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Congratulations To Amy Espeseth
The winner of the Victorian Premier’s 2009 Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer is: “Sufficient Grace” by Amy Espeseth, a creative-writing PhD candidate in the School of Culture and Communication. “Set in a cloistered community of Scandinavian Pentecostals in the icy wilds of Wisconsin, this powerful, elemental novel presents a fully realised world of a family turned in upon itself. It captures the harsh beauty of the unforgiving natural world in prose that is charged with biblical cadences and authority. Attuned to the rhythms of the natural and liturgical cycles, the novel recounts an utterly convincing and heart-rending story of lost innocence and the quest for absolution.”
The judges were Liam Davison (convenor), Nathan Hollier and Rose Michael. The judges commented: “The panel assessed a record 126 manuscripts for this year's Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer. The judges were impressed by the overall quality of the submissions and noted their diverse range of form and style. While novels for adults across a range of genres made up the bulk of the list, short fiction, young adult fiction, children's books and memoirs were also well represented. Thematically, there was a noticeable engagement with environmental issues and with the shifting balance of global power. The judges were pleased that to some extent the final shortlist reflects the diversity of the entries.”
Art Abroad and Contemporary Culture: New York Program now accepting registrations
Contemporary Culture: New York
The following overseas fieldwork art history subjects are now open and available for registrations
107-306 Art Abroad (for third year students)
107-466 Contemporary Culture: Art in New York (for fourth and fifth year students)
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Chancellor's Prize for Excellence Winner
The School would like to congratulate Amelia Douglas who was awarded the 2009 Chancellor's Prize for Excellence in the PhD. Amelia completed her PhD in 2008 on the topic "Historiography in the open present: Pierre Huyghe and the association of freed time", supervised by Charles Green and Anthony White in the Art History program. The University awards four prizes each year and Amelia takes out the award for the Humanities and Creative Arts. For more information see the School of Graduate Research
Honours Graduate Receives ABC Cadet Journalist Program
Congratulations to Gus Goswell, a University of Melbourne Media and Communication honours graduate, who has been named the successful Victorian applicant of the ABC Cadet Journalist Program for 2009. He has received a one-year contract that will see him trained in radio, television and online news journalism.
For the past two years Gus has been tutoring Media and Communication subjects and recently started working on a casual basis for ABC News in Melbourne.
For more information on the cadetship see the ABC website.
PhD Candidate Publishes First Novel
Creative Writing PhD candidate Claire Thomas recently celebrated the launch of her first novel, Fugitive Blue, published by Allen & Unwin. She was a guest of the Melbourne Writers’ Festival in August 2008 and the Brisbane Writers’ Festival in September. At both events she was on panels discussing art in fiction. In Brisbane, she was also a panellist in a discussion on travel writing.
Last year, Claire was the recipient of the Amy Gaye Cowper Tennent Memorial Scholarship, which enabled her to conduct archival research for her PhD in London, Edinburgh and Boston.
Read more about Fugitive Blue
New Postgraduate Journal
Submissions are invited for 'PLATFORM: Journal of Media and Communication', a new postgraduate journal to be launched in June 2009.
'PLATFORM' is a biannual open-access online publication started by the Media and Communications Program, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne. It is planned to develop this journal as an international journal.
AIMS:
- to provide a platform for Media and Communication postgraduates to showcase, share and support the work of one another through publication, peer-review and comments
- to provide a platform for emerging Media and Communication scholars to build a publication record, and to contribute subsequently to other academic publications
- to increase scholarly appreciation of Media and Communication research across diverse theoretical, methodological and empirical interests
- to encourage international awareness and collaboration through the discussion of issues associated with the rising significance of multiple media and communication platforms for societies and individuals across various globalized and localized environments.
CALL FOR PAPERS (VOLUME 1, JUNE 2009):
Theme: "Mediated Mobilities: Negotiating Identities"
Submissions are invited for the inaugural volume of PLATFORM: Journal of Media and Communication.
Theme: "Mediated Mobilities: Negotiating Identities"
SUBMISSION DEADLINES:
- December 1, 2008: Abstracts/Proposals (500 to 800 words)
- February 2, 2009: Full Papers (including 200 word abstracts and six
keywords)
Penguin Manuscript Award
Penguin Books Australia has generously donated a prize of $5000 plus 25 hours editorial assistance for a new manuscript award open to postgraduate students enrolled in Creative Writing at the University.
The prize is for a prose manuscript of up to 40,000 words, which may be a section of a longer work. Entries for the 2009 award close on 30 January 2009, and the prize will be announced in July.