Write Now! is a celebration and exploration of what creative writing is. The event is aimed at early career writers and scholars of all sorts and aims to allow attendees to share their research and creative output but also to foster a community of writers and researchers.
Craft, creativity and scholarship come together in a line-up which includes critical and practice based
presentations on a range of topics including:
• Can Creative Writing be taught?
• Place and time – translation, psychogeography and historical fiction
• Poetry please – found poetry, medical language and memory
• Working words – creativity in business and journalism based faction
‘Write Now!’
1 Day Creative Writing Conference
Strathclyde University, Glasgow
9 till 5 Friday 3rd June 2011
Conference 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. Award winning investigative journalist and Director of the Strathclyde University Innocence Project Eamonn O’Neill will give an exclusive sneak peek at his forthcoming novel The Last Court of Appeal.
Evening Reading Event, 7pm, CCA Glasgow
To complement the conference we have arranged a programme of evening readings at the CCA (Centre for Contemporary Arts) in conjunction with Words Per Minute Glasgow.
Our readers include award winning novelist Rodge Glass who will perform new work and introduce student contributors to VALVE (a new journal of creative writing). David Kinloch will read from his latest poetry collection Finger of a Frenchman. Novelist Helen FitzGerald and poet Alexander Hutchison will be sharing their work and we have a few other special guests for you to enjoy.
Applications can be made via our online shop at
http://onlineshop.strath.ac.uk click on the Humanities and Social Sciences link under Conferences and Events. You will find our conference here with an online application. Alternatively, complete the application form on our website
http://www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/conferences and return with the fee of
£10 per delegate.
The closing date for applications to attend is the 20th of May.
Organiser: Bryony Stocker, University of Strathclyde -
bryony.stocker@strath.ac.uk
Promoter: Mary McDonough, University of Strathclyde -
maryfmcdonough@me.com
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