Dr Amelia Walker

Lecturer UniSA Creative

email Amelia.Walker@unisa.edu.au

Research Degree Supervisor

About me

creative writing
creative reserach
writing as research
children's literature
young adult literature

Amelia Walker is the author of four poetry collections and three poetry teaching resource books in Macmillan's All You Need to Teach series. She completed her PhD in 2016 through the University of South Australia, for a thesis about creative writing's value in contemporary higher education and research. In 2015 she won the Australasian Association of Writing Programs Postgraduate Conference Paper Prize in two categories: creative paper and critical paper. Amelia currently teaches courses in creative writing and children's / young adult literature. She is also secretary for the Australsian Association of Writing Programs, co-editor of the book reviews section for peer-reviewed creative writing research journal TEXT, and... Read more

UniSA Creative

UniSA Creative explores the creative, cultural and artistic complexities of our world, producing industry-ready professionals and conducting inspired cross-disciplinary research.

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About me

In the media

Date	Title
30/04/2018	Waterfall Work, Review of 'Dreamday' in TEXT Journal, by Dominique Hecq, http://www.textjournal.com.au/april18/hecq2_rev.htm
11/03/2018	“Art in response to Art”: Rob Walker launches ‘Dreamday’ by Amelia Walker at the 2018 Adelaide Fringe Festival, Article in Rocheford Street Review, https://rochfordstreetreview.com/2018/03/11/art-in-response-to-art-rob-walker-launches-dreamday-by-amelia-walker-at-the-2018-adelaide-fringe-festival/
11/03/2018	“We must dream, and honour our dreams, in order to live actualised lives”- Amelia Walker: Dominique Hecq launches ‘Dreamday’, Article in Rocheford Street Review, https://rochfordstreetreview.com/2018/03/11/we-must-dream-and-honour-our-dreams-in-order-to-live-actualised-lives-amelia-walker-dominique-hecq-launches-dreamday/
14/02/2018	'New Book is Art Inspired', Messenger Eastern Courier Article, https://www.facebook.com/131835960859327/photos/ms.c.eJwtx8kJADAMA8GOgtdCPvpvLBAyv8FGyZotdRzek3FuB~;8sUwr1BeKdCXI~-.bps.a.155132185196371.1073741828.131835960859327/155132218529701/?type=3&theater
31/12/2017	Book Review: Dreamday, reviewed by Jaydeep Sarangi, in Setu Journal, http://www.setumag.com/2017/12/Dreamday-by-Amelia-Walker.html
20/06/2017	'New Verse in a Poet's Life', Messenger Eastern Courier Article, https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156272788619972&set=p.10156272788619972&type=3&theater
06/07/2016	'Power of the Poetic Language' article about poet-in-residence project at St Andrews School, Walkerville, article by James Hetherington, published in City North Messenger, http://messenger.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspx

Research

Outputs

Research since 2008 is shown below. To see earlier years visit ORCID or Scopus

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Highlights

Year	Output
2020	Walker, A & Di Niro, C 2020, 'Creative duoethnography: a collaborative methodology for arts research', TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs, no. 57, pp. 1-17. Open access
2019	Walker, A 2019, 'What is franchissement? … and what's poetry got to do with it?', Axon: Creative Explorations, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 1-16. Open access
2018	Di Niro, C & Walker, A 2018, 'You're doctor what? Challenges for creative arts research in a culture of binaries', in AL Black & S Garvis (eds), Lived experiences of women in academia: Metaphors, manifestos and memoir, Routledge, London, UK, ch. 4, pp. 32-44. 1 31
2018	Walker, A 2018, 'Autofictionalizing reflective writing pedagogies: risks and possibilities', in H Dix (ed.), Autofiction in English: the story so far, Palgrave Macmillan, Switzerland, ch. 11, pp. 197-215. 6
2018	Walker, A 2018, 'Women like that: a poetic exploration into the complexities of intimate partner abuse', Journal of Gender-based Violence, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 537-546. Open access

