01 Oct CFP: ASAL2020 JCU CAIRNS
Call for Papers and Panels
The 2020 ASAL Annual Conference will be hosted by James Cook University at the Cairns Institute, Smithfield, from 29 June – 2 July.
For more than forty years, ASAL annual conferences have offered a venue where creative writers and academic critics have come together in a convivial atmosphere, but the rise of university-based creative writing programs in Australia has sometimes called into question the relationship between creative writing and literary studies. This conference aims to address such questions and to extend the dialogue between these two disciplines in Australian literary studies.
We are seeking 20-minute papers or proposals for panels that address the challenges of reading and writing Australian literature in the past and the present, and welcome proposals from literary studies and practice-led research. Proposals may be a work of criticism or scholarship that engages with the conference topics in any way, or may be a creative work incorporating a scholarly framework to be presented along with a creative element.
Topics could include, but are not restricted to:
- Writing ‘Australia’
- Biography and life writing
- Nature and landscape
- Regional writing
- Publishers and publishing
- Representing diversity
- Editors and editing
- Creative and critical convergences
- Authorship
- Manuscripts: composition and revision
- Versions and versioning
- Writing genre
- Exporting Australian literature
- Literary criticism
- Historical fiction
- Digital literary studies
- Writing for stage and screen
- Readers and reading
- The essay as Australian literature
- Creative practice, craft and storytelling
- Teaching Australian writing
Please submit your proposal to [email protected] using the subject heading ASAL2020 together with a 250-word abstract and a brief biographical note.
Deadline for abstracts is 31 January 2020. Conference website