Early Australian fairy tales

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Special Fairy Tale issue of TEXT, an open-access online journal

Congratulations to editors Rebecca-Anne Do Rozario, Nike Sulway and Belinda Calderone. I appreciate their editorial expertise. Into the Bush: Australasian Fairy Tales is an intriguing and enchanting read for those researchers and lovers of fairy tales. Robyn Floyd: Fairies in the bush: The emergence of a national identity in Australian fairy tales

A cabbage-tree hat and a stock whip wand: Early Australian fairy tales (Australian Folklore Conference, 2017)
Olga Ernst, perspective of a fairy tale writer, and a telling of the 'Fire Elves' by Teena Harnett (Inaugural Australian Fairy Tale Conference, 2014)
'Imported fairies in the Australian Bush: Olga Ernst's Fairy Tales', An Afternoon in Fairy Land, Monash University May 2013
'The Art of Words: Ernst in Brighton', Brighton Historical Society, July 2012
'More grim than Grimm', University Kassel, Germany, 2011
'Enchanted castles in the vast unknown', AARE Conference, University Melbourne, Dec 2010
'Confidence, Camaraderie, Community, Connections', CDAA Conference: Adelaide, 2010 with Phillippa Adgemis and Christine Shiel
'Our country school teacher', Orbost Historical Society, 2009
Symposium: Australian Children’s Literature, University of Melbourne, 2009