The 31st Annual Australasian Association of Writing Programs Conference: “Voicing Our Worlds”, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2–4 December 2026.
Abstracts/proposals for individual papers or panels close 31 May 2026.
We invite scholarly and creative contributions that address these ideas directly or in tangential yet fresh ways. Abstracts/Proposals may address, but need not be limited to, the following themes:
- First Nations voices in our world
- The voice of the writer in the public sphere
- Voice, power, representation
- Voice, disability and neurodivergence
- Diverse voices in the writing workshop
- Voices in translation
- Voicing the past, the present, and the future
- Voicing the popular
- Intertextuality and the voices of others in literary work
- Mentoring relationships and voice
- Prize culture and voice
- Creative Writing pedagogy and voice
- Our disciplinary voice in the higher education sector
- Formalist or craft-based conceptions of voice, tone, and/or perspective
- Vocalising the relationship between the human and the more-than-human
- Vocal Aesthetics in literary texts
- Algorithmic composition, SLMs, LLMs, machine automatism and the human voice
- Voice as reflected in form and style (including hybrid forms that disrupt literary conventions and challenge genre classifications)
- Voice as it can emerge in various modes of poetry, and in lyric prose
For more details regarding submission guidelines, visit the conference website hosted by UNSW.