The deadline for the CFP for 'What Happens Now: 21st Century Writing in English', 14-17 July 2014, University of Lincoln is this Friday (1st November).
Please email 200-300 word proposals for 20-minute papers and brief biographical notes of 50 words to the conference organisers: Dr Siān Adiseshiah, Dr Martin Eve, Dr Rupert Hildyard, and Dr Agnes Woolley: [log in to unmask] Panel proposals are also welcome.
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Professor Robert Eaglestone, Royal Holloway, University of London
Dr Imogen Tyler, Director of the Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, Lancaster University (more speakers announced soon).
Tim Crouch and Andy Smith will be performing 'What happens to the hope at the end of the evening'.
The third international What Happens Now conference will provide a forum in which to discuss, reflect on, and review creative literary and dramatic work in English, published since the year 2000. The principal aim of this conference series is to contribute to the canon formation process by which the significant and innovative writers and dramatists of the new millennium are discovered and discussed, and to begin to identify new patterns, clusters, trends and paradigms in contemporary prose, poetry and drama.
We welcome papers discussing the full range of literary and dramatic expression produced from the mainstream to the margins, including:
historical fiction, science fiction and fantasy, utopian and dystopian writing, life writing, childrens literature, travel writing, graphic novels, flash fiction, romantic fiction, crime writing, verbatim drama, musical theatre, post-dramatic theatre, technologically mediated performance, electronically mediated text, performance poetry, and poetic dialogue.
Alongside the analysis of literature and drama in all its forms, this conference is also keen to explore evolving debates in critical theory and the teaching of 21st-century writing.
More details of the conference can be found here: http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/campuslife/whatson/eventsconferences/event,name,21704,en.html
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