Footprints on the Edge single work   essay  
Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 Footprints on the Edge
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'This collaborative essay, which sits at the nexus of creative writing, nature writing and
animal studies, seeks to explore the question of how we might live ethically and joyfully
in the context of anthropogenic climate change. Engaging with the fields of creative
non-fiction, philosophy, memoir and literature review, the essay asks how we might
address this question together, as writers, thinkers, artists, and living beings alongside
many others, both human and more-than-human. The authors explore their relationship
with the ocean, animals and each other, combining walking and writing as part of the
same process. Here, walking serves as a pivotal immersive writing process as well as a
creative tool. Alongside sharing ways of thinking, the essay argues the importance of
acknowledging oneself as a writer situated in a particular place and time.' 

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    y separately published work icon TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs vol. 27 no. 1 2023 26349747 2023 periodical issue

    'Our April 2023 edition of TEXT features news scholarly work on metaphors for doctoral research, story cycles, writing the abyss, and writing through and out of the pandemic. Our scholarly article authors include Christine Howe and Friederike Krishnabhakdi-Vasilakis (University of Wollongong), Julian Novitz (Swinburne University), Jenny Hedley (RMIT University), Alex Vickery Howe, Lisa Harper Campbell and Sean Williams (Flinders University) and Robyn Glade-Wright and Elizabeth A. Smyth (James Cook University). Creative works in this edition include new writing by BN Oakman, Sharon Kernot, Susan Presto and Saurabh Anand, while our reviews section features Jen Webb on Julia Prendergast’s ‘Bloodrust & Other Stories’, Kevin Brophy on Paul Magee’s ‘Suddeness and the Composition of Poetic Thought’, Dominic Symes on Marcelle Freiman’s ‘Spirit Level’, Julia Fazzari on Marion May Campbell’s ‘languish’, and Rosemary Williamson on Ros Petelin’s ‘How Writing Works’.' (Publication summary)

     

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