How to Submit
Talk Fiction: Postgraduate Creative Writing Colloquium
The Colloquium is dedicated to showcase the richness and originality of the postgraduate creative writing talent engaged in Masters and PhD programs at English and School of Creative Arts, University of Melbourne.
Day 1 – Friday, 12th August 2005 9.00-5.00pm
Jim Potter Conference Room, Old Physics Bldg
University of Melbourne, Parkville Campus
Map Ref F15
Day 2 – Friday, 19th August 2005 9.00-5.00pm
Gryphon Gallery, SGS/1888 Bldg
University of Melbourne, Parkville Campus
Map Ref K20
“Texts are statements in Goffman’s sense of oriented to an answering, they ask for their readers to react to them in certain ways (…) Without suppressing telling to promote showing, literary texts reveal their ‘addressivity’, as Bakhtin puts it.” From Talk Fiction. Literature and the Talk Explosion by Irene Kacandes
Talk Fiction Colloquium is part of The 2005 Age Melbourne Writers’ Festival umbrella event program and will showcase the new and emerging talent engaged in Masters and PhD programs of creative writing at University of Melbourne.
We invite creative writing of any form or genre, including poetry, drama and across-the-genre writing on and in defiance of the following themes:
- The Dialogic Imagination (M Bakhtin)
- Writing as Intersections of Selves and Others
- Talks between Creative Praxis and Theory: FictoCriticism
- Cartographies of Consciousness and its (inter)Projections
- Translating Voices: Between Urban Frontiers
- Dialogues between Memories and Places, the Homely and the Uncanny
- The Politics of Genre and Interpretation
- The Performance Writing
Abstracts of no more than 250 words are to be emailed to fictocriticism@gmail.com by Friday, 15th July 2005.
While colloquium participation is not a guarantee of selection for publication in the Talk Fiction. Proceedings of the Talk Fiction Postgraduate Creative Writing Colloquium University of Melbourne August 2005, the presenters are encouraged to take advantage of the benefits of participation in the colloquium: feedback, comments and exchange of ideas.
The colloquium provides an academic venue for postgraduates to meet and discuss their work with peers and contributes to the validation of Creative Writing as a research domain.
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