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Saturday 8th November

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Session: 09:00 - 09:20
Room 1 - 09:00 - 09:20
Opening Speaker
Peter Sansom
Session: 09:25 - 09:55
Room 2 - 09:25 - 09:55
Joint Session
1) Full STEAM Ahead: Exploring the influence of science fiction on the decision to study STEM subjects - Sarah Margree
2) Archive fury: a novelist’s rewriting of ancient sources - Molly Aitken
Session: 09:25 - 10:25
Room 3 - 09:25 - 10:25
Research & ethics for writing in/outside your lane
Alexia Casale
Room 4 - 09:25 - 10:25
Using our neurodiversity and unique perspectives to enhance creative style and improve mental health
Samantha Ford
Session: 10:00 - 10:30
Room 1 - 10:00 - 10:30
It belongs to all of us: considerations of writing with folklore
Sophie Parkes-Nield
Room 2 - 10:00 - 10:30
Introducing novice writers to storytelling using the Story Funnel
Anna Faherty
Session: 10:35 - 11:05
Room 1 - 10:35 - 11:05
Joint Session: Inspiring
1) Open Return: How can creative writing research inspire caregiving within a family? - Sam Butler
2) Inspiring Lives: Writing Through Cancer - Gail Webb
Room 2 - 10:35 - 11:05
Inspiring Writing? Threat or Tool? AI and the Creative Writing Classroom
Lubjana Matin-Scammell
Room 3 - 10:35 - 11:05
NAWE PhD Network
Ruth Moore and Elena Traina
Session: 11:20 - 11:50
Room 1 - 11:20 - 11:50
Tasting Notes
Lania Knight
Room 2 - 11:20 - 11:50
'Be Me. Write Free': the benefits of utilising writing for wellbeing as a form of 'play' inside and outside the secondary classroom
Isabel Caddy
Session: 11:20 - 12:20
Room 3 - 11:20 - 12:20
The Creative AI Writing Workshop - 15 max capacity
Sarah Gibson-Yates and Amy Spencer
Room 4 - 11:20 - 12:20
Wrangle Your Words – A Writing Workshop for Teachers
Chitra Soundar
Session: 11:55 - 12:25
Room 1 - 11:55 - 12:25
The Art of the Writer's Blog
Ruth Moore
Room 2 - 11:55 - 12:25
The Stories Behind Storytelling: Overcoming the Barriers to Telling Stories of Our Lives
Alison Mott and Dr Karen Jiyun Sung
Session: 13:25 - 13:55
Room 1 - 13:25 - 13:55
Write, Speak, Connect: Creative Confidence On and Off the Page
Rachel Knightley
Room 2 - 13:25 - 13:55
Joint Session:
1) Queering Narratives in Creative Writing Teaching - Ben Fergusson
2) Trans Inspirations: The Importance of Trans Poetry - Aryk Greenawal
Room 3 - 13:25 - 13:55
NAWE HE Committee open meeting
Joanne Reardon and Andrea Holland
Session: 13:25 - 14:25
Room 4 - 13:25 - 14:25
Writing the Government Art Collection: a whistle-stop tour
Claire Collison
Session: 14:00 - 14:30
Room 1 - 14:00 - 14:30
Joint Session:
1) (Un)Finished Product: Process as inspiration in memoir - Harley Ryley
2) The Ethics of Interviewing in Creative Nonfiction: Impact of Interviewees’ Withdrawals on a Project’s Outcome - Olga Kenton
Room 2 - 14:00 - 14:30
Going Going: Solastalgia in Rural England
Beth Gaylard
Room 3 - 14:00 - 14:30
What makes a 'writer'?
Katherine Davis-Wright
Session: 14:45 - 15:15
Room 1 - 14:45 - 15:15
Writing Europe from different Europes
Lorena Breidis
Room 2 - 14:45 - 15:15
Divergent Writers: Thriving as Creative Writing Practitioners, Students, and Teachers Despite Ableism
Christie Collins, Saul Lemerond, Leigh Camacho Rourks, Rachel Carney
Room 4 - 14:45 - 15:15
Writing Revolution: 101 tips and ideas for working with young writers
Beverley Ward
Session: 14:45 - 15:45
Room 3 - 14:45 - 15:45
Space for Poetry: Facilitating Writing for Wellbeing
Natasha Ryan and Danny Pandolfi
Session: 15:20 - 15:50
Room 1 - 15:20 - 15:50
Inspired Research: Reimagined Methodologies for PhDs in Creative Writing and Creative Writing Studies
Elena Traina
Room 2 - 15:20 - 15:50
Writing for Wellbeing for Survivors of Religious Trauma
Zoe Lambert
Session: 15:20 - 16:20
Room 4 - 15:20 - 16:20
Inspiring Writing in Interesting Times
Sarah Bower
Session: 15:55 - 16:25
Room 1 - 15:55 - 16:25
Non-Innocent Creative Writing: Poetry in the Digital Age in China
Yilin Tang
Room 2 - 15:55 - 16:25
So bad, it’s good: using cliché and collaboration to make metaphor less scary
Anna Polonyi
Room 3 - 15:55 - 16:25
Anaphora and Butterflies
Andrea Holland
Session: 16:30 - 17:00
Room 1 - 16:30 - 17:00
Inspiring Writing – Plenary
Jocelyn Page and Jane Moss

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