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What’s on offer at HNSA Sydney 2019

The HNSA committee is proud to bring you our 3rd biennial conference. We never thought we’d get this far. I hope fans of the genre, both readers and writers alike, will gather as a community again –this time at historic Parramatta. As program director, I thought I’d tell you what’s on offer at the conference

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Early bird registration opens for HNSA Sydney 2019

Celebrate historical fiction at HNSA Sydney 2019! Today we’re thrilled to announce the program for the Historical Novel Society Australasia’s third conference. So block out the weekend of 25-27 October 2019, and gather at Western Sydney University, Parramatta, to explore our theme, History Repeats, with us and sixty of the best writers, publishers, agents, and

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Call for Papers: 2019 academic program

‘History Repeats’ Historical Novel Society Australasia 2019 Conference 25-27 October 2019, Rydalmere Campus, Western Sydney University. Academic Stream: Sunday 27 October On the final day of the HNSA conference, we will bring together postgraduates, academics, and other interested scholars to consider the complexities of the genre of historical fiction and its readership. What counts as

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First conference news: a fresh approach

Introducing our Friday workshop program for HNSA 2019 The 2019 historical novel conference kicks off in Sydney in October, and here’s your first sneak peek into the program. We’ve heard you! We’ve listened to your feedback from our 2017 conference. You wanted longer workshops and didn’t want to miss out on sessions in the main

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Volunteer call-out: Social media team

We’re putting together a social media team in the lead-up to our conference in October. Our legendary team for the last conference blogged and tweeted and posted their way to our hearts, and this year we’d like to do it all over again. The social media team updates conference participants, publishes great content about historical

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2019 conference alert

Planning is well underway for the next conference of the Historical Novel Society Australasia, to be held on 25 to 27 October 2019, in historic Parramatta. This year’s conference is presented in partnership with Western Sydney University’s Writing & Society Research Centre and the School of Humanities & Communication Arts, which will host the conference on its Parramatta

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