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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">‘Young and emerging writers’ and the literary field<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">A one day symposium at the University of Canberra<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Wed 27<sup>th</sup> Nov, 2013
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Supporters: Copyright Agency Limited (CAL), Centre for Creative and Cultural Research (UC)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">About the symposium:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Over the last fifteen years the term ‘Young and Emerging Writers’ has gained traction with a range of stake-holders in the Australian
literary field. Literary arts bodies now support a range of organisations, festivals and publications that target writers described as ‘young’ and ‘emerging’, while some sectors of the publishing industry continue to demonstrate a clear interest in supporting
new authors. Such initiatives are synchronous with the well-noted boom in student demand for writing courses since the Dawkins reforms, a major resurgence of independent and small press publishing, as well as the tendency of writers during this period to self-identify
as ‘young’ and/or ‘emerging’. Although not without controversy, this latter development can be compared to the rise of the ‘new Australian writing’ of the 1970s, when a new generation of Australian writers refused the moniker of ‘young’ and were identified
(and self-identified) with a new literary style.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Additionally, in a publishing context, writing for young adults is being increasingly seen by writers, both young and emerging,
as an effective and viable entry point into the world of publication. The already fluid genre of Young Adult Fiction is being increasingly regarded as both a significant contributor to broader literary culture - with Young Adult writers shortlisted for significant
literary awards such as the Miles Franklin, and with the creation of new, world-class competitive literary prizes for this field of writing, such as the $80,000 Prime Minister's literary award category for Young Adult writing. This, combined with the capacity
of new media to enable young and relatively inexperienced writers to establish effective, broad public profiles for themselves, has made publishing new and emerging voices an increasingly attractive proposition to traditional commercial publishers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">This symposium will bring together literary arts workers from key organisations with publishing and writing academics to discuss
the questions at stake for the field of young and emerging writers. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">10.30-12.00pm/Morning Session<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">‘Introduction and scoping study report: Young and emerging writers and the literary field’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Scott Brook (UC), Tony Eaton (UC) and Kavita Nandan (CDU)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Arts sector panel: Policies and programs:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Sam Twyford-Moore (Director, Emerging Writers Festival<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Lefa Singleton Norton (Creative Producer, Express Media)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">James Roy, (Literature Panel member, Australia Council for the Arts)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">12.45-2.45pm/Afternoon session<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">‘Emergent Writing’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Ivor Indyk (UWS)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">‘Zine culture: an analogue site of emerging writing’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Anna Poletti (Monash)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">‘The Scene of Literature: Contemporary Literary Networks and the Producer-Consumer’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Emmett Stinson (MU)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Plenary (all symposium presenters)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">---------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The symposium is part of the 18<sup>th</sup> conference of the AAWP, with day registrations available for those who wish to attend just the symposium sessions. Further details:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.canberra.edu.au/faculties/arts-design/news/18th-aawp-conference-2013#903597">http://www.canberra.edu.au/faculties/arts-design/news/18th-aawp-conference-2013#903597</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Scott Brook<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Assistant Professor of Writing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Centre for Creative and Cultural Research<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">University of Canberra<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">ACT 2601<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">T. 02 6201 2609<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">scott.brook@canberra.edu.au<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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