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UCD Ad Astra Fellowship

Deadline for applications: Friday 26 May

In 2019 we launched the UCD Ad Astra Fellowship scheme to welcome early career academics into our community of scholars. The response since then has been exceptional and we are now looking for the next thirty Fellows to join the Colleges of Business, Arts & Humanities and Health & Agricultural Sciences.

We are particularly interested in receiving applications from academics who will contribute to advancing one or more of the four themes identified in our current strategy: Creating a Sustainable Global Society, Transforming through Digital Technology, Building a Healthy World, and Empowering Humanity. I invite you to explore the themes and consider how you might align your interests with our ambitions.

To learn more about this opportunity and find out how to apply, visit the UCD website.

Call for Papers : The writer’s place

A Special Issue of TEXT Journal of Writing and Writing Courses

Deadline for EOIs: 29 May 2023.

This Special Issue seeks to explore the experience of the place of writing. Much has been written about how writers immerse themselves and ‘feel’ – even vicariously in recent years – in/to the place/s their stories are set. But little scholarly attention has been given to the writer’s place, where the works are often ‘written up’. 

Yi-Fu Tuan clarifies in differentiating ‘space’ from ‘place’:

Place has a history and meaning. Place incarnates the experiences and aspirations of a people. Place is not only a fact to be explained in the broader frame of space, but it is also a reality to be clarified and understood from the perspectives of the people who have given it meaning.  

(Tuan 1979:387).

This Special Issue seeks contributions from writers (of creative nonfiction, fiction, academic writing, poetry/poetics, life/self-writing) as to the meaning attached to their place of writing.   

Malcolm Holz (2022) suggests that as many writers work alone, a large space may not be required to be most creative/productive, rather, that it is often the small place, the archetypal writer-hermit’s hut in the wild, where many influential (and infamous) writers retreated. Martin Heidegger, for example, produced most of his vast works in a hut in the Black Forest (Sharr 2006). Virginia Woolf’s (1929) classic essay illuminated the significance of having ‘a room of one’s own’ in which to write.

This provocation/invitation for contributors is centred on the phenomenology – the phenomenological experience – of the writer’s place. Potential contributors might like to consider:

  • What are the characteristics of the writer’s (preferred or limited) place of writing, and how important is the articulation/decoration/function of that place in the creative process e.g., the writer’s chair, desk, bookcase, pictures, music, temperature?
  • What is the writer’s experience – how does the writer ‘feel’ when writing – and how does the place of writing influence that experience, the creative process, and creative outputs; can the place be imagined/ virtual; how does technology affect the planning or design of the writing space; what does writing in that place smell or taste like? 
  • Does the writer (or their editor?) feel that the work created in a place of the writer’s own making is of a higher quality than if produced in a place they would prefer not to be?
  • Is the writer’s place only/solely the mind/body, and if so, what goes on in writing in that place?

This Special Issue of TEXT is seeking, but is not limited to, creative works and scholarly studies in the coalescence of the psychological space and the physical place of writing. Where do writers go: is it alone in their head, or bed; down the hall, or beside the pool; perhaps on the veranda, or in a fold-up chair by the beach, or a hut in the mountains? What is it about that place which attracts, and what happens – what is the writer’s experience – when the writer gets ‘t/here’?

How to submit your expression of interest:

Please submit a 200-word Expression of Interest by email to Malcolm Holz with ‘The Writer’s Place’ as the subject line. In your EOI please outline how your paper or work(s) explore(s) aspects of the experience of the writer’s place.  Please also include the following information: your full name, institutional affiliation (if any), email address, title of paper/work, brief biography (50–100 words), and 3 to 5 keywords (at least 2 of which should clearly relate to the issue’s title).

Deadline for EOIs: 29 May 2023.

Deadline for finished works/papers: 31 July 2023.  
Enquiries: Malcolm Holz (malcolmholz@outlook.com)

References

Holz, M. (2022) (Re)creative reflective writing in Focus and Flow: towards a timeless way of Being

Paper presented at Australasian Association of Writing Programs Annual Conference, Fire Country, University of the Sunshine Coast, November 2022

Sharr, A. (2009) Heidegger’s hut

MIT Press, Massachusetts

Tuan, Yi-Fu. (1979) Space and Place: Humanistic Perspective

In Gale, S. & Olsson, G. (Eds.) Philosophy in Geography

D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland.  pp. 387-427

Woolf, V. (1929) A room of one’s own

Hogarth Press, England

Book a book proposal conversation with Bloomsbury Academic commissiong editor in Creative Writing, Lucy Brown (UK)

Lucy Brown, commissioning editor in Creative Writing at Bloomsbury Academic (UK) will be running a couple of commissioning days for the creative writing list on Monday 24thand Tuesday 25th April. The idea is for people to book in a short, 30-minute session to discuss any ideas around potential projects or proposals they have been thinking about. Lucy hopes this opportunity will make publishing with Bloomsbury’s Creative Writing area feel more accessible through an informal chat.

