AWW Gen.s

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Generations of Australian Women Writers

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Gen 0

Writers who preceded, and might have influenced, the ‘Independent Woman’

Gen 1

From the first days of white settlement to 1890

Gen 2

The Bulletin years, 1890-1918, Bush Realism

Gen 3

Modernism, Social Realism, 1919-1959

Gen 4

Postmodernism, the end of the Anglo mono-culture, 1960s, 70s, 80s

Gen 5

Indigenous, dystopian, surreal (and lots of Gen 4 leftovers), 1990s to today