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Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 Fat Girl Dancing
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'Stella Prize-shortlisted author Kris Kneen examines their body through the lens of art and burlesque in this gorgeous, intimate story of fatness, beauty and self-knowledge.

'How does a person come to know that they are different from the children around them? To measure themselves against a set normal and find themselves lacking?

'When did I know that I was plump, and then fat?

'Fat child, self-denying adolescent, hungry young woman; a body now burgeoning uncontrolled into middle age. Kris Kneen has borne the usual indignities—the confrontations with clothes that won't fasten, with mirrors that defame, with strangers whose gaze judges and dismisses. This is the story of how Kris learned to look unblinkingly at their recalcitrant body, and ultimately found the courage to carry it to freedom.

'Fat Girl Dancing is a frank, beautiful and triumphant ode to self-respect from one of Australia's most original and acclaimed writers.' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Text Publishing , 2023 .
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      Extent: 304p.
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      • Published 2nd May 2023
      ISBN: 9781922790217

Works about this Work

Book Review : Fat Girl Dancing, Kris Kneen Nanci Nott , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , May 2023;

— Review of Fat Girl Dancing Krissy Kneen , 2023 single work autobiography

'An achingly honest memoir of otherness, queerness and embodied becoming.'

Fat People Are Taught to Hate Themselves – but Kris Kneen’s Intimate Book Could Create Change Melanie Saward , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 10 July 2023;

— Review of Fat Girl Dancing Krissy Kneen , 2023 single work autobiography

'When I was a child, the water was a place of freedom. I remember throwing my body around with abandon, revelling in the joy of handstand competitions and long games of mermaids or lifeguards with my sister and cousins.' (Publication summary)

Memoir Author Kris Kneen on How to Write and Edit Your Story into a Compelling Book That Connects with Readers Krissy Kneen , 2023 single work column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , June 2023;
[Review] Fat Girl Dancing Christine Jackman , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Monthly , June 2023; (p. 64)

— Review of Fat Girl Dancing Krissy Kneen , 2023 single work autobiography
'EARLY IN FAT GIRL DANCING, author Kris Kneen offers a valuable insight into their creative process. “My motto,” they write, “has always been to run quickly and blindly towards the subjects that scare you. These will be the important subjects, the difficult discussions and the most revealing conversations.”' 

(Introduction)

'Inside My Own Flesh' : The Everyday Horrors of Identity Diane Stubbings , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 454 2023; (p. 22)

— Review of Fat Girl Dancing Krissy Kneen , 2023 single work autobiography

'In previous memoirs, Brisbane-based writer Kris Kneen has examined their life through the lens of their sexuality (Affection, 2009) and their family history (The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen, 2021). In Fat Girl Dancing, Kneen’s lens is their body, specifically the body of a ‘short, fat, ageing woman’.' (Introduction)

‘Candid’, ‘Gripping’, ‘Compulsory Reading’ : the Best Australian Books Out in May Steph Harmon , Sian Cain , Bec Kavanagh , Susan Chenery , Lucy Clark , Joseph Cummins , Celina Ribeiro , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 10 May 2023;

— Review of Everything and Nothing Heather Mitchell , 2023 single work autobiography ; Obsession Nicole Madigan , 2023 single work autobiography ; Anam André Dao , 2023 single work novel ; She Is the Earth Ali Cobby Eckermann , 2023 single work novella ; Search History Amy Taylor , 2023 single work novel ; Fat Girl Dancing Krissy Kneen , 2023 single work autobiography ; The Albatross Nina Wan , 2023 single work novel ; Home Before Night Joshua Pomare , 2022 single work novel ; Reckless Marele Day , 2023 single work autobiography
Fat Girl Dancing by Kris Kneen Review – The Intimacies and Indignities of Living in a Fat Body Bec Kavanagh , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 5 May 2023;

— Review of Fat Girl Dancing Krissy Kneen , 2023 single work autobiography
'Inside My Own Flesh' : The Everyday Horrors of Identity Diane Stubbings , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 454 2023; (p. 22)

— Review of Fat Girl Dancing Krissy Kneen , 2023 single work autobiography

'In previous memoirs, Brisbane-based writer Kris Kneen has examined their life through the lens of their sexuality (Affection, 2009) and their family history (The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen, 2021). In Fat Girl Dancing, Kneen’s lens is their body, specifically the body of a ‘short, fat, ageing woman’.' (Introduction)

[Review] Fat Girl Dancing Christine Jackman , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Monthly , June 2023; (p. 64)

— Review of Fat Girl Dancing Krissy Kneen , 2023 single work autobiography
'EARLY IN FAT GIRL DANCING, author Kris Kneen offers a valuable insight into their creative process. “My motto,” they write, “has always been to run quickly and blindly towards the subjects that scare you. These will be the important subjects, the difficult discussions and the most revealing conversations.”' 

(Introduction)

Fat People Are Taught to Hate Themselves – but Kris Kneen’s Intimate Book Could Create Change Melanie Saward , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 10 July 2023;

— Review of Fat Girl Dancing Krissy Kneen , 2023 single work autobiography

'When I was a child, the water was a place of freedom. I remember throwing my body around with abandon, revelling in the joy of handstand competitions and long games of mermaids or lifeguards with my sister and cousins.' (Publication summary)

Memoir Author Kris Kneen on How to Write and Edit Your Story into a Compelling Book That Connects with Readers Krissy Kneen , 2023 single work column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , June 2023;
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