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Issue Details: First known date: 1988... 1988 Telling Ways : Australian Women's Experimental Writing
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* Contents derived from the Adelaide, South Australia,:Australian Feminist Studies , 1988 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Women's Experimental Writing, Sneja Gunew , single work criticism (p. 5-8)
Women in the Literary Small Press, Anna Couani , single work criticism (p. 9-14)
Living Alone: The New Spinster (Some Notes), Inez Baranay , single work short story (p. 15-18)
Little Episodes, Pamela Brown , single work prose (p. 19-21)
The Diary of Embracesi"He embraces me, I am lying naked.", Antonia Bruns , single work poetry (p. 22-23)
From the Fourth Floor Atelier, Antonia Bruns , single work short story (p. 24)
Along a Black Rubber Stick A Line of Donkeysi"Our hearts talk on swaying swan necks, heart-throated.", Antonia Bruns , single work poetry (p. 25-26)
The Planesi"The planes came over our heads firing, There are five ladies", Antonia Bruns , single work poetry (p. 27)
Echoi"everything is too quiet he whispers. quiet and numb here", Joanne Burns , single work poetry (p. 28-29)
Historyi"every sunny morning the small girl rode her tricycle up and", Joanne Burns , single work poetry (p. 30-31)
Fragments from a Paper Witch (from Not Being Miriam), Marion Campbell , extract prose (p. 32-35)
Science-Fiction City, Anna Couani , single work prose (p. 36-37)
She Left You Came, Anna Couani , single work prose (p. 38)
The Staff of Life, Kathleen Mary Fallon , single work short story (p. 39-46)
The Famous Court Case Where the Corpse of a Dream is On Trial, Silvana Gardner , single work short story science fiction (p. 46-49)
Goingi"Just to get in the car and go. Inspired to drive as someone", Anna Gibbs , single work poetry (p. 50)
Rooms, Windowsi"She stands in the window of the upstairs room. As she stands", Anna Gibbs , single work poetry (p. 51)
Going Somewherei"The show's on the road this morning.", Anna Gibbs , single work poetry (p. 52)
Traffici"The traffic is heavy today and the going's uphill. This is the", Anna Gibbs , single work poetry (p. 53)
In Transiti"This is a missed connection. I have not received a message you", Anna Gibbs , single work poetry (p. 54-55)

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Introduction : From There to Here and Then to Now : A Very Rough Guide Anna Gibbs , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , 17 April no. 17 2013;
'The project represented by this collection of work was conceived in 2009, by Moya Costello who pushed the other editors to act on our previous discussions, as a 'landmark anthology' of Australian women's experimental writing in the vein of the maps made by collections of the 1970s and 1980s: Mother, I'm rooted (edited by Kate Jennings, 1975) which was the first collection of poetry by Australian women, and F(r)ictions (edited by Anna Gibbs and Alison Tilson, 1982)1 . To our dismay, the current state of print publishing in Australia made such an enterprise impossible, as our proposal was rejected everywhere we sent it, mostly it seems because such collections have gone out of favour, at least with publishers. In the face of these refusals, we decided to opt for a journal publication, and this journal, TEXT, the journal of the Association of Australasian Writing Programs, was an obvious choice, since it has a wide - and growing - readership both in (and outside) universities, and, when it comes to experimental writing, teachers are always seeking examples for use in class. Publishing in a journal, however, meant we had to cull all the work which had been previously published, and this means that many writers whose work would otherwise have been part of this collection are not represented here, including some of the major figures in Australian experimental writing (Alexis Wright and Marion May Campbell, to name just two). This collection also has a strong bias towards work from Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne, mostly by virtue of the locations and histories of its editors, but also because we had almost no response to our call from elsewhere in Australia. Nor is there the avowedly Aboriginal work we had hoped for: again, our own connections were perhaps one limitation, but it is also likely that these writers have other priorities than experimentation (sovereignty and justice, for example) or anthology projects such as this one. The work included here is not blind refereed, but every piece was read and discussed by all four editors, and editorial work of one sort or another was performed on most of the contributions.' (Author's introduction)
Knot Feminist Glen Thomas , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The CRNLE Reviews Journal , no. 1 1991; (p. 97-99)

