Just as the guard’s voice enjoins us to “Mind the gap”, as we step from the train carriage to the station platform on the underground, this selection of papers attempts to ‘mind’ or address several gaps, which have emerged in recent years in the teaching of creative writing and the practice of writing as an academic discipline, in response to a call for papers for the 19th Annual Conference of the Australasian Association of Writing programmes, held, for the second time in the history of the organisation, in New Zealand.