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Stef Markidis explores Deleuze, dance and the writing life; Jessica White looks at traversing genres, disciplines and institutions as a disabled writer and scholar; Sarai Mannolini-Winwood provides an auto-ethnographic review of Indigenous literature in Walyalup/Fremantle, Western Australia; Katerina Bryant and her co-authors looks at the language of women’s prisons; Julia Jarel discusses verbatim and site-specific playwriting; and Jenny Hedley experiments with ChatGPT as a code-writing assistant for digital poetry.

This issue also includes prose and poetry by Amelia Walker, Ian C Smith, Maureen Alsop, Tom Gurn, Tony Dignan, Emma Derainne, Tara Propper, David Thomas Henry Wright and Md Mujib Ullah.

And in our reviews section, Dominique Hecq reviews The Writing Mind: Creative Writing Responses to Images of the Living Brain (edited by Julia Prendergast, Eileen Herbert-Goodall & Jen Webb); Amelia Walker reviews Mathelinda Nabugodi’s Shelley with Benjamin: A critical mosaic; Aidan Coleman Reviews Ada Calhoun’s Also a Poet, and Verity Oswin reviews John Kinsella’s Legibility: An Antifascist Poetics and Adelle Sefton-Rowston’s Polities and Poetics – Race Relations and Reconciliation in Australian Literature.

Stef Markidis explores Deleuze, dance and the writing life; Jessica White looks at traversing genres, disciplines and institutions as a disabled writer and scholar; Sarai Mannolini-Winwood provides an auto-ethnographic review of Indigenous literature in Walyalup/Fremantle, Western Australia; Katerina Bryant and her co-authors looks at the language of women’s prisons; Julia Jarel discusses verbatim and site-specific playwriting; and Jenny Hedley experiments with ChatGPT as a code-writing assistant for digital poetry.

This issue also includes prose and poetry by Amelia Walker, Ian C Smith, Maureen Alsop, Tom Gurn, Tony Dignan, Emma Derainne, Tara Propper, David Thomas Henry Wright and Md Mujib Ullah.

And in our reviews section, Dominique Hecq reviews The Writing Mind: Creative Writing Responses to Images of the Living Brain (edited by Julia Prendergast, Eileen Herbert-Goodall & Jen Webb); Amelia Walker reviews Mathelinda Nabugodi’s Shelley with Benjamin: A critical mosaic; Aidan Coleman Reviews Ada Calhoun’s Also a Poet, and Verity Oswin reviews John Kinsella’s Legibility: An Antifascist Poetics and Adelle Sefton-Rowston’s Polities and Poetics – Race Relations and Reconciliation in Australian Literature.

Editorial
Editorial TEXT April 2024 Edition
Julienne van LoonRoss WatkinsShady Cosgrove
In the editorial to the April 2024 edition of TEXT, Shady Cosgrove discusses writing in the face of AI, sharing anecdotes to argue the importance of staying away from ‘nice’.
Scholarly articles
Stepping outside my perspective: An autoethnographic review of Indigenous literature in Walyalup/Fremantle, Western Australia
Sarai Mannolini-Winwood
This article explores how an autoethnographic reflexive process strengthens place-based research, specifically in interactions with Indigenous literature as a non-Indigenous researcher.
This article charts the development of a new verbatim and site-specific play, and describes the fluid, collective and reflexive processes inherent in the creation and performance of the work.
Scholarly articles
Ekphrasis of the default mode: Simulating past, future and fictional worlds
Diana Marietta Papas
This essay proposes an understanding of ekphrasis which engages activities of mental time travel and simulation to help render experience in the minds of readers/writers.
Creative works
TEXT Prose and Poetry April 2024
Amelia Walker, Ian C Smith, Maureen AlsopTom Gurn, Tony Dignan, Emma DerainneTara Propper, David Thomas Henry WrightMd Mujib Ullah
Creative writing about creative writing
  • Reviews
    TEXT Reviews April 2024
    Dominique HecqVerity OswinAmelia WalkerAidan Coleman
    We review new books by Julia Prendergast, Eileen Herbert-Goodall and Jen Webb (eds.), John Kinsella, Mathelinda Nabugodi, Ada Calhoun, and Adelle Sefton-Rowston.