> The first of this semester's Edward Clark Seminars will be held on
> Wednesday, 8 November at 12.30 in New Craig 516, Craighouse, Napier
> University, Edinburgh, at 12.30. Bernard Cohen will be speaking on:
>
> Six Months in Cyberspace
>
> Bernard Cohen is the author of three novels: Tourism, The Blindman's Hat
> (which won the 1996 Australian/ Vogel Literary Award) and Snowdome. The
> Sydney Morning Herald has named Bernard Cohen amongst the Best Young
> Australian Novelists on three occasions. He was the 'flesh' (as opposed to
> virtual) trAce Writer-in-Residence for the latter half of 1999. There his
> projects included, 'Island Voices', 'Speedfactory', Swadlincote Miners'
> Reminiscences and some work with interactive virtual robots. He has
> maintained his connection to trAce through his current collaborative
> project, 'Home'. He is working on a new novel, Hardly Beach Weather.
>
> Bernard Cohen usually lives in Katoomba, in the Blue Hills west of Sydney,
> but he is at the moment Creative Arts Associate at the Robert Menzies
> Centre
> for Australian Studies at King's College London.
>
> The Scottish Centre for the Book currently hosts a research project,
> conducted by Suzanne Ebel, examining on-line writing communities such as
> trAce, itself based at Nottingham Trent University. Further details of
> this
> work can be obtained from Suzanne [log in to unmask]
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