The theme of the 5th China Australia Literary Forum was 'Ideas of the Future: Building Relations'. The event, held 2nd September 2019, Melbourne, was hosted by jointly hosted by the Writing & Society Research Centre, the Australia-China Institute for Arts and Culture, Australian Centre (University of Melbourne), and the China Writers’ Association.
Participating Australian literary authors included: Lisa Gorton, Kate Fagan, David McCooey, and Felicity Castagna.
Participating Chinese authors included: Zheng Xiaoqiong (poet), Xia Jia (novelist), Dong Xi (novelist), and Yong Li (novelist).
Participating scholars and publishers included: Yan Jingming (critic), Li Guoping (critic), Ying Hong (editor and publisher), James Ley (critic), Xiang Ren (scholar, publishing), Sam Cooney (publisher), Ken Gelder (critic), and Justin Clemens (critic)
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Full text of the presentations, in both English and Chinese, is available from the event website here.*XY4
Lisa Gorton ( 莉莎·戈顿 ) is a poet, essayist, reviewer and novelist. Her first novel, The Life of Houses (2015) was co-winner of the Prime Minister's Award for Fiction in 2016. She has also written a children's book, Cloudland.
Lisa's fist collection of poetry, Press Release, won the Victorian Premier's Award for Poetry in 2008, and was a finalist for the Melbourne Prize, Best Writing Award.
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Kate Fagan is a Sydney-based poet, musician, songwriter and editor. Formerly the editor of US-based journal of poetics How2, she was, in 2018, convening the English major at Western Sydney University. As a poet, her collection First Light was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards in 2013.
Fagan holds a BA Hons and PhD, both from the University of Sydney. In 2018, she was a senior lecturer at Western Sydney University.
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Felicity Castagna ( 菲利瑟提 卡斯塔格娜 ) is a Sydney-based writer, with a PhD from the Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University.
Castagna won the 2014 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction for her novel, The Incredible Here and Now, which was shortlisted for the Children’s Book Council of Australia and NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, and adapted for the stage by the National Theatre of Parramatta.
Her collection of short stories, Small Indiscretions, was named an Australian Book Review Book of the Year. Castagna’s work has appeared on radio and television, and she runs the storytelling series Studio Stories.
She has been the editor of the Australian poetry magazine, Hermes.
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