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Thursday                        30 November

During every Panel, sessions will take place in the following Inspire Centre (Building 25) rooms:

Session 1  in Room 1

Session 2 in Room 2,

Session 3 in the Main Room 

Session 4 in the Teal Room

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Please arrive 10 minutes before you are scheduled to present and bring your power point on a USB stick.

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For a full list of abstracts please click here.

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To access a .pdf file of Thursday's program and abstracts, please click here.

Schedule

9:00

Panels #5

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Session 1:

Self-chairing

‘Talking’ Translation: Measuring Spaces of Poetry from Multi-disciplinary Angles

   - Robert Barnstone, Tony Barnstone & Kimberly Williams

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Session 2:

Self-chairing

We need to talk … about the Creative PhD candidate/supervisor relationship

   - Lainie Anderson, Chloe Cannell & Sue Joseph

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Session 3:

Chair: Carmel Summers

Digital writing, artificial intelligence and a poet’s desire: A methodology of creative coding with GPT as co-pilot

   - Jenny Hedley

Talking in Fragments: the Urdu 'ghazal' in English

   - Jinendra Jain

We need to talk about the pedagogical challenges of poetry workshops and re-imagined possibilities

   - Lynnette Lounsbury, Carolyn Rickett & Judith Beveridge

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Session 4:

Self-chairing

Climate Fiction: Posthuman Artist Laboratory

   - Rachel Hennessy, Alex Cothren & Amy Matthews

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10:30

Morning Tea

Building 25

11:00 

Panels #6

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Session 1:

Chair: Louise Falconer

Beyond artistic borders and into the future

   - Felicity Castagna

Interdisciplinary writing programs

   - Wing Sze Leung

Ginger cake and lemon icing: Intergenerational Familial Autoethnography

   - Indyana Horobin

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Session 2:

Chair: Rose Lucas

Queering the past: Representing neuroqueer characters in historical fiction

   - Ariella Van Luyn

‘Motherforklift: Trans-Supportive Parenting in 21st Century Australia’

   - Kel Purcill

Experimental approaches to writing shame and desire in fiction

   - Eve Nucifora-Ryan & Imogen McKenzie

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Session 3:

Chair: Helena Kadmos

Writing Lacunae – Object writing as collaboration with loss in Judith Schalansky’s An Inventory of Losses

   - Johanna Ellersdorfer

Objects and Life Writing: What We Learned from Failing

   - Marina Deller, Gemma Nisbet & Daniel Juckes

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Session 4:

Chair: Elizabeth Smyth

The book as poem: writing silenced themes through collection contents and ordering

   - Amelia Walker

‘Split Level’: Articulating Lost Houses Through the Uncanny

   - Ella Jeffery

A Rush of Grief: Ekphrasis and emotionally intelligent understandings of pain in children’s picture books

   - Shannon Horsfall , Ross Watkins & Jules Richards

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12:00

Lunch

Building 25

Main Room

12:15

AAWP AGM

Building 25

Teal room

13:30

Panels #7

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Session 1:

Chair: Natalie Kon-Yu

All Too Well: metanarrative, storytelling, and the parasocial audience of Taylor Swift

   - Jessica Seymour

Twenty-first Century écriture féminine: examining revisionist mythmaking and the representation of women in contemporary mythopoeic fiction

   - Juliette Sauvage

Clytemnestra needs to talk (a verbal performance)

   - Kirk Dodd

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Session 2:

Chair: Irfan Master

Women's magazines, true crime

   - Lili Paquet & Rosemary Williamson

Women's voices in true crime podcasting

   - Ruth Fogarty

Writing as catharsis

   - Tim Baker

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Session 3:

Chair: Ian McHugh

What if teaching was deliberately fun? Combating burnout through creative play

   - Christine Howe & Emma Darragh

Meditation and the writing self, a pedagogical approach, or, not-talking to make space for talking and writing

   - Shady Cosgrove

Talking To Ourselves in an Empty Room 

   - Stewart Ennis

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Session 4:

Chair: Diana Clarke

Beyond Trauma: Queering Biography

   - Atul Joshi

‘Saying a lucid yes’: an ecstatic transbody writes

   - Quinn Eades

Triple threat: (Screen)writing queer adaptations in the academy

   - Dante DeBono

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Teal Room

14:30 

Panels #8

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Session 1:

Self-chairing

Playing Western mahjong and writing western stories: It’s hysteresis not hysteria! Poetry as method and balm

   - Emily Sun

Speaking About the Unspeakable: Poetry as a Way to Bear Witness to Suffering

   - Miriam Wei Wei Lo & Emilie Collyer 

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Session 2:

Chair: Oscar Davis

Crafting Horse Umwelten: Equine Life-Worlds in Horse Narrative

   - Alannah Mewes

Animals, Machines, and Machine-Animals: non-Human Influence on Human Creativity

   - Sam Byrnand & Andi Stapp-Gaunt

Fact, fiction and form: writing biographical poetry about poets

   - SJ Burton

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Session 3:

Chair: Owen Bullock

We need to talk about Creative Care

   - Pauline Griffiths

Poetry and wellbeing: A pilot program to evaluate the impact of creative writing for patients in short and long-term rehabilitation

   - Owen Bullock

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Session 4:

Chair: Kimberly Williams

Tacit: an invitation to discourse

   - Bethany Evans

Recovering conversations from the archive

   - Elizabeth Chappell

Image and Word: essaying in collaboration

   - Danielle O'Leary & Rachel Robertson

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15:30

Afternoon Tea

Building 25

16:00

Trip to Lake Burley Griffin: Canberra Contemporary Arts Space, Readings, Undinner

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The Faculty of Arts and Design invites you to join us at Canberra Contemporary Arts Space by Lake Burley Griffin to enjoy an evening of readings by emerging and established writers that respond to the exhibition BLAZE. 

  

Transport will be provided from the conference to the venue, so please register your interest to be included in the headcount. Expect high quality conversations between writers and artworks, and a humble array of snacks and beverages. Following this event, we encourage guests to continue socialising at their leisure, noting that The Jetty may provide an idyllic setting for dinner. 

  

Where: Canberra Contemporary Arts Space, 44 Queen Elizabeth Terrace, Parkes, ACT

When:  5:30 – 7:30pm.  

 

Please note, transport is provided, but there is limited seating on the bus, and the trip is one way only. A sign-up page will be provided at the conference venue, but if you’d like to get in early, please email Jen Jen.Webb@canberra.edu.au or Owen Owen.Bullock@canberra.edu.au

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The buses will leave the Inspire Centre at 16:30 and 16:45

Off campus

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