Wednesday 29 November
We will start the day at Building 9 on the UC campus and from morning tea onwards we will be at the Inspire Centre (Building 25)
During every Panel, sessions will take place in the following Inspire Centre rooms:
Session 1 in Room 1
Session 2 in Room 2,
Session 3 in the Main Room
Session 4 in the Teal Room
Please arrive 10 minutes before you are scheduled to present and bring your power point on a USB stick.
For a full list of abstracts please click here.
To access a .pdf file of Wednesday's program and abstracts, please click here.
Schedule
9:00
Opening
Welcome to country from Della Fraser
Short addresses from Distinguished Professor Jen Webb, conference co-chair,
and AAWP President, Julia Prendergast
Opening address: Where difficult stories live
- Elena Isayev
Kurt Schwitters’ ‘Ursonate’
- Christian Bōk
Christian Bōk is an experimental poet, author of Crystallography, Eunoia – which won the
Griffin Poetry Prize, the world’s largest international prize for a single book of poetry – and
The Xenotext. At AAWP 2023, he will be performing Kurt Schwitters’ ‘Ursonate’, a landmark
sound work.
If you wish to attend the Opening via Zoom, please use this Zoom Meeting ID:
995 7138 4962
No password is required.
Building 9
Level A Room 1
11:00
Morning Tea
Building 25
11:30
Panels #1
Chair: Atul Joshi
The fractured Immigrant; exploring a life re-examined
- Kim Novick
Australia my home through my poetry
- Sunil Govinnage
Writing refugee lives – shared vulnerabilities
- Rosemary Sayer
Chair: Denise Thwaites
‘And he rode a Trojan Horse': an exegetical conversation about masculinity in the historical western romances of Amy Barry
- Amy Matthews
Creating an ‘authentic’ narrative voice to foreground women’s experience in historical fiction
- Christine Balint
Decolonisation and diaspora hybridity: An autoethnographic exploration of post-colonial fiction writing
- Sharmila Jayasinghe
Chair: Elizabeth Smyth
Nonkingdom: Its Laws and Ways
- Louise Katz
On Lydia Davis’s ‘A Position at the University’ as a description of (among others) me
- Julienne van Loon
Chair: Lainie Anderson
#web weaving: Hyperconnected Centos and the Digital Futures of Reading
- Axel-Nathaniel Rose
Defining (for the last time!) Australian digital literature
- David Wright
Ideasthetic Imagining—Mapping the Brain’s Microstates Using Magnetoencephalography (MEG)
- Julia Prendergast, Paris Lyons & Benjamin Slade
Building 25
Room 1
Room 2
Main Room
Teal Room
12:30
Lunch
Building 25
Main Room
13:00
Book launches:
Amelia Walker, Alogopoiesis
(Life Before Man / Gazebo Books)
Julia Prendergast, Eileen Herbert Goodall and Jen Webb, eds, The Writing Mind: Creative Writing Responses to Images of the Living Brain &
Julia Prendergast, Eileen Herbert Goodall and Deb Wain, eds, ACE IV – Arresting, Contemporary Stories by Emerging Writers,
(Recent Work Press), launched by Shane Strange
Deborah Wardle, Subterranean Imaginaries and Groundwater Narratives
Routledge), launched by Julienne van Loon
This event will be live-streamed.
Building 25
Main Room
14:00
Panels #2
Chair: Paul Magee
How can we use a ‘labial narrative framework’ to explore ambivalent intimate experiences of shame and desire in short fiction?
- Eve Nucifora-Ryan
Guiding body awareness through spoken text: Developing a queer somatic life writing method
- Nina Baeyertz
Appropriation and the Authentic voice
- Karen Martin
Chair: Axel-Nathaniel Rose
Beyond the journey: fresh metaphors for articulating HDR candidature and early career academic life
- Amelia Walker, Chloe Cannell, Dante De Bono & Simon-Peter Telford
Grieving; postPhD
- Gemma Nisbet & Daniel Juckes
Breaking the Locks: increased accessibility for rural poets in Covid
- Roxanne Bodsworth
Self-chairing
Genre - What’s the story? Is this even a poem? The role of taxonomies, principles and operations on the production and reception of creative writing.
