Welcome to the Australian Association of Writing Programs. This website introduces visitors to the Association, and provides information on writing courses, competitions, conferences and other relevant material. The Association exists to provide a forum for discussion on all aspects of teaching creative and professional writing as well as current theories on creativity and writing, and to improve the quality of programs across the country.
Posted: 30 Oct 08
The Department of English, Creative Writing and Australian Studies at Flinders University has advertised a continuing position at level B/C in creative writing. Details are available on the university website
Posted: 09 Aug 08
A new resource for the teaching of Creative Writing in Higher Education created by Creative Writers.
Creative Writing: Teaching, Theory & Practice
Posted: 13 Jul 08
Graduate Writers and Teachers of Writing check out the exciting new work in Strange4
Strange is Australia’s only refereed journal devoted to graduate creative writing
Please write cheques ($25:00 postage included) to
The University of Melbourne
and send to:
Marion M Campbell
CrookedStylesPress
School of Culture and Communication
University of Melbourne
Vic 3010
Posted: 04 Jul 08
Visit the UTS conference site to submit your abstracts - general stream closing date is fast approaching!
Posted: 04 Jul 08
The refereed papers from the 2007 and/is conference are now downloadable directly from this site at:
http://aawp.org.au/and-papers-proceedings-12th-conference-aawp
The editorial and several of the papers included here are outputs from a project funded by the Carrick Institute: the Australian Postgraduate Writers Network , and we could like to acknowledge their support.
Posted: 19 May 08
SLEID - Studies in Learning, Evaluation, Innovation and Development (www.sleid.cqu.edu.au) is a peer review scholarly journal. Refereed articles are recognised by DEEWR.
CALL FOR PAPERS Vol. 6. No. 1
Posted: 31 Mar 08
If it's good enough for Meanjin to have a double edition, it's good enough for us! Owing to many complicated circumstances all attributable to me, the editor, there has not been an issue of the newsletter for 2008.
Your submissions for a bumper April edition are therefore keenly sought. See the Newsletter page for more information.
Posted: 17 Mar 08
From time to time, free workshops on aspects of writing, publishing, researching and supervision are run on the sibling site for the Australian Postgraduate Writers Network (APWN). To participate in these workshops, you need to be a member of the APWN - to join simply log on to : www.writingnetwork.edu.au <http://www.writingnetwork.edu.au>
Posted: 21 Jan 08
To view the refereed papers from the 2007 AAWP conference, please click on the link below:
http://aawp.org.au/and-papers-proceedings-12th-conference-aawp
Posted: 21 Jan 08
The Writing and Society Research Group at the University of Western Sydney presents Missing Persons; an interdisciplinary conference for postgraduates and others to be held on the Bankstown campus of the University of Western Sydney on Thursday 10 and Friday 11 July 2008
Posted: 18 Dec 07
Call for papers for a national Creative Non-Fiction conference in May 2008 in Newcastle.
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/theartofthereal
Posted: 26 Jul 07
The AAWP produces a regular newsletter for its members, a vessel to disseminate news, seek information, track successes and provide other relevant information. To contribute to and to receive the newsletter, please send an email to the newsletter editor, Jordan Williams, at the University of Canberra <Jordan.Williams@canberra.edu.au>
Posted: 24 Jul 07
Terri-ann White, series editor of the New Writing Series and Publisher at UWA Press, invites manuscripts to be sent for consideration. After liaising with program coordinators in Australian universities to source potential manuscripts for the New Writing series, she is now interested in encouraging writers who may not yet be finished with their projects to consider sending details for future submissions.
Posted: 24 Jul 07
Posted: 24 Jul 07
Creativity and Uncertainty
27-29 November 2008
University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Conference Website
Dear AAWP Members,
The pressure of time and available energy leads us all to make decisions about what to prioritise and what to leave on the to-do-when-I-have-time list. When attention is focused on a series of complex and important tasks, however, it is easy to lose sight of others, and prioritising well means reassessing what has been relegated to background importance that might need to be brought back nearer to the top of that to-do list.