The fifth China Australia Literary Forum (CALF 5), ‘Ideas of the Future/Building Relations’, brought writers, critics and publishers from Australia and China together in dialogue about literature and cultural translation. It was co-hosted by the Writing & Society Research Centre, the Australia-China Institute for Arts and Culture, the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne, and the China Writers’ Association.

Over four sessions chaired by Isabelle Li, Nicholas Jose, Denise Varney and Jing Han, invited delegates were asked to speak for ten minutes on one of the program themes: i) Worlds of the Future, ii) Ecology and the Environment, iii) Economies and Networks, iv) Building Relationships.

Below are the speeches in each session, along with their accompanying translation.

PANEL ONE: WRITERS #1 (Chair – Isabelle Li)

• Lisa Gorton (novelist, poet) – ‘The Readers Digest Great World Atlas’
• Kate Fagan (poet) – ‘”Keep Every Story Live”: Natalie Harkin’s Archival Poetics’
• Mr Dong Xi (novelist) – ‘The Purpose of Writing is Communication’
• Ms Zheng Xiaoqiong (poet) – ‘The Way of Poetry’

PANEL TWO: WRITERS #2 (Chair – Nicholas Jose)

• David McCooey (poet) – ‘Future Worlds’
• Felicity Castagna (novelist) – ‘Past, Present and Future Worlds’
• Ms Xia Jia (novelist) – ‘Believe in the Future’
• Mr Long Yi (novelist) – ‘Enjoying the Internet’

PANEL THREE: CRITICS

• Justin Clemens (poet, critic) – ‘The Smallest and most Minimal of Beings’
• James Ley (critic) – ‘Untitled’
• Mr Yan Jingming (critic) – ‘The Future of Literature’
• Mr Li Guoping (critic) – ‘Untitled’

PANEL FOUR: PUBLISHERS

• Xiang Ren (scholar of publishing) – ‘Literary Publishing in a Connected Digital World’
• Mrs Ying Hong (editor and publisher) – ‘Belief in the Future’
• Sam Cooney (publisher) – ‘Building Relationships: Blak Brow: Stepping Back to Move Foreward’ (English Only)

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Organised by Anthony Uhlmann, the symposium included presentations by Gerald Murnane, Ivor Indyk, Samantha Trayhurn, Brigid Rooney, Shannon Burns, Emmett Stinson and Anthony Uhlmann.

Another World in this One Program

Gerald Murnane’s speech at the event was published in Sydney Review of Books (6 February 2018). The symposium received international attention and was covered by several journals.

• New York Times (27 March 2018)
• Paris Review (26 January 2018)
• Guardian article (5 April 2018)

Gerald Murnane: ‘The Still-Breathing Author’

Shannon Burns: ‘Truth, Fiction and “True Fiction”: Approaching a Biography of Gerald Murnane’

Luke Carman: ‘To the Eye Untrained: An Apprentice’s Encounter with Murnane’

Suzie Gibson: ‘What Lies Between’

Ivor Indyk: ‘What Kind of Literary History is a History of Books?‘

Brigid Rooney: ‘Stream System, Salient Image and Feeling: Gerald Murnane’s Barley Patch’

Emmett Stinson: ‘Intention and Retrospective Revision in Gerald Murnane’s Border Districts’

Anthony Uhlmann: ‘Report on the Mind in Border Districts’

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