Writing and Community reading 2 December 1.30pm

Creative Research Reading

Our next event on THURSDAY 2 DECEMBER at 1.30pm is round two of the creative research reading group, with Antonia Pont, Jo Langdon and Hayley Elliot-Ryan.

Link is:  https://deakin.zoom.us/j/81635904999?pwd=bW56SkF2QjFzOGpucEVjZzRFNnU4QT09.

Hayley Elliot-Ryan

Hayley Elliott-Ryan is a writer of fiction, poetry and performance works. She is completing a PhD at Deakin University in the area of narrative impasse, political ontologies and theories of bricolage, as well as on broader questions of waste, excess, currency, and interventionist narratological methods. Published research has focused on community-generated texts and the impact of neoliberal policy on traditional industry. With Antonia Pont, she founded c i n d e r journal which publishes articles in the areas of writing, and creative expression for HDRs/ECRs, and is ongoing co-managing editor. She also founded the Deakin magazine Wordly, which is now in its seventh year of regular publication, as the central in-house outlet for emerging Deakin writers.

She has been shortlisted for the Right Now poetry prize and the Judith Rodriguez Writing Award. When she’s not writing you can find her hanging out on jetties catching squid.

Here is the link to c i n d e r: https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/cinder/index

Jo Langdon

Jo Langdon is the author of two poetry collections: Snowline (Whitmore Press, 2012) and Glass Life (Five Islands Press, 2018). In 2020 her short fiction was recognised in the Newcastle and Olga Masters short story awards, and in 2018 she was a fellow of the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation’s Sozopol Fiction Seminars and CapitaLiterature festival in Bulgaria. Jo’s recent writing also appears in journals such as Island, Meanjin, Overland, and Southerly. She currently lives and writes on unceded Wadawurrung land.

Antonia Pont

Antonia Pont is Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature and Culture at Deakin, and a member of DML, ADI and PHI. She writes poetry, essays and theoretical works, and is also a long-time Zen and yoga practitioner. Her monograph A Philosophy of Practising with Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition (2021) is published with EUP. Other works include You Will Know Not In Advance What You’ll Feel (poetry, 2019, Rabbit Poets Series), and the co-authored Practising With Deleuze (2017, EUP). Her essay series ‘Thinking Feeling’ can be found across international platforms such as Literary Hub, The Lifted Brow, and Antithesis.