— Review of Telling Ways : Australian Women's Experimental Writing 1988 anthology poetry short story criticism prose
Untitled Ursel Fitzgerald , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: Mattoid , no. 33 1989; (p. 196-202)

— Review of Telling Ways : Australian Women's Experimental Writing 1988 anthology poetry short story criticism prose
Telling Ways Focuses on Experimental Writing... Nancy Potter , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , Spring vol. 3 no. 1 1989; (p. 47)

— Review of Telling Ways : Australian Women's Experimental Writing 1988 anthology poetry short story criticism prose
Untitled D Brown , 1988-1989 single work review
— Appears in: Womanspeak , vol. 12 no. 1 1988-1989; (p. 26-27)

— Review of Telling Ways : Australian Women's Experimental Writing 1988 anthology poetry short story criticism prose
Knot Feminist Glen Thomas , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The CRNLE Reviews Journal , no. 1 1991; (p. 97-99)

— Review of Telling Ways : Australian Women's Experimental Writing 1988 anthology poetry short story criticism prose
Radical Twitches at Excellence Helen Daniel , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 8-9 October 1988; (p. 10)

— Review of Telling Ways : Australian Women's Experimental Writing 1988 anthology poetry short story criticism prose ; Canberra Tales : Stories Margaret Barbalet , Sara Dowse , Suzanne Edgar , Marian Favel Clair Eldridge , Marion Halligan , Dorothy Horsfield , Dorothy Johnston , 1988 anthology short story
Telling Ways : A Review Anita Harris , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: Antithesis , vol. 2 no. 2 1988-1989; (p. 60-61)

— Review of Telling Ways : Australian Women's Experimental Writing 1988 anthology poetry short story criticism prose
Telling Ways : A Review Naomi Hayman , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: Antithesis , vol. 2 no. 2 1988-1989; (p. 60-61)

— Review of Telling Ways : Australian Women's Experimental Writing 1988 anthology poetry short story criticism prose
Telling Ways Focuses on Experimental Writing... Nancy Potter , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , Spring vol. 3 no. 1 1989; (p. 47)

— Review of Telling Ways : Australian Women's Experimental Writing 1988 anthology poetry short story criticism prose
Introduction : From There to Here and Then to Now : A Very Rough Guide Anna Gibbs , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , 17 April no. 17 2013;
'The project represented by this collection of work was conceived in 2009, by Moya Costello who pushed the other editors to act on our previous discussions, as a 'landmark anthology' of Australian women's experimental writing in the vein of the maps made by collections of the 1970s and 1980s: Mother, I'm rooted (edited by Kate Jennings, 1975) which was the first collection of poetry by Australian women, and F(r)ictions (edited by Anna Gibbs and Alison Tilson, 1982)1 . To our dismay, the current state of print publishing in Australia made such an enterprise impossible, as our proposal was rejected everywhere we sent it, mostly it seems because such collections have gone out of favour, at least with publishers. In the face of these refusals, we decided to opt for a journal publication, and this journal, TEXT, the journal of the Association of Australasian Writing Programs, was an obvious choice, since it has a wide - and growing - readership both in (and outside) universities, and, when it comes to experimental writing, teachers are always seeking examples for use in class. Publishing in a journal, however, meant we had to cull all the work which had been previously published, and this means that many writers whose work would otherwise have been part of this collection are not represented here, including some of the major figures in Australian experimental writing (Alexis Wright and Marion May Campbell, to name just two). This collection also has a strong bias towards work from Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne, mostly by virtue of the locations and histories of its editors, but also because we had almost no response to our call from elsewhere in Australia. Nor is there the avowedly Aboriginal work we had hoped for: again, our own connections were perhaps one limitation, but it is also likely that these writers have other priorities than experimentation (sovereignty and justice, for example) or anthology projects such as this one. The work included here is not blind refereed, but every piece was read and discussed by all four editors, and editorial work of one sort or another was performed on most of the contributions.' (Author's introduction)
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