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Registrations Open for 31st AAWP Conference

Registrations are now open for the 31st Annual Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP) Conference 2026, “Voicing Our Worlds”, UNSW Sydney, 2–4 December 2026, supported by the School of the Arts & Media, and the Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture, UNSW Sydney.

Hosted by the Literary Provocations Hub at UNSW, AAWP2026 will be held in-person at the UNSW Kensington campus, situated on unceded Bidjigal lands. The conference is a cross-institutional collaboration between UNSW, Macquarie University, University of Technology Sydney, Western Sydney University, University of Wollongong, and University of Sydney.

Registration to the conference is free for all First Nations delegates. We request that you register via the button below for catering and logistics purposes: 

Conference registrations

Workshops

Sign up for our exciting suite of pre-conference (Tuesday 1 December) professional development workshops with leading Sydney-based writers and artists including Felicity Plunkett, Julie Koh, Subhash Jaireth, Lizzie Levot, Troy Reid and Clare Britton.

Register via the button below for the conference and workshops. Early Bird closes September 30: 

Workshop registrations

Postgraduate Day

Build your research skills and connect with our Creative Writing community at our free and hybrid Postgraduate Day program (Tuesday 1 December), open to all Creative Writing HDRs and ECRs, and featuring sessions with Jen Webb, Melody Ellis, Lee McGowan, Carolyn Beasley and Ariella Van Luyn. Register via the button below: 

Postgraduate Day registrations

StorySALOON / AAWP Collaboration

Win exciting prizes by supporting local writers, performers, and colleagues through our StorySALOON-AAWP 2026 collab. Buy a ticket for someone else and spread the love with our Pay It Forward option. For more information, click here and scroll down to Schedule > Day 2.

Please note: All presenters need to register for the conference and must be current AAWP members. If you are unsure if your membership is current please email the AAWP Memberships Officer: Jessica Seymour jessieseymour.info@gmail.com.

For more information about Access & Equity arrangements please see the Accessibility FAQs on our website, or email the AAWP Access & Equity Officer Axel at a.rose@unsw.edu.au.

For more information about other conference-related details please check the conference website, or email aawp2026@unsw.edu.au

We are looking forward to welcoming you to AAWP2026 at UNSW Sydney!

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Closing soon: AAWP Annual Conference Call for Abstracts/Proposals

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.