Jay Kylie Ludