Closing date: 31 August 2018

Prize: $1,500

The Award is for a Life Writing, defined as a work of biography, autobiography, memoir, monograph, bibliography. Biography and autobiography may be an extract to meet the word count requirements which is a minimum of 10,000 and a maximum of 25,000. The competition is open to all residents of Australia 18 years and over.

Entry Fee: $25.00 per entry. For full Conditions of Entry please download the entry form

FAW NSW Walter Stone 2018 Life Writing Award

The winner of this will be invited to attend the annual FAW NSW Awards Presentation Luncheon in Sydney on Saturday 3 November 2018.

Results will be published in Writers Voice and on the website.

Dear Friends and colleagues,

As you may be aware, Carclew administers a grants program for artists and arts workers aged 26 & under, on behalf of the state government. Carclew Fellowships provide financial support for professional development, and are currently open for applications.

Carclew is committed to improving access and widening our network of applicants in order to reach young people who may be operating outside of the usual study or formal networks.

We would love your assistance in reaching a wider audience.

Carclew Fellowships can be used for a broad variety of professional development activities including international study, summer schools, masterclasses, residencies, internships, mentorships, or to be exposed to an environment of innovation and cutting edge ideas.

Fellowship proposals can request financial support ranging from $3,000 – $12,000.

Recognising the breadth of skills in the arts and creative industries, Carclew Fellowships are open to applicants practicing in all creative mediums, as well as technical, administration and production areas of the arts. This includes but is not limited to Performing Arts | Film & New Media | Visual Arts | Creative Writing | Technical / Production | Arts Administration.

More support for applicants – As Carclew’s Funding Program Coordinator, I am available to present information sessions in person or via video, locally and outside of the Adelaide Metro area. I also regularly provide one-on-one consultations with potential applicants. In addition to the written/online submission system, Carclew also accepts project proposals video format.

We’re able to provide image and information in any convenient format that will make it easiest for you to distribute this information. We also have printed postcards that we can send to you.

Further information is available on the Carclew website or you’re welcome to contact me directly on (08) 8230 1103 or rmeston@carclew.org.au

We are delighted to announce that our second keynote speaker for Peripheral Visions (Perth, 28-30 December 2018) is writer and cultural historian Maria Tumarkin. Maria will speak on the final day, while Kim Scott, whose latest novel has just been shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, will open the Conference.

Please note: Paper and panel proposals for the Conference should be submitted to AAWPConf18@curtin.edu.au by 30 June 2018. For the CFP and additional information, click here

In this two-part event, HDR and ECR participants will have an opportunity to engage with exciting and innovative theories and approaches to writing and publishing.

Dr Quinn Eades and Professor Terri-ann White will host exciting workshops aimed at helping HDR and ECR participants write from lived experience and new, peripheral and conventional ways of reading, writing and publishing.

For more information about what these masterclasses entail, click here or visit the host university’s website.

This event is free for postgraduates and early career researchers within two years of completion who register for the AAWP Conference, Peripheral Visions (28-30 November 2018). Postgraduates and ECRs not attending the AAWP conference are welcome: cost $30.00, includes afternoon tea.

The Department of Humanities and Creative Writing is now inviting applications for an assistant professorship in English Creative Writing. The appointee is expected to teach a range of introductory and upper level broad-based, writing and interdisciplinary core courses in the Department. Preferable teaching and research topics include some of the following: fictional writing, speculative fiction genre (including science fiction, fantasy, horror, detective fiction), experimental narrative forms, multimedia writing, video-game narrative, audio/digital storytelling, and/or digital literature.

For more information and how to apply, click here

To apply directly, click here

Poetry on the Move: Inhabiting Language

This issue is connected to a one-day symposium to be held during the Poetry on the Move Festival, 13-17 September 2018, hosted by the International Poetry Studies Institute (IPSI) in the Faculty of arts and Design at the University of Canberra.

This Special Issue of the Axon journal aims to explore ways in which contemporary poetry ‘inhabits’ language, and the extent to which poetic language may be understood as inside and/or outside of human experience.

We are particularly interested in papers that relate to:

• How poetic expression and form may be said to ‘inhabit’ language.
• How poetry inhabits its language differently from prose, and how poetry dwells in the possible (remembering that Emily Dickinson wrote that she dwelt ‘in Possibility’ and that this was ‘a fairer House than Prose’).
• The ways in which poets ‘inhabit’ language in order to write their works.
• Poetry’s capacity to inhabit various and divergent languages through translation.
• The relationship of poetry to experience and knowledge.
• Poetry and autobiography.
• The space and time of poetry.
• The connection of poetry to ideas of home, place or belonging.
• Poetry’s connection to the quotidian.
• Poetry’s ways of ‘inhabiting’ diverse identities.
• The way poems ‘house’ ideas and emotions.
• Poetry as a way of knowing and/or inhabiting the ‘other’.
• Poetry and its relationship to language more broadly.
• Ways in which lyric utterance may be said to ‘belong’ inside human experience.

What we would like from contributors:

1. A 150-word abstract of your proposed paper by 20 April 2018.
2. If your abstract is accepted, a full written paper of between 3,000 and 6,000 words by 15 August 2018.

The editors of this issue of Axon: Creative Explorations journal are Professor Paul Hetherington, Professor Jen Webb and Shane Strange.

All abstracts, papers and related correspondence should be addressed to Shane Strange at Shane.Strange@canberra.edu.au

Thematic issue of Recherches en Communication
Deadline for submission: June 29, 2018
Languages: English and French

Paper submissions are invited for a thematic issue of Recherches en Communication, which will explore the interplay between journalism and experience in narrative and literary forms of journalism.

Considering the recent evolutions of journalism, the study of experientiality should not be limited to the written text, but should also concern more innovative forms of narrative/literary journalism, such as multimedia, transmedia and interactive narratives. For this thematic issue, all submissions investigating the relationship between narrative/literary journalism and experience are welcome.

For more information and how to submit, click here

Every creative expression shares a vision. Whether writers are looking from, looking towards, looking askance, looking away, or looking over, writing beckons us to the periphery and asks, ‘Where to now?’.

The location of the 2018 annual conference of the AAWP in the western reaches of the continent has inspired our theme. And we are delighted to announce that Kim Scott, award-winning novelist and Professor of Writing, will be our keynote speaker.

We invite presentations — from pedagogy, research, and practice in creative or professional writing, editing and publishing — that explore or excavate these different ways of writing beyond and outside the obvious, enabling alternative worlds, ideas, or truths to emerge.

For a list of potential topics, as well as how to submit, click here.