Chapters

Year	Output
2021	Gou, Y, Di Niro, C, Spasovska, E, Walker, A, Cannell, C, Clarkson, R, Nilsson, A & Levy, N 2021, 'Writing, playing, transforming: a collaborative inquiry into neoliberalism's effects on academia, and the scope for changing the game', in AL Black & R Dwyer (eds.), Reimagining the Academy: ShiFting Towards Kindness, Connection, and an Ethics of Care, Palgrave Macmillan, Switzerland, ch. 13, pp. 219-238.
2019	Walker, A 2019, 'This order, not disorder: break down as break through', in AM McCulloch & RA Goodrich (eds), Why Do Things Break?, Cambridge Scholars, UK, ch. 6, pp. 70-85.
2018	Di Niro, C & Walker, A 2018, 'You're doctor what? Challenges for creative arts research in a culture of binaries', in AL Black & S Garvis (eds), Lived experiences of women in academia: Metaphors, manifestos and memoir, Routledge, London, UK, ch. 4, pp. 32-44. 1 31
2018	Walker, A 2018, ''Epilogue'', in Dominique Hecq and Julian Novitz (eds), Creative writing with critical theory: inhabitation, Glyphi, UK.
2018	Walker, A 2018, 'Autofictionalizing reflective writing pedagogies: risks and possibilities', in H Dix (ed.), Autofiction in English: the story so far, Palgrave Macmillan, Switzerland, ch. 11, pp. 197-215. 6

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2021	Langsford, S & Walker, A 2021, 'The value and limits of the healthy ecology metaphor: ecopoetry and connections between diversity, communication and survival in the face of environmental crises', Axon: Creative Explorations, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 1-13. Open access
2021	Walker, A 2021, 'Beyond words / when 'Nothing' makes poetry happen: visual writing, negative capability, and the un/thinkable', Axon: Creative Explorations, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 1-21. Open access
2020	Cannell, C, Spasovska, E, Gou, Y, Nilsson, A, Clarkson, R, Di Niro, C, Levy, N & Walker, A 2020, 'Doing collective biography differently by incorporating methods of narrative inquiry, poetic inquiry and performance studies into the analysis of writings-as-data', TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs, vol. 24, no.2, S59, pp. 1-16. Open access
2020	Di Niro, C, Muslera, P & Walker, A 2020, 'Fractography as assemblage: connecting para-academic pathways in the ruined university', Axon: Creative Explorations, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 1-11. Open access
2020	Di Niro, C, Walker, A, Nilsson, A, Clarkson, R, Gou, Y, Spasovska, E, Levy, N & Cannell, C 2020, 'Becoming-game: an assemblage of perspectives on challenges for early career academics in neoliberal times', TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs, vol. 24,no.2, S59, pp. 1-11. Open access
2020	Dominic, K & Walker, A 2020, 'Environmental crises in Kerala, Adelaide, and beyond: a collaborative poetic inquiry', TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs, vol. 24, no.2, S60, pp. 1-21. Open access
2020	McGinn, H, Cannell, C, Muslera, P, Blackwell, L & Walker, A 2020, 'Introducing Showpony: an inclusive space for cross-arts performance and connection', TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs, vol. 24, no. 2, S59, pp. 1-12. Open access
2020	Sarangi, J & Walker, A 2020, 'Introduction: Indian-Australian exchanges through collaborative poetic inquiry', TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs, vol. 24, no. 2, S60, pp. 1-7. Open access
2020	Walker, A & Di Niro, C 2020, 'Creative duoethnography: a collaborative methodology for arts research', TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs, no. 57, pp. 1-17. Open access
2019	Walker, A 2019, 'What is franchissement? … and what's poetry got to do with it?', Axon: Creative Explorations, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 1-16. Open access
2018	Walker, A 2018, 'Nervous', Double Dialogues, no. 20, pp. 1-11. Open access
2018	Walker, A 2018, 'Re)Meeting Ms. Logos: problems of privilege in and through creative writing pedagogies', TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs, SI series, no. 53, pp. 1-15. Open access
2018	Walker, A 2018, 'Women like that: a poetic exploration into the complexities of intimate partner abuse', Journal of Gender-based Violence, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 537-546. Open access
2017	Wisdom, T, Kennedy, A, Eades, Q & Walker, A 2017, 'Towards bodily autonomy for everyone: an interdisciplinary conversation', Writing From Below, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 1-11. Open access

