In-house Creative Writing conferences

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At Flinders University we have just held our second annual English and Creative Writing Post Graduate conference where ECW post grads have the chance to get together and present informal papers on their current research. 

I find these events great ways to strengthen the ECW post grad community on campus as it gives everyone a chance to catch up and find out what everyone else is working on. It's particularly beneficial for those just starting their candidature as it gives them the opportunity to meet the other post grads and let everyone know what they're working on. 

I know Adelaide University runs a similar event and I was wondering if this is something happening at other unis too. If it is, do people have suggestions about ways these conferences could be improved or comments on what has worked particularly well? 

At our conference this year, we included a panel session where our recently graduated candidates spoke about their experiences and the rest of us had the opportunity to ask them questions about how to manage the thesis. 

Cheers,

Margot

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Same, same but different

Submitted by cacroker on Thu, 14/05/2009 - 18:12.

Hi there. as part of the PhD process we have six monthly gatherings where the Post Grad writers present a type of work in progress presentation. It is formal in the sense of measuring academic rigour (theory basis and methodology) whilst situtaing our work within the changing market/Industry/genre conventions.
(It is part of our candidature progress review at 6 months, 12 months, 18 months, 24 months and 30 months... then the time is swallowed up by the final run into submission and final drafting)
We have discovered that it helps us hone our skills in readiness for public conference presentations and refining our written work ready for journal publication (after all we receive verbal peer-reviewing and feedback on the spot).  It has been decided that we need to open these Colloquia to our Masters students also and have them filmed by Lectopia for our overseas and interstate students.  Our phD and MA in writing is off-campus mode with supervision monthly face to face or via Skype so these gatherings are greatly anticipated by students who can get together and bond over  a glass of wine or mineral water. Most of us choose to use our training funds for this purpose as they are invaluable.
Then we try to gather annually again for AAWP (this year in Hamilton, N.Z.) Swinburne may not manage the 11 we had in Sydney (2008) but we are all frantically trying to save and budget for this years Conference.
Try to get your Post Grads along. It is great to meet students across Institutions and modes of Post Grad studies.

More collegial support?

Submitted by cacroker on Mon, 08/06/2009 - 10:51.

Mybe if the papers and presentations at these 'in house' gatherings aren't going towards a journal or other publication, perhaps we should all be encouraged to add our presentations in word format as attachments in this forum under suitable hyperlink from the main menu? We would need to ensure that Copyright is marked, but be covered under Creative Commons license as applicable for electronic publication. These could be works in progress for exegesis and may assist others working in the same genre or facing the same methodological or theoretical hurdles. I would be prepared to float one or two things up, as I hav already placed non-published Conference papers within the Swinburne Research Bank (electronic repository). I am unaware as to other Institutions having the same or a similar repository for research works?
Anyone think this may be a good idea? Or are we all too guarded about our unfinished or immature musings? Also given we never all make it into this forum at the same time to really get the ideas flowing... why not have an infomral deadline of the first week each month, we check ot the material and post stuff so we know when everybody is likely to call by?

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Submitted by dingey5 on Sat, 16/01/2010 - 09:23.

Ii think that English and Creative Writing Post Graduate conference was a great opportunity for post grads to show themselves as essay writers.

Hamilton attendance by Swinburne Post Grads

Submitted by cacroker on Sun, 31/01/2010 - 13:06.

Just reading back over the posts to pick up where I left off last year.. and discovered my fear that 'we' would not make eight in NZ. Well we did  counting our academics. Bt hey for the post grads alone we had as presenters in the refereed stream (APWN members) Glenice Whitting, Mark Carthew, Liz Colbert, Gerrit Bos and myself in the non-refereed stream last year ( poor time management rather than inclination on this one). We also had one of our newest PhDers attend for the first time. Hope you enjoyed it Charles.

Then our academics were well represented: Dominique Hecq, Josie Arnold, Martin Andrew.So in total we made it to 9, as was duly acknowledged at the Conf Dinner.

We are the back to back attendance trophy winners! We're going for a three-peat in 2010, (as is the term in 'footy parlance") and we have a home ground advantage this time... roll on RMIT/ Melbourne... let's see what you can produce.

 

Hey Barb, Di, Anne, Kerry, Bev, Scott, Lydia, Ted et al... get saving ... oh year... and writing. Poor Anne long trip from Switzerland but perhaps via Skype?

 

 

 

 

saving

Submitted by barbarem on Mon, 15/02/2010 - 15:33.

Will do. As instructed.  Nowe, back to the grind.

writing

Submitted by dingey5 on Fri, 30/07/2010 - 17:57.

Well, actually,  I suppose that it would be quite good to use essay buy so that to have a good presenting work for the conferences.