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CAIRNS: 2025 Colin Roderick Memorial Lecture

This lecture invites participants inside the creative process by exploring the often invisible work of receptivity — the open, porous state through which ideas are seeded and developed. Using examples from her own writing, as well as drawing on the work of a range of writers and artists, Emily will show how a deep attentiveness to art, language, history, news and popular culture is vital to both initial inspiration and cultivating complexity and depth in creative work.

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