
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