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Jackie Kay International Conference<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Gylphi Contemporary Writers<\/a>
\nFebruary 2020<\/p>\n

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Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
\n2020-05-06
\nContact: kay.conference@gylphi.co.uk<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Organisers:<\/p>\n

Natasha Alden<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary British Fiction
\nUniversity of Aberystwyth, Aberystwyth, Wales, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n

Fiona Tolan<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Lecturer in English
\nLiverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n

Keynote speaker:<\/p>\n

Deidre Osborne<\/strong><\/a>, Reader in English Literature and Drama
\nGoldsmiths, University of London<\/em><\/p>\n

Jackie Kay<\/a> is the author of some 30 works, including plays, poetry, prose (fiction and non-fiction), children\u2019s literature, short stories and a ground-breaking novel. She has won or been shortlisted for over 20 literary awards and prizes, including the Guardian Fiction Prize, the inaugural Forward Prize for Poetry for a single poem, the Somerset Maugham Award and the Costa Poetry Award. She is the Scots Makar<\/a>, professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University, Chancellor of the University of Salford and a CBE.<\/p>\n

Kay\u2019s work is remarkable for its range of genres, its consistent reinvention of forms, and its marriage of intimate, domestic depictions of individual lives with broad political and philosophical themes. In works such as her breakthrough poetry collection, The Adoption Papers<\/em><\/a> (1991), the novel Trumpet<\/em> (1998) \u2013 a path-breaking depiction of trans identity \u2013 and the autobiographical Red Dust Road<\/em><\/a> (2010), her publications explore identity, individuality and belonging, and love between family members, lovers and friends. Amongst many other questions, her works asks what Britishness is, what race means, what it is to love, and what gender is, and can be.<\/p>\n

This international conference, the first on Kay\u2019s work, brings together scholars from a wide range of literary and cultural studies. The British Council<\/a> describe Kay as having, over the past two decades, \u2018moved from marginal voice to national treasure.\u2019 This conference will examine the work that has marked Kay\u2019s shift from the margins to the centre, addressing a writer whose work has expanded the scope of British literature. We welcome papers on any topic related to Kay\u2019s writing, including, but not limited to:<\/p>\n