[Lecture] JOY and the practice of creative writing, 13 June

Last updated:2014-06-05

Topic: JOY and the practice of creative writing
Speaker: Dr Francesca Rendle-Short, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia

Thinking joie and using a mnemonics device J-O-Y, Francesca will explore the pleasures of developing a practice of creative writing. Also how to teach and inspire others, how to take a risk and dance off the page.
And will it be on Friday evening - is that your thinking - or during the day?

Time: 19:30, Friday, June 13, 2014
Venue: Lecture Hall 101, School of Foreign Languages Building, South Campus, SYUSU

Organizer: Center for English-language Creative Writing, Sun Yat-sen University
                    School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University

Introduction of Speaker:
Francesca Rendle-Short is an award winning novelist, memoirist and essayist based in Melbourne, Australia. She is an associate professor in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Co-Director of the nonfictionLab Research Group and the WrICE program (Writers Immersion and Cultural Exchange). For the last five years she was the Program Director, Creative Writing, during which time she established the Bachelor of Arts (Creative Writing). Her most recent book is the critically acclaimed memoir-cum-novel Bite Your Tongue shortlisted for the 2012 Colin Roderick Literary Award. She has published short fictions, photo-essays, exhibition text and poetry for the page and wall, online and in exhibitions, and in numerous literary journals and magazines, including The Best Australian Science Writing 2013 (NewSouth), Just Between Us: Australian women writers on the fraught, funny world of female friendships (Pan Macmillan), Overland, Bumf, Rabbit, Axon: Creative Explorations, Queensland Historical Atlas, Hecate, Verity La, Australian Women’s Book Review, Real Time, Australian Book Review, Art Monthly Australia, Text Journal, Killing The Buddah. She has a Doctor of Creative Arts from the University of Wollongong and was the recipient of the 2013 International Nonfiction Writers’ Fellowship to the University of Iowa Nonfiction Program, US. Her website is http://www.francescarendleshort.com