by Elizabeth Lhuede | Sep 9, 2026 | Essay
by Elizabeth Lhuede A post in our 2026 series featuring works published in 1946 or by authors who died in 1946. ~ I was hoping to post this month on the women’s contribution to the Jindyworobaks anthology as a companion piece to my June post on women in the...
by whisperinggums | Aug 12, 2026 | Article, Short story
by Whispering Gums A post in our 2026 series featuring works published in 1946 (or by authors who died in 1946). This post includes a story that was published in The Australian Women’s Weekly on 19 January 1946, and is by Mina Gray....
by Theresa Smith | Jul 8, 2026 | Reviews
By Theresa Smith A post in our 2026 series featuring works published in 1946 (or by authors who died in 1946). In her book, Inconvenient Women: Australian Radical Writers 1900-1970, Jacqueline Kent explores the female writers who were shaping the literary and...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Jun 10, 2026 | Essay, Poetry
by Elizabeth Lhuede Another in our series of works published in 1946 and the 1940s. ~ Recently, when trying to find out-of-copyright poetry for 1946 proved difficult, I turned my attention to the journal Angry Penguins, of Ern Malley fame, which ceased publication...
by whisperinggums | May 13, 2026 | Article, Fiction, Short story
by Whispering Gums A post in our 2026 series featuring works published in 1946 (or by authors who died in 1946). This post includes a story that was published in Tasmania’s Advocate on 22 June 1946, and is by the Victorian-born Bene Gibson Smyth....
by Theresa Smith | Apr 8, 2026 | Essay, Reviews
By Theresa Smith A post in our 2026 series featuring works published in 1946 (or by authors who died in 1946). In 1946, Miles Franklin published My Career Goes Bung, a ‘sequel’ to her debut novel, My Brilliant Career. This sequel came 45 years on from its predecessor;...
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Mar 11, 2026 | Essay, Poetry
by Elizabeth Lhuede A post in our 2026 series featuring works published in 1946 (or by authors who died in 1946). One of the disadvantages of choosing to feature works published in the 1940s is that we’re restricted to ones that are out of copyright. Because the...
by whisperinggums | Feb 11, 2026 | Essay, Short story
by Whispering Gums A post in our 2026 series featuring works published in 1946 (or by authors who died in 1946). This post includes a story that was published in The Sydney Morning Herald on 23 April 1946....
by Elizabeth Lhuede | Dec 10, 2025 | Essay, Poetry
by Elizabeth Lhuede A post in our 2025 series featuring works published in 1935 (or by authors who died in 1935). Seasons greetings as we take a break until 2026 when former AWW editor, Theresa Smith, will rejoin our team. This year, we explored out-of-copyright works...
by whisperinggums | Nov 12, 2025 | Essay, Short story
by Whispering Gums A post in our 2025 series featuring works published in 1935 (or by authors who died in 1935). This post includes a story that was published in The Bulletin on 20 October, 1935, and is by South Australian writer, Edna Davies....
