Call for papers for a national Creative Non-Fiction conference in May 2008 in Newcastle.
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/theartofthereal
Keynotes: Blake Morrison (UK), Shirley Geok-lin Lim (USA), Ivor Indyk (UWS) and Ross Gibson (UTS).
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 and expressions of interest should be forwarded to the conference co-convenor Dr Ros Smith no later than January 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.