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1 I Think Things Are Precious Vahri McKenzie , 2023 single work prose
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , July vol. 13 no. 1 2023;
1 The Other Writing Group : An Embodied Workshop Vahri McKenzie , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , October no. 57 2019; 'New insights and approaches to creative activity grounded in embodiment have the potential to enhance creative writing practices by focusing on the embodied dimensions of writing, such as undertaking whole organism warm-ups, and attending to the material set-up of a workshop. This article presents findings from a pilot research project called The Other Writing Group that offered a structure for writers to explore embodied strategies in a community of peers. The structure employed by the group owes its origins to dance researcher Nancy Stark Smith’s Underscore, a collaborative creative model for practising and researching improvisation. It is argued that embodied and social approaches to writing, more usually associated with performing arts, can critique notions of the writer as virtuoso and innovator, and instead present repetition and habit as significant in a fuller account of productive practice. Feedback and reflections from participants in the group suggest that approaches to practice which emphasise social and embodied dimensions can enhance individual creative writing practice.'

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1 Normal Milk Vahri McKenzie , 2019 single work short story
— Appears in: Storyfire : The Magic of the Short 2019;
1 Against the Grain Vahri McKenzie , 2014 single work short story
— Appears in: Gargouille , Spring vol. 1 no. 2014; (p. 19-27)
1 Philogyny #2 Vahri McKenzie , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry D'amour Anthology 2014 : Love Poems 2013; (p. 134)
1 I Shine, Not Burn Vahri McKenzie , 2013 single work short story
— Appears in: Knitting and Other Stories : Margaret River Short Story Competition 2013 2013; (p. 93-102)
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