Literature and language resources
May Gibb's gumnut babies. Postcard, c. 1905. Image courtesy of State Library of Victoria: H42549/47.
Key online resources
Poets and poetry
Writers centres
- Varuna, the Writers' House (national)
- NSW Writers' Centre
- Fellowship of Australian Writers (VIC)
- Tasmanian Writers' Centre
- South Australian Writers Centre
- Fellowship of Australian Writers (WA)
- Writing WA
- Katharine Susannah Prichard (KSP) Writers' Centre
- Westerly Centre
- Northern Territory Writers' Centre
- Queensland Writers Centre
- Gold Coast Writers' Association
- Northern Rivers Writers' Centre
Indigenous languages writing
- Federation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages (FATSIL)
- Aboriginal Languages of Australia
- Magabala Indigenous language books
Women writers societies
- Society Of Women Writers (Australia) (1980 - 2000)
- Society of Women Writers, New South Wales (1925-)
- Society of Women Writers, Victoria
- Society Of Women Writers of Tasmania
- Society of Women Writers South Australia
- Society of Women Writers, WA
- Society of Women Writers, Queensland Inc
Writers' festivals
- Emerging Writers' Festival (May)
- Sydney Writers' Festival (May/June)
- Noosa Long Weekend 2007 (June)
- Mildura Writers Festival (July)
- Byron Bay Writers Festival (July)
- The Age Melbourne Writers Festival (August/September)
- Brisbane Writers Festival (September)
Collection resources and online publications
Institutions and government organisations
- Australian Libraries Gateway
- National Library of Australia
- The Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas (Melbourne's UNESCO City of Literature)
- The Westerly Centre
Peak bodies and associations
- Australian Society of Authors
- Copyright Agency Limited
- Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA)
- Australian Writers Guild (The AWG is the professional association for all performance writers, that is, writers for film, television, radio, theatre, video and multi media)
- Playwriting Australia