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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Self-chairing
‘Talking’ Translation: Measuring Spaces of Poetry from Multi-disciplinary Angles
- Robert Barnstone, Tony Barnstone & Kimberly Williams
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Self-chairing
We need to talk … about the Creative PhD candidate/supervisor relationship
- Lainie Anderson, Chloe Cannell & Sue Joseph
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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14:30
Panels #8
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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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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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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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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
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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