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This paper reports on the methodological and theoretical underpinnings of a community engagement project around the recent flood crisis in Queensland. In mid-2011, a series of community writing workshops for up to 100 community participants from in, and around, Rockhampton and Emerald will voice and record their stories about the recent floods, using fiction, poetry, non-fiction and song. In these workshops, community members will work with experts and together to articulate their flood experiences in a supportive and ethical environment. These stories will be published and performed, and then recorded and disseminated in print and online publications. As part of this project, print and online publications will be produced, with work from all participants included. These publications will be used to form the basis for a study of contemporary community writing in Central Queensland, and to gain an understanding of the social dimensions of natural disaster—in this case flood-preparedness and response, as well as the attendant issue of the mental health and allied health consequences of such events. This paper will also outline the benefits and challenges of utilising a practice-based creative arts approach in such a project. It will also discuss how engagement and research outcomes and partnerships can be fostered in community crisis responsive projects.
Dr Lynda Hawryluk is a Lecturer in Literary and Cultural Studies at CQUniversity, where she teaches undergraduate creative writing subjects and supervises Masters of Letters and PhD students. Lynda is Editor of Idiom 23 Literary Magazine and has been coordinating the Idiom 23 Writers’ Workshops on North Keppel Island since 2005. She has facilitated many writing workshops in the Central Queensland region, won the 2011 CQUniversity Opal Award for Engaged Service with Dr Liz Huf for their work on the Writers’ Workshops, and has been published in a variety of forms, including creative and academic.
17 April 2012
