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Special issues: editorial
Introduction: Creative writing and surfing
Nigel KrauthSally BreenTim BakerJake Sandtner
A key aim for this project has been to attract scholarly attention to the literary surf genres – surf fiction, surf poetry and surf memoir...
Special Issues: scholarly article
‘Dancing about architecture’: the fraught practice and chequered history of writing about the physical act of wave riding
Tim Baker
This paper provides an historic overview of literary efforts to conjure the ethereal, multi-sensory experience of wave-riding.
Sea city
Sally BreenAaron Chapman
This is what it feels like, to be in this city full of hot salty breath, full of long languid lines, frayed on the edges...
Special Issues: scholarly article
‘Competitors in the surf-riding contest’: battle as theme in the first three surf novels
Jake SandtnerNigel Krauth
This paper looks at the first three novels that featured surfing, to examine why the authors wrote about surfing in conjunction with themes of battle and contest.
Special Issues: scholarly article
Surfing with shivers: the Gothic Far North Coast in poetry
Lynda Hawryluk
A spate of shark attacks has turned the town of Ballina on the Far North Coast of New South Wales into a place with underlying Gothic tones...