The Australian Association of Writing Programs

KATHERINE MANSFIELD, THE ‘UNDERWORLD’ AND THE ‘BLOOMS BERRIES’
A SYMPOSIUM HOSTED BY WRITING AND LITERARY STUDIES, SCHOOL OF MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION
RMIT UNIVERSITY,
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
4-5 JUNE 2010
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A History of the AAWP
 
Deadline 1 June 2009, earlier if possible.

 Call for submissions
 
Islet is a new online companion to Island magazine's existing print journal, and will publish a free quarterly collection of works by emerging writers and visual artists.
 
Islet accepts poetry, fiction, and reviews, with size the only limitation: we are committed to publishing small works. Maximum lengths: poetry -- 25 lines; fiction -- 600 words; reviews -- 400 words. Our pay rates are $50 for a poem and $75 per prose work (fiction or review).
 

Call for Papers and Presentations for the Material Inventions: Applying Creative Research Conference Monday November 30 - Tuesday December 1, 2009 at Deakin University.

Please see the document below for more details.

This month's highlights: 2009 Fourteenth Annual AAWP Conference ‘Margins and Mainstreams’ on 26-28 November at the Waikato Institute of Technology. David Sornig has a new novel, and a new position at Flinders University. Professor Jeri Kroll has a residency at Varuna. Phillip Edmonds has co-founded Press On a new independent publisher. Nick Jose will be at Bryon Bay Writers Festival. Ruth Starke has a new children's book.

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The 14th Annual AAWP Conference Margins and Mainstreams will be held in Hamilton, NZ from the 26th - 28th of November, and is hosted by Wintec, the Waikato Insitute of Technology.

Please see the attached document for the Call for Papers, and the Conference link to the right of the page for further information. A preliminary website has been created; more details will be added as they are confirmed.

Screenwriting job in the Centre for Film and Television at Bond University, Gold Coast. It is a Senior Teaching Fellow position, which is the equivalent to a Level A Academic in a public university.

Australian book publishers have welcomed the decision by the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) to support territorial copyright for books.

A new resource for the teaching of Creative Writing in Higher Education created by Creative Writers.