- Katharine Coles, Julia Prendergast & Jen Webb
Self-chairing
We need to talk about how poetry offers restitution of women’s historical voices
- Anne Carson, Angela Costi & Kimberly Williams
Building 25
Room 1
Room 2
Main Room
Teal Room
15:00
Panels #3
Self-chairing
Mushrooms, rabbits and birds: More than human encounters and creative practice
- Andraya Stapp-Gaunt, Charlotte Stone & Josh Finzi
Chair: Laura Fulton
On the Limits of Imagination: Experiences of First Nations Writers and Writers of Colour within the Australian Literary Industry
- Natalie Kon-yu
The Missing Books in Australian Children’s Literature: An Australian-Filipino Author’s Journey to Representation
- Kristyn Maslog-Levis
Working with feminist and queer pedagogies in readings and awareness
- Anne Brady-Clark
Chair: Paul Magee
Oral Improvisation as Compositional Method: The Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) Share, the David Antin Talk Poem, and ‘Talk Recovery’
- Rose Hunter
Speaking Silence: Poetics of Contemplation
- Rose Lucas
'Forming, Transforming' - a reading from 'Moon Wrasse'
- Willo Drummond
Chair: Alex Cothren
Creative labour and experiments with AI in the Creative Writing Classroom
- Roanna Gonsalves
Analostalgia: Audio storytelling through analogue technology as a vehicle for time travel
- Raelke Grimmer
Queering transreal narratives: storying that navigates boundaries between fiction and reality for transilient emergent identities
- Gil Douglas
Building 25
Room 1
Room 2
Main Room
Teal Room
16:00
Afternoon Tea
Building 25
16:30
Panels #4
Chair: Pauline Griffiths
Channelling collective voices against domestic abuse in fiction: Why we need women talking
- Samantha Bowers
Dialoguing the dead: reflections on the loss of the father
- Emily Rytmeister & Jane Scerri
Narratives of stillbirth – redefining silences through personal and historical perspectives
- Megan Warren, Karen Le Rossignol & Patrick West
Chair: Jennie Hollamby
Writing a Transformative Postmodern Memoir: The Metamorphosis of Clio
- Megan Anning
Talking about food in times of hardship
- Gail Pittaway
Our story: Seeking relational autonomy through intergenerational storytelling
- Helena Kadmos
Chair: Oz Hardwick
Wit(h)nessing cultural exchange via verbatim theatre
- Melody Ellis & Francesca Rendle-Short
Tell don’t show: voice, perspective and the limits of empathy in the fiction of Daniel Davis Wood
- Julian Novitz
Self and other
- Eugen Bacon
Chair: Evie Nucifora-Ryan
Creative writing and other practices employed in the evaluation of women’s football community projects in the Pacific Islands
- Lee McGowan, Dani Medina Hidalgo, Kasey Symons, Chelsea Taylor
& Emma Evans
The Mother Tongue: how contemporary fairy tale retellings can re-centre women’s lived experience
- Sarah Hart
Queering the short story YA cycle
- Chloe Cannell
Building 25
Room 1
Room 2
Main Room
Teal Room
18:30
Five Island Prize for a first book of poetry Shortlist Announced for 2023.
Longterm AAWP member Willo Drummond is shortlisted in this award for her collection Moon Wrasse (Puncher & Wattmann), alongside books by Dan Hogan, Holly Isemonger, and Caroline Williamson.
The winning and commended books will be announced at a Zoom event on Wednesday 29 November, 6.30–7.30 pm (AEST Melbourne time): https://unimelb.zoom.us/j/2338614152?pwd=aVhRZElvYjh1T2ZId2h1QW9ZbThS
UT09 Password: 106945
Everyone is welcome to attend to hear the judges’ report and readings from the finalists. Please join us to celebrate these new poets, their poetry, and their publishers.
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