Vol. 22, Issue Special 53, 2018

Identity, politics and creative writing, edited by Natalie Kon-yu and Enza Gandolfo

This special issue of TEXT explores issues related to identity, politics and creative writing from the perspective of creative writers and creative writing academics.

This is the story of a creative reading-writing workshop on responding to a text and a life from an/other culture...

This article explores problems of identity-based privilege via discussion of a creative work penned during my first university appointment at an Australian university in Singapore in 2012.

This paper proposes six categories that can be used as lenses for examining representations when writing and analysing videogame texts: central and incidental; explicit and implicit; and fixed and player-centric.

When I think about it, I first took a side on creative writing politics in a forum at the University of Papua New Guinea in the 1970s...

There has been increasing criticism of mainstream writers who create characters from marginalised cultural backgrounds different to their own, especially when those characters are written from the first-person perspective...

This essay is concerned with the lack of diversity in the Australian publishing industry, especially in relation to race and ethnicity.