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Juvenilia Press publishes early works by a variety of writers such as Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Philip Larkin and Margaret Atwood. Its scholarly editions of early writings by children and adolescents (up to the approximate age of twenty) provide a window on the writer's development and engaging glimpses of the young genius at work.
Combining scholarship with pedagogy, we involve students in the work of editing, annotating, designing and illustrating, under the supervision of established scholars from Britain, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Spain, the United States, and Australia. We are proud to showcase this work. Student essays on the editing and publication process, as well as collections of illustrations, can be accessed from the links at left. Juvenilia Press is a non-profit international initiative hosted by the Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, UNSW.
Juvenilia Press has been instrumental in establishing the International Society of Literary Juvenilia
The latest edition from Juvenilia Press: Selected Early Works by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
This selection of early writings by one of the most influential Victorian poets––written between ages six and fourteen––reveals EBB's precocious engagement with issues of gender, education, travel, politics, and religion. To celebrate the launch of this scholarly edition, Beverly Taylor and some of her postgraduate student editors, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, gathered with invited guests for lunch at the historic Carolina Inn on 28 February 2025. For more details click on the links below.
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Selected Early Works by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Edited by Beverly Taylor, with postgrad students from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Juvenilia Press and the Lionel Bowen Young Writer's Award 2024
The Lionel Bowen Young Writers' Awards Ceremony was held on 5 November 2024 at UNSW Sydney. Since 2010, our collaboration has been an important part of our educational and community outreach program. Director and General Editor, Christine Alexander spoke to the young writers on the importance of playing with their creativity in words, describing as an example the early writings of the Brontë family; and she presented a selection of Juvenilia Press books as an award to the school with the most entries. Our warm congratulations to all the participants and award winners! See Educational Outreach for more details.
Winning entrants and guest speakers at the Lionel Bowen Young Writers' Awards ceremony, UNSW Sydney, 5 November 2024.
Regents Professor of English Devoney Looser and her student co-editors at Arizona State University produce new volume.
Devoney Looser speaks about researching and editing Artless Tales: or, Romantic Effusions of the Heart by the eighteenth-century novelist Anna Maria Porter. This early work was first published when Porter was just sixteen and is now available for the first time as a scholarly edition (Sydney: Juvenilia Press, 2023).
Margaret Atwood speaks about her early writings published by Juvenilia Press
The Seventh International Literary Juvenilia Conference was held virtually at UNSW Sydney in July 2022. This year's theme was Literary Juvenilia, material imagination and 'things'
2022 International Literary Juvenilia Conference Report
Nominated for William MB Berger Prize for British Art History
Juvenilia Press is proud to announce that our edition, Waterloo Diary: Woman Battle Artist in Training by Elizabeth Thompson Butler (2016), has been nominated for the prestigious William MB Berger Prize for British Art History. The prize was established in 2001 by the Berger Collection Educational Trust and The British Art Journal for excellence in the field of British art history. We are delighted to receive this recognition, which is a great encouragement for our non-profit scholarly project of introducing students and others to the early creativity of artists and writers! Congratulations to Emeritus Professor Juliet McMaster, and to her postgraduate students at the University of Alberta for producing this wonderful edition.
L-R: Postgraduate Student Editor Adela Burke; JP Canada Assistant Amy Stafford; Emeritus Professor Christine Alexander (UNSW); Mentor Editor and Emeritus Professor Juliet McMaster (University of Alberta). Absent Student Editors: Sarah Bezan, Brandi Goddard, Yifan Li, and Kaarina Mikalson.
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