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Abstracts
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Abstracts
An alphabetical list, by author/s, of all of the presentations.
(To read more, click on a blue highlighted title)
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A list of abstracts arranged by panel can be found here.
We need to talk … about the Creative PhD candidate/supervisor relationship
- Lainie Anderson, Chloe Cannell, Sue Joseph & Ben Stubbs
Writing a Transformative Postmodern Memoir: The Metamorphosis of Clio
- Megan Anning
- Eugen Bacon
Guiding body awareness through spoken text: Developing a queer somatic life writing method
- Nina Baeyertz
- Tim Baker
Creating an ‘authentic’ narrative voice to foreground women’s experience in historical fiction
- Christine Balint
‘Talking’ Translation: Measuring Spaces of Poetry from Multi-disciplinary Angles
- Robert Barnstone, Tony Barnstone & Kimberly Williams
Breaking the Locks: increased accessibility for rural poets in Covid
- Roxanne Bodsworth
- Carina Böhm
Channelling collective voices against domestic abuse in fiction: Why we need women talking
- Samantha Bowers
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Working with feminist and queer pedagogies in readings and awareness
- Anne Brady-Clark
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The Hard Yards – Face to Face with Detectives
- Sally Breen
The 48 Symmetries (Film)
- Tim Brook
- Owen Bullock
Fact, fiction and form: writing biographical poetry about poets
- Sarah-Jane Burton
Animals, Machines, and Machine-Animals: non-Human Influence on Human Creativity
- Sam Byrnand & Andi Stapp-Gaunt
Queering the short story YA cycle
- Chloe Cannell
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We need to talk about how poetry offers restitution of women’s historical voices
- Anne Carson, Angela Costi & Kimberly Williams
Beyond artistic borders and into the future
- Felicity Castagna
Recovering conversations from the archive
- Elizabeth Chappell
- Katharine Coles, Julia Prendergast & Jen Webb
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- Alex Cothren, Rachel Hennessy & Amy Matthews
- Shady Cosgrove
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- Jen Crawford , Paul Magee & SJ Burton
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We need to talk about longing: The imperative of languaging the feeling body through writing to health and wellbeing policy and practice
- Stephanie Dale
Logocentrism and a reversed hierarchy within practice-led research
- Oscar Davis
Triple threat: (Screen)writing queer adaptations in the academy
- Dante DeBono
Objects and Life Writing: What We Learned from Failing
- Marina Deller, Gemma Nisbet & Daniel Juckes
Clytemnestra needs to talk (a verbal performance)
- Kirk Dodd
- Gil Douglas
Forming, Transforming - a reading from Moon Wrasse
- Willo Drummond
‘Saying a lucid yes’: an ecstatic transbody writes
- Quinn Eades
- Johanna Ellersdorfer
Wit(h)nessing cultural exchange via verbatim theatre
- Melody Ellis & Francesca Rendle-Short
Talking To Ourselves in an Empty Room
- Stewart Ennis
Tacit: an invitation to discourse
- Bethany Evans
Putting Words in their Mouth: Dialogue in Autobiography
- Allan Ewing
Talking back to archival silence
- Louise Falconer
Women's voices in true crime podcasting
- Ruth Fogarty
- Laura Fulton
A way of discovering: How artworks represented in fiction can reflect a character’s state of mind
- Sarah Giles
Creative labour and experiments with AI in the Creative Writing Classroom
- Roanna Gonsalves
Australia my home through my poetry
- Sunil Govinnage
We need to talk about Creative Care
- Pauline Griffiths
Analostalgia: Audio storytelling through analogue technology as a vehicle for time travel
