The Art of the Real
National Creative Non-Fiction Conference: May 16-18 2008
The University of Newcastle, NSW Australia
Keynote Speakers
Blake Morrison (UK)
Shirley Geok-lin Lim (US)
Ivor Indyk (UWS)
Ross Gibson (UTS)
Find out more about our keynote speakers
Call for Papers
Interested scholars and practitioners are invited to submit abstracts for 20-minute papers, panels, writing workshops and roundtable discussions. Topics might include:
- Genres and forms
- Tensions between the 'real' and the 'fictional'
- The profusion of genres and sub-genres in contemporary life writing
- True crime
- Travel writing
- Nature writing
- Poetry/poetics of the self
- Reportage
- Biography, memoir and autobiography
- Ficto-criticism
- DIY media
- The pedagogy of creative non-fiction
Postgraduate researchers are warmly invited to participate.
Abstracts of 200 words for a 20 minute paper should be forwarded to the conference co-convenor Dr Ros Smith no later than February 18, 2008.
The Art of the Real' is presented by the Literature, Cinema, Culture Research Group, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle and the Hunter Writers' Centre.