FUNGAL PEDAGOGY MASTERCLASS

Expressions of Interest are open for this three-day intensive on fungal pedagogy in Sweden from 17–19 October 2025. More details here.

TUESDAY 24 JUNE – FORAY IN THE BEGA VALLEY

Feel like a last fungus foray before the winter really sets in? Join us on the beautiful Bournda Lagoon Walking Trail to discover hidden fungal gems. Bookings and details HERE.

TUESDAY 10 JUNE – FUNGA OBSCURA BOOK LAUNCH

Please join us for the launch of Alison’s new book, Funga Obscura at Fullers Bookshop, 131 Collins Street, Hobart at 5:30 pm. BOOKINGS

THREE-DAY FUNGUS DISCOVERY IMMERSIVE RETREAT IN THE TARKINE

Feel like three days of wandering through Tasmanian rainforest on the wild west coast? This exciting event includes all meals and accommodation and immersion in all things fungal, including guided forays, fungus identification sessions, talks and more. There are still a few places left but get in fast! Bookings HERE

FORAY, DINNER & TALK

Please join us in Tallangatta for an exciting foray, dinner and talk on Thursday 15 May. Bookings and further details here.

BOOK LAUNCH – FUNGA OBSCURA

Please join us for the launch of Funga Obscura: Photo Journeys Among Fungi on Friday 14 March in Hepburn Springs. More information here.

NEW BOOK AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER

I’m excited to announce that my new book, Funga Obscura, will be published with UNSW Press on 1 March 2025, and is now available for pre-order HERE.

AUTUMN 2025 MUSHROOM FORAYS & EVENTS

The autumn 2025 calendar of events is now posted HERE.

There’s an exciting array of forays, workshops, talks and masterclasses on offer across Victoria, NSW, ACT and Tasmania. I hope you can join us at one of the events to discover all things fungi.

MUSHROOMS IN MUNICH

I’m thrilled to accept a position as Volkswagen Foundation Visiting Professor at the Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society at the Ludgwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. And no, I won’t be looking at cars, rather the VW Foundation provided money to look at mushrooms! I’ll also be developing a series of workshops and masterclasses on visualising the environment. But I’ll be back for the 2025 Australian autumn and there’s a full schedule of mushroom forays, workshops and events planned which will be posted here in summer 2025. You might like to view a recent talk, The Dark Web, HERE.

2024 USA FUNGUS EVENTS

I’m delighted to have been invited to the the Telluride Mushroom Festival in Colorado this August and will be giving various talks, workshops, forays and other events. I look forward to seeing you there!

The 2024 Australian autumn mushroom season workshops and events have concluded for the season but if you happen to be in the northern hemisphere, check out the schedule of events here.

MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE MUSHROOMS

Underground Lovers nominated in Reading’s Bookshop Best Non-Fiction of 2023.

Meetings with Remarkable mushrooms listed in New Scientist Magazine’s Best Non-Fiction and Popular Science books of the year.

MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE MUSHROOMS reviewed by Elizabeth Kolbert in The New York Review of Books.

UNDERGROUND LOVERS has been nominated as Readings non-fiction book of the month. Read review here.

TV

NEW DAY TV USA – Alison talks with Amity Addrisi

ABC TV – Alison talks fungi with Nate Byrne.

ENTHEO TV – Alison presents Between Sex & Death

RADIO

Alison talks with Radio New Zealand 17 June 2024

Alison talks fungi with Richard Fidler 29 March 2023

NEWSPAPERS

The Monthly Reading the Mushroom June 2023

The Guardian, The Fungal Awakening 19 March 2023

Sydney Morning Herald Review of Underground Lovers 30 March 2023

VIDEOS

A new video clip from the 2023 Strathbogie Festival of Fungi by Alistair Tame.

Spineless wins an award at the Nature Without Borders International Film Festival.

A new video on a recent fungus foray in Wooragee by Stephen Curtain here.

A new video about Slow Mushrooming by Jacqui Schulz here.

PODCASTS

Alison talks fungi with Robyn Rosenfelt from Pip Magazine

BOOKS

THE ALLURE OF FUNGI – Read reviews and purchase here.

WILD MUSHROOMING – Read reviews and purchase here.

UNDERGROUND LOVERS – Read reviews and purchase here.

MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE MUSHROOMS – Read reviews and pre-purchase here.

FUNGA OBSCURA – purchase here.

FOR ALL EVENT DATES AND DETAILS PLEASE SEE HERE

UPDATE ON AUTUMN 2020 MUSHROOM WORKSHOPS & FORAYS

Given the current situation, fungus forays and workshops in the next six weeks have been postponed until 2021.

Workshops scheduled for June 2020 will be reviewed in the coming weeks.

Meanwhile, a series of online workshops have been scheduled. We really hope you can join us!

MUSHROOM DISCOVERY WORKSHOP

Although the world is in lockdown, the fungi are running riot out there in the forest! The recent rains could mean we are in for a bumper fungus season. This online workshop introduces participants to the diversity, ecology and curiosities of the Kingdom Fungi. In the first part of the workshop participants will learn how to recognise the major fungus morphogroups; the various parts of different types of fungi; and the features used to make identifications in the field. We will then work through participants’ specimens and identify them and discuss them. Don’t forget to bring along some fungus specimens.

Further to the workshops, you might also be interested in some recent podcasts and articles as listed below.

PODCASTS & ARTICLES

RRR Uncommon Sense with Amy Mullins, listen here.

ABC Fungi for a Healthy Planet with Robin Williams, listen here.

The Age Newspaper, Fungi aplenty equals a happy garden, read here.

Sydney Morning Herald, Fungi bring life to dark places, read here.

THE ALLURE OF FUNGI, by Alison Pouliot

Read reviews and purchase here.

FRIDAY 1 MAY, 2pm–4pm    WORKSHOP BOOKINGS FULLY BOOKED

SATURDAY 2 MAY, 2pm–4pm WORKSHOP BOOKINGS

COST: $20

FURTHER INFO: bookings@fungiaustralia.com