30th Annual Australasian Association of Writing Programs Conference: Movement & Stasis, University of Melbourne, 3–5 December 2025.
Hosted by the creative writing program at the University of Melbourne, the 30th Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP) 2025 conference will be held in-person on the Parkville campus, situated on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people.
This year’s conference is on the theme of Movement & Stasis.
The theme of movement might conjure notions of physical, social, political, communal or artistic movement, but can also suggest arrivals, departures, walking on country, transformation, mobility and change. Placing movement alongside stasis, conference presentations over three days will consider the two themes in relation: ambiguities, contradictions, tensions, as well as productive entanglements enabled by both/and thinking. The theme of stasis might draw to mind a period of inactivity or equilibrium, a stoppage, a cessation, a form of civil strife. Stasis might mean slowing down; it might mean stability.
A discrete, fully online professional development program for Graduate Research (GR) candidates and Early-Career-Researcher (ECR) colleagues will be offered in association with the main conference program on Tuesday 2 December.
Selected keynote and plenary events from the main three-day conference program will be livestreamed for free.
Consult the Movement & Stasis: 30th Annual AAWP Conference website for information about how to register, where to stay, and further details of our conference program as they become available.
The call for proposals for the 30th annual conference is now closed.
Queries to: aawp-conference2025@unimelb.edu.au