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This subseries has annotated programmes and/or abstracts for conferences attended by Judith Rodriguez. They are:
Items:

1. Writing in the Community Conference. (1984) Writing in the Community Conference : [programme], North Melbourne : The Conference.
2. Literature Board of Australia Council. (1984) Multicultural Writers Weekend in Melbourne : [programme], Melbourne : The Conference.
3. Association for the Study of Australian Literature. (1984) ASAL 84 Ballarat : [programme], Ballarat : The Conference.
4. Pen Congress (1986) The 48th International Pen Congress New York City 1986 : [membership list], New York City : The Congress.
5. Association for the Study of Australian Literature. (1986) ASAL 84 Townsville : [programme], Townsville : The Conference.
6. Association for the Study of Australian Literature. (1988) ASAL 88 University of Sydney : [programme], Sydney : The Conference.
7. International Women Playwrights Conference. (1994) Conference programme : 3rd International Women Playwrights Conference, Adelaide : The Conference.
8. Association of University Writing Programmes. (1996) Writing - Teaching. Teaching - writing : the participants : abstracts and biographies. Sydney : The Conference.
9. Australian Studies Centre, University of Queensland. (1997) Imaginary homelands : Australian dreamings. Brisbane : The Conference.
10. Association of Australian Writing Programs. (1997) Truth : writing courses and the imagination : 2nd Conference, Carlton : The Conference.
11. Indian Association for the Study of Australia. (2002) Understanding Australia : culture, society & polity : Internation Conference... Chennai, India : The Conference.
12. Translation Studies Research Cluster of the School of Languages, Culture and Linguistics. (2005) Translation and / as culture, Monash : The Conference.

Folder 1
Loose leaf Conference programs, abstracts, handwritten notes, from 1976 to 2006.

This subseries includes correspondence from Queensland, New South Wales and Federal government departments. Most of the letters and accompanying material for political parties is from the Australian Democrats in the first half of the 1980s.

Handwritten story outline on yellow index cards, 20 yellow index cards, 7.5 x 13 cm, undated. With typed note 'Cards used as basis of discussion with Julian Castagne at Birchgrove', 6 Jun 1982. Cards and page in envelope addressed to Peter Carey at McSpedden Carey Pty Ltd.

'Jane or The Bride of Thornfield' (Jane Eyre), typescript, 18 leaves, a few emendations. [David Malouf’s 2017 note: First draft, 1996/8. Performed Cheltenham Festival. Toured London, Canberra, St Louis, USA.]. With associated letter by Malouf to Michael Berkeley. Accompanied by the published libretto, Jane Eyre, from cover 'A libretto by David Malouf for an opera by Michael Berkeley', 27 pages, published by Vintage in 2000.

Correspondence from various arts and literary organisations as well as one year of material from Kath Walkers' involvement with Artbank.

Fly Away Peter is a novella, set in Queensland before the First World War, the story of Jim Sadler, a dedicated bird watcher, Ashley Crowther, his employer and Imogen Harcourt, an eccentric English photographer. It was first published in 1981 with Child’s Play under the title The Bread of Time to Come. It was republished in 1982 as Fly Away Peter. This subseries includes “original first hand-written drafts of Fly Away Peter (usually referred to as Birds)” [D.M.]; rewritten first draft in Brisbane; first typescript draft; second typescript draft; rewritten passages in second typescript draft; chapters 8, 10, 15 of first typescript reworked and replaced and afterword to Fly Away Peter.

Fly Away Peter was the winner of the 1982 Age Book of the Year Award.

Two drafts for the unpublished novel 'Stars here, ends here'. The dates were taken from the original wrapper (discarded).

Correspondence between Judith Rodriguez and various publishers and poets regarding lists of poets, biographical detail about poets and poems and concerned with compilation of anthologies. Correspondence including covering letters and responses, lists of poets, poems and poetry reviewed for Meanjin. Letter to Carole [Ferrier] and pen drawing of Professor F.W. Robinson. Folders have been labelled by Judith Rodriguez.

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