Recent blog posts
This article weaves together women’s stories to find commonality and difference across three nations and three sets of practices to illustrate how women operate as writers, embroiderers, pioneers, and survivors.
This work of indigenous knowledge is an experience into Country and culture, specifically linked to Gundabooka corroboree place, the Baarka river, Bourke, and to voices coming through 2CUZ-FM outback radio.
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Special Issues: scholarly article This essay includes contributions from practising writers, participants in a Creative Writing|Neuroimaging Exploratory Study, Ideasthetic Imagining – Mapping the Brain’s Microstates Using Magnetoencephalography (MEG), conducted at Swinburne University in 2023.
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Special Issues: scholarly article This work responds to the theme of writing from the fringes by exploring the author’s experience of being doubly-diasporic across STEM and HASS scholarship.
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Special Issues: scholarly article Can storytelling be(come) post-human? If so, how? This article shares creative insights from a collaborative inquiry at the intersection of queer, neurodivergent, and ecological writing.
The paper assesses the value of harm-preventative measures available to practising Australian editors who work with problematic content in creative nonfiction texts.
In this short story, the reader is invited to witness the fringe-like experiences of the narrator/protagonist as she strives to piece together a fractured personal history and consolidate her identity.
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Special issues: creative works “The part removed” retells a family anecdote. In form and content, it explores the tension between the parts of the anecdote shared and the parts intentionally left out.
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Special issues: creative works This work investigates the ethics of engagement with poetry written after mass social trauma (Witness Poetry), and ways of imagining a methodology for compassionate relationship through translation and response poetry.
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Special issues: creative works “Liminal” explores the porousness of limitrophy, gesturing towards the more than human world with specific reference to dogs in relation to language, instinct, genre, gender.
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Special issues: creative works Eugen Bacon’s “Epistles to Our Mother” is a piece of speculative fiction that is an exemplar of storyworld building and impactful characterisation, blending the “weird” and “fantastic” with startling results.