- Raelke Grimmer
8 Little Words: The impact of writing events on emerging campus communities.
- Karen Hands
Facing the Facts by Avoiding the Issue: Anything but Therapeutic Writing
- Oz Hardwick
The Mother Tongue: how contemporary fairy tale retellings can re-centre women’s lived experience
- Sarah Hart
- Dominique Hecq
- Jenny Hedley
Climate Fiction Posthuman Artist Laboratory
- Rachel Hennessy, Alex Cothren & Amy Matthews
- Jennie Hollamby
Ginger cake and lemon icing: Intergenerational Familial Autoethnography
- Indyana Horobin
- Shannon Horsfall
- Shannon Horsfall , Ross Watkins & Jules Richards
What if teaching was deliberately fun? Combating burnout through creative play
- Christine Howe & Emma Darragh
- Rose Hunter
- Elena Isayev
Talking in Fragments: the Urdu ghazal in English
- Jinendra Jain
- Sharmila Jayasinghe
‘Split Level’: Articulating Lost Houses Through the Uncanny
- Ella Jeffery
Sexologist Norman Haire and the need to talk about sex
- Rebecca Johinke
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- Sue Joseph
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This Thing of Darkness I Acknowledge Mine
- Sue Joseph & Nicholas Flanagan
Beyond Trauma: Queering Biography
- Atul Joshi
Our story: Seeking relational autonomy through intergenerational storytelling
- Helena Kadmos
- Louise Katz
- Natalie Kon-yu
Surf Speak: The men in grey suits are out the back
- Nicole Lenoir-Jourdan
Interdisciplinary writing programs
- Wing Sze Leung
Speaking About the Unspeakable: Poetry as a Way to Bear Witness to Suffering
- Miriam Wei Wei Lo & Emilie Collyer
We need to talk about the pedagogical challenges of poetry workshops and re-imagined possibilities
- Lynnette Lounsbury, Carolyn Rickett & Judith Beveridge
Speaking Silence: Poetics of Contemplation
- Rose Lucas
Appropriation and the Authentic voice
- Karen Martin
- Kristyn Maslog-Levis
- Amy Matthews
- Lee McGowan, Dani Medina Hidalgo, Kasey Symons, Chelsea Taylor
& Emma Evans
Crafting Horse Umwelten: Equine Life-Worlds in Horse Narrative
- Alannah Mewes
Storytelling as decolonial method in the classroom
- Benjamin Miller & Charlotte Okkes-Sane
'Not just a file' (Fillm)
- Rachel Morley & Milissa Deitz
Let them speak: scripting the letters of Xavier Herbert and Beatrice Davis
- Melanie Myers
- Gemma Nisbet & Daniel Juckes
The fractured Immigrant; exploring a life re-examined
- Kim Novick
Tell don’t show: voice, perspective and the limits of empathy in the fiction of Daniel Davis Wood
- Julian Novitz
- Eve Nucifora-Ryan
Experimental approaches to writing shame and desire in fiction
- Eve Nucifora-Ryan & Imogen McKenzie
We need to talk about writing and reading the monstrous mother in I’m Glad My Mom Died
- Cheryl O'Byrne
Image and Word: essaying in collaboration
- Danielle O'Leary & Rachel Robertson
- Lili Paquet & Rosemary Williamson
Talking about food in times of hardship
- Gail Pittaway
Ideasthetic Imagining—Mapping the Brain’s Microstates Using Magnetoencephalography (MEG)
- Julia Prendergast, Paris Lyons & Benjamin Slade
Motherforklift: Trans-Supportive Parenting in 21st Century Australia
- Kel Purcill
An Exploration of (A)Sexual Attraction in the Contemporary Adult Romance Novel
- Rachelle Raco
#web weaving: Hyperconnected Centos and the Digital Futures of Reading
- Axel-Nathaniel Rose
Research adventures: From the archive to the forest
- Melanie Ross
Let’s talk about disobedience: the opportunities of epistemic refusal
- Rebecca Ryall
Dialoguing the dead: reflections on the loss of the father
- Emily Rytmeister & Jane Scerri
- Juliette Sauvage
Writing refugee lives – shared vulnerabilities
- Rosemary Sayer
All Too Well: metanarrative, storytelling, and the parasocial audience of Taylor Swift
- Jessica Seymour
Writing is dead and getting deader
- Paul Shields
Two months on foot: walking toward an ecopoetics of landscape and soundscape
- Thomas Simpson
Dolphins in the Reservoir: Care, Consciousness, Affect and Electronic Literature
- Hazel Smith
Mushrooms, rabbits and birds: More than human encounters and creative practice
- Andraya Stapp-Gaunt, Charlotte Stone & Josh Finzi
Beyond the academy: Researching the biography of Eliza Cook
- Carmel Summers
- Emily Sun
​​Talking in language like rain
- Michelle Symes
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Caring for the Author When Writing from the Heart
- Melinda Tognini
On Lydia Davis’s ‘A Position at the University’ as a description of (among others) me
- Julienne van Loon
Queering the past: Representing neuroqueer characters in historical fiction
- Ariella van Luyn
The book as poem: writing silenced themes through collection contents and ordering
- Amelia Walker
Beyond the journey: fresh metaphors for articulating HDR candidature and early career academic life
- Amelia Walker, Chloe Cannell, Dante De Bono & Simon-Peter Telford
Narratives of stillbirth – redefining silences through personal and historical perspectives
- Megan Warren, Karen Le Rossignol & Patrick West
A writer, a reader and a bot walk into a bar: writing and ethics in (non)human collaborations
- Beck Wise, Benjamin Miller & Catriona Arthy
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- Beck Wise, Ariella Van Luyn, Susan Thomas, Lisa Emerson, Bronwyn Dyson & Collin Bjork
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Defining (for the last time!) Australian digital literature
- David Wright