Program

Thursday November 27
Friday November 28
Saturday November 29

Thursday November 27

2:00pm

Building 6, foyer, Guthrie Theatre
Registration and Afternoon Tea

Guthrie Theatre
Acknowledgment to Country
UTS Official Welcome Theo Van Leeuwen, Dean of FASS
AAWP Official Welcome: Donna Lee Brien, President AAWP

3:30pm - 5.00pm

Guthrie Theatre
Creative Writing & the Challenge of Theory
Chair: Camilla Nelson
Delia Falconer: The Challenge of the Post-Postmodern.
Mike Harris: Are Writers Really There When They're Writing About Their Writing?
Joshua Lobb: But if the Author is Dead, What Are We Doing Here?
Jeri Kroll: The Creative Writing/Reading Nexus: How and Why Do Writers Read in the 21st Century?

3:30pm - 5.00pm

06.03.19
Memoir, Essay & Biography
Chair: Sandy Symons
Barbara Brooks: Creativity and Uncertainty: Writing about Place.
Patti Miller: Random Provocations: Uncertainty as Method in Writing Personal Essay.
Susan Currie: Grappling with Uncertainty: Biography.

3:30pm - 5.00pm

06.03.20
Uncertainty & Narrative
Chair: Rachel Hennessy
Benjamin Chandler: Predictable Plots and Secondary Worlds: Teaching Creative Writing Through Modern Fantasy.
Dr Stephen Torre: Here the Trouble Begins: Uncertainty in Short Stories of the New Writing.

3:30pm - 5.30pm

06.03.21
Digital Contact
Chair: Sue Joseph
Dr Janie Conway-Herron & Chris Morgan: Flexible Delivery: Creative Environments.
Vahri McKenzie: The Unfulfilled Promise of Digital Technologies for Collaborative Writing.
Lucy Tatman: Thinking, Writing and Metaphorical Sclerosis
James Stuart: It Begins in the Book: a Survey of Materiality in Literature.

5.30pm - 7.00pm

06.03.19
AAWP Executive Meeting

6:00pm - 6:45pm

Guthrie Theatre
Scholar in Writing Address: Delia Falconer.

7:00pm - 8:00pm

Gallery Courtyard
Drinks

Friday November 28

8:30am

Building 6, foyer, Guthrie Theatre
Registration

9:00am

Guthrie Theatre
Creative Writing as Research Chair: Gabrielle Carey
Jeri Kroll: Creative Practice and/as/is/or Research: an Overview.
Camilla Nelson: A Practical Model for the Recognition of Creative Work as Research.
Sally McLaughlin: Insight and Evaluation: A Hermeneutic Perspective on the Relationship Between Research and Creative Practice.
Paul Dawson: Creative Research and the Burden of Proof.

9:30am

06.03.19
Creativity and Learning
Chair: Mark Rossiter
Dominique Hecq: Banking on Creativity?
Karen Le Rossignol & Robin Freeman: Taking Risks: Workplace Learning and the Writing Student.
Dugald Williamson & Rosemary Williamson: Writing Pedagogy in the Arts Honours Program.

06.03.20
Wonder and Process
Chair: Margot Nash
Fiona Edmonds-Dobrijevich: Falling In: The Poetics of Wonder.
Louise Katz: Mind the Gap.
Roanna Gonsalves: The Writer as Igneous or Sedimentary Rock: An Exploration of the Varied Creative Processes of Novelists.

11.00am - 11:15am

Building 6, foyer
Morning Tea

11:15am - 1:15pm

Guthrie Theatre
Creativity, Research and Practice
Chair: Tony Macris
Janene Carey: A Plethora of Politics: Examining Creative Research Higher Degrees in Australia. Co-Authors Jen Webb and Donna Lee Brien
Hazel Smith: Practice-led Research and Research-led Practice in the Creative Arts.
Associate Professor Donna Lee Brien: Publish or Perish?: Investigating the Doctorate by Publication in Writing.
Rosemary Williamson, Donna Lee Brien and Jen Webb: Modelling Best Practice in Supervision of Research higher Degrees in Writing.

06.03.19
Uncertainty & Voice
Chair: Gabrielle Carey
Mark Rossiter: The Uncertain Voice.
Dr Jeremy Fisher: Creating Disconcerting Uncertainty Through Sustained Second Person Narrative Voice.
Manisha Amin: What Writers Write and Readers Hear.
Michelle Dicionski: Nowheres and Notimes: Parataxis and the Present Tense in Kathryn Harrison's The Kiss.

