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Australasian Postgraduate Students Group

cacroker — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 21:26:57 -0500

This virtual space is anticipated to facilitate open and collegiate discussion, rigorous yet supportive critical friendship across institutions, genre focus and levels of academic studies.

Blogitorial

JenWebb — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 06:37:28 -0500

This group is the home site for the Student Editor of the Month. The first Editor is Carol-Anne Croker

Keep posted for discussion items and issues for debate: support your local editor!

From Carol-Anne:

Creative Disciplines and the "how" of research

Antonia Pont — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 02:04:02 -0400

The discipline of writing is one of the growth areas in the humanities, attracting a substantial proportion of all research students to our universities. A considerable volume of work classified as research – especially doctoral degrees in creative writing - is being produced, but approaches to research remain fairly idiosyncratic. This workshop will involve participants in reading a small number of key articles on practice-led research and then discussing the values, logics and epistemological preliminaries of research so that they:

Creative nonfiction: ethical concerns and other issues

Antonia Pont — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 01:56:04 -0400

This asynchronous course links to the theme of this year's AAWP conference in November in Byron Bay.

After more than two decades of hoaxes and scandals perpetrated in the name of creative nonfiction, participants will survey current concerns and issues for writers of creative nonfiction, assess these in terms of what challenges and opportunities they offer for both writers and publishers, and look forward to possible future directions for the genre.

Related Areas - the ethics of publishing, writers' responsibilities

Disaster Dialogues: representations of trauma in word and image

Antonia Pont — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:57:05 -0500

The catastrophic natural events of 2011 drew attention (again) to the visual display of the suffering of others, most notably witnessed in the effects of the Japanese tsunami and Christchurch earthquake. Concurrently, the recent AAWP conference featured many papers concerned with representations of various forms and experiences of trauma, many of these papers making meaningful use of images (even if only for presentation purposes).

Reading lists

JenWebb — Tue, 13 May 2008 01:05:53 -0400

In this group members are encouraged to post their reading lists or bibliographies on topics likely to be relevant to users. These can be as long or as short as you want; annotated or just listed; any format. if you find one of your favourite references isn't on a relevant list, feel free to add it to that list. If you want to comment on the usefulness (or the uselessness) of a text, add an annotation. Share your knowledge around!

Student Editor of the Month

JenWebb — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:02:35 -0500

This group has been set up for the Student Editor of the Month to submit ideas, information and other issues that will be of use to subsequent Student Editors.

Please use it to communicate with each other, back and forth across your terms of tenure.

Once you're in, this space is yours: feel free to do/write/say anything at all. And remember, only members of the Student Editor of the Month group can read these posts.

Workshop - Food Writing

lyndahawryluk — Wed, 05 May 2010 07:17:46 -0400

An APWN workshop on foodwriting, run entirely online for 2 weeks asynchronous in the last 2 weeks in May: Mon 17 May to Fri 28 May 2010.

Title:
Foodwriters and Foodwriting: Opening up a field in writing studies in Australia and New Zealand

Convenors:
Associate Professor Donna Lee Brien (Central Queensland University) and Dr Adele Wessell (Southern Cross University)

Description:

Workshop - the Publishing Process

Kristen — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:19:55 -0500

Readings

Workshop Details

This workshop on editing and publishing an academic journal is designed for early career researchers and graduate students so they can

Workshop: Literary scandals - ethics and writing

JenWebb — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:49:12 -0400

Workshop details

Workshop: the Writing Profession

JenWebb — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:08:15 -0400

Readings

'The Professional Author: Researching creativity and reality' by Jeremy Fisher 2006, available at TEXT 10.1

'Australian book publishing in 2008: thriving in uncertain times' by Leslyn Thompson 2009, Bookseller & Publisher

Workshop details