Writers can informally discuss projects at the early stages, see if an idea has legs or be ready with a proposal to submit. Lucy is most interested in creative writing books for students to use on courses, and research books for scholars and practitioners. 

Find out more about Bloombsury Academic’s Research in Creative Writing Series here: 

Link to book: https://bit.ly/3UgORvw

Dates: 9am – 5:30pm BST, 24th & 25th April 2023

ENTRIES FOR THE 2023 ARA HISTORICAL NOVEL PRIZE NOW OPEN

Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA), in partnership with Australia’s leading essential building and infrastructure services provider ARA Group, is excited to announce that entries for the 2023 ARA Historical Novel Prize opened at 9am on 12 April 2023.

The ARA Historical Novel Prize is the richest genre-based literary award in Australasia, incorporating both an Adult category and a Children and Young Adult (CYA) category. The Prize is worth a total of $100,000 in prize monies. The Prize will award $50,000 to the Adult category winner, with an additional $5,000 to be awarded to each of the remaining two shortlisted authors. In the CYA category, the winner will receive $30,000, while the two short listers will receive $5,000 each.

Key dates:

  • Awards open: 9am (AEST) 12 April 2023
  • Awards close: 5pm (AEST) 14 June 2023
  • Longlist announced (nine books): 13 September 2023
  • Shortlist announced (three books): 27 September 2023
  • Winners announced: 19 October 2023

Winners will be announced at a cocktail party in Sydney on 19 October.

The HNSA supports and promotes the writing, reading and publication of historical fiction across Australia and New Zealand. It is the third arm of the international Historical Novel Society.

To enter the 2023 ARA Historical Novel Prize, visit: https://hnsa.org.au/the-2023-ara-historical-novel-prize/

First Nations Writers’ Fellowship

Work type: Casual
Location: Adelaide
Categories: Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics

Pursuant to section 65 of the South Australian Equal Opportunity Act 1984 and the University of Adelaide’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Employment Strategy, applications are invited from Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander people only.

The JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice First Nations Fellowships support the production of new work by First Nations artists, to be awarded to creative writers/storytellers and musicians, beginning with a writer in 2023. The Fellowship comprises $10,000 for creative development of a project, and office space at the Centre.

Collaborations and dialogue between the Fellow and JMCCCP members will be encouraged, and the successful applicant will be invited to give a masterclass to students in English and Creative Writing. The Fellow will also be free to engage with our neighbours in the North Terrace Cultural Precinct, by exploring or responding to the collections of the South Australian Museum, or by participating in the programs of the Art Gallery of South Australia, particularly those scheduled around Tarnanthi, Reconciliation week and NAIDOC week. 

If you have the talent, we’ll give you the opportunity. Together let’s make history.

Please submit the following as part of your application:

  • A description of your proposed project
  • A description of how this opportunity might support you at this point of your career
  • A brief budget of how fellowship funds will be spent
  • Samples of writing
  • A curriculum vitae

Applications close 11:55pm, 16 April 2023.

Apply via this link

Professor Anne Pender
Director, JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice
E:  anne.pender@adelaide.edu.au

Call for Abstracts | We Need to Talk: The 28th Annual Conference of the AAWP

The deadline for submission of abstracts is 28 July 2023, 11:59PM (AEST). 

Submit your abstract

The 28th annual conference of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs is hosted by the University of Canberra’s Centre for Creative and Cultural Research. 

The event will be held on Ngunnawal Country; we acknowledge with gratitude that we have been welcomed to walk on this unceded land, and pay our respects to their elders, past and present, and emerging.  

We invite proposals for conference papers, panels, or performances that focus on issues that demand personal, social and institutional attention; and we are very interested in proposals that are collaborative, dialogic, improvisational, and/or performative.  

Please consider the following list of starter-topic areas as you construct your abstract/proposal:  

Orality – e.g. 

  • Spoken word forms 
  • Writing/improvising for performance 
  • Song / chant 
  • Script/screenplay 
  • Audio and transdisciplinary storytelling modes 
  • Yarning Circles 
  • Podcasts 

Poetry – e.g. 

  • Performance poetry 
  • Transformative practice 
  • Collaborative work 
  • Ecopoetry
  • Poetry of resistance

Essay – e.g. 

  • Intimacy 
  • Lyrical or dialogic essay
  • Writing as conversatio, or collaboration
  • Reading as intimacy 
  • Manifesto / diatribe / rant 

Sustainability – e.g. 

  • The environment and living in the more-than-human world 
  • Traditional ways of knowing, being and storying 
  • Economic and political engagement in writing/by writers 
  • Object writing 
  • Alternate knowledge systems 
  • Umwelt 

Queering Writing – e.g.  

  • Decentred and diverse voices 
  • Indigenous stories 
  • Neglected art forms 
  • Queering forms 
  • AI / Chat GPT – implications, limitations, possibilities  
  • Gatekeeping 

Arts/Health – e.g.

