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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).

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 20^th 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

NAWE 2023 Conference – Living as a Writer: Creative Writing in Education & Communities

Join the writing in education community this March at the NAWE 2023 Conference, 10-11 March, Online, and explore what it means to live as a writer in 2023 and beyond. A chance to make connections and share valuable insights with fellow writers working in education and the community across the UK and further afield. Two days of 45+ talks, workshops, panels and networking opportunities, to boost and benefit your writing and teaching practice. Keynotes from Patrice Lawrence on Living as a Writer and Blake Morrison and Maura Dooley on What is the future of education?

Early bird tickets from only £39 available until 7 February.

Conference sponsors: York Centre for Writing based at York St John University and Bloomsbury. Info and to book at https://bit.ly/3WAYg0l

Applications Open: Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Digital Storytelling and Writing

The University of New England is advertising for a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Digital Writing and Storytelling to join us in a fulltime continuing basis at the Armidale campus. The Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Digital Storytelling and Writing will support research and teaching in both creative storytelling and also empirical, evidence-based storytelling and narrative. This role will support future curriculum development. The successful applicant will have experience with high-quality development of digital-first course/unit design and of online and hybrid modes of teaching.

Closing date for applications is 5 February.

LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/jobs/view/lecturer-or-senior-lecturer-digital-storytelling-and-writing-at-hays-3400346049

Seek: https://www.seek.com.au/job/59799143?type=standard#sol=f7e5518ae6d86dd32e4884fb60026d26cdc0c92d

CALL FOR PAPERS: Creativecritical Writing Now

A Special Issue of TEXT Journal of Writing and Writing Courses

This Special Issue aims to explore forms of, and approaches to, creativecritical writing: writing which performs scholarly and creative functions simultaneously. Such blended approaches are no longer new—indeed, they are tracking distinct paths and uses in various contexts inside academia and beyond. As such, this Special Issue will take stock of the current nexus between the creative and the critical, as well as speculate on future conceptions of hybrid creative writing /scholarship.

The creativecritical mode has a long lineage across fictocritical, autotheoretical and ethnographic writing, as well as creative nonfiction and the essay form. Recently, creativecritical writing has gained popular currency, as evidenced by the work of Rebecca Solnit, Anne Carson, and Maggie Nelson. It is also attracting critical momentum, most noticeably at doctoral level, where, as Kylie Cardell and Kate Douglas note, ‘Many postgraduates [in Life Writing] are engaging in projects where the creative and critical/exegetical are an integrated text’ (207–208). In this Special Issue of TEXT, we invite articles (of roughly 6-8,000 words) that engage with the functions, processes, poetics and ethics of creativecritical writing in its many forms (creative nonfiction, fiction, academic writing, poetry/poetics, testimony and more). These engagements should constellate, in order to ask: Where are we now, and what is next for creativecritical writing? We hope to encourage a compiling of the essayistic, the fictocritical, life writing, the seamless, and more, to assess how the exegesis—and creative writing as research more broadly—might be conceived through a creativecritical lens.

Potential contributors might like to consider:

What creativecritical writing approaches do within research? (And, what have they done,
where are we now, and where we are going?).
Creativecritical possibilities for the exegesis, and questions regarding what counts as
scholarly output (E.g., what creative writing might do to shift the lexical possibilities of
scholarly work; how it can work within institutions). Articulating the role of the exegesis, creative exegetical forms, teaching/doing exegetical writing.
Creativecritical approaches as indicative/supportive of new vistas in representation, such as embodied thinking or non-dualistic approaches. (What kind of work is necessary at this juncture? How do thought/body/lived experience interact with scholarly forms? How can life writing operate as scholarship?).
The critical power in creative work, and the inherent criticality of creative expression. (What is creative and what is critical? How can the ‘ancient quarrel’ (Brien and Webb 2012) between poetry and philosophy be re-visited? Is creative work possibly critical work?).
The popular turn towards the creativecritical.
The difference, in creative writing scholarship, between explaining the work and the work being research.
The lineage of creativecritical forms: fictocriticism, art writing, autoethnography, essay.
The ethics of creativecritical writing.
Potential forms and approaches to writing that makes and considers/reflects/thinks
Hybridity in academic writing.
The essay and essayism in scholarly contexts; braided writing and blended forms.

How to submit your expression of interest:
Please submit a 200-word Expression of Interest by email to Stefanie Markidis and Daniel Juckes with ‘Creativecritical Writing Now’ as the subject line. In your EOI please outline how your paper or work(s) explore(s) aspects of the creativecritical mode. 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: April 14, 2023.

Deadline for finished works: June 30, 2023.
Enquiries: Daniel Juckes (daniel.juckes@uwa.edu.au) or Stefanie Markidis (stefanie.markidis@rmit.edu.au)

Applications Open: Visiting Professor of Australian Studies

The Centre for Pacific and American Studies (CPAS) at the University of Tokyo is seeking applications for a Visiting Professor of Australian Studies for 2023-24 and 2024-25. This is a teaching and research position for approximately 10 months duration, and is open to Australian citizens and permanent residents only. CPAS welcomes applications from highly qualified candidates with significant academic or public achievement in the field of Australian Studies broadly defined, including but not limited to cultural studies, history, literature, politics and society, philosophy and ethics, Indigenous issues, migration, foreign policy and international relations and environmentalism. Whilst Australia should remain the main focus, applications are also welcomed from candidates whose field of study covers the broader Pacific regions including Oceania, Polynesia, Micronesia and North America, with an emphasis on issues that are of particular relevance to the changing dynamics in the political economy and cross-cultural interchange in the area.

The Visiting Professor in Australian Studies is required to teach at undergraduate and graduate levels; to present conference papers; to conduct research; and to participate in promoting Australian Studies within Japan. All teaching is conducted in English. An attractive salary package and subsidised accommodation are available. The appointment is for a period of approximately 10 months and will commence in September 2023 or September 2024. Applicants may be considered for either term or both terms.

For details, including application instructions, salary and housing arrangements, and further information, please see the position description. Applications are due 1 February 2023. Enquiries should be directed to Professor Kate Darian-Smith at the University of Tasmania (kate.dariansmith@utas.edu.au), who is managing the selection process on behalf of the International Australian Studies Association (InASA).

Duration: Approximately 10 months
Commencement of position: Late September 2023 or late September 2024. Applicants may apply to be considered for a specific term only or for either term. This must be indicated clearly on your application.
Closing date for applications: 1 February 2023

Winners of the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize Announced

Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA), in partnership with Australia’s leading essential building and infrastructure services provider ARA Group, is excited to announce the winners of the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize.

The winner of the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize – Adult Category is Corporal Hitler’s Pistol by Tom Keneally (Penguin Random House).
The winner of the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize – Children and Young Adult (CYA) Category is Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief, by Katrina Nannestad (HarperCollins Australia).

This year’s winners make the past come alive in an astonishing way. Their luminous prose conjures worlds that intertwine history with imagination to explore themes of survival, identity, desire and power. Both novels embody storytelling at its very best.
The ARA Historical Novel Prize is worth a total of $100,000 in prize monies. The Prize will award $50,000 to the Adult category winner, with $5,000 awarded to each of the two shortlisted authors. In the Children and Young Adult (CYA) category, the winner will receive $30,000, while the two shortlisted authors will receive $5,000 each. The ARA Historical Novel Prize has been made possible through the generous patronage of ARA Group. The ARA Group, and its Founder, Executive Chair and CEO, Edward Federman, are committed to supporting the arts and literature.