Matilda Dixon-Smith Matilda Dixon-Smith i(10181160 works by)
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1 A Glutton for Punishment Matilda Dixon-Smith , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2023;

— Review of Sad Girl Novel Pip Finkemeyer , 2023 single work novel

'It’s a tall order to critique the very thing you are creating as you’re creating it. In the wake of Sally Rooney’s dominance over—for want of a better descriptor—‘women’s literary fiction’, perhaps it’s now de rigueur for the white millennial author to interrogate why we all write what we write. The most famous investigation into the ‘literary sad girl’ still comes from Leslie Jamison, who ruminates on the impact of her own memoir The Recovering, and explores many of these women across history.' (Introduction)

1 Megan Williams Let’s Never Speak of This Again Matilda Dixon-Smith , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 26 August - 1 September 2023;

— Review of Let’s Never Speak of This Again Megan Williams , 2023 single work children's fiction

'Relatably self-conscious, uncool Abby is the heroine of Megan Williams’s debut, which won the Text Prize for an unpublished work for young adults or children. Abby is a prickly portrait of how painful our teenage years can be. She is awkward – like, accidentally kissing your cousin’s cousin awkward – sometimes bratty and she always over-analyses every beat of her day.' (Introduction)   

1 Is the Literary Industry Even Worth Saving? Matilda Dixon-Smith , 2023 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 82 no. 2 2023; Meanjin Online 2023;

'This year I reach an important milestone: ten years working in the literary industry. In 2013 I entered my first ‘real’ lit job, as an editorial assistant at a small magazine publisher in North Melbourne. I had worked as an intern at two other publishing companies during my master’s, but this was the first time I would actually be paid for what I had studied for five years to do—really, as a voracious reader and writer, for my whole life.' (Introduction)

1 Examples of the Form Matilda Dixon-Smith , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2022;

— Review of Women I Know Katerina Gibson , 2022 selected work short story
1 Left-Handed Crochet Matilda Dixon-Smith , 2021 single work column
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 80 no. 1 2021;
1 Taking Female Queerness from Subtext to Text Matilda Dixon-Smith , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , June vol. 79 no. 2 2020; (p. 204-207)

— Review of Cherry Beach Laura McPhee-Browne , 2020 single work novel
'In a Readings blog review of Inga Simpson’s Where the Trees Were, Melbourne bookseller Amy Vuleta jokes, ‘If you ever find yourself wondering, ‘Where are all the lesbians in books?’, you’ll find some of them here, just living their lives.’ It’s a good joke, because it’s difficult to find queer women in all literature—especially here in Australia. Even in this era of ‘woke publishing’ (or what might more reasonably be called ‘responsibly inclusive publishing’), queer women can still feel underserved by the offerings in most local bookstores.' (Introduction)
1 ‘My Politics – It’s Not a Brand’ Matilda Dixon-Smith (interviewer), 2018 single work interview
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , September 2018;

'In the weak warmth of an early spring sun, comedian and theatre-maker Zoë Coombs Marr sits opposite me outside the Malthouse Theatre. It’s lunchtime on a busy weekday, and the courtyard is packed with creatives and techies from the Malthouse, Chunky Move and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, all of us soaking up what we can of the Melbourne sun before it disappears. '  (Introduction)

1 Simple Pleasures Matilda Dixon-Smith , 2016 single work prose
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings , no. 26 2016; (p. 34-43)
'With the publishing industry threatened by proposed changes to parallel importation restrictions, it has never been more necessary to reflect on the joys of visiting bookstores.' (Publication abstract)
1 The Wrong Girl – Zoë Foster Blake's Bestseller Brings Australia into the TV Romcom Revolution Matilda Dixon-Smith , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 28 September 2016;

— Review of The Wrong Girl Michael Lucas , Christine Bartlett , Claire Phillips , Vanessa Alexander , Judi McCrossin , 2016 series - publisher film/TV
'Channel Ten has the right idea with The Wrong Girl, the TV adaptation of Foster Blake’s tremendously fun novel of the same name.'
1 Television Critic Emily Nussbaum Matilda Dixon-Smith , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 25-31 August 2015;

'Cultural critic Emily Nussbaum on television’s move from “junk food” to high art. '  

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