Call Up Your Ghosts

Call Up Your Ghosts is a 1945 Australian stage play by Dymphna Cusack and Miles Franklin. 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.^[1]

The play debuted at the New Theatre in Melbourne.^[2]

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. ^[3] The play was published in Penguin Anthology of Australian Women’s Writing, ed. Dale Spender, Ringwood, 1988.