Call for Papers
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 of 200 words for a 20 minute paper should be forwarded to the conference co-convenor Dr Ros Smith no later than February 18, 2008.
Contact:
Katharine Aitken
Administration Assistant
Literature, Cinema, Culture Research Group
School of Humanities and Social Science
University of Newcastle
Callaghan NSW 2308
Australia