Vol. 26, Issue 2, 2022

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Articles by Saskia Beudel, Gretchen Shirm, Diane Stubbings, Ruth Jackson, Ronnie Scott, Karen Le Rossignol and Julia Harris, Valentina Maniacco, Jocelyn Richardson, Elizabeth A. Smyth

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Articles by Saskia Beudel, Gretchen Shirm, Diane Stubbings, Ruth Jackson, Ronnie Scott, Karen Le Rossignol and Julia Harris, Valentina Maniacco, Jocelyn Richardson, Elizabeth A. Smyth

Editorial

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The migration of TEXT from its Australian site to Scholastica is complete, but there have been challenges...

Scholarly articles

The “living humanities”: Creative arts and academic humanities in tension

Saskia Beudel

This article focuses on the first three decades of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (AAH) and traces different ideas held by leading humanities scholars towards the creative arts.

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The writing is the method: Process, method, research in Fiona McGregor’s A Novel Idea
Gretchen Shirm
This essay argues that fiction writing is a distinct form of research and way of thinking in which the methodology is generated in the writing.
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Applying a cancer model to the generation of writing for performance: Finding (creative) life in death
Diane Stubbings
This paper outlines the creative experiment that led to the composition of Self Portrait / In Cross-Sections / With Bird, writing designed for theatrical performance.
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Memory, Tizita and longing for place
Ruth Jackson
The raw facts of memory, of longing for place, and the corresponding need to shape a narrative and to account for experience, create fundamental tensions in this creative non-fiction piece.
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Comics into Adversary: A consideration of how comics thinking can inform the representational challenges of post-crisis creative writing
Ronnie Scott
The essay articulates the challenges of writing contemporary gay male “post-crisis” fiction, which troubles the foundations of many representational strategies familiar to creative writers.

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Domestic noir: Fictionalising trauma survival

Karen Le RossignolJulia Harris

How can authors fictionalise trauma without cognitively suffering intense vicarious trauma in that writing process? This paper explores this question through the lens of fictionalised Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) representations.

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Finding my voice

Valentina Maniacco

Translations are always substitutes for originals, and in the case of literary translation, the best are performed by writers. In this paper I discuss my evolution from translator to writer.

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Elena Ferrante’s loud solitude: The benefits and limitations of relational anonymity

Jocelyn Richardson

This article examines the ethics of novelist Elena Ferrante’s anonymity through an analysis of her correspondences in Frantumaglia (2016).

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Writing an Australian farm novel: Connecting regions via magic realism
Elizabeth Smyth
In this article, I propose a major revision of the farm novel by employing magic realism to challenge Australia’s realist representations of farming as a rational, money-making enterprise.
Creative works
TEXT poetry, prose and script October 2022
Edward Caruso, Rosanna E. Licari, Hailey Quiazon, Md Mujib Ullah, Jane Downing, Kathleen Jennings, Gay LynchLinda Gant, Amie Jane McKay, Katie Pope, Kirk Dodd
New writing about creative writing
Reviews
TEXT reviews October 2022
Reviews by Sue Woolfe, Sarah Pearce, Amelia Walker, Philippa Moore, Dominique Hecq, Julia PrendergastIan Gibbins, Michele Seminara, Bronwyn Lovell
New books of interest to the Creative Writing discipline

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