Emma Darragh Emma Darragh i(15942154 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 Extract : Thanks for Having Me Emma Darragh , 2024 extract novel (Thanks for Having Me)
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , March 2024;
1 3 y separately published work icon Thanks for Having Me Emma Darragh , Crows Nest : JOAN , 2024 27248844 2024 single work novel

'Mary Anne is painfully aware that she's not a good wife and not a good mother, and is slowly realising that she no longer wants to play either of those roles. One morning, she walks out of the family home in Wollongong, leaving her husband and teenage daughters behind. Wounded by her mother's abandonment, adolescent Vivian searches for meaning everywhere: true crime, boys' bedrooms, Dolly magazine, a six-pack of beer. But when Vivian grows up and finds herself unhappily married and miserable in motherhood, she too sees no choice but to start over. Her daughter Evie is left reeling, and wonders what she could have done to make her mother stay.

'Emma Darragh's unflinching, tender and darkly funny debut explores what we give to our families and what we take from them-whether we mean to or not. The stories in Thanks for Having Me are like a shoebox full of old photos: they aren't in chronological order and few are labelled. Looking at a family this way reveals things we don't see when these moments are neatly organised. Except that within these pages are a few moments you wouldn't want to hold up to the light.'  (Publication summary)
 

1 Rubik, the Short Story Cycle, and the Digital Age Emma Darragh , 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue , no. 69 2022;
'In the 21st century, the demands of digital presence and the distractions of the internet simultaneously challenge writers wishing to represent contemporary life and threaten the attention readers are willing to give to literature. In this paper I argue that the short story cycle is a literary form that is capable of representing digital life and does so in a way that extends and expands the way that we read. I take Elizabeth Tan’s 2017 book Rubik as my case study and my analysis focuses on the way Tan uses two key features of the short story cycle form to represent and simulate life in the digital age. I begin with a discussion of how Tan uses the multiplicity of the cycle form to demonstrate the polymediation of life in the developed world and that the use of discrete, separate stories in the cycle allows for switches in voice and style which not only simulates the polyphony of digital life but also encourages us to contrast the different ways individuals use mobile technology to manage their lives. Following this, I demonstrate how Tan uses the connectedness of the cycle form to create hyperreal nested narratives in Rubik, highlighting the blurring of the boundaries between online and offline, between reality and simulation, and in doing so encourages active participation from the reader.' (Publication abstract) 
1 Left Emma Darragh , 2021 single work short story
— Appears in: Meniscus , vol. 9 no. 2 2021; (p. 44-45)
1 Not Just Woman’s Work Emma Darragh , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , vol. 25 no. 2 2021;

— Review of What We Carry : Poetry on Childbearing 2021 anthology poetry
1 Push Emma Darragh , 2021 single work short story
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 66 no. 1 2021; (p. 97-103)
1 You Left i "I can’t pretend I can’t sleep", Emma Darragh , 2019 single work single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 89 2019;
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