Writing Creates Ecology/Ecology Creates Writing
Editors: Professor Deborah Bird Rose, Dr Martin Harrison, Dr Lorraine Shannon and Mr Kim Satchell
Special Issue – TEXT: The Journal of Writing and Writing Courses
An international electronic refereed journal, ISSN: 1327-9556
Journal available at http://www.textjournal.com.au
Expected date of publication: October 2012
How does creative writing engage with the theme of ecological catastrophe and ecological possibility? How does the ecological challenge of the contemporary period impact on the teaching of writing? What are the thematic horizons of new and emerging writers who engage with issues to do with the environment and ecology? What kinds of experiment does the ecological context encourage and indeed require of the contemporary writer? The proposed special edition of TEXT will have the title Writing Creates Ecology/Ecology Creates Writing. It is auspiced and edited by members of the Kangaloon: Creative Ecologies, kangaloon.org.
For this special edition we are inviting contributions in the form of recent writing addressed to the context of the ecological challenges of the contemporary period. Contributions may be creative, critical, philosophical, narrative or poetic, or combinations of all these modes, following the TEXT guidelines. In their explorations of the intersection between contemporary writing and the environment, the writers may offer pieces about creativity and ecological issues or about relevant critical issues in literary theory or critical issues in ecological theory or issues about teaching writing in the context of ecological catastrophe.
Our aim is to produce a special edition of TEXT which offers up-to-date approaches in ecological writing (both in practice and theory) and which provides an informative context for academics and other practitioners in the field of creative writing and the teaching of creative writing. This edition will assist both writers and teachers in understanding new creative strategies in which ecological thinking is placed at the centre of writing practices. The edition’s contents will also contribute to the field of knowledge associated with the concept and practice of creativity. We aim to make a significant contribution to the ecological humanities, in particular in identifying and demonstrating aspects of imaginative and creative processes which are intimately a part of environmental awareness.
Editors: Professor Deborah Bird Rose, Dr Martin Harrison, Dr Lorraine Shannon and Mr Kim Satchell.
Email completed papers, formatted according to the following guidelines to
Kim Satchell <kim.satchell@scu.edu.au>
Please include an abstract, 3 keywords, and brief biography (200 words max) and your email address.
Important dates:
Thursday 8 December 2011 Abstracts due
Monday 30 January 2012 Submissions due
Monday 16 April 2012 Readers’ reports due date
Monday 4 June 2012 Finalisation of contributions by contributors
October 2012 Publication of Special Issue