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Eva Hornung wins Premier's Award & Fiction Award
JMCCCP affiliate Eva Hornung has won the Premier's Award and the Fiction Award at the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature for her latest novel The Last Garden (Text Publishing, 2017).
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Gabriella Smart wins 2018 Prelude Composer Residency
JMCCCP member and artistic director of Soundstream New Music, Gabriella Smart, has won one of the 2018 Prelude Composer Residences. Prelude is a national network of residencies for Australian composers, housed in historic buildings that gives recipients the time and space to create new work or conduct research and development. Beneficiaries of the programme also receive financial support throughout the twelve months of the residency. Congratulations Gabriella!
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Camille Roulière wins 2017 CHASS prize for a student
Camille Roulière has won the 2017 CHASS prize for a student for her essay entitled "Intertwined Languages and Broken Flows: Reading Ontological Polyphonies in Lower Murray Country (South Australia)" first published in the French peer-reviewed journal Angles. Established in 2014, the CHASS Australia Prizes are designed to honour distinguished achievements by Australians, either working, studying or training in the HASS (Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences) areas, including academics, practitioners, philanthropists, policy makers and students.
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Congratulations to Heather Taylor Johnson, the new Coetzee Centre Writer in Residence!
Poet and novelist Dr Heather Taylor Johnson is the third and final Coetzee Centre Writer in Residence, a generous six-month fellowship made possible by the Copyright Agency Limited Cultural Fund. Heather is the author of two novels, Pursuing Love and Death (HarperCollins) and Jean Harley was Here (UQP), the latter shortlisted for the Readings Prize for New Fiction, as well as four books of poetry, the most recent being Meanwhile, the Oak (Five Islands Press). During her time at the JMCCCP, Heather will be working on a new novel about gun-massacre culture in the U.S. Stay tuned for seminars and masterclasses with this talented writer in the new year!
New collection of J.M. Coetzee's essays out now!
A wonderful new collection of J.M. Coetzee's literary essays is now available from good bookshops. Peter Craven called it a book that "casts all sort of gleaming spotlights, amid the shadows, from one of the major novelistic intelligences of our time", while Lauren Elkin described it as, not just literary criticism, but "an engaging series of master classes in novel writing" (The Guardian).
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It's Raining Poetry!
Two PhD students at the University of Adelaide, Camille Roulière and Marianne Braux, have organised an exciting street art/poetry event with the support of the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice. Featuring a selection of poems from local Adelaide poets (including Jill Jones, Jennifer Liston, Alison Bennett, Banjo James and more), Camille and Marianne have painted poems in special “invisible” paint on the streets of Adelaide, only for the stencilled words to magically appear on the pavement after it rains. View the map here or visit the Facebook page for photos, updates and more!
Applications for Coetzee Centre Writer in Residence Now Open
Applications for the third and final Coetzee Centre Writer in Residence, supported by the Copyright Agency Limited Cultural Fund are now open. This generous six month residency comes with a $30,000 stipend and is open to mid-career South Australian writers. For more information, see our flier. Queries and applications should be directed to Jennifer Rutherford.
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Dr Carol Lefevre is the Second Coetzee Centre Writer in Residence
Fiction author Carol Lefevre has been awarded a Copyright Agency fellowship to become the second Coetzee Centre Writer in Residence. The $30,000 fellowship – funded by the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund – will see Dr Lefevre become writer-in-residence for six months, based at the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice. Throughout her residency, Dr Lefevre will be working on her new work, an Australian historical novel that follows a travelling circus through the outback during the droughts of the 1890s.
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J.M. Coetzee's The Schooldays of Jesus out now
The Schooldays of Jesus, the startling sequel to J.M. Coetzee’s widely praised The Childhood of Jesus, is now available from all good bookshops.
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Eileen Myles in discussion with Ros Prosser
On Saturday 28 May, New York based experimental poet, novelist and performance artist Eileen Myles read from her work, followed by a discussion with Dr Ros Prosser. This was a terrific event held at a packed out Bakehouse Theatre. See our facebook page for photos and more!
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