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• Special issues: creative works
  February 05, 2025 AEST
  Suture: Women’s stories voiced through memoir and poetry
  Anne M. CarsonKimberly K. WilliamsAngela Costi

  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.

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• Special issues: creative works
  February 05, 2025 AEST
  2CUZ-FM
  Paul CollisJen CrawfordUrsula K. FrederickDenis HolyoakeWayne KnightPaul MageeEmma Philips

  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
  February 05, 2025 AEST
  Fringe dwelling in autobiographical memory – Writers’ perspectives
  Julia PrendergastDominique HecqRose MichaelGabriella MunozJulienne van LoonJen Webb

  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
  February 05, 2025 AEST
  My Double-Diaspora: Two Natures, Two Cultures and reposing the enduring image of C. P. Snow’s “bridge”
  Fiona Druitt

  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: editorial
  February 05, 2025 AEST
  Editorial: Writing from the Fringes
  Jen WebbKimberly K. WilliamsEileen Herbert-Goodall

  An editorial introduction to "Writing from the Fringes", which comprises innovative, creative, scholarly and hybrid works that bravely traverse boundaries and conventions to carve out new creative ground.

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• Special Issues: scholarly article
  February 05, 2025 AEST
  Towards post-human storytelling: Pushing boundaries in decentring the human
  Stef RozitisDante DeBonoAnne Brady-ClarkEvan JarrettAmelia Walker

  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.

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• Special Issues: scholarly article
  February 05, 2025 AEST
  “Some harm, some foul”: The editor’s duty of care in minimising the potential harm of creative nonfiction that contains problematic or distressing material
  Christina NorthKate CantrellCamilla Cripps

  The paper assesses the value of harm-preventative measures available to practising Australian editors who work with problematic content in creative nonfiction texts.

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• Special issues: creative works
  February 05, 2025 AEST
  Dead batteries
  Sarah Giles

  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.

• Special issues: creative works
  February 05, 2025 AEST
  The part removed
  Oscar Davis

  “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
  February 05, 2025 AEST
  August in translation
  C. M. Stone

  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
  February 05, 2025 AEST
  Liminal
  Dominique Hecq

  “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
  February 05, 2025 AEST
  Epistles to Our Mother (A Sauútiverse story)
  Eugen Bacon

  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.

• Special issues: creative works
  February 05, 2025 AEST
  Clever
  Antonia Pont

  Sliding into the borderline space of prose poetry, “Clever” presents as a sublime poetic stream-of-consciousness record concerning the narrator’s Freudian-oriented modes of perception and experience.

• Special Issues: scholarly article
  February 05, 2025 AEST
  Exploring the writer’s relationship with the more-than-human by traversing Mabi Forest: Towards an integrated perspective in middle-grade eco-narratives
  Ola Kwintowski

  This paper elucidates how field research experiences can inform a writer’s sense of place, subsequently shaping the portrayal of interconnectedness between the human and more-than-human within their written works.

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• Special Issues: scholarly article
  February 05, 2025 AEST
  From Eco-Thriller to Eco-Horror: Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood as an Antipodean inversion of Bram Stoker’s Dracula
  Julian Novitz

  This article examines eco-themes in Birnam Wood (2023), exploring EcoGothic anxiety and the Gothic’s evolution, highlighting unexpected intersections of form, genre and era in creative practice.

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• Special Issues: scholarly article
  February 05, 2025 AEST
  Strange dreams and unforgiving landscapes: Australian Gothic and the prose poem
  Paul HetheringtonCassandra AthertonAlyson Miller

  This paper explores prose poems by various authors, examining how the Australian neo-Gothic subverts colonial narratives through its uncanny reinterpretation of the traditional Gothic form.

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• Special Issues: scholarly article
  February 05, 2025 AEST
  Heterogeneity and creative expression: A creative writing artistic approach to focus on emotions surrounding disabilities
  Anne Brady-ClarkDante DeBonoKendrea RhodesStef RozitisChloe CannellEugene TabiosSteph Daughtry

  This paper focuses on collaborative inquiry to create a narrative for heterogeneity in the creative space and argue the importance of continued inquiry when focusing on disabilities.

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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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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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• 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.

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• 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).

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Special issues: creative works
  December 01, 2024 AEST
  Hôtel La Fêlure: A work of fictocriticism
  Eric Daffron

  In this fictocritical short story, Benjamin and a cast of Moroccan characters watch and analyse The Blue Caftan through the lens of a fictional lecture on Moroccan male sexuality.

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• Special Issues: scholarly article
  December 01, 2024 AEST
  Awe and broken things: Articulating the agony and the ecstasy of creativecritical ‘wrighting’
  Peta MurrayAmes Hawkins

  This braided case study considers how the paradox of surrender and the awe of not-knowing may hold space for the inchoate and the formlessness that precedes form.

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• Special issues: creative works
  December 01, 2024 AEST
  Asterism
  Peter Kirkpatrick

  “Asterism” is a verse letter to friend and poet, John Watson, offering autobiographical reflections on the nature of home and how to be at home in the world.

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