DAVID CARLIN is a writer, Associate Professor and co-director of the nonfictionLab in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Australia. He is also co-director of the international NonfictioNow Conference, which will next take place in Arizona in  2015. His widely acclaimed memoir Our father who wasn’t there, Scribe Publications, was published in 2010, and his creative essays and articles have appeared in Griffith REVIEW, Overland, Text, Newswrite, The Victorian Writer, Continuum: journal of media and cultural studies and other journals. His research interests extend across nonfiction creative practices from the essay and memoir genres to digital media and archives, and he currently leads the Circus Oz Living Archive Project, having previously directed Circus Oz on New York’s 42nd St. as well as written and directed award-winning films and plays. nonfictionLab