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FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Emerging Writers’ Festival
Saturday 10 May 2008
Melbourne Town Hall
12:30 pm
How to find an audience (without losing your soul)
Is it possible to sell your work without selling out? Can a writer remain an artist in a market-driven economy? Does making a living mean making constant artistic compromise?
Kalinda Ashton (Overland), Fiona Capp, Tim Sinclair, Chay Ya Clancy and Lili Wilkinson
Hosted by David Mence
3.00 pm
Critics are just failed artists … aren’t they?
Looking at the art of the critique; writing it, surviving it and thriving on it. Told from those that do it and those who have been done by it.
Matthew Clayfield, Rjurik Davidson (Overland) & Ryan Paine,
Hosted by Simmone Howell
4.00 pm
Let’s get arrested
Where is the risky political writing in Australia? With the Sedition laws fading into the ether we ask ‘why didn’t anyone get arrested? And is too late for us to try?” Are we seditious or sedated?
Maxine Clarke, Tristram Clark, Jane Glesson-White &
Glyn Roberts
Hosted by Jeff Sparrow (Overland)
www.emergingwritersfestival.org.au
Art of the Real: National Creative Non-Fiction Conference
Friday 16 May 2008
University of Newcastle, NSW
3.30 – 5.00 pm
DIY cultures
Keri Glastonbury (Overland poetry editor), Anwyn Crawford and Paul Byron
www.newcastle.edu.au/theartofthereal/program/
Sydney Writers’ Festival
Friday 23 May 2008
Sydney Dance Company, Studio 1
Pier 4/5, Hickson Road
Walsh Bay
3:00 pm
What's the future for Australian fiction?
There's never been so much discussion about the state of Australian writing, but what's really happening? Overland magazine's Kalinda Ashton chairs a debate between leading critics Peter Craven and Ken Gelder about where Australian writing is going and why it matters.
Presented by Overland magazine.
www.swf.org.au
Woodend Winter Arts Festival
8 June 2008
Bentinck Conference Centre, Woodend, Victoria
2:00 pm
Melbourne's marvellous magazines: literary panel
Meet the editors of three independent and influential magazines. They will discuss how their magazines reflect and influence Australian politics, society and culture. How important are journals of opinion in our society? How do they contribute to the on-going public conversation? How do they remain independent and survive?
Featuring Sally Warhaft (Monthly), Jeff Sparrow (Overland), Sophie Cunningham (Meanjin) and Gideon Haigh as participating chair.
www.collieroffice.com.au/wwaf/index.htm
Poetry and the Trace: An International Conference
15 July 2008
State Library of Victoria
5.30pm – 6.30pm
Overland discussion panel
The trace of tradition: ‘as poetics spasm and feedback stains your shirt’
Keri Glastonbury (Overland poetry editor) in discussion with Ivy Ireland, Nick Keys, Tom Lee, Astrid Lorange, Derek Motion and Tim Wright.
What is the poetic ecosystem like for a post-Calyx community of young Australian poets and theorists? What traditions are they in dialogue with and what media are they using (blogs, MP3s, on-line publishing etc.) to access poetry and poetics?
http://www.monash.edu.au/cmo/poetry-and-trace/Program.html
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OVERLAND PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES 2008
In the Overland Public Lecture Series, writers and public intellectuals with important things to say about Australian culture, literature and society present lectures that engage a broad audience and offer new and often provocative perspectives on cultural and humanitarian issues in Australia. Described by Peter Craven in the Age as “an unambiguously splendid thing”, the Overland Public Lecture Series has been a vehicle through which public debate about Australian culture has broadened. Recent lecturers have included Ramona Koval, John Harms, Mark Davis, Brian Walters SC, Natasha Cica, Malcolm Knox, Christos Tsiolkas, Sylvia Lawson, Veronica Brady, Mary Kalantzis, David Marr, Barry Hill, Martin Flanagan, Phil Cleary, Amanda Lohrey, Bob Ellis, Raewyn Connell, Humphrey McQueen, Stuart Macintyre, Mischa Merz, Marcia Langton and Linda Jaivin.
Recent lectures:
RAMONA KOVAL
IN PRAISE OF THE COMMON READER
delivered 21 November 2007, published in Overland 189, summer 2007.
JOHN HARMS
ALL IS NOT WHAT IT SEEMS
delivered in conversation with Waleed Aly 20 September 2007, published in Overland 188, spring 2007.
MARK DAVIS
MYTHS OF THE GENERATIONS: BABY BOOMERS, X & Y
delivered 26 May 2007, published in Overland 187, winter 2007.
BRIAN WALTERS SC
POWER & THE RULE OF LAW
delivered 29 November 2006, published in Overland 185, summer 2006.
JOEL DEANE
AUSTRALIA’S (RE)AWAKENING
delivered 29 September 2006, published in Overland 184, spring 2006.
NATASHA CICA
THE INCORRUPTIBLES – WHERE ARE THEY TODAY?
delivered 28 June 2006, published in Overland 183, winter 2006.
MALCOLM KNOX
THE FATE OF AUSTRALIAN PUBLISHING
delivered, 7 December 2005, will be published in Overland 182, autumn 2006.
CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS in conversation PATRICIA CORNELIUS
POLITICS, FAITH & SEX
delivered, 31 August 2005, published in Overland 181, summer 2005.
SYLVIA LAWSON
DESECRATION & DEFACEMENT
delivered, 13 July 2005, will be published in Overland 182, autumn 2006.
VERONICA BRADY
THE SPIRIT IN AUSTRALIA: RELIGION & NATIONAL CHARACTER
delivered, 21 March 2005, published in Overland 178.
MARY KALANTZIS
REALITIES AND BANALITIES OF NATION IN THE HOWARD ERA
delivered, 1 December 2004, published in Overland 178.
DAVID MARR
THE SHAPE OF THE ARGUMENT
delivered, 29 September 2004, published in Overland 176.
PHIL CLEARY
FOOTBALL, CULTURE & VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
delivered, 30 June 2004, published in Overland 176.
BARRY HILL
THE MOOD WE’RE IN: circa Australia Day 2004
delivered, 31 March 2004, published in Overland 174.
LINDA JAIVIN
TRUTH ON THE BORDER
delivered, 24 September 2003, published in Overland 172.
MARGARET SIMONS
MYTH, EVIDENCE & CULTURE WARS
delivered, 25 June 2003, published in Overland 172. |
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