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University Writing Programs Deliver, So Let's Turn The Page, Dallas Baker, Donna Brien, Jenn Webb, Lynda Hawryluk

Dr Lynda Hawryluk

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Capturing The Glimpse: Revelations On Creative Manoeuvres, Lynda Hawryluk, Leni Shilton

Dr Lynda Hawryluk

Creativity involves revelation: a moment of recognition, a coming into knowledge. These moments take many forms, and are inherently individualistic. They contain shifts in perspective, and provide a turning point in the creative process. The authors of this paper access physical landscapes to precipitate these moments. Our creative manoeuvres are located in what for us are sites of longing and belonging. The landscapes are geographically isolated places; deserts and the bush, in largely ignored country. What eventuates from these moments are what we’re referring to as glimpses, an awakening of the senses and a growing appreciation of awareness: the way …

Negotiating 'Negative Capability': The Role Of Place In Writing For Two Australian Poets, Lynda Hawryluk

Dr Lynda Hawryluk

This paper takes its lead from the poet John Keats’ notion of ‘negative capability’ (1891: 48), exploring some of the key methodologies of representing landscapes in writing, specifically using place to effect the process of ‘… being capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubt, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason …’ (48).

Keats refers to the poet as ‘taking part’ in the life of the poem; and being in the poem. This paper features our own poetry, located in two different landscapes and with its own understanding of place, which captures a sense of connection to rugged and …

Facilitiating ‘Storied Relationships To A Place’: The Capacity Of The University To Lead Communities Towards Resilience Through Creative Arts Activities, Donna Brien, Lynda Hawryluk

Dr Lynda Hawryluk

This article reports on the leadership aspects of the community creative arts based Resurfacing Stronger project, which was mounted in response to the recent flood crisis in Queensland, Australia, and involved the participation of a regional university. The project combines creative writing workshops and the publication of community writing with a study of contemporary community writing in Central Queensland. These various components are focused on gaining an understanding of the social dimensions of flood preparedness and response through creative writing as both action and product, as well as conducting a pilot study of contemporary community writing in the Central Queensland …

Ethical Imaginations: Writing Worlds Papers: The Refereed Proceedings Of The 16th Conference Of The Australasian Association Of Writing Programs 2011, Byron, Bay, Nsw, Janie Conway-Herron, Moya Costello, Lynda Hawryluk

Dr Lynda Hawryluk

This conference, held in Byron Bay in November 2011 was dedicated to Aunty Ruby: a Bundjalung woman, multi award-winning author, historian and cultural ambassador, who devoted her writing life to ‘edumacating others’ about the lives of Indigenous Australians. Her humanity was all-encompassing and amazing considering the pain and loss that walked side by side with her throughout her life. A prolific writer of nonfiction books, essays, poems and short stories, her contribution to the academy has been recognised by an inaugural Doctorate of Letters from Latrobe University, Victoria and a Doctorate of Letters from Southern Cross University, New South Wales. …

Taking The Drop: Surfing Memoirs, Blogging And Identity, Lynda Hawryluk

Dr Lynda Hawryluk

Surfing evokes images of sun-bronzed stoners with little more going on in their heads than the search for the next wave. Oceans of saltwater drown out any other thoughts. However, the number of memoirs and books describing surfing as a spiritual journey, using the surfing lifestyle as a metaphor for a greater search for meaning, belie these stereotypes. As a blogger, I've long struggled with the urge to reveal too much of my real identity online, preferring to hide behind Ambrose Pierce-like observations. A recent conversion to the surfing world has led me on a journey of a very different …

On Island Time: The Writing Workshop As Cultural Tourism, Lynda Hawryluk

Dr Lynda Hawryluk

This paper provides an overview of writing workshops as cultural tourism, and theincreasing preference for them to be located on islands of all kinds. It will examine thegreat diversity of workshop experiences available; narrow the focus to those workshops based on islands and finally concentrate on one particular island-based writing experience. Seemingly ‘exotic’ locations and a unique form of islomania distinct to aspiring writers are used to promote island writing workshops to potential participants. This in turn attempts to account for the popularity and growth of this form of cultural tourism. Several key questions will be raised and discussed: what …

The Sliding Scale Of Celebrity Authorship: Three Writers Face Their Adoring (And Otherwise) Public With Very Different Results, Lynda Hawryluk

Dr Lynda Hawryluk

This paper examines three authors’ lives in relation to their response to their status as ‘star authors’ (Moran, 2000). All three experienced a meteoric rise to fame as a result of a single work of thinly-veiled if not autobiographical fiction, with this work being widely acclaimed, translated into other languages and perhaps unsurprisingly in the current celebrity obsessed culture, Hollywood films. How these authors negotiated their fame and the subsequent praise and criticism that followed, is the focus of this paper. The three authors are Elizabeth Gilbert, Bret Easton Ellis and Harper Lee.

The Sleeping Camel Hosts An Indian Summer Squall, Lynda Hawryluk

Dr Lynda Hawryluk

A collaboration of writers and artists led to the writing of a poetic tribute to Peter Indans’ work and subsequently his legacy, in the poem The Sleeping Camel hosts an Indian summer squall. The discussion here has as its’ focus the relationship between writers, artists and the landscapes they explore in their chosen medium.

Writing Workshops As Cultural Tourism: A Case Study And Discussion On This Evolving Form Of Tourism, Lynda Hawryluk

Dr Lynda Hawryluk

Cultural tourism is regarded as ‘the movement of persons to cultural attractions awayfrom their normal place of residence, with the intention to gather new information andexperiences to satisfy their cultural needs’ (Richards, 1996). Writing workshops andretreats (in both Australia and around the world) are held in such diverse locationsthat the very definition of ‘normal’ can be considered irrelevant. From surf writingcamps in Mexico (Sayulita Writers Workshops) to historic houses in England (ArvonFoundation), the range of experiences available would surely satisfy anyone’s‘cultural needs’. This paper looks at the evolution of one particular community-based writing workshop over a 5 year period. It …

Behind The Pages, Lynda Hawryluk

Dr Lynda Hawryluk

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