In this audience-engaged workshop, eight writers from the non/fictionLab will respond to Lisa Walker’s jewellery, and share the writing process that informs this. Each writer will read/perform/speak-to their work, and offer an instruction for the audience that invites them to explore the writing method for themselves. Participating writers: Bonny Cassidy Gretchen Coombs Melody Ellis Else […]

Presented by the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) and RMIT non/fictionLab Tuesday 12 March at 6pm at Loop Bar. FREE, all welcome! Join us for the launch of the online publication Writing in the Expanded Field – the final component of ACCA’s new writing program of the same name. The publication will be launched […]

A performative nonfiction, polyphonic and participatory event celebrating the awkward in all of us and featuring readings from teenage diaries and other juvenilia with RMIT academics and writers Kim Munro, Peta Murray, Stayci Taylor, Sophie Langley and Sian Prior and possible mystery guests TBA. One of these mystery guests could be YOU. If you can excavate your childhood or teenage diary, and bring […]

What is your program of research? That is to say, what is the key narrative of your research career over a five (or perhaps ten) year period and how has it travelled so far? Where will it go next? How do you articulate it or pitch it? How have some of our senior non/fictionLab members […]

RMIT Adjunct Professor and writer Sophie Cunningham explores the pleasures and intrigues of the literary archive including the ways in which an archive can inspire a novel’s form, at the same time as informing the novelist’s research. Sophie Cunningham has been on the publishing scene in Australia for more than thirty years. She is the author of […]

What is the place of creative risk-taking within risk-averse industries such as film and publishing? Following a free public screening of Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible (2017), non/fictionLab Adjunct Professors Sophie Cunningham and Sue Maslin (who was the Executive Producer on the film) lead a conversation about storytelling as a collaborative process, and the pleasures and perils […]

Three poets will perform their work and talk about what motivates, inspires and interests them. Andy Jackson, who has been researching poetry and bodily otherness for his PhD, will show a stop-motion animation using puppetry, created by Rachael Guy and Leonie Van Eyk and featuring his work. Benjamin Laird, recently shortlisted for the 2018 QUT […]

Artist, curator, academic and cultural producer Paola Balla will be joining us at the RMIT Design Hub this month to talk about her Creative Project, which situates Aboriginal women’s art and practices of resistance, matriarchy, healing and activism. Paola developed Footscray Community Arts Centre’s first Indigenous Arts and Cultural program, and was a Senior Curator in First […]

Research ‘impact’ is now a government and higher education sector priority. One of the key measures of the success of our research is its impact on society and culture beyond the university. So the non/fictionLab set out to start some conversations about what this means for creative practice researchers by running an impact workshop on […]