We invite abstracts for conference presentations of 15 or 20 minutes in duration and pre-formed collaborative discussion panels (three to four panellists only) that reflect consideration of movement & stasis. We encourage any or all modes of presentation.

The theme of movement might conjure notions of physical, social, political, communal or artistic movement, but can also suggest arrivals, departures, walking on country, transformation, mobility and change. For you, it could mean something else. Placing movement alongside stasis, we invite conference attendees to consider the two themes in relation: ambiguities, contradictions, tensions, as well as productive entanglements enabled by both/and thinking. The theme of stasis might draw to mind a period of inactivity or equilibrium, a stoppage, a cessation, a form of civil strife. Stasis might mean slowing down; it might mean stability.

We welcome the submission of abstracts relevant to the creative writing discipline, on creative and professional writing practices and processes, research in creative writing, the teaching of writing and related issues.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, creative writing and:

affirmative posthumanism; climate; community; Country; creatures' movements and migrations; culture and religion; cultural policy; dancing; difficult conversations; digital transformations; disability; environmental humanities; epistemic justice; genre work; grief and loss; health and care; hope; industry change; Indigenous writing and knowledge practices; intergenerational justice; its role for you, or its role in the world; language; madness; metamorphosis; mobility; moving out of the fringes; non-human imaginaries; offline lives and livelihoods; pastoral care; place; public feeling; reparative writing and reading; resilience; resistance; sexuality; song; stagnation; stimming; technological expansion; trans, queer, and intersex lives and literatures; translation; tremors; walking.

The conference will be held at the Parkville, Victoria campus, situated on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people. It is designed to run as an on-site conference. Selected keynote and plenary sessions will be live-streamed and open to the public. It is designed to run as an on-site conference. Selected keynote and plenary sessions will be live-streamed and open to the public.

Only current AAWP members are eligible to present.

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Deadline for abstract submissions: 30 May 2025