Conferences & Media

Diane Comer

Conferences, Presentations and Interviews

When A Stranger Comes To Town
Caroline Davies interviews Diane Comer

Down in Edin Magazine, Issue 18, 2019


Bookenz radio — Ruth Todd interviews Diane Comer

Bookenz interviews with writers and poets, Plains FM 96.9 Radio and Access Internet Radio, 18 min., 2 July 2019


‘Distance looks our way’: The Geography of Emotion in Migrant Personal Essays

The History of Emotions Conference at Stout Research Centre Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand. September 2015


Writing Between Two Shores

19th Australasian Association of Writing Programs AAWP Conference – Minding the Gap, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand. December 2014


Braided Narratives: Migrant Experiences and the Personal Essay

Migrant Cross-Cultural Encounters: A Multidisciplinary Conference, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. November 2014


University of Oxford doctoral scholarship experience

Women on Air radio interview by Ruth Todd on Plains FM 96.9 Christchurch, New Zealand. September 2011 (16½ min. playing time, 16 mb file)


Navigating Identity: Migrants and the Personal Essay

Writing the Future: Tertiary Writing Network Colloquium, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. December 2010


Teaching the Personal Essay – Migration and Identity

Women on Air radio interview by Ruth Todd on Plains FM 96.9 Christchurch, New Zealand. August 2010 (16 min. playing time, 15.5 mb file)


The Last Friday Reading Series

Main Street Coffee and News, Pocatello, Idaho, USA. September 2006


Gender and Childhood Trauma: Creative Responses

The Art of Gender in Everyday Life III Conference, Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho, USA. March 2006


Poetry & Prose reading

Main Street Coffee and News, Pocatello, Idaho. September 2005


Tazzini chapbook publication reading

Main Street Coffee and News, Pocatello, Idaho. March 2004


Collaboration & the Hybrid Curriculum: Rethinking General Education Courses in English

Twentieth Computers & Writing Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. June 2004.


Poetry & Prose Series

Bas Bleu Theatre, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. April 1996


Live from Prairie Lights Books

Radio broadcast reading on WSUI AM 910, Iowa City, Iowa, USA. January 1996


Colorado Council for the Arts Fellowship Reading

Tattered Cover Bookstore, Denver, Colorado. August 1992


Contact Diane

phone 022 510 2910 in New Zealand
phone +64 225 102 910 for international calls
literarynonfiction@gmail.com