Miss Kate Cantrell
This person does not currently hold a position at QUT.
Biography
Research InterestsKate's research interests include but are not limited to:
- Memoir
- Auto/biography
- Travel writing
- Metaphor
- Narrative structure
- Creative writing pedagogy
Publications
Kate's creative/critcal work has been published by:
- The Lifted Brow
- Wet Ink
- Swamp
- Stilts
- Islet
- Voiceworks
- The Sunday Mail
- Bradt Travel Guides
- Perilous Adventures
- WQ
- Express Media
- M/C Journal
- eJournalist
- LiNQ
To access, visit Kate's website.
Scholarships and Awards
Kate holds the following scholarships and awards:
- Australian Post-Graduate Award
- Queensland Smart Futures PhD Scholarship
- Deputy Vice-Chancellor’s Initiative Top-Up Scholarship
- Creative Industries Top-Up Scholarship
- Vacation Research Experience Scholarship
- 2013 KSP Emerging Writer-in-Residence
- Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence
Personal details
Discipline
Performing Arts and Creative Writing
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Creative Industries (Honours) (Queensland University of Technology)
Teaching
Kate teaches across a variety of subjects including:
- Introduction to Creative Writing
- Introduction to Literary Studies
- Creative Non-fiction
- Editing and Developing the Manuscript
- Novel and Genre
- Novel and Memoir
- Writing and Publishing Industry
- Writing Fundamentals
- The Short Story
- Advanced Writing Practice 1
- Advanced Writing Practice 2
- Workplace Learning
- Pathway to Honours
- Popular Fictions, Popular Cultures
- Imagining the Americas
- Youth and Children's Writing
Experience
Invited Talks and Readings
- Cutting to the Chase - Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre
- Whispers: A Celebration of Brisbane Voices - State Library of Queensland
- Life Writing Workshops - St Rita’s College
- Creative Industries Learning and Teaching Seminar - QUT
- Stilts Launch - Room 60
- Voiceworks Launch - Avid Reader
- ZONTA International Guest Speaker - Arana Leagues Club
- National Young Writers Month - Avid Reader
- Writers on the Make - Brisbane Writers Festival
- New Writers - Brisbane Writers Festival
Miscellaneous
- Rex: A Journal of New Writing - Editor
- UNANIMA International, United Nations, New York - Australian Delegate
- PBVM Pilot Cross-Cultural Program, Bangkok - Queensland Representative
- National Schools Constitutional Convention - Queensland Delegate
- Australia and New Zealand 3 Minute Thesis Competition - National Grand Finalist
- Brisbane Writers Festival - Intern
- University of Queensland Press - Intern
- QUT Creative Writing Prize - Judge
- QUT Three Minute Thesis Competition - Judge
- Ignite! Biannual Multidisciplinary Post-Graduate Conference - Panel
Selected publications
- Cantrell K, (2010) Women with passports, words without borders: Women's travel as a playful excursion into landscape and language, Presented at: Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association 2010 Conference, pp. 1.
- Cantrell K, (2011) Even Penelope had a plan: imagining a metaphysics of wandering in contemporary travel stories of Australian women abroad, Presented at: Australians Abroad 2011 : An Interdisciplinary Conference, pp. 5-6.
- Cantrell K, (2011) Lying in all honesty: the Unreliable Child Narrator in Lauren Slater's Lying, Presented at: Biennial Congress for the International Research Society for Children Literature (20th), pp. 1.
- Cantrell K, (2011) Eat, pray, loathe: Women's travel memoir as moving metaphysical journey or narcissistic new-age babble?, Ejournalist, 11 (1), pp. 45-53.
- Cantrell K, (2011) Ladies on the loose: Contemporary female travel as a 'promiscuous' excursion, M/C Journal, 14 (3), pp. 1-2.
- Cantrell K, (2010) Colours Unknown . [Textual].
- Cantrell K, (2010) Loving Anna.
- Cantrell K, (2010) The Simple Laws of Proportion.
- Cantrell K, (2011) The Certainty of Yellow . [Textual].
- Cantrell K, (2011) Wild Things . [Textual].
- Cantrell K, (2010) The Simple Laws of Proportion.
QUT ePrints
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