06.03.20
Creativity, Metaphor and the Inner World
Chair: Tegan Bennett Daylight
Dr Willa McDonald: The Spare Room: Fact and Subjectivity in the Work of Helen Garner.
Lucy Neave: What Contemporary Writers Can Tell Us About Writing Process: Hartnett's Trees and Clouds, Garner's 'I'.
Tali Lavi: Whose I? Writing and the Slippery Self.
Gay Lynch: Mourning Metaphors.

1:15pm - 2:00pm

Building 6, foyer
Lunch

2:00pm - 3:30pm

Guthrie Theatre
AAWP General Meeting

3:30pm - 4:00pm

Building 6, foyer
Afternoon Tea

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Guthrie Theatre
Challenging Uncertainty
Chair: Camilla Nelson
Elliot Cooper: What Have We Learned From Lacan?
Theresa Anderson: The Many Faces of Uncertainty: Getting at the Anthropology of Uncertainty.
Christelle Davis: The Beat Academic: the Role of Research in Creative Writing.

06.03.19
Unknown Spaces
Chair: Barbara Brooks
Dr Josie Arnold: Herstory is women's history: Are popular books by women pro-women?
Margot Nash: Unknown Spaces and the Quest for Certainty in Film Development.
Moya Costello: Writing for the 21st Century.

06.03.20
Unreal Imaginings
Chair: Tegan Bennett Daylight
Sue Joseph: What if Tom Wolfe was Australian?
Lindsay Simpson: Unreal Imaginings.
Rachel Hennessy: Whose Shoes? Original Motivations and the Changing Shape and Style of the Creative Work Reconciled via the PhD Exegesis.

5.30pm - 7.00pm

Gallery Courtyard
Southerly Launch - The Short Story
Selected Readings & Drinks

Saturday November 29

8:30am - 9:00am

Building 6, foyer, Guthrie Theatre
Registration

9:00am - 11:00am

Guthrie Theatre
Creative Writing and Uncertainty
Chair: Camilla Nelson
Paul Munden: Mixing Agendas: the Work of UK Writers in Education.
Dr Steve May: Creativity & Pedagogy: Inspiration, Deadlines and Working to a Brief. Student Views of Creativity, Coursework and the World Beyond.
Ross Watkins: Uncertain Duality: Conflicts of the Creative Writing Undergraduate as Student/Author.
Scott Brook: Accounting for Creative Writing.

06.03.20
Creative Obstacles Chair: Mark Rossiter
Dr Kristen Lang: The Beautiful Trio: Uncertainty, Constraint and (im)Possibility.
Dr Ainslie Yardley: A Question of Creativity and Uncertainty.
Justine Ettler: Writers' Block
Sallie Muirden: Creativity and the Novel.

9:30am - 11:00am

06.03.19
Creativity & Melancholy
Chair: Delia Falconer
James Bradley: Depression and Creativity.
Philip Emery: Pre and Post Traumatic Poetry.
Rachel Robertson: The Uncertain Essayist: Autobiographical Essays and Disabilities.

11.00am - 11:15am

Building 6, foyer
Morning Tea

11:15am - 1:15pm

Guthrie Theatre
Workshopping & the New Pedagogy
Chair: Rachel Hennessy
Dr Shady Cosgrove: Uncertainty & Praxis in the Creative Writing Classroom.
Ffion Murphy: Shots in the Dark: Writing, Revelation and Responsibility.
Dr David Whish-Wilson: Trance, Text and Creativity.
Susan O'Rourke: Communication in Oman: a voyage into the unknown.

06.03.19
Performance & Uncertainty
Chair: Margot Nash
Mark Mordue: The Uncertainty of Story
Gaylene Perry: Ways of seeing and knowing in creative writing: practice-led research.
Lynda Hawryluk: Taking the Drop: Surfing Memoirs, Blogging and Identity.
Sam Twyford-Moore: What Do I Tell Writers To Do?: Merging Responsibility and Poetics in the Historical Fiction of September 11.

06.03.20
Creative Writing and Knowledge
Chair: Gabrielle Carey
Jill Jones: Because the Known and the Unknown/Touch.
Melissa Bruce: Environmental Concerns in the Creative Writing Classroom.
Marcelle Freiman: Creative Writing and Cognition.

1:15pm - 2:00pm

Building 6, foyer
Lunch

2:00pm - 3:00pm

Guthrie Theatre
Keynote Speaker: Helen Garner

3:00pm - 4:00pm

Gallery Courtyard
Jan McKemmish Memorial
Elizabeth Jolley Reading

4:00pm - 5:00pm

Gallery Courtyard
Launch of AAWP Anthology
Drinks