Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 How the AFLW Fan Space Has Created New Fan Narratives in Alternative Storytelling
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'During the third season of the national Australian Rules women’s competition (AFLW) in 2019, journalist and academic Kate O’Halloran hosted an AFLW themed radio show, Kick Like a Girl, on Melbourne’s independent radio station, Triple R. The show included a segment titled, Voices from the Stands, which was presented by writer and award-winning documentary maker, Kirby Fenwick. Fenwick interviewed fans at various AFLW matches during the season, asking what it was about the AFLW competition and women’s football that they loved. Recurring themes of fans highlighting feelings of now being considered welcome or safe at the game as well as sharing stories of having “come back” to football after being disillusioned or excluded by the culture of the men’s competition were common. These fan narratives highlight an emerging fan space in professional, women’s Australian Rules football that is counter to the men’s game. This paper seeks to analyse the narratives collected by Fenwick as well as additional fan writing that has emerged since the inception of the AFLW that challenges the portrayals of fandom and concepts of what and who a “real fan” is.' 

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    y separately published work icon TEXT Special Issue Creative Writing and Sport no. 67 2022 25080900 2022 periodical issue 'Until the mid to late 1960s in Australia, the very act of writing about sport – traditionally and essentially a working-class pursuit – would see the words immediately discounted from literary consideration. We now know sport of all kinds to be strong social, historical, increasingly political, and cultural touchstones for many communities here and elsewhere. Through its exploration of the relationships between creative writing and sport, this special issue comfortably eschews the lazy, though sturdy, conventions often ascribed to sports writing – the back page box scores, hagiographic biographies, and relentless match reportage – in favour of examinations of the intersectional, illuminations of the liminal, and foregrounding of the interdisciplinary and eclectic experiences the writing of sport can offer. As a collection, the articles in this issue illustrate the vast array of theoretical approaches brought to sports writing; they survey creative non-fiction and journalistic practices and situate poetry and short and long- form prose related to a diverse range of sporting activities alongside investigations of representation, interrogations of histories, and the combination of creative writing and sports practices as an approach to address trauma.' (Kasey Symons, Lee McGowan and Ali Hickling, Editorial introduction) 2022
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