The Flight of the Mind:
Conference Papers
Some speakers have made the text of their conference papers available. An audio version of all conference sessions is available on our podcasts page.
LISA GORTON
Lisa Gorton lives in Melbourne.
Her first poetry collection, Press
Release, was shortlisted for the
Mary Gilmore Award and won the
Victorian Premier’s C. J. Dennis
Prize for Poetry. She has also
received the Vincent Buckley
Poetry Prize. Her novel for
children, Cloudland, was selected in
The Age Best Books 2008. Download Paper (216KB PDF file)
ALEX MILLER
Alex Miller is twice winner of
the Miles Franklin Literary Award
and is an overall winner of the
Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.
He lives in country Victoria with his
wife, Stephanie, and writes full time.
His ninth novel, Lovesong, will be
published in November 2009. Download Paper (256KB PDF file)
MABEL LEE
Mabel Lee is Adjunct Professor of
Chinese Studies at the University
of Sydney and a Member of
the Australian Academy of the
Humanities. She has translated the
work of two Chinese writers:
Yang Lian, who won the Flaiano
Poetry Prize in 1999, and Gao
Xingjian, who won the Nobel Prize
in Literature in 2000. Download Paper (212KB PDF file)
PETER PIERCE
Peter Pierce is Honorary Research Fellow
and Professor at the National Centre for
Australian Studies, Monash University. He is a
critic, reviewer and author, whose books include
Australian Melodramas: Thomas Keneally’s Fiction,
and The Country of Lost Children. Download Paper (188KB PDF file)
MICHAEL MORTON-EVANS
Michael Morton-Evans has spent the past
50 years writing, first as a Fleet Street journalist
and then with the BBC, before coming to
Australia. He is the author or editor of eight
books, the latest of which, The Flower Hunter:
The Remarkable Life of Ellis Rowan, he co-wrote
with his wife, Christine. Download Paper (210KB PDF file)
AVIVA TUFFIELD
Aviva Tuffield has worked in publishing for
more than a decade, mainly as an editor.
She is currently Fiction Acquisitions Editor at
Scribe Publications. Previously, she was
Deputy Editor at Australian Book Review and
has written literary features and reviews for
a number of newspapers and journals. Download Paper (203KB PDF file)
STEVEN CONTE
Steven Conte is the author of The Zookeeper’s
War, which won the inaugural Prime Minister’s
Literary Award for Fiction in 2008. He is
writer-in-residence at the University of
Melbourne’s Trinity College. Steven’s website
is www.stevenconte.com. Download Paper (173KB PDF file)
ANDREA GOLDSMITH
Andrea Goldsmith is a
Melbourne-based novelist and
occasional essayist. Her last novel,
The Prosperous Thief, was
short-listed for the Miles Franklin
Literary Award. Her new novel
is Reunion, a story of friendship,
obsessive love, intellectual strivings
and untimely death, published in
May 2009. Download Paper (199KB PDF file)
BRIAN DIBBLE
Emeritus Professor Brian Dibble’s biography
of Elizabeth Jolley, Doing Life, represents a
decade of research, hundreds of interviews and
exclusive access to Jolley’s embargoed archives.
Professor Dibble holds a personal chair in
Comparative Literature at Curtin University and
has published criticism, poetry and fiction, along
with biographical works on William Hart-Smith
and Leonard Jolley. Download Paper (166KB PDF file)