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1 Susan Sheridan, The Fiction of Thea Astley Louise Henry , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Queensland Review , December vol. 26 no. 2 2019; (p. 286-287)
— Review of The Fiction of Thea Astley Susan Sheridan , 2016 multi chapter work criticism

'I had heard the name of Thea Astley long before I ever came to read her words. I knew she had set a significant number of her stories in the region in which I grew up and I was curious to see how she had depicted this place I thought I knew. My introduction to her writing was through her short story collection Hunting the Wild Pineapple (1979), and as I closed the book I wondered why she had focused on the grotesque and extreme elements of the north, and on the strange lives of failing and disappointed people. But the characters burrowed into my psyche, as did the themes and ideas Astley was exploring, and I recognised uncomfortably familiar shapes and echoes of a not-too-distant past.' (Introduction)
1 A Perspective from the Periphery : Re-imagining Regional North Queensland Women’s Stories Using Historical Fiction Louise Henry , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , June no. 54 2019; 'In popular published accounts from settlement and into the early part of the twentieth century the North Queensland region was often portrayed as ‘wild’. This is a perception ripe for re-examination, particularly from the perspective of women of lower socio-economic standing, and something I am exploring through my own creative work. Writing historical fiction about my grandmother’s life in North Queensland in the first half of the twentieth century requires me to consider strategies to ethically re-imagine a peripheral history that is specific to regional geography, class, and gender. Such a task is complicated by the limited source material available about the lived experiences of poorer women living in North Queensland. The most fruitful sources are often first-hand accounts such as life writing, personal recollections, memoirs, letters, or journals. Along with oral histories, these artefacts make up the bulk of the primary archival material that forms the background and contextual groundwork for my historical fiction. These sources are highly individual accounts specific to the time, place and era in which they were written. Historical fiction relies on an ‘authenticity effect’ (Padmore 2017) to effectively build a past world, and this article explores some of the ways these primary sources can be utilised and integrated in historical fiction to effectively and ethically represent women living in the margins.'

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1 The Difference Between Us Louise Henry , 2019 single work short story
— Appears in: Sūdō Journal , January vol. 1 no. 2019; (p. 85-91)
1 Rain In The Creek Louise Henry , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , vol. 32 no. 2 2018; (p. 71-72)
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