Write Now
One-day postgraduate creative writing conference.
Friday 3rd June 2011, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
Twitter @writenowglasgow
Organiser Bryony Stocker, University of Strathclyde bryony.stocker@strath.ac.uk
Promoter Mary McDonough, University of Strathclyde maryfmcdonough@me.com
Creative Writing, Journalism, and English postgraduates and scholars are invited to explore creative writing in the broadest possible terms considering genre, technique, language, historical development, impact and performance. This conference aims to allow postgraduates and scholars to share their research and creative output but also to foster a community of writers and researchers interested in the many facets of creative writing.
Critical papers and practice based presentations (a reading balanced by a critical element) are invited for the one day creative writing conference to be held in the heart of Glasgow. Topics for presentations may include, but are not limited to:
Language: found, reinvented or rediscovered
Dialects: historical or modern
Genre Fiction
Emerging trends in fiction, poetry, drama and journalism
Keynote speaker Louise Welsh is the award winning author of The Cutting Room (2002) and most recently Naming the Bones (2010). She is also a successful playwright and is currently writer in residence for The University of Glasgow & Glasgow School of Art.
Readings may consist of a number of poems or 1-2 short works of fiction / literary journalism and may be on any topic and in any style.
Confirmed readers include: Poet, linguist and Reader in English Studies David Kinloch, who will read from his forthcoming collection Finger of a Frenchman (April 2011). Somerset Maugham Award winning novelist and Creative Writing lecturer Rodge Glass will perform new work.
Presentations: 20 minutes
Readings: 10 minutes (maximum)
Send proposal abstracts of not more than 300 words and creative pieces accompanied by a brief bio to: bryony.stocker@strath.ac.uk
Closing Date for Submissions: Friday 8th April 2011
Download this Call for Papers from http://bit.ly/CFPPDF (PDF) or http://bit.ly/CFPDOC (DOC)
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