y separately published work icon TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses periodical issue   peer reviewed assertion
Issue Details: First known date: 2016... vol. 20 no. 2 October 2016 of TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs est. 1997 TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2016 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Editorial, Enza Gandolfo , Kevin Brophy , Donna Lee Brien , single work essay
Breaking the Pattern : Established Writers Undertaking Creative Writing Doctorates in Australia, Sophie Masson , single work criticism
'The focus of this article is an examination of the experiences of established writers who have recently completed, or are currently undertaking, a creative writing doctorate, against a background of change within the publishing industry. Is it primarily financial/career or creative control concerns that are influencing established writers to undertake creative doctorates in recent times? And how do these writers fare within the degree program? To explore these issues through individual stories, interviews were conducted, by email and phone, with six established professional writers who had recently completed, or were still undertaking, a creative doctorate as well as with four established creative writing academics, most of whom are authors themselves. Questions of motivation and experience, as well as outcome, are canvassed in this piece of original research, which provides an interesting snapshot of the current situation for established writers in Australia undertaking creative writing doctorates.' (Publication abstract)
Writing Working Class Ghosts, Enza Gandolfo , single work criticism

'On 15 October 1970, in one of the worst industrial accidents in Victoria’s history, a span of the West Gate Bridge collapsed during construction. Thirty-five workers were killed. Very little has been written about the West Gate Bridge collapse, the men who died, the men who survived or the families that were left behind. The Bridge has become a road, too often clogged with traffic, a nuisance, an annoyance. It’s a tragic history, one that the city seems to have forgotten, but more than forty years later, it haunts my imagination and demands to be written.

This is a self-reflexive article that explores the process of writing the West Gate Bridge collapse into a work of fiction. It focuses on the challenges of capturing the voices of the working class who are often marginalised and occasionally mythologised (as working class heroes) but rarely the central focus of literature, and the ethical risks associated with aestheticizing a traumatic historical event. Like Gerry Turcotte, I believe that engaging with our ghosts is the ‘only remedy for the distressing legacies’ (Turcotte 2007: 115) of our history, and argue here that fiction has a role in giving the ghosts of our past a voice in the present.' (Publication abstract)
What It’s like to Be Too Muchi"First of all it’s having your first smoke at three", Dominique Hecq , single work poetry
The (In)exactitude of Knowledge, Rachel Hennessy , single work prose
Making with Mud and My Mother, Toni Roberts , single work prose
Let Them Eat Brioche, Jane Downing , single work prose
Mixing Oil and Water, Josie Arnold , single work review
— Review of Researching Creative Writing : Creative Writing Studies Jen Webb , 2015 single work criticism ;
Rehearsal, Adaptation and Flow, Moya Costello , single work review
— Review of Creative Writing and the Radical : Teaching and Learning the Fiction of the Future Nigel Krauth , 2016 single work criticism ;
Bringing up Baby : Nurturing Creative Research in an Academic Context, Susan Taylor Suchy , single work review
— Review of Old and New, Tried and Untried : Creativity and Research in the 21st Century University 2016 anthology criticism ;
Salvaging Meaning, Lyn McCredden , single work review
— Review of Australian Fiction as Archival Salvage : Making and Unmaking the Postcolonial Novel A. Frances Johnson , 2015 multi chapter work criticism ;
Roman Holiday, Dennis Haskell , single work review
— Review of This Is What Gives Us Time Kevin Brophy , 2016 selected work poetry ;
‘Other Points of View’ : Hazel Smith’s Word Migrants, Jessica Wilkinson , single work review
— Review of Word Migrants Hazel Smith , 2016 selected work poetry ;
Poetry of Dissent, Paul Munden , single work review
— Review of Writing to the Wire 2016 anthology poetry ;
A Shrine to the Fragment, Chloe Wilson , single work review
— Review of Pulse : Prose Poems 2016 anthology poetry ;
The Nothingness That Should Be Something, Helen Gildfind , single work review
— Review of Waiting Philip Salom , 2016 single work novel ;
Cut Glass Dancing, Dominique Hecq , single work review
— Review of Unexpected Clearing : Poems by Rose Lucas Rose Lucas , 2016 selected work poetry ;
Confession and Confrontation in She Woke & Rose, Amelia Walker , single work review
— Review of She Woke & Rose Autumn Royal , 2016 selected work poetry ;
A Labyrinth of Poetry, Caitlin Maling , single work review
— Review of Bull Days Tina Giannoukos , 2016 selected work poetry ;
Dying to Speak, Rachel Hennessy , single work review
— Review of Dying in the First Person Nike Sulway , 2016 single work novel ;
X