'Shapeshifting, co-edited by Jeanine Leane and Ellen van Neerven, is a wide-ranging collection of nonfiction by First Nations writers that breaks new ground. These lyric essays push the boundaries of nonfiction beyond the biographical or the academic, with pieces that experiment with form and embark on carefully crafting and re-crafting interventions that both challenge and expand existing genre structures. Shapeshifting brings to the fore a whole new genre waiting to take shape, to be formed, informed and re-formed by First Nations Australian writers. Contributors include Charmaine Papertalk Green, Jim Everett, Jenni Martiniello, Natalie Harkin, Mykaela Saunders, Daniel Browning, Evelyn Araluen, Alison Whittaker, Rhianna Patrick, Melanie Saward, Timmah Ball and Hugo Comisari..' (Publication summary)
'Shapeshifting breathes us into the minds of some of Australia’s most esteemed First Nations writers. Wiradjuri writer, poet and academic Jeanine Leane and Mununjali author and educator Ellen van Neerven have collected 14 lyric nonfiction pieces that dance across the landscape with self-awareness and collective generosity.' (Introduction)
'Shapeshifting breathes us into the minds of some of Australia’s most esteemed First Nations writers. Wiradjuri writer, poet and academic Jeanine Leane and Mununjali author and educator Ellen van Neerven have collected 14 lyric nonfiction pieces that dance across the landscape with self-awareness and collective generosity.' (Introduction)
