Writing and Community – Critical | Creative Symposium 4 November
The Writing and Community research cluster has organised a Critical | Creative symposium and round table, an online event to discuss the intersections of these two modes in creative writing during and beyond HDR candidature
This will be on:
4th November 1.30-3.30
Zoom link available from Briohny Doyle [email protected]
The guest speaker is Gregory Day, and round table participants are Gemma Carey, Autumn Royal, Simon Gluskie, and Oscar Davis (see details below).
Critical | Creative aims to build community and communication between HDR, ECRs and other interested staff at Deakin. The symposium aims to share knowledge and generate ideas about areas of interest for HDR students, and supervisors, including framing the exegesis, and publishing beyond candidature. Contact Briohny Doyle ([email protected]) or David McCooey ([email protected]) with enquiries about this research cluster.
This event features guest speaker, author and critic, Dr Gregory Day. Participants are invited to engage in a Q&A with Gregory, after which we will move to a facilitated round table discussion with PhD candidates Gemma Carey, Simon Gluskie and Oscar Davis, and Early Career Researcher and poet, Autumn Royal. Critical|Creative is facilitated by Briohny Doyle and Hayley Elliot-Ryan.
Gregory Day is a novelist, poet and musician from the Eastern Otways region of Victoria, Australia. He is also an essayist and literary critic. Gregory has published five novels and his work has won many prizes, including the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, the Elizabeth Jolley Prize, the Manly Artist Book Award and the Alfred Deakin Medal. His latest novel, A Sand Archive, was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2019. In 2020 Gregory was awarded the Patrick White Prize, in recognition of his body of work. In 2021 he won Australia’s most prestigious nature writing prize, the Nature Conservancy Award, for his essay, ‘The Watergaw’, which he reads here. Words Are Eagles, a collection of Gregory’s writings on nature and the language of place, is to be published in July 2022 and his new novel, The Bell of The World is forthcoming.
Gemma Carey is an author and researcher. In addition to her memoir, No Matter Our Wreckage developed during her PhD candidature and published with Allen and Unwin in 2020, her writing has appeared in The Guardian, Meanjin, Under The Gumtree, and The Canberra Times amongst other outlets. She has featured on ABC Radio and NPR. Gemma is a Professor at the University of New South Wales, where she is the Academic Director for the Centre for Social Impact. Her academic work focuses on social inequalities.
Autumn Royal creates poetry and drama. Autumn studied literary studies at Deakin University, where she completed her doctoral thesis on the poetry of Dorothy Porter and elegiac poetics. Autumn has worked as a sessional tutor in creative writing, media and communication, and literary studies at Deakin University, Swinburne University of Technology and facilitated writing workshops for community-based organisations. She is the founding editor of Liquid Architecture’s Disclaimer journal, interviews editor for Cordite Poetry Review, and is the author of the poetry collections She Woke & Rose (Cordite Books, 2016), and Liquidation (Incendium Radical Library, 2019). Autumn’s third poetry collection is forthcoming with Giramondo Publishing in 2022.
Simon Gluskie is a PhD candidate at Deakin University with the research interests of simulation, surveillance and control. He writes creatively on how technology enables these elements to exist in day-to-day life to varying degrees, creating new spaces while hybridising the old. Simon is concerned with the question of whether experimenting with the form of a creative writing product can allow for a more “accurate” account of the end user existing simultaneously in both virtual and actual space. Using David Foster Wallace as an influence, his fiction aims to “make the familiar strange.”
Oscar Davis is a PhD candidate at the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. Majoring in Literary Studies and Astrophysics at Monash University in 2017, Oscar went on to undertake an Honours Course in Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne in 2019. His PhD thesis involves writing an exegesis with an accompanying novel, Static Sun, Phantom Breath, which will implement and explore a post-structuralist analysis of practice-led research and the relationships between theory and practice, and culture and nature.