''Call Up Your Ghosts'' is a 1945 Australian stage play by

Dymphna Cusack Ellen Dymphna Cusack Order of Australia, AM (21 September 1902 – 19 October 1981) was an Australian writer and playwright. She also wrote as Atalanta. Personal life Born in Wyalong, New South Wales, Cusack was educated at Saint Ursula's Col ...

and

Miles Franklin Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (14 October 187919 September 1954), known as Miles Franklin, was an Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her novel ''My Brilliant Career'', published by Blackwoods of Edinburgh in 1901. While s ...

. It was a satire of the Australian publishing industry and its neglect of Australian writers, whose ghosts return to create trouble in a bookshop where their work is being used to prop up table legs. The play debuted at the New Theatre in Melbourne. It was joint winner of the New Theatre's One-act Play Competition of 1945 sharing first prize with ''Sailor's Girl'' by

Ric Throssell Ric Prichard Throssell (10 May 192220 April 1999) was an Australian diplomat and author whose writings included novels, plays, film and television scripts, and memoirs. For most of his professional life as a diplomat his career was dogged by un ...

. The play was published in ''Penguin Anthology of Australian Women’s Writing'', ed. Dale Spender, Ringwood, 1988.

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Call Up Your Ghosts
at AustLit
Call Up Your Ghosts
at Ausstage 1940s Australian plays Plays by Dymphna Cusack