Call for papers
Key Topics
The convention welcomes papers addressing, but not limited to, the following themes:
- First Nations sovereignty and literature
- Representations of place in literature
- Experiences of disability in growing places and writing capitals
- Literature, weather patterns and climate change
- Literature, mobility and place
- Indigenous, regional and global literatures
- Literary urbanisms and city-making through literature
- Indigenous languages and literature
- Transforming a city's stereotypes
- Texts and the tropics
- Garrison towns and literary wonders
- Natural disasters, destruction and resurrection of literary cities
- Defence and literature
- Immigration and literary capitals
- Melioidosis bacterium and its representation in literature
- Expanding populations and literature
- Frontier towns and literature
- Rebellion to sameness in literature
- Perfect ingredients for a City Beautiful
- Mining, FIFOs and compounds in literature
- History of literary capitals and social change
- Literary capitals and technological change
Submission guidelines
Submissions may address any aspect of the convention theme and its related areas of interest, including literature and place, Indigenous and regional literatures, literary cities and urbanism, mobility and migration, climate and environment, language, technology, and social change.
What to submit
Each submission should include:
- A 200-word abstract outlining the proposed paper
- A 50-word biography introducing the author/s
- Author name and institutional affiliation
- Contact email address
- The title of the proposed paper
Submissions are encouraged to engage critically and creatively with the broad concept of literary capitals. Papers may take disciplinary, interdisciplinary, comparative, theoretical, creative or practice-based approaches.
You can submit your abstracts here: Abstract submissions
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Acknowledgement of country
We acknowledge the Larrakia People, the Traditional Custodians of the land and waters of Garramilla/Darwin. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and acknowledge the continuing connection of Larrakia people to Country, culture, knowledge and community.
We extend our respects to all First Nations peoples and recognise their enduring contribution to the cultural, intellectual and creative life of this place.