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The Waste Land 100th Birthday Celebration
- Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2022, 12:00 pm - 4:15 pm
- Location: Hetzel Lecture Theatre in the Institute Building State Library SA
On Saturday April 30, 2022, at the State Library of South Australia, the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice will co-host a celebratory event with the University of Adelaide’s Department of English, Creative Writing, and Film to mark the 100th anniversary of the publication of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land.
Bedtime Stories: Writers in conversation about the biggest subject of them all
- Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2022, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
- Location: Ingkarni Wardli Conference Room 715
In Bedtime Story, writer Chloe Hooper breaks news of terrible illness as a bedtime tale. Doctor Peter Goldsworthy draws on tragic, comic and transcendent stories from his patients in his memoir-in-progress, The Cancer Finishing School. Heather Taylor Johnson guides conversation with these authors about the biggest subject of them all.
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Writers' Week appearances
- Date: Sat, 2 - Wed, 6 Mar 2024
- Location: Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden
The J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice will have several appearances at Adelaide Writers' Week.
Is this the gate? Nicholas Lens & J.M. Coetzee
- Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024, 12:00 am
- Location: Elder Hall, The University of Adelaide
The Adelaide Festival will present a special concert performance offering an excerpt from a new opera entitled 'Is this the Gate?'
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Masterclass with Christina Thompson: Writing a Nonfiction Book
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
- Location: Room 313-4, The Braggs, The University of Adelaide
The JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice is pleased to present a masterclass with Dr Christina Thompson, award-winning author and editor of the Harvard Review.
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International conference - Dusklands at Fifty: Transnational Dynamics, Transhistorical Conversations
- Date: Thu, 16 - Sat, 18 May 2024
- Location: The University of Adelaide,
The JM Coetzee Centre and the Department of English, Creative Writing and Film present an international conference here at the University of Adelaide, Dusklands at Fifty: Transnational Dynamics, Transhistorical Conversations, 16-18 May 2024.