Pema Düddul

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In the current publishing climate culture is always subsumed to business. Daniel Wehner

Publishing should be more about culture than book sales

Pema Düddul, University of Southern Queensland

The perception of publishing as a business, even a creative one, means that the question of book sales dominates our conversations about it. But publishing offers far more to our culture than that.
A long list of commercial success stories has emerged from the self-publishing boom, sometimes with sales in the millions. Nicolas DECOOPMAN

Self‑publishing matters – don’t let anyone tell you otherwise

Pema Düddul, University of Southern Queensland

It is still stigmatised, still seen as amateur, even as illegitimate, but self-publishing has truly arrived. We ignore it at our peril.
Research tells us creativity is a capacity that can be taught. Chiu Ho-yang/Flickr

We need creative teaching to teach creativity

Pema Düddul, Southern Cross University

Whether or not creativity can be taught is still a contested question, though it really shouldn’t be. The evidence is well and truly in on this question. The idea that creativity cannot be taught is based…
What happens when a Surrealist parlour game turns into a writing exercise that’s pubilshed? Can we truly call it a collaborative process? Wikimedia Commons

Exquisite Cadaver: useful writing experiment or just a good game?

Pema Düddul, Southern Cross University; Jen Webb, University of Canberra, and Nike Sulway, University of Southern Queensland

Recently, The Conversation published what was described as “an experiment in collaborative writing” (featuring, among others, Dallas J Baker and Nike Sulway of this present article). The question behind…
Many hands have helped author The Conversation’s first collaborative writing experiment.

An experiment in collaborative writing: day ten

Marguerite Johnson, University of Newcastle; Camilla Nelson, University of Notre Dame Australia; Chris Rodley, University of Sydney; Claire Corbett, Western Sydney University; Donna Hancox, Queensland University of Technology; Jane Messer, Macquarie University; Julian Meyrick, Flinders University; Michelle Smith, Deakin University; Nike Sulway, University of Southern Queensland, and Pema Düddul, Southern Cross University

We’re starting 2015 with an experiment in collaborative creative writing. What happens when you ask ten academics to write a story together? Taking our cue from the Exquisite Cadaver game played by Surrealist…
Writing programs don’t just produce strong writers, they produce critical thinkers with strong skills for the workplace. mpclemens/Flickr

University writing programs deliver, so let’s turn the page

Pema Düddul, Southern Cross University; Donna Lee Brien, CQUniversity Australia; Jen Webb, University of Canberra, and Lynda Hawryluk, Southern Cross University

Whether creative writing can be taught is a question that has been debated on and off for decades. Are writers born, is the question, or can they be made? Neither side of the debate has offered incontrovertible…
David Malouf’s Imaginary Life plays out in the hillsides of the Black Sea. What’s so Australian about that? Hans Juul Hansen

The case for David Malouf’s An Imaginary Life

Pema Düddul, Southern Cross University

… further from the far, safe place where I began, the green lands of my father’s farm, further from the last inhabited outpost of the known world, further from speech even, into the sighing grasslands…

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