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Journal of Writing and Writing Courses

Editorial
October 31, 2024 AEST
Editorial
Francesca Rendle-ShortJulienne van LoonRoss WatkinsShady CosgroveAntonia Pont
Our Vol 28 No 2 editorial includes a contribution from our newest Advisory Board member, Francesca Rendle Short, a summary of the scholarly articles in this edition, news and acknowledgements.

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Creative works
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Scholarly articles
October 31, 2024 AEST
“Complicit Concealments”: Developing ecological consciousness in Sally Abbott’s Closing Down (2017) and Briohny Doyle’s Echolalia (2021)
Chris HoldsworthRohan Wilson

We analyse a growing trend in Australian climate fiction, where connections between neoliberal capitalism and climate change are becoming major themes.

Becoming Breadthrog: Role-playing games, metacognition and the creative writer Scholarly articles
October 31, 2024 AEST
Becoming Breadthrog: Role-playing games, metacognition and the creative writer
Pierce WilcoxHelen Marshall

This article takes a practical and cognitive approach to the writer-character relationship. We consider a writer’s approach to character as a form of problem-solving.

The post-digital literary journal: Media and funding implications Scholarly articles
October 31, 2024 AEST
The post-digital literary journal: Media and funding implications
Imogen Smith

This study examines how Australian literary journal editors' use of the media affects the operations and economics of their publications and the field as a whole.

An unmethodical method: Contextualising the critical essay Scholarly articles
October 31, 2024 AEST
An unmethodical method: Contextualising the critical essay
Rebecca Harkins-Cross

This paper charts a genealogy for the critical essay, which I define as a literary essay that includes analysis of an artwork amongst its objects of inquiry.

Scholarly articles
October 31, 2024 AEST
When the world gets worse: Form and feeling in Australian climate fiction
Belinda Castles

In the political context of climate inaction, if the task is to refigure the social imaginary towards interconnection with all lifeforms, is the novel an adequate means of engagement?

Reviews
October 31, 2024 AEST
TEXT Reviews October 2024
Gemma ParkerHazel SmithAndrew LeggettNathan ShepherdsonDominique HecqOwen BullockStephen McInerneyJill Jones

We review books by David McCooey, Jessica Luck Lewis, Peter Goldsworthy, Jill Jones, Jen Webb, James Shea and Grant Caldwell (eds), Jakob Ziguras, and Hazel Smith.

“We need to talk”: Recovering conversations from the archive Scholarly articles
October 31, 2024 AEST
“We need to talk”: Recovering conversations from the archive
Elizabeth Chappell

Dialogue is a prominent feature of creative non-fiction used to reveal character. But how can conversation be recovered if your subject has passed from living memory?

Hearing home: Exploring place and identity through voice Scholarly articles
October 31, 2024 AEST
Hearing home: Exploring place and identity through voice
Laura Fulton

Creating or recreating voices through the writing of fictional letters can be a way of reconnecting with places that may have been taken from us.

英glish 影fluence: Ouyang Yu’s bilingual and self-translated poetry Scholarly articles
October 31, 2024 AEST
英glish 影fluence: Ouyang Yu’s bilingual and self-translated poetry
Yue Shi

How can the innovative spirit of a poet catalyse the breaking of traditional artistic conventions and engender a transformative effect within the realm of poetry?

The Shelters of Imagination: Logos, Franklin Street, St Peters, Marion and The Dreamhouse Special issues: creative works
June 01, 2024 AEST
The Shelters of Imagination: Logos, Franklin Street, St Peters, Marion and The Dreamhouse
Georgia Rose Phillips

‘The Shelters of Imagination’ is a series of five poems which explore the relationship between a writer’s place and the phenomenological aspects of literary composition.