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1 Filthy Cathryn Perazzo , 2020 single work short story
— Appears in: Meniscus , vol. 8 no. 2 2020; (p. 37-38)
1 Flash Fiction, Prose Poetry and Ambiguity : The Distinction between Flash Fiction and Prose Poetry on Ambiguous Terms Cathryn Perazzo , Sif Dal , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , October no. 46 2017;

'Flash fiction invites the reader to co-create the story themselves. We propose that a level of ambiguity in the flash fiction text is germane. In flash fiction, ambiguity is created through the brevity of the piece with the purposeful exclusion of exposition, for instance, in a similar manner to prose poetry. We wonder, therefore, about the overlap, if any, between notions of ambiguity in flash fiction and prose poetry? Are the mechanisms of ambiguity employed in prose poetry any different from that of flash fiction? What elements are left ambiguous, and what is purposely left out? What are the differences between the two forms, if not on ambiguous terms? We propose imagination as the counterpoint to ambiguity.' (Publication abstract)
1 Towards a ‘Non-Didactic Didacticism’ of the Sociopolitical : Assemblages and The Event in 'Surface Tension' and ‘Shame’ Cathryn Perazzo , Patrick West , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , November vol. 5 no. 2 2015; 'To write sociopolitical fiction is to be caught in an odd double bind. The term itself, ‘sociopolitical’ (hyphenated or not), implies an ‘assemblage’, and the terms it combines—‘the social’ and ‘the political’—each suggest complex, worldly assemblages. However, the more the writer attempts to express the assembled complexity of the sociopolitical domain, the more he/she feels a tug in the other direction: towards the version of ideas that might best explain the sociopolitical world and motivate political action. This article engages with the aesthetic and political challenges that arise in writing within a genre in which, to some extent at least, a moral content is desired by readers as an explanation for sociopolitical issues, only to be resisted when, as it often does, it becomes didactic. Co-author Cathryn Perazzo’s sociopolitical novel-in-progress, Surface Tension, is, we suggest, a laboratory of an assemblage in action. In it, we test and elaborate our hypothesis of the ‘assembled idea’ or ‘assembled morality’ of the sociopolitical novel. We conclude with a look at a published short story, ‘Shameʼ, by co-author Patrick West, which similarly deals with the sociopolitical, with how ‘non-didactic didacticisms’ might be germinated, and, most explicitly, with the ‘event’, following Deleuze’s use of this term. ' (Publication abstract)
1 y separately published work icon The Cat and the Philosopher Went for a Walk : A Poetry Anthology Nicholas Eldridge (editor), Norah Dempster Kaplan (editor), Barbara Hatton (editor), Bruce Kaplan (editor), Patricia Melville (editor), Peter Lucas (editor), Frances Sutherland (editor), Cathryn Perazzo (editor), Mentone : Odd Publishing , 2012 Z1910780 2012 anthology poetry
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