Conferences, again
Writers in education is a relatively small community, so it’s really good to put yourself out there and make yourself, and what you do, known. With this in mind, I’ve been pitching to conferences like the Oceans of Short Stories in Liverpool last May as well as to the usual short story journals. The Liverpool conference went really well, so I pitched for another one and just received notification that my paper has been accepted.
I’ll be giving a a presentation examining transgressive literature and the values of taboo subjects in taught creative writing courses. Referenced will be the first wholly transgressive prose module at the University of Gloucestershire, undertaken last year. The paper will explore the difficulties in approaching and creatively experiencing the forbidden and the unspoken as well as the rewards of such conscious risk-taking. Ultimately, the presentation will highlight that this genre is ideal for creating original and memorable prose in new and developing writers. Included in the presentation will be a short extract of my own prose (’that’ story, God help me) evidencing the content of the paper, and an opportunity for Q&A at the end.
More details for registration and the like will come in January. The conference is the ‘Great Writing, International Creative Writing Conference’ at Bangor University in Wales.
This is a much bigger conference than the last, and with that in mind I’m very grateful that a version of this paper is what I’ll be writing for my Teaching Creative Writing module on my Masters.
Hohum, such exciting developments. They delight me.
In other news - university has piled up, the need for money has me at my survival jobs far too often, but life is generally doing good. Just, busier than I’d perhaps like for the purposes of updating this place. Good though.
Kayleigh J Moore is a 23 year old author living in the Cotswolds in the United Kingdom.