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TEXT

Journal of Writing and Writing Courses

Special issues: editorial
December 01, 2024 AEST
Introduction to Creativecritical spaces: Practice, pedagogy, methodology, the ineffable
Stefanie MarkidisDaniel Juckes
An introduction to the first of two TEXT special issues designed to survey attitudes toward, and enactments of, creativecritical writing now.

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A new double special issue on creativecritical writing out now at TEXT
A new double special issue on creativecritical writing out now at TEXT
Special Issues 72 & 73 at TEXT, guest-edited by Daniel Juckes & Stefanie Markidis, are designed to survey attitudes toward, and enactments of, creativecritical writing now.
Announcing the inaugural winner of the Nigel Krauth Prize
Announcing the inaugural winner of the Nigel Krauth Prize
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Special Issues: scholarly article
December 01, 2024 AEST
Writing through … from … to … underneath … over … in between … negotiating the force field of the unworded in the braided thesis mode
Mags Webster

My focus is on apophasis, the rhetoric of denial and negation, which since classical times has been a means of using language to deal with what lies beyond language.

Special Issues: scholarly article
December 01, 2024 AEST
Archival versos: Unwritten, unread, unreadable, unwritable
David Thomas Henry Wright

This paper uses a Calvino-inspired creativecritical approach toward archival research to explore potential “versos” in archived text.

Creativecritical manoeuvres: Carrying over, directing, figuring and going outside Special Issues: scholarly article
December 01, 2024 AEST
Creativecritical manoeuvres: Carrying over, directing, figuring and going outside
Stefanie Markidis

In this creativecritical essay, I argue that spatiality in language is a key principle of creativecritical writing.

Inside the house of fiction: The creative-critical possibility of Gerald Murnane’s A Million Windows Special Issues: scholarly article
December 01, 2024 AEST
Inside the house of fiction: The creative-critical possibility of Gerald Murnane’s A Million Windows
Reuben Mackey

Through a reading of Gerald Murnane’s A Million Windows (2014), I propose a model for how a critic might read from within a literary text.

Creativecritical writing as methodology Special Issues: scholarly article
December 01, 2024 AEST
Creativecritical writing as methodology
Melody Ellis

This article takes up Ann Cvetkovitch’s desire for a mode “beyond” the predictable to argue that creativecritical writing might be better understood as a methodology than as a genre.

Special issues: creative works
December 01, 2024 AEST
We are making a boat, love: 30 years of experimental feminist writing in Australia
Quinn EadesFrancesca Rendle-Short

“We are making a boat, love” is a bookish multimodal experiment-in-the-making that works with/into/because Ania Walwicz’s Boat (1989) and as an exemplar of Eades’s écriture matière (2015).

Special Issues: scholarly article
December 01, 2024 AEST
From the ground up: Perspectives from “Thinking Writing” classrooms on the critical creative nexus
Rachel HennessyElizabeth MacFarlaneJessica Yu

This article explores the experiences of three instructors of “Thinking Writing: Theory and Creativity” (postgraduate course, University of Melbourne) to unpack the issues in being critical theorists and creative writers.

Unleashed: My life as a dog Special issues: creative works
December 01, 2024 AEST
Unleashed: My life as a dog
Dominique Hecq

This creativecritical piece focuses on my relationship with Artaud, a rescue Kelpie I taught to bark, and in particular on transference love which, for Lacan, is predicated upon knowledge.

Creativecritical relations: Outgrowing current crises of connection Special Issues: scholarly article
December 01, 2024 AEST
Creativecritical relations: Outgrowing current crises of connection
Vera Alexander

Exploring creativecritical writing as “arts of living”, this essay addresses life writings that reflect a vibrant more-than-human relationship: the topic of gardens and gardening.

The weight of things: Object-oriented mania, citational hoarding and critical-mess literature Special Issues: scholarly article
December 01, 2024 AEST
The weight of things: Object-oriented mania, citational hoarding and critical-mess literature
Jenny Hedley

This creativecritical essay investigates the author’s object-oriented mania and her anticipatory relationship to “happy objects” through the lens of obsessive-compulsive disorder, inheritance, hoarding, and the empty promise of capitalism.

Borrowed connectivity: A fictocritical enquiry Special Issues: scholarly article
December 01, 2024 AEST
Borrowed connectivity: A fictocritical enquiry
Rebecca Ryall

This article is a fictocritical examination of current research in/with/for the Nightcap National Park, performing the value of the form for the study of place and its place beings.