Register to attend (registration is free but it is required to receive the link to attend)
The symposium will take place online.
Keynote speaker: Jarred McGinnis, in conversation with Natasha Bell.
Consult the full programme and the abstracts and biographies.
The ongoing Auto/Bio/Fiction in Practice Seminar Series at the Centre for Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths University of London invites multi-disciplinary inquiry into the critical and creative practices of autofiction, biofiction and their neighbouring genres.
To conclude our successful 2022-23 programme, the Symposium Auto/Bio/Fiction in Practice, 8 June 2023, 9.45 – 18.30 pm, BST, will bring together a diverse range of writers and practice-led researchers, each worrying in different ways the boundaries between truth and fiction, life and art, self and character.
Our hope is that this will be a playful and productive day of creative and critical exchange. Panels will include readings from works in progress, presentations of practice-led research, short exercises or participatory workshops, and time for wider discussion.
Presentation topics will range from the liminality and experimentation of/within these forms; the complications of writing the other and/or writing the self into the other; sampling, co-authorship and their ethics; narrativizing bodies, trauma, illness, disability, queerness, family history and postmemory; the meeting of creative practice and literary criticism; and the privileging of literary space.
