The Australian Association of Writing Programs

Hi Everyone!

I'm acting as student editor this month, so thought I'd start off by introducing myself. I'm about eighteen months into my PhD at Flinders Uni. in SA and very interested in all things pop. culture. My thesis is looking at novels in which cliques of students commit murders on campus (a la Donna Tartt's The Secret History), and my own novel is about a group of first years who murder one of their creative writing tutor. So far, I'm having a lot of fun with it!

We're all on here because we understand the need for a strong support network. At Flinders we're currently looking at ways to strengthen our CW/English post grad community and to expand this community to include post grads from other unis. We started hosting a CW/English postgrad conference in 2008 where we could all get together and talk about our research and we have an online forum, similar (though not as sophistocated) to this. I'm really interested to find out what kind of forums and events other post grad groups have organised. I know Adelaide Uni. has been running Word Fire for the last three years, which is a really supportive space for writers to share their work. Are other unis organising similar events?

Cheers,

Margot