CALL FOR PAPERS
The End of Creative Writing?
Challenges and Contexts for the XXIst Century
12th-14th September 2008
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Michelene Wandor
author of The Author Is Not Dead, Merely Somewhere Else: Creative
Writing Reconceived Professor Graeme Harper, University of Bangor
The Department of English at the University of Hull (UK) invites
submissions for a three-day conference on the teaching of creative
writing on 12th-14th September 2008.
The conference is dedicated to exploring the latest developments in
creative writing and to opening discussion and debate about the future
of the subject. Creative writing is one of the fastest growing subject
areas in HE in the UK. The increasing use of creative writing in
teaching literary studies, criticism of established pedagogical
practices in creative writing, and the imminence of the first ever
benchmark statement for creative writing make it clear that the subject
is on brink of significant changes.
Topics of particular interest include but are not limited to:
* Workshop and after - new approaches.
* The relationship between creative writing and literary studies.
* Differences between US and UK models of creative writing.
* The living author in the classroom.
* The relationship between creative writing and writing support.
* 'Creative writing' or just 'writing'?
* 'Skills' or 'practices'?
* Class, race and gender in the creative writing classroom.
* Supplementary discourses: the role of the student commentary.
Contributions may adopt historical, theoretical, formalist, rhetorical
and political/cultural approaches. Interdisciplinary submissions are
welcome, as are those which treat literatures and cultures other than
English.
Contributions should be 15-20 minutes long.
Deadline for Submission: March 31st 2008
Please submit a 250-word abstract no later than March 31st 2008 to
Professor Christopher Reid and Dr. David Kennedy.
Contact: Christopher Reid via email at: [log in to unmask] David Kennedy
via email at: D. [log in to unmask]
Postal address: The Philip Larkin Centre for Poetry and Creative
Writing, Department of English, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, UK.
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