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Frictions: An Anthology of Fiction by Women marks the distance Australian women have travelled as writers.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Melbourne,
Victoria,:Sybylla Press
, 1982 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Reading, single work short story (p. 5)
- Inquiry into Race, single work short story (p. 6-7)
- Mo[t]he[r] / H[t]ome[r], single work short story (p. 8-9)
- The Balts, single work short story (p. 11-13)
- Gone, single work short story (p. 14-15)
- I am My Own Companion, single work short story (p. 16-18)
- The Party, single work short story (p. 19)
- The Waiting Room, single work short story (p. 20-21)
- Brian 'Squizzy' Taylor An Imaginary Conversation about Brian 'Squizzy' Taylor, single work short story (p. 22-23)
- Life and Casualty, single work short story (p. 24-28)
- Satisfactory, single work prose (p. 29-30)
- Back of Beyond, single work prose (p. 31)
- Balmain Incidents, single work short story (p. 33-37)
- A Home of One's Own, single work short story (p. 39-43)
- End of the Season, single work short story (p. 44-48)
- [Untitled] (from a Work in Progress), single work autobiography (p. 49-50)
- Souvenir, single work prose (p. 51-53)
- Tail Lights, single work prose (p. 54-55)
- Xmas in the Bush, single work prose (p. 56-57)
- Where the Tale Takes Off From, single work short story (p. 59-65)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
-
Introduction : From There to Here and Then to Now : A Very Rough Guide
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)
-
Feminist Fiction: New Words, New Meanings
1983
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 14 August 1983; (p. 14)
— Review of Frictions : An Anthology of Fiction by Women 1982 anthology short story poetry extract autobiography prose -
Untitled
1983
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 50 1983; (p. 24-25)
— Review of Frictions : An Anthology of Fiction by Women 1982 anthology short story poetry extract autobiography prose -
Short Fiction in the Eighties : White Anglo-Celtic Male No More?
1983
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 42 no. 1 1983; (p. 34-41)
— Review of The First UQP Story Book 1981 anthology short story ; Faith of Our Fathers 1982 selected work short story ; The Home Girls 1982 selected work short story ; The True Life Story of ... 1981 anthology short story ; Frictions : An Anthology of Fiction by Women 1982 anthology short story poetry extract autobiography prose ; Were All Women Sex-Mad? And Other Stories 1982 selected work prose ; Writing 1982 selected work poetry ; A Routine Rape : Short Stories and Poems 1981 selected work short story poetry prose ; On Firmer Shores 1981 selected work short story ; The Hat Trick: Australian Short Stories 1981 anthology short story -
Anthology Marred by Solemnity
1982
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 4 September 1982; (p. 15)
— Review of Frictions : An Anthology of Fiction by Women 1982 anthology short story poetry extract autobiography prose
-
Short Fiction in the Eighties : White Anglo-Celtic Male No More?
1983
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 42 no. 1 1983; (p. 34-41)
— Review of The First UQP Story Book 1981 anthology short story ; Faith of Our Fathers 1982 selected work short story ; The Home Girls 1982 selected work short story ; The True Life Story of ... 1981 anthology short story ; Frictions : An Anthology of Fiction by Women 1982 anthology short story poetry extract autobiography prose ; Were All Women Sex-Mad? And Other Stories 1982 selected work prose ; Writing 1982 selected work poetry ; A Routine Rape : Short Stories and Poems 1981 selected work short story poetry prose ; On Firmer Shores 1981 selected work short story ; The Hat Trick: Australian Short Stories 1981 anthology short story -
Anthology Marred by Solemnity
1982
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 4 September 1982; (p. 15)
— Review of Frictions : An Anthology of Fiction by Women 1982 anthology short story poetry extract autobiography prose -
Untitled
1983
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 50 1983; (p. 24-25)
— Review of Frictions : An Anthology of Fiction by Women 1982 anthology short story poetry extract autobiography prose -
Feminist Fiction: New Words, New Meanings
1983
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 14 August 1983; (p. 14)
— Review of Frictions : An Anthology of Fiction by Women 1982 anthology short story poetry extract autobiography prose -
Introduction : From There to Here and Then to Now : A Very Rough Guide
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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