Elleke Boehmer has become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
See Elleke’s RSL profile The Royal Society of Literature has some 600 Fellows. They include the very best novelists, short-story writers, poets, playwrights, biographers, historians, travel writers, literary critics and
Master Class and Lecture: Postcolonial Poetics and Decolonizing the Academy at the University of Amsterdam
Elleke Boehmer will give a master class and lecture on “Postcolonial Poetics and Decolonizing the Academy” at the University of Amsterdam in May. This event takes the form of, firstly,
New review of Postcolonial Poetics in the THE
Jenni Ramone has written a glowing review of Postcolonial Poetics in the Times Higher Education supplement. A couple of highlights: Elleke Boehmer’s Postcolonial Poetics invites us to be fearless readers. She
To the Volcano, and other stories available for preorder
In more exciting news for 2019, Elleke Boehmer’s new collection of short stories will be published by Myriad later this year. These assured, accomplished stories are reports from a world
TORCH Book at Lunchtime: Postcolonial Poetics
Postcolonial Poetics will be featured as the Book at Lunchtime at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) on 30 January 2019. Elleke will be joined an expert panel to
Australian edition of The Shouting in the Dark to be published in February 2019 by UWA Publishing
We are very excited to announce that the Australian edition of The Shouting in the Dark will be published by UWA Publishing in February 2019 as The Shouting in the Dark & other southern writing. Besides the beautiful new cover, readers can
Elleke Boehmer takes The Shouting in the Dark to the 2019 Perth Writers’ Festival
Elleke will be at the Perth Writers’ Festival on 24 February 2019, promoting the Australian edition of The Shouting in the Dark, and other southern writing. She will talk to Jane
Review of Postcolonial Poetics on LitNet
A new review of Postcolonial Poetics by Karina Magdalena Szczurek has been published in LitNet. Szczurek praises the book for its “intriguing approach to understanding our relationship to postcolonial literature as readers”. She
“Evelina”: new short story published online!
A new short story, entitled “Evelina”, has been published in the Australia-based Mascara Literary Review. The story offers a glimpse into Elleke’s upcoming short story collection, South, North, which will be published