The Australian Association of Writing Programs

The Margins and Mainstreams Papers: the refereed proceedings of the 14th conference of the Australian Association of Writing Programs

ISBN 978-0-9807573-2-3 Copyright 2009

Donna Lee Brien & Marcelle Freiman, Editorial introduction.

Writing as Theory

• Arnold, Josie My response to Roland Barthes's The Grain of the Voice an/in/as autobiography
• Brophy, Kevin "Post-neo-avant-ism: is there an 'out there' any longer?"
• Glassby, Wendy A journey into the margins of creative wilderness
• Hecq, Dominique The borderlines of poetry
• Pont, Antonia Main streams and fine rivers: Thinking the aporetics of edge
• Lobb, Joshua Deferring the 'main' point: Teaching 'narrative desire' as an alternative creative practice
• Woods, Claire Becoming a writer researcher: Exploring the poetic, rhetorical and referential

Writing as Research

• Boyd, Nicola A Creative Writing Reseach Methodology: new directions, Strange Loops and tornados
• Colbert, Elizabeth Accommodating the experiential within practice-led research
• Freiman, Marcelle Keeping interest alive: Emotion and the affects in creative writing
• Neave, Lucy Notes towards a methodology for studying fiction writing praxis
• Webb, Jen Poetry and knowing

Writing's Place

• Andrew, Martin Postgraduate writing e-communities: De-marginalising remote participants
• Brien, Donna Lee Writing our future: Towards an organisational history of the Australian Association of Writing Programs
• Currie, Susan Where did you say you come from?: A case study of geographical margins in life writing
• Davis, Brooke 'Relearning the world': Finding a space to grieve with Lewis, Didion and Woolf
• Murphy, Ffion On journeys and collaborations
• Sparrow, Jeff; Davidson, Rjurik; Papadopoulos, Angelika & Gandolfo, Enza Creative writing in the enterprise university
• Surma, Anne Taking time: An ethics of temporality for the discipline of writing
• Tennent, Beth & Brien, Donna Lee 'Friend or foe'?: Is learning and teaching policy mainstream or marginal?

Reading Writing

• Crew, Gary Realms of innocence, realms of ignorance: Teaching the post 9/11 cautionary tale
• Hawryluk, Lynda The sliding scale of celebrity authorship: Three writers face their adoring (and otherwise) public with very different results
• Page, Sue A celebration of outsiders, or a call to conform?: Decoding the message in young adult fiction
• Shaw, Jan Teaching from the margins: approaching the feminine register through contemporary fantasy
• Watkins, Ross Word + Image: The pedagogical imperative of visual narrative

Writers writing

• Dunnell, Brooke Seeing each other, seeing oneself: Juggling multiple viewpoints in fiction
• Kon-yu, Natalie Mixing memory with the desire to forget
• Pittaway, Gail Margins of memory; Margins and memory
• Rodriga, Melanie Mapping the multiple mind: Narrative structure in cinematic representations of dissociative disorder
• Walker, Yvette Letters to the End of Love: Writing Holocaust Fiction, reading WG Sebald
• Whitting, Glenice Mainstream or margin? Epistolary writing by contemporary women: The warp, the weft and the loom