  • Writing, reading, and wellbeing 
  • Transdisciplinary practice for health 
  • Creative interventions and trauma 
  • Working beyond the academy (outreach, communicating research) 
  • Silences in academia 
  • Care for the author 

(or other topics, though we do ask that you aim to accommodate the theme of the conference in your work)

The deadline for submission of abstracts is 28 July 2023, 11:59PM (AEST). 
Proposals should include: 

  • your name
  • your university or other institutional affiliation 
  • your e-mail address  
  • the title of your proposed paper 
  • your abstract (250 words max) 
  • identify whether it is for a paper, a panel, or a performance
  • a short bio (100 words max).  
Submit your abstract

Please submit your queries to jen.webb@canberra.edu.au.

NB: while everyone is welcome to attend the conference, only current AAWP members are eligible to present. You can find membership details, prices, and online sign-up options here. 

VI Premium Virtual Edition | European Course for Teachers of Creative Writing

Enrolments are already open until March, 15th, 2023.

From the 21st to the 23rd of March, 2023, the EACWP launches the sixth Premium Virtual Edition of its European Course for Teachers of Creative Writing. Worldwide participants are welcome to join us.

In the spirit of abundance, gratitude and enjoyment of a new rising year to come, EACWP are delighted to announce a course they have longed for that has finally come true: a pedagogical proposal on both the sensual, Dyonisian experience of the body up to the sacred, Apollonian, even mystic experience of the soul approached from the complementary and intertwined disciplines of Food, Drink and Drug Writing. Just as a garden of earthly, literary delights.

The enrolment process for the sixth virtual edition of our Teachers Training Course, which, as in its regular format, will comprise three different workshops that will take place on Tuesday, 21st, Wednesday, 22nd and Thursday, 23rd of March (2023) from 17.00 to 19.00 (CET).

For more details, visit the EACWP website.

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Call for papers: EACWP VI Pedagogical Conference 2023

The deadline for submissions has been extended to March, 24 (2023).

The EACWP Conference is a biannual event devoted to foster a European and Worldwide dialogue on the different approaches to creative writing education. The VI EACWP conference will take place in Madrid, in the locations of Casa Árabe (The Arabic House) and in the context of Escuela de Escritores 20th anniversary, from Thursday 4 to Saturday 6 May 2023. The on-line format for proposals will only be accepted for the Multilingual Workshops. 

Central to the conference will be an acknowledgement of the importance of creativity and how enhance it through the practice of writing. In times of crisis – probably, the only possible times – writers can make creativity a permanent way of living as artists, continuously questioning, developing and reformulating our craft.

Visit the EACWP Conference website for further details.

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University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize

The Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize is running again in 2023.

The prize is now open until 30 June 2023, 23:59 GMT.

Enter here

About the Prize

The University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize has been offered annually since 2014. On behalf of the University, this is administered by the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research in the Faculty of Arts and Design.

The prize celebrates the enduring significance of poetry to cultures everywhere in the world, and its ongoing and often seminal importance to world literatures. It marks the University of Canberra’s commitment to creativity and imagination in all that it does, and builds on the work of the International Poetry Studies Institute in identifying poetry as a highly resilient and sophisticated human activity. It also builds on the activities of the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, which conducts wide-ranging research into human creativity and culture.

The 2023 prize winners will be announced by November 2023 and the prize winners and short-list will be notified prior to that.

Important details are:

  • The winner will receive AUD$15,000
  • The international winner will receive AUD$5,000
  • The runner-up (second-placed poem) will receive AUD$5,000
  • Four additional poems will be short-listed
  • An online prize anthology of up to 60 longlisted poems will be published

Entry fees

  • Entrants may submit up to six poems, and will pay a separate fee for each poem.
  • First Entry: $AUD25 or $15 concession
  • Additional Entry (up to five additional entries): $AUD20 or $10 concession
  • See How to Enter for details and Early Bird fee options

Outline of prize rules and conditions

  • All poems entered for the prize will be single poems that have a maximum length of 60 lines
  • All entries will be in English
  • No simultaneous submissions will be allowed
  • Entries must be unpublished and original works of the author
  • Translations will not be eligible unless they are English translations from another language produced by the original author
  • Judges (To be confirmed for 2023)
  • Full Conditions of Entry

Please direct all enquiries to: vcpoetryprize@canberra.edu.au
Do not call the University, unfortunately they cannot address queries over the phone.

Footage from the Ania Walwicz Symposium

Dear Contributors and Attendees at the Ania Walwicz Symposium,

Here is the raw footage of the symposium, thanks to the inestimable technical oversight of Karen Le Rossignol and all the administrative work of EJ at Deakin Downtown. 

https://deakin.zoom.us/rec/share/YKBziMiUcdqQu_wl1loQb8IvEtp1aX5FsxqhczWvyUqVaYxcTApf15EdbUfXwgYN.V3tkX9Ob7arM1hNS 
Passcode: ?r+C=4S9

I’d like to reiterate my heartfelt thanks to Karen and offer a round of resounding applause to EJ for her amazing support from the beginning of this project. 

You will undoubtedly want to skip quite a bit of the footage, since the camera was rolling from 9.00 am, and right through the breaks.

Congratulations to all for making this a fantastic communal event.

With warm regards

Marion