Conferences

Year	Output
2016	Walker, A 2016, 'Why I don't write (much): per-forming failure in and as creative writing research', Authorised theft: The 21st Annual Conference of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs, University of Canberra, pp. 1-10. Open access
2015	Walker, A 2015, '''I' has to give: rethinking Bloom's apophrades and/as ghostly Derridean gifts'', in E Bacon, D Hecq & A Walker (eds), Writing the Ghost Train: Rewriting, Remaking, Rediscovering: The 20th Conference Of The Australasian Association Of Writing Programs, Australasian Association of Writing Programs, pp. 1-13. Open access
2015	Walker, A 2015, 'Re-collecting the self as an o/Other: creative writing research matters', in E Bacon, D Hecq & A Walker (eds), The 20th Conference Of The Australasian Association Of Writing Programs, Australasian Association of Writing Programs, pp. 1-12. Open access
2012	Walker, A 2012, ''Good to think [as]': uses and methodological advantages of character in research', in C Atherton & R Dredge (eds), 17th Conference of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs, 2012, Australian Association of Writing Programs, pp. 1-11. Open access

Non Traditional Outputs

Year	Output
2020	Linke, J & Walker, A 2020, That simple-yet-elusive something: appreciating haiku of seasons and camping through conversational reading and writing together, TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs, Australian Association of Writing Programs. Open access
2020	Walker, A 2020, 'Un/becoming nurse: good and bad realities of representation as representation', a review of M McAllister & DL Brien's 'Paradoxes in nurses' Identity, culture and image: the shadow side of nursing', Text, Australian Association of Writing Programs. Open access
2020	Walker, A 2020, 5 poems: 'Ocean Dancing', 'Sky Dance', 'Lessons in Dancing', 'What Isn't?' & 'Sunset', Dancing the Light, Cyberwit.
2020	Walker, A 2020, Book review: poppies in the post and other poems by Debashish Lahiri., Transnational Literature, Flinders University. Open access
2020	Walker, A 2020, Nganggunmanha: Papertalk Green's gifts to life writing, visual poetry and more, TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs, Australasian Association of Writing Programs. Open access
2020	Walker, A 2020, Six Concrete Ecopoems, Unusual Work, Collective Effort Press. Open access
2020	Walker, A 2020, Taking Time, TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs, Australasian Association of writing Programs. Open access
2019	Walker, A 2019, Dra(a)g, Not very quiet. Open access
2019	Walker, A 2019, Erasure poem: Through the cracks_Version 404, Abridged, The Chancer Corporation. Open access
2019	Walker, A 2019, Interpolating Acne, Not very quiet. Open access
2019	Walker, A 2019, Through the cracks, Meniscus, Australasian Association of Writing Programs. Open access
2018	Walker, A 2018, One day, Teesta review: A journal of poetry, Teesta Review. Open access
2018	Walker, A 2018, Wuhan, Teesta review: A journal of poetry, Teesta Review: A Journal of Poetry. Open access
2016	Walker, A 2016, Confession and confrontation in 'She Woke & Rose', TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs, Australasian Association of Writing Programs. Open access
2013	Walker, AA 2013, I'm putting my money on Janet, 18th Conference of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs, The Creative Manoeuvres, 2013-11-25, Australian Association of Writing Programs.
2013	Walker, AA 2013, I, Migrant, Portal: journal of multidisciplinary international studies, University of Technology, Sydney.

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
Flinders University	AUSTRALIA
La Trobe University	AUSTRALIA
Nan Tien Institute	AUSTRALIA
Newman College Kerala	INDIA
University of Adelaide	AUSTRALIA
University of Calcutta	INDIA
University of New England	AUSTRALIA
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA

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Dr Amelia Walker

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