The Creative Writing Program in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne is currently seeking an experienced creative writing practitioner at the level of Senior Lecturer or Lecturer in the areas of writing for screen or digital media with a developing research profile in their field. Applications close on 24 April. For more information, go to
http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/882158/lecturer-senior-lecturer-in-creative-writing
The territory of loss is vast: loss of people we love; loss of country, culture and identity; loss of love, of innocence, of a way of life; loss of ecosystems and species; loss of bodily capacity or integrity; loss brought about by migration and other transitions; losing one’s head, one’s job, one’s beliefs … the possibilities are multiple. Dr Gina Mercer and Dr Terry Whitebeach invite original submissions on this topic.
Please send your prose (up to 3,000 words) or poetry (up to 100 lines). All work must be printed on white A4 paper with 1.5 spacing and in at least 12 point font. Submissions in languages other than English are encouraged but must be accompanied by an English translation.
Unpublished writing is preferred. Previously published work will be accepted only if the author obtains all necessary permissions from the publisher/s. Please post 2 copies of your work to:Anthology of Loss, c/- Tasmanian Writers Centre, First Floor, Salamanca Arts Centre, 77 Salamanca Place, Hobart, Tasmania, 7000. Contributions due by Monday, 1 September, 2014
If you have enquiries, please email both editors:
A teaching and research position exists in one of Australia’s long established writing programs.
An opportunity to teach into an established Bachelor of Writing degree and postgraduate coursework offerings in writing and editing, with strong creative writing and literary studies streams. Closing Date: 7 May 2014.
The Faculty of Arts and Design supports research into writing, including Early Career Researchers, through its Centre for Creative and Cultural Research. All Writing Program academic staff are also creative practitioners engaged in diverse writing activities. This is an opportunity to work alongside a strong cohort of Higher Degree Research students.
For more information on this position please contact, Associate Professor Paul Hetherington on (02) 6201 2996.
Download position description here. For more information on this position and how to apply please, go to http://www.canberra.edu.au/hr/jobs
The Creative Manoeuvres: Making, Saying, Being papers – the refereed proceedings of the 18th Conference of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs, 2013 – are now available under the publications tab.
For the first time, in addition to the academic stream, creative papers have been included in the proceedings. These represent ‘a surprising and diverse body of works that shows dexterity in relation to what creative writing is, and can be,’ according to Shane Strange and Kay Rozynski in their editorial introduction. However, all delegates address ‘the multiform ways that writing and writers make and understand through creative and academic practice’.
Strange and Rozynski also assert that ‘[t]he emphasis on movement, on ‘manoeuvring’, is an important one in a space that has at times valued practice as an object rather than as a movement of making, doing, thinking and being’. They add that what became clear in reviewing the nearly fifty papers presented is that ‘thinking about writing and its place in the world (and the university) is bearing the fruit of broad, interdisciplinary endeavour – which has always been the promise of the translation of creative practice into the academy.’ Thus, these proceedings ‘are evidence that in 2013 there was good reason to be excited about writing as a mode of knowledge, practice and research’.
