CALL FOR PAPERS

Great Writing 2006

Great Writing, the UK's International Creative Writing Conference
invites critical papers/creative work/panel suggestions for Great
Writing 2006.

June 9th - 11th
University of Portsmouth

The UK's longest running university creative writing conference will
consider creative work as well as papers on creative writing
teaching, creative writing theory and method, and on contemporary
writers and their work.

Suggestions for individual presentations, or panels (3 persons), are
very welcome.

Critical papers or creative presentations: 20 minutes in length. plus
10 minutes introduction or questions.

Abstracts: 100 words to be sent by: 17th February 2006

to pippa.lamberti_at_port.ac.uk

Early submission is encouraged.

Portsmouth is the birthplace of Charles Dickens, and the literary
heritage of the city is strong, with links to Conan Doyle, H.G.Wellls
and Rudyard Kipling among others. The nearby Isle of Wight was the
sometime home of Tennyson and Keats and featured in John Wyndham's
'The Day of the Triffids'; while Hampshire county's literary heritage
includes connections with the lives and writing of such greats as
Edward Thomas and Jane Austen.

New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of
Creative Writing

http://www.newwriting.up.to

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