Other Worlds member Ben Etherington has written an article on Clarence Walden and Alexis Wright and the Aboriginal way of telling stories: ‘It was like a library being burned to the ground, but these oral histories are bringing it back’, ABC news, 12 July, 2019.

State Library of NSW, 10-12 April, 2019 In April 2019, a group of seventeen writers from nations across the Southern hemisphere convened for an intensive three-day workshop Writing from the South: Writers in Conversation. This event, led by Gail Jones and John Coetzee, was the main event of the project’s Southern Encounters theme. The writers … Continue reading writing from the south →

We are excited to announce that the distinguished Martinican author Patrick Chamoiseau will be travelling to Sydney in February to collaborate with Alexis Wright, one of our Other Worlds project members.

with papers by Stuart Cooke, Alys Moody & Bonaventure Muzigirwa Munganga An exploration of relations (and relationality) between literary communities, writers, and literary practices of the ‘South’, or the countries of southern latitudes (i.e. Southern Africa, Australia, the Pacific, and South America) Female Orphan School, Western Sydney University ABSTRACTS Working with the Humedal Antiñir: Ethnographic, … Continue reading Transculturalism and Translocalism in the South →