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Other works include:
Owen Bullock and Niloofar Fanaiyan : Warp and weft: Aesthetics of the poem as an artefact of experiences in time
Danielle Clode and Christele Maizonniaux : Telling true stories through fiction: Exploring intertextuality in Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues and French Pacific travel narratives
Lily Robert-Foley : Femalentendue
Stuart Bender and Mick Broderick : ‘Dude, get a shot of this’: The performance of violence in the school shooting film Excursion
Stuart Bender and Mick Broderick : ‘Dude, get a shot of this’: The performance of violence in the school shooting film Excursion
Lynn Davidson (New Zealand) : A roof over my head
Craig Jordan-Baker (UK) : The death of Patrice Nacullian
Eddie Paterson, The Contemporary American Monologue: Performance and Politics Review by Peta Tait
The Modern Language Association, MLA Handbook Eighth Edition review by Roslyn Petelin
Andy Stafford, Roland Barthes review by Rhonda Dredge
Contents
- Editorial, single work essay
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Breaking the Pattern : Established Writers Undertaking Creative Writing Doctorates in Australia,
single work
criticism
'The focus of this article is an examination of the experiences of established writers who have recently completed, or are currently undertaking, a creative writing doctorate, against a background of change within the publishing industry. Is it primarily financial/career or creative control concerns that are influencing established writers to undertake creative doctorates in recent times? And how do these writers fare within the degree program? To explore these issues through individual stories, interviews were conducted, by email and phone, with six established professional writers who had recently completed, or were still undertaking, a creative doctorate as well as with four established creative writing academics, most of whom are authors themselves. Questions of motivation and experience, as well as outcome, are canvassed in this piece of original research, which provides an interesting snapshot of the current situation for established writers in Australia undertaking creative writing doctorates.' (Publication abstract)
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Writing Working Class Ghosts,
single work
criticism
'On 15 October 1970, in one of the worst industrial accidents in Victoria’s history, a span of the West Gate Bridge collapsed during construction. Thirty-five workers were killed. Very little has been written about the West Gate Bridge collapse, the men who died, the men who survived or the families that were left behind. The Bridge has become a road, too often clogged with traffic, a nuisance, an annoyance. It’s a tragic history, one that the city seems to have forgotten, but more than forty years later, it haunts my imagination and demands to be written.
This is a self-reflexive article that explores the process of writing the West Gate Bridge collapse into a work of fiction. It focuses on the challenges of capturing the voices of the working class who are often marginalised and occasionally mythologised (as working class heroes) but rarely the central focus of literature, and the ethical risks associated with aestheticizing a traumatic historical event. Like Gerry Turcotte, I believe that engaging with our ghosts is the ‘only remedy for the distressing legacies’ (Turcotte 2007: 115) of our history, and argue here that fiction has a role in giving the ghosts of our past a voice in the present.' (Publication abstract)
- What It’s like to Be Too Muchi"First of all it’s having your first smoke at three", single work poetry
- The (In)exactitude of Knowledge, single work prose
- Making with Mud and My Mother, single work prose
- Let Them Eat Brioche, single work prose
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Mixing Oil and Water,
single work
review
— Review of Researching Creative Writing : Creative Writing Studies 2015 single work criticism ; -
Rehearsal, Adaptation and Flow,
single work
review
— Review of Creative Writing and the Radical : Teaching and Learning the Fiction of the Future 2016 single work criticism ; -
Bringing up Baby : Nurturing Creative Research in an Academic Context,
single work
review
— Review of Old and New, Tried and Untried : Creativity and Research in the 21st Century University 2016 anthology criticism ; -
Salvaging Meaning,
single work
review
— Review of Australian Fiction as Archival Salvage : Making and Unmaking the Postcolonial Novel 2015 multi chapter work criticism ; -
Roman Holiday,
single work
review
— Review of This Is What Gives Us Time 2016 selected work poetry ; -
‘Other Points of View’ : Hazel Smith’s Word Migrants,
single work
review
— Review of Word Migrants 2016 selected work poetry ; -
Poetry of Dissent,
single work
review
— Review of Writing to the Wire 2016 anthology poetry ; -
A Shrine to the Fragment,
single work
review
— Review of Pulse : Prose Poems 2016 anthology poetry ; -
The Nothingness That Should Be Something,
single work
review
— Review of Waiting 2016 single work novel ; -
Cut Glass Dancing,
single work
review
— Review of Unexpected Clearing : Poems by Rose Lucas 2016 selected work poetry ; -
Confession and Confrontation in She Woke & Rose,
single work
review
— Review of She Woke & Rose 2016 selected work poetry ; -
A Labyrinth of Poetry,
single work
review
— Review of Bull Days 2016 selected work poetry ; -
Dying to Speak,
single work
review
— Review of Dying in the First Person 2016 single work novel ;
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Editorial
2016
single work
essay
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , October vol. 20 no. 2 2016;
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Editorial
2016
single work
essay
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , October vol. 20 no. 2 2016;
