In conversation with Laura Elvery

Presented by: A/Prof Stephen Carleton

Date: Friday 24 September 2021
Time: 1–2pm
Location: Online via Zoom

Laura Elvery is the author of two short story collections (Trick of the Light and Ordinary Matter, both with UQP), the latter of which has just won the 2021 Steele Rudd Award at the Queensland Literary Awards. As inaugural UQ writer in residence, Laura is drafting her next book, a novel inspired by the life and death of Florence Nightingale. Associate Professor Stephen Carleton will lead a Q&A with Laura about her publishing journey, switching careers, completing a practice-led PhD, finding time to write, success and failure, and her life as a working author.

All staff and students with an interest in contemporary literature and pathways into publishing are warmly encouraged to join us in conversation.

About Research Seminar and Workshop Series

School of Communication and Arts Research Seminar Series

The research seminar and workshop series occur each semester, each with a different topic and guest speaker from UQ or otherwise.

Friday, 4 August 12-1pm Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at the SCA Writer's Studio (Level 6, Michie)	After the Future: Heat, Collapse, and Exhausting the “Future of Work”	Dr Luke Munn
Friday, 25 August 12-1pm Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at the SCA Writer's Studio (Level 6, Michie)	Promoting children’s environmental responsibility in the EFL classroom	Dr Valentina Adami
Friday, 1 September 12-1pm Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at the SCA Writer's Studio (Level 6, Michie)	Write FOR your reader vs. writing WITH your reader: human-centred design in professional communication and Portraying Asian-diasporic identity beyond the limits of the literary label Asian-Australian	Catriona Arthy and Olivia De Zilva
Friday, 8 September 12-1pm Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at the SCA Writer's Studio (Level 6, Michie)	Exploring Digital Humanities through the Lens of Journalism: A Case Study of Reader Comment Analysis	Dr Lujain Shafeeq
Friday, 15 September 12-1pm Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at the SCA Writer's Studio (Level 6, Michie)	The Medicalised Body - On Illness, Humour, and Sexuality and Talkin’ about the thing that stops me writing about the thing I’m talkin’ about: Hacking and Hofstadter on the looping effect of diagnostic labels and writing the strange double	Carly-Jay Metcalfe and Bianca Millroy
Friday, 22 September 12-1pm Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at the SCA Writer's Studio (Level 6, Michie)	Coping with eco-anxiety: A guided journal trial	Dr Ans Vercammen and Dr Skye Doherty

Venue

Online via Zoom