J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice

21/12/2023

Photos from recent events.

A public lecture by David Marr on Patrick White with a response from Neil Armfield on 30 November.

A conversation between Stuart Ward and Frank Bongiorno on 4 December.

This was followed on 5 December by the Political Lives Symposium featuring Jacqueline Kent, Joshua Black, Jenny Hocking, and Judith Brett.

24/11/2023

Photos from the recent Nobel Prize in Literature Anniversary Celebrations. Thanks to all of the readers and guests. It was a very special two days. More great events happening in the next fortnight.

08/11/2023

Thursday and Friday this week. Seats still available. Tickets are free but registration is essential.

Celebrating the Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to� J.M. Coetzee in 2003� and Patrick White in 1973. Please join us for four events, featuring readings, music, film talks and film screenings at the University of Adelaide and Palace Nova East End Cinema.

14/03/2023

Congratulations to Heather Taylor-Johnson on the shortlisting of The Guggenheim for the 2023 Penguin Literary Prize.

09/03/2023

Thinking Writing Now with Gillian Hagenus, Alex Sutcliffe, Gemma Parker, Jane Turner Goldsmith, and Shannon Burns, with Patrick Flanery as chair.

09/03/2023

Yesterday's events: Peter Goldsworthy with Helen Morse, and Patrick Flanery with Louise Kennedy and John Boyne.

07/03/2023

Tonight, Professor Patrick Flanery hosts John Boyne and Louise Kennedy as part of the Let's Eat series for Writers' Week.

Ireland has arguably produced more great literary works per capita than any other country. With one of the oldest vernacular literatures in Europe, the Irish have written prolifically in Irish and in English: from canonical writers such as Swift, Sterne, Yeats, Wilde, Joyce and Beckett to contempora...

07/03/2023

The JMCCCP at Writers' Week 2023 so far.

Photos: Professor J.M. Coetzee with Paul Williams on screen, Sean Miccalif and JMCCCP Director Anne Pender, and Shannon Burns with Rick Morton.

06/03/2023

This morning at Writers' Week, Shannon Burns discusses his memoir.

10.45AM at the Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden West Stage

Shannon Burns’ haunting memoir, Childhood, details the poverty, neglect and domestic dysfunction the author faced while growing up in suburban South Australia. Moving between first and third person perspectives, the memoir provides a window into the series of traumatic familial relationships that ...