[ecrea] Genre Worlds Symposium: Call for Papers 2017

Please see below for the CFP for the Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction in 
the 21st Century Symposium, held in Brisbane (AU) this November.


*Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction in the 21st Century*
*CALL FOR PAPERS *
*Academic Conference in association with **GenreCon* 
<https://www.awmonline.com.au/genrecon/>
*State Library of Queensland, Brisbane 10 November 2017*
*Abstract Deadline: 21 April 2017*
*Convenors: Dr Kim Wilkins, Dr Beth Driscoll, and Dr Lisa Fletcher*
“/All artistic work... involves the joint activity of a number, often a 
large number, of people…. The work always shows signs of that 
cooperation/” - Howard S. Becker, /Art Worlds/.
Popular fiction is one of the most dynamic cultural and commercial 
divisions of twenty-first century publishing. Internally, it is 
organised along the lines of genres, creating what we call ‘genre 
worlds.’  This conference will consider the ways that contemporary genre 
worlds function as sectors of the publishing industry, as social and 
cultural formations, and as bodies of texts. Who is publishing popular 
fiction? Who is reading it? How do genre communities form, and how do 
texts circulate within them? How are terms like popular fiction, genre 
fiction, commercial fiction and trade publishing used, and what do they 
suggest about the way that popular fiction is conceived of and valued, 
by the industry and academy alike?
We invite abstracts for presentations on aspects of Australian and 
international popular fiction genres, industries, markets and 
communities. Submissions are welcome from scholars across the humanities 
and social science disciplines, including those working in cultural 
studies, publishing studies, sociology, cultural economics, literary 
studies and creative writing.
Possible topics include:

  * Close and distant reading of works of contemporary popular fiction
  * Career trajectories and models of authorship in popular fiction,
    within and across genres
  * Social media and popular fiction
  * Distribution and routes to readers, including studies of
    booksellers, libraries, and the use of advanced reading copies
  * Popular fiction readers, reading practices, and fan cultures
  * Pleasure and popular fiction
  * The material formats of genre texts and paratexts, including studies
    of ebooks, print books, and audiobooks
  * Systems of value and gatekeeping in popular fiction, including
    blogging, reviewing, booktubing, bestseller lists, prizes,
    festivals, and events
  * Genre writing and reading groups, both online and offline
  * The spaces and places of popular fiction, including studies of book
    tourism
  * The economics of genre fiction: persistent and emergent business
    models, including self-publishing, author services, marketing
    strategies, and sales patterns

Plans for publications arising from the conference include a special 
issue of /Australian Literary Studies/. To be considered for inclusion, 
full papers of between 5,000 and 10,000 words will be due by 9 December 
2017.
*200-300 word abstracts should be sent to Kim Wilkins at the School of 
Communication & Arts, University of Queensland, at 
**(k.wilkins /at/ uq.edu.au)**, by 21 April 2017.*
genreworlds.com 
<mailto:http://www.genreworlds.com/genre-worlds-conference-2017/>|


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