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
Previous annual conferences of the AAWP have been held at:
1996 University of Technology, Sydney
1997 Deakin University and RMIT University, Melbourne
1998 University of South Australia / University of Adelaide
1999 Edith Cowan University, Perth
2000 Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus
2001 University of Canberra
2002 University of Melbourne
2003 University of New South Wales
2004 Flinders University, Adelaide
2005 Curtin University of Technology, Perth
2006 Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
2007 University of Canberra
2008 University of Technology, Sydney
2009 Waikato Institute of Technology, Hamilton, New Zealand
2010 RMIT, Melbourne
2011 Southern Cross University, Byron Bay
2012 Deakin University, Geelong
2013 University of Canberra, Canberra
2014 Massey University, Wellington NZ
2015 Swinburne University, Melbourne
2016 University of Canberra, Canberra
2017 Flinders University, Adelaide
2018 Curtin University, Edith Cowan University, Murdoch University and the University of Western Australia, Perth
2019 University of Technology, Sydney
2020 Griffith University, Gold Coast
2021 University of the Sunshine Coast, Sunshine Coast (online symposium in lieu of conference)
2022 Central Queensland University and University of the Sunshine Coast (USC), Sippy Downs
2023 University of Canberra’s Centre for Creative and Cultural Research
2024 University of New England, Armidale, NSW