reeling and writhing

library stuff

arrow discovery Search portal for the combined e-repositories of Australian universities, sponsored by the National Library of Australia.

clusty the clustering engine
Not a Thomas website, by the way, but a Federated Search Engine developed by Vivisimo which aggregates the results of five search engines. Search for links to your blog HERE.

free range librarian
The blog of US librarian Karen G. Schneider, director of the Librarians' Index to the Internet (www.lii.org)

if:book blog
From the Annenberg Center for Communication at USC, and the recommendation of David Tiley at Barista, an excellent blog on all kinds of great stuff. Links to other blogs supported by the Institute for the Future of the Book are provided.

librariesinteract.info
An Australian library group blog, with links to all the Australian library blogs they can find. Let them know about yours!

LITA Blog
Official blog of the Library and Information Technology Association, part of the American Library Association.

NLA Digital Collections
From the National Library of Australia, the entry point to their digitised collection of significant cultural materials. Includes the Curator's monthly choice.

the researching librarian
Maintained by Beth Ashmore, a site evaluating links to free databases with a focus on library research literature.

digital storytelling, new media and film

Film

afi research collection
The research library of the Australian Film Institute, currently housed at RMIT University.

Early Modern Literary Studies
Links to the contents of a journal on adaptations to Shakespeare in film.

masters of cinema.org
An international website founded in 2001 by film graduates and writers.

senses of cinema
'An online journal devoted to the serious and eclectic discussion of cinema.' From Melbourne, Australia. Site includes a critical database of great directors and Top Ten Films lists.

Digital Storytelling and New Media

Capture Wales
Stories from the BBC Digital Storytelling workshops in Wales. The first international Digital Storytelling Conference was hosted by this program in 2003.

center for digital storytelling
One of the earliest and most active homes to the digital storytelling movement in the US, at Berkeley, run by Joe Lambert.

creativity/machine
The personal research blog of QUT academic Jean Burgess.

Christy's Corner Of The Universe
Christy Dena's current website on text arts across all platforms known to man.

grand text auto

Group blog on 'machine narrative, games, poetry and art.'

new media lab - interactive projects
The Canadian Film Centre's New Media lab was founded in 1997 and ran the Great Canadian Story Engine in 2000. Formerly known as Habitat.

Angela A Thomas
The website of Sydney academic and virtual worlds researcher Angela Thomas.

wrt: writer response theory
A blogging collective dedicated to the discussion and exploration of 'digital character art', with a focus on active and interactive works where text is the input/response mode.

australian literature blogs

 Disclaimer: This list was originally curated in 2006. I have updated it this month, but there are many, many more Australian book blogs now than there were six years ago.

If you are an Australian literature blogger, be mindful that the title of this post is a search term quite a lot of people use. So if you have a better list, feel free to use this heading for it.

July 2012

3000 Books
The blog of editor and writer Estelle, who has started her reading project young and has a damn good chance of achieving her target.

ampersand duck
The Canberran letterpress printer and art school lecturer with a witty nom de plume.

bibliodyssey
Books, illustrations, book art, science, history and loads of great links.

bookish girl

Jane Gleeson-White is a writer with plenty of news about Australian literature.

  cordite newsblog
The blog of online poetry journal Cordite.

 dailies from the wheeler centre

Book news and articles from The Wheeler Centre in Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, dedicated to the discussion and practice of writing and ideas through a year-round programme of talks and lectures, readings and debates.

the deletions
Pam Brown, poet, co-editor of Jacket poetry magazine, and librarian, blogs here.

the empire of larks
Chris Mansell's poetry blog.

  from the editor's desk
The Australian Book Review blog, reloaded.

heat poetry online

The poetry review website of HEAT Magazine.

hi spirits
The blog of Andrew Burke of WA, poet.

island

killings

An excellent blog from the journal of the same name.

le koala lit

A blog in French about Australian writing! written by expat Angélique. You can find out more about her here at Meanjin.

lexicon harlot

With a name like that, Alexis' blog qualifies automatically for this category.

literary minded
The blog of freelance writer Angela Meyer has migrated from two sites, including Crikey.com. Reviews and Australian book news galore.

matilda
One of the very first Australian book blogs.

poetry and ideas
This blog is hosted by the Collected Works bookshop in Melbourne and authored by its owner, poet Kris Hemensley.

read alert

The blog of the Centre for Youth Literature  at the State Library of Victoria.

read, think, write
The renamed book blog of Kerryn Goldsworthy, Australian academic, literary critic and writer.

ruby street
Jill Jones takes poetry for a walk.

speakeasy
Blogging at the Australian Writer's Marketplace Online.

so long bulletin

Australian poetry and criticism, edited by Elizabeth Campbell, LK Holt and Petra White.

stack
Georgina Hibberd's transnational literature blog, in its next Wordpress incarnation. Enjoy.

 theatre notes
Independent theatre criticism by Alison Croggon of Melbourne.

the morning after: performing arts in Australia
A blog about theatre, dance and music in Australia by arts writer Chris Boyd.

 

 

UK and US literature blogs - a selection

United Kingdom

confessions of an author
Amanda Mann writes about writing as it is, right here, right now.

dogmatika
The blog of Suki Tomaselli - books, culture, stuff.

dovegreyreader
An active reviewer, festival organiser and booklover extraordinaire shares news of book events in Devon and elsewhere.

eve's alexandria
Popular newish UK group blog, with several specialists who are across most genres.

the writing coach
Jacqui Lofthouse's coaching and creativity blog.

United States

chekhov's mistress
The blog of Bud Parr, creator of the Metaxucafe Litblog Network.

critical mass
The blog of the National Book Critics' Circle.

the elegant variation
The blog of blogger and writer Mark Sarvas, from Los Angeles.

fernham
The blog of Anne, New Jersey Woolf scholar and LBC member.

golden rule jones
Sam Jones blogs about literary events from a Chicago perspective.

identity theory
The whole website is worth a look - reviews AND a blog. Closely related to The Morning News, and supported by Robert Birnbaum.

the little professor
The blog of Miriam Burstein, academic, teacher and Victorian studies expert.

madinkbeard
The website and blog of librarian and writer Derik Badman.

maud newton
Maud Newton's blog is one of the oldest US litblogs and probably the most highly regarded, for her analysis and news on editing, writing and publishing.

the millions
A collective literature blog edited by C. Max Magee of Chicago.

Laila Lalami
Laila Lalami is a writer and one of the earliest US litbloggers. She was born in Morocco and has a fondness for 12th-century Andalusia.

the mumpsimus
Matt Cheney, writer and SF reviewer, blogs here.

the syntax of things
Jeff Bryant's blog has compelling categories like "madonna causes cancer" and " would you like fries with that". Along with more serious stuff of course.

tingle alley
Carrie is currently away, blogging at About Last Night with Terry Teachout.

waggish
Serious, and great links too.