The Australian Association of Writing Programs

Below, a message from Chris Mansell:

"The news is that after a successful Award in 2008 the PressPress Chapbook Award will run again in 2009!

Dear friend/colleague/fellow writer, 

RE:   Project:  entitled: 

Hey all, I've been sent this info; and at a quick glance it looks kosher. Check it out, and do let me know how you find it

Just discovered this, in fact I've just joined up on here.  I'm on a sabbatical finishing my novel(post-col) and exegesis for doctoral candidature.  Right now I hope to finish the novel section by the end of January. And then attack the exegesis.  It's great to be in this forum.

Hi all

there is a very interesting document at http://www.dur.ac.uk/postgraduate.english/pgf.htm, now pretty old (1999) but still apposite; it sums up a conference for postgraduates in the UK, and says some sensible and goes through publishing, teaching, etc, and how to place oneself for one's future career. Probably worth five minutes of your time

For lack of anyting better to share I figured I's post my musings on my career:

Currently doing a Ma in Art History I was considering doing a PhD, and I began to wonder why? What really are the benefits beyond Kudos, calling yuorself Dr and being able to look more fancy in a teaching job.

Why do people do them? 

I'll ponder some more...

My regular blog can be found here: http://lyndahawryluk.livejournal.com/ In it, I write about my life, my hobbies, my passions and my love of mispelled captioned photos of cats doing stupid things. Occasionally I write about writing too.

Being a long-time blogger, I'm still finding navigating the blog section of this website a little tricky. First of all, the mainpage for the blog sections (http://www.writingnetwork.edu.au/blog) makes it unclear how old they are and who posted them.

‘I don’t want to do praxis,’ my fellow student said to a room scattered with post grads.  During our regular seminar this student was discussing her exegesis, the theoretical component that is attached to her creative thesis, in her case a novel.
‘I want my exegesis to be as creative as my fiction, and for this reason I need to go deeper.’

It's a question every PhD student hates. I had an epiphany about it recently: I realised that the response I usually feel is called for - a painfully honest assessment of progress against my timetable - probably isn't even necessary. People ask the question as a conversation-opener; they are nodding in the direction of an all-consuming preoccupation, not initiating an interrogation about whether you're likely to finish on time. It would be sufficient - and more pleasant for both parties - to recount some recent triumph, like finishing a chapter or sending off an article to a journal.

MUSE 4: Better Sorry Than Safe

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