articles

Please feel free to list your new Australian literature-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Page. (Remove entries over one month old.)

They're a Weird Mob - split from They're a Weird Mob (film) on 19 April 2010
The Rosie Result - on 21 Feb 2019

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Assessment parameters of relevance are:

literature-importance=: (Top, high, Mid, Low, NA) Importance to the Australian literature project
importance=: (Top, high, Mid, Low, NA) Importance to the overall Australian wikiproject
class=: (FA, A, GA, B, Start, Stub, NA, List) quality assessment of the article's current state

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