This is a reminder that early bird registration ends on Tuesday September 1st. Full fee registration to the conference ends on Friday November 13th
The link to register is on the Swinburne page, not AAWP’s.
Go to AAWP Swinburne page, scroll to the bottom of the page (where it says ‘How to register’), and click the button that says ‘Register now’. Make sure you select the ticket(s) you want.
The end of July is approaching fast and this is a gentle reminder that presentations for the 2015 AAWP conference in the refereed stream are due by July 30. Please send them de-identified and named as per the guidelines you would have received with your acceptance email to Dominique Hecq (dhecq@swin.edu.au)
If you are interested in selling or launching books, you are invited to contact Julian Novitz at Swinburne (jnovitz@swin.edu.au)
‘The Examiner’ 2015 Literature Awards are now open. Judges are calling for short stories of up to 2,000 words. To encourage and improve writing skills, there will be workshops and writing related events run in tandem with the awards.
There is a small entry fee, and the prize money will be shared between 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place, 4x highly commended prizes, and a ’tilligerry.com’ award – see details on the website. Entries close on September 30.
There is a new deadline for the AAWP’ exciting new publication pathway for emerging writers: ‘Chapter One’ entries are now open until 30 July, 2015. Eligibility has also been widened, allowing submissions from research higher degree students and research higher degree graduates up to 5 years beyond their graduation. Continue reading
16-18 September 2015, Female Orphan School, UWS Parramatta
The Writing and Society Research Centre is calling for applications for Creative Ecologies – a three-day masterclass program for students currently enrolled in a postgrad Creative Writing degree. The program is participatory, and includes lectures, plenary discussions and workshops led by experienced academics and practitioners.
Application details and more information can be found in the 2015 Information Package, and on the website. The maximum capacity for the retreat is 20 students, with 10 places reserved for UWS students. The cost is $340, and includes attendance, morning/afternoon tea, and lunch. Participants are responsible for their own transport and accommodation.
For further information, contact Dr Melinda Jewell, Writing and Society Research Centre Research Officer, University of Western Sydney: m.jewell@uws.edu.au
To create an appropriate atmosphere for this year’s conference, the AAWP conference committee is seeking submissions of short creative works (up to 500 words) to be read out (by the author) during break times. We are particularly keen to receive works that explore:
· Hauntings in the Australian landscape
· Adaptations of ghost tales from other countries
· Recontextualising of familiar ghosts
Your poems and stories need to be received by 31 July 2015. Writers will be notified of which texts have been selected for performance by 30 September 2015. Please send all submissions to Rachel.LeRossignol@vu.edu.au
The 2015 AAWP Conference Committee is very pleased to offer billeted accommodation as an option for interstate and overseas guests to this year’s conference, ‘Writing the Ghost Train: Rewriting, Remaking, Rediscovering’ (Sunday 29 November to Tuesday 1 December).
We are now calling for expressions of interest, both from Melbourne-residing members willing to host a delegate (usually a student) in their home for the duration of the conference, and from voyagers seeking shelter from the Melbourne weather.
Please contact Kay Rozynski at karomez@gmail.com to be put in touch with each other, or with any queries you might have.
The Pro-Vice Chancellor Research at the University of New England is offering four Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander HDR Participation Scholarships for higher degree study undertaken in Creative Practice, and based within the School of Arts at UNE. Successful applicants may elect to work with additional Schools, but the cohort will be based in the School of Arts.
The purpose of the scholarship is to support applicants from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to complete Creative Practice PhDs. Applicants must be enrolled, or be eligible to be enrolled, in either a Master of Philosophy in Creative Practice, or a PhD in Creative Practice at the University of New England. Applications close 19 August 2015. For guidelines or more information, visit http://www.une.edu.au/research/research-services/higher-degree-research/hdr-scholarships/une-hdr-atsi-participation-scholarships-creative-practice
Abstracts are being sought for the 13th biannual international conference of the European Association for Studies on Australia (EASA), hosted by the University of Pannonia (Veszprém, Hungary) in cooperation with Topos – Bilingual Journal of Space and Humanities. Abstracts are due before June 5, 2015.
The conference will provide an ideal venue for exploring Australia as a ‘topos’ in the academy and beyond, in ways that will seek to mobilize the manifold meanings of ‘topos’ as place, common place, and commonplace. The very fact that the discipline of Australian studies has constituted itself as a discrete branch of cultural studies, aggregating itself around self-contained and space-bound ideas of the nation, begs the question of biases possibly informing much research it has produced in the past, and points to the possibility of deconstructing today some of the foundational premises underlying the correlated discourses.
The conference will be held between 30 September and 3 October 2015. The deadline for submission of abstracts is June 5, 2015, and notification of acceptance is scheduled for June 20. For further details, see thecall for papers or visit the conference website
The $4000 Guy Morrison Prize for Literary Journalism recognises excellence in Literary Journalism and is awarded for the best piece of Literary Journalism by an undergraduate or postgraduate student enrolled in a Writing or Journalism program in an Australian university. In the context of this Prize, Literary Journalism is defined as: “a factually accurate, well-researched story that demonstrates the use of fiction techniques in a work of non-fiction; a work that is written with style, flair, detailed description and narrative flow; a work that demonstrates a journalistic and critical understanding of some of the finest reportage in the English language”. The work submitted for the Prize must demonstrate these qualities. Submissions close 30 April – click here to download details.
The prize honours Sydney journalist and playwright Guy Morrison, former Production Editor of The Australian and Features Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald, author of the memoir We Shared an Island, and plays Jara, Those Old Picasso Blues, Dancing the Tango in Sensible Shoes, Victor, and Eat Cake.
To qualify for consideration for the Prize, the applicant must:
1. Have been enrolled in a Writing or Journalism Program as a part-time or full-time undergraduate or postgraduate in an Australian university.
2. Have submitted a story of not less than 2,000 words and not more than 10,000 words that exemplifies the qualities of Literary Journalism as stated here.
3. Have produced the work in the 2014 academic year.
There will be only one award presented each year and this will be at the discretion of the judges. The prize may not be given if there is not deemed to be a suitable candidate. The amount of the Prize is $4000. There is a travel allowance of up to $500 if the winner lives outside Sydney.
