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Scholarly articles

“Complicit Concealments”: Developing ecological consciousness in Sally Abbott’s Closing Down (2017) and Briohny Doyle’s Echolalia (2021)
October 31, 2024 AEST
“Complicit Concealments”: Developing ecological consciousness in Sally Abbott’s Closing Down (2017) and Briohny Doyle’s Echolalia (2021)
Chris HoldsworthRohan Wilson

We analyse a growing trend in Australian climate fiction, where connections between neoliberal capitalism and climate change are becoming major themes.

Becoming Breadthrog: Role-playing games, metacognition and the creative writer
October 31, 2024 AEST
Becoming Breadthrog: Role-playing games, metacognition and the creative writer
Pierce WilcoxHelen Marshall

This article takes a practical and cognitive approach to the writer-character relationship. We consider a writer’s approach to character as a form of problem-solving.

The post-digital literary journal: Media and funding implications
October 31, 2024 AEST
The post-digital literary journal: Media and funding implications
Imogen Smith

This study examines how Australian literary journal editors' use of the media affects the operations and economics of their publications and the field as a whole.

An unmethodical method: Contextualising the critical essay
October 31, 2024 AEST
An unmethodical method: Contextualising the critical essay
Rebecca Harkins-Cross

This paper charts a genealogy for the critical essay, which I define as a literary essay that includes analysis of an artwork amongst its objects of inquiry.

October 31, 2024 AEST
When the world gets worse: Form and feeling in Australian climate fiction
Belinda Castles

In the political context of climate inaction, if the task is to refigure the social imaginary towards interconnection with all lifeforms, is the novel an adequate means of engagement?

October 31, 2024 AEST
“We need to talk”: Recovering conversations from the archive
Elizabeth Chappell

Dialogue is a prominent feature of creative non-fiction used to reveal character. But how can conversation be recovered if your subject has passed from living memory?

Hearing home: Exploring place and identity through voice
October 31, 2024 AEST
Hearing home: Exploring place and identity through voice
Laura Fulton

Creating or recreating voices through the writing of fictional letters can be a way of reconnecting with places that may have been taken from us.

英glish 影fluence: Ouyang Yu’s bilingual and self-translated poetry
October 31, 2024 AEST
英glish 影fluence: Ouyang Yu’s bilingual and self-translated poetry
Yue Shi

How can the innovative spirit of a poet catalyse the breaking of traditional artistic conventions and engender a transformative effect within the realm of poetry?

To what does it answer? Verbatim and site-specific playwriting
April 30, 2024 AEST
To what does it answer? Verbatim and site-specific playwriting
Julia Jarel

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.

Moving between worlds: Creativity, disability and storytelling
April 30, 2024 AEST
Moving between worlds: Creativity, disability and storytelling
Jessica White

In this essay, the author, using second person, considers the path her deaf body has taken to become a writer and an academic.

April 30, 2024 AEST
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.

April 30, 2024 AEST
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.