Panel
Archive
Day 1
Writing ^^^ Righting >><< Riting <> <> the Post-Colonial Body
Selina Tusitala Marsh (chair), Pala Molisa, Stacey Kokaua, Tina Makereti
Crossing over in the essay
Mary CaMary Cappello (chair), Jean Walton, Melinda Harvey, and, presented by Windham-Campbell Prizes, Maria Tumarkin.
Expanded Archives
Vanessa Berry (chair), Anwen Crawford, Keri Glastonbury, Alexandra Lewis, Beth Yahp
Writing the Book on Creative Nonfiction
Sean Prentiss (chair), Jessica Hendry Nelson, Margot Singer, Brenda Miller
Editors on Nonfiction
Nick Tapper (chair), Catriona Menzies-Pike, Brigid Mullane, and, presented by Windham-Campbell Prizes, Ashleigh Young
“Have Your Fake and Eat It Too”: Comparing Divergent Understandings of the Nonfiction/ Fiction Boundary in Autofiction, Memoir, Literary Journalism and COVID-era Novels
Tom Doig (chair), Sue Orr, Sian Campbell, Eiren Caffell
Non-fiction meets the non-human: Writing about animals in the Anthropocene
Courtney Kersten (chair), Rebecca Giggs, Ben Goldfarb, Chelsea Biondolillo
First Nations negotiations of nonfiction and the limitations of western understanding: representation and form
Jeanine Leane (chair), Alice Te Punga Somerville, Evelyn Araluen Corr, Natalie Harkin, Emalani Case
Communitasia: oversharings, choralings, queerings, liminallings
Francesca Rendle-Short (chair), Columbia College Chicago Elementary School, Walking/Writing and Symphony of Awkward
Zeitgeist: Writing the local, writing the times
Edwina Preston (chair), Sonya Voumard, Mark Mordue, Dave Graney, Jim Hearn
Whose Story Is It?
Patti Miller (chair), Beth Yahp, Kristina Olsson, Maxine Beneba Clarke, Jenny Valentish
How Do the Dead Speak?
James Hollings (chair), Redmer Yska, Martin Van Beynen, Scott Bainbridge
Day 2
Authorship/Authority in Māori Non-fiction
Nic Low, Paula Morris (chairs), Ross Calman, Ariana Tikao, Ruby Solly
Teaching Toward Justice: Student Voice and Power in Creative Writing
Catina Bacote (chair), Helen Betya Rubinstein, Leora Fridman, Felicia Rose Chavez, Steven Alvarez
Reader, User, Player: An Interaction about Interactive Nonfiction
Scott Russell Morris (chair), Sarah Minor, Eric LeMay, Tim Hutchings
What is Distance to You: Lyric Intimacies in the Archives
Lawrence Lacambra Ypil (chair), Mok Zining, Gopika Jadeja, Tess Fahlgren, Ploi Pirapokin
The Nature of Time and the Time of Nature in Creative Nonfiction
Brenda Miller (chair), Rebecca Beardsall, Susan Olding, Toni Jensen, Kristiana Kahakauwila
On writing and publishing family mythologies and the ethics of consent.
Rose Lu (chair), Lil O’Brien, Gigi Fenster, Alie Benge, Kyle Mewburn
A Traveler’s Guide to the Country of the Pandemic
Philip Graham (chair), Tabish Khair, Jeanine Leane, Michele Morano, Rima Rantisi
Associative Energies: The Crosswalk between Nonfiction and Poetry
Melody Nixon (chair), Hana Pera Aoake, Jacob Edmond, Rushi Vyas, Talia Marshall, essa may ranapiri
Disordering Nonfiction Now
Leslie Carol Roberts (chair), Lawrence Lenhart, Elspeth Tilley, Simone Gabriel, April-Rose Geers
Making zines, writing books: a conversation about writing the personal for audiences small and large
Bastian Fox Phelan (chair), Vanessa Berry, Anwen Crawford, Ianto Ware, Sarah Laing
Writing Australian and Aotearoa Anthropocenes
Inga Simpson (chair), Jessica White, Melissa Fagan, Delia Falconer, Nina Mingya Powles
Essaying the Impasse
Jessica L. Wilkinson (chair), David Carlin, Sophie Cunningham, Alvin Pang
Local feminisms: Global conversations
Emilie Collyer (chair), Francisca Diaz De Valdes, Ruth C. Fogarty, Zinia Mitra
Yoga and Creative Nonfiction
Convened by Jennifer Sinor and Nicola Waldron
Day 3
Calling forth our pasts, citing our futures: envisioning Kaupapa Māori citational practice
Donna Cormack (chair), Hana Burgess, Alice Te Punga Somerville, Ammon Hāwea Apiata
PLACE 2020-21: A Digital Exploration of Place via Nonfiction Writing During the Global Pandemic
Rachel Lichtenstein (chair), Jean Sprackland, Sukhdev Sandhu, Eleanor Byrne
Letters To What Will Come: An Epistolary Panel on the Future(s) of Nonfiction
Barrie Jean Borich (chair), Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Jen Soriano, Ira Sukrungruang
Essay2: Synergy and Conversation Between Essaying and Performance
John Bennion (chair), Robin Behn, Hasanthika Sirisena, Peta Murray, Francesca Rendle-Short
Resistance and truth-telling through teaching and learning nonfiction
Bonny Cassidy (chair), Olivia Guntarik, Oliver Shaw, Neil Morris
Word Whether Weathers
Julieanna Preston (chair), Janine Randerson, Mick Douglas, Andy Lock, Layne Waerea
Prerecorded Panels
A Misfit of Ghosts: How Haunted Memoir Rethinks the Real
Bruce Owens Grimm, Elissa Washuta, Jami Nakamura Lin, Steffan Triplett, J. Nicole Jones
A quiet chat about climate change
Mark Spencer, Allie Hanly, Jessica Hamilton, Ash Berdebes, Tessa de Josselin
Breakthrough Forms Forge New Social Structures
Amy Wright, Ira Sukrungruang, Sejal Shah, Rebecca McClanahan, Eric LeMay
Building a Model for Writing Collectives and Publishing Collectives to Heal the Trauma of Incarceration
John Proctor, Marzian Alam, Carolina Soto, Marvin Wade, K. Michael Williams
Collecting Essays
Beth Alvarado, Heidi Czerwiec, Joanna Eleftheriou, Jennifer Tseng
Creating Publishing Opportunities for Emerging Writers
Brooke Maddison, Ren Koszarycz, Jerath Head, Wolfram-Jaymes von Keesing, Rani Tesiram
Difficult Subjects: Ethics and Representation in Nonfiction
Justin St. Germain, George Estreich, Steven Moore, Erica Trabold
Facts and the First-Person Voice: The Truthtelling Crisis in Journalism and Creative Nonfiction
Martha Nichols, Sarah Fay, Miles Harvey, Moni Basu, Kent Jacobson, Damon Young, Jacqueline Keeler
History and Haunting in Creative Nonfiction
Anna Kate Blair, Eliza Henry-Jones, Jess Richards, Heather Taylor-Johnson
Innovations in Environmental Writing
Leila Philip, Kendra Tillberry, Lawrence Lenhart, Heather McClelland, Michele Bigley, Jessica Wilson, Clinton Crockett Peters, Deborah Taffa
Introspection and Engagement with a Many Storied World During the Pandemic
Kerry Neville, Madhushree Ghosh, Tanya Ward Goodman, Chika Unigwe, Anjali Enjeti
On Self and Society: Memoirs of Political Witness
Marc Nieson, Glen Retief, Mai Khoi, Marjorie Agosin
Our Selves as Others: Creative Spaces between Fact and Fiction
Joanne Anderton, Amanda Niehaus, Rachel Laundy, Pip Adam
Travel Writing and Colonial Histories
Piia Mustamäki, Yuyutsu Sharma, Suzanne Roberts, Ravi Shankar, Ken Nielsen
Waterways: A Confluence of Women’s Voices
Karen Babine, Sawnie Morris, Ingrid Horrocks, Nina Mingya Powles
What Is Nonfiction Not? The Fluid Boundaries of Creative & Critical Writing
Chet’la Sebree, Holly Willis, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Jan Padios, Kim Knowles, Jenny Chamarette