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Writing and Society Research Centre

Locality: North Parramatta

Phone: +61 2 9685 9377

Address: Victoria Rd 2150 North Parramatta, NSW, Australia

Website: www.westernsydney.edu.au/writing_and_society/home

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25.01.2022 Congratulations to WSRC alumna Natalie Conyer whose novel Present Tense has just won the 2020 Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction! A wonderful achievement! https://www.austcrimewriters.com//the-2020-ned-kelly-award

23.01.2022 WSRC Emeritus Professor Hazel Smith, in collaboration with artist Sieglinde Karl-Spence, has a new exhibition on at Hazelhurst Gallery. Looks fascinating! Congratulations Hazel!

14.01.2022 Congratulations to WSRC Professor Gail Jones on the publication of her new novel Our Shadows! Looking forward to the virtual launch on 27 October when Gail will be in conversation with Bernadette Brennan. https://www.gleebooks.com.au/event/gail-jones-our-shadows/

14.01.2022 Fantastic seminar this Friday with Ben Etherington speaking about Creole Poetry! RSVP to [email protected] for zoom details.

14.01.2022 WSRC Professor Gail Jones on the chronic underfunding of Australian literature, a must read.

09.01.2022 Giramondo Publishing have a great online event coming up next week, 28 October, 8pm: PiO will be in conversation with Ivor Indyk speaking about his epic poem HEIDE which was awarded the 2020 Judith Wright Calanthe Award. Bookings for the free online event is through the link to Readings. HEIDE completes .o.’s Fitzroy trilogy. It is an epic poem about history, painting, painters, patrons the people who made modern art happen in Australia, and those who opposed it. There is ...a particular focus on the artists gathered around Sunday and John Reed at Heide in Melbourne, including Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker and Joy Hester. But the many portraits which compose the work give it an ever-expanding range, evoking the larger artistic milieu, while stressing the culture’s social and economic underpinnings, from the governing role played by the wealthy and the powerful, to the struggles of the working class, the difficulties faced by women artists, the immigrant impact on the development of modernism, and the denigration of Indigenous art. Then there is .o.’s extraordinary technique, his use of historical and scientific facts, quotations, proverbs, numbers, definitions and the visual form of the poem, which generates both the book’s encyclopaedic reach, and its Anarchist perspective. https://giramondopublishing.com/product/heide/ https://www.readings.com.au/event/pio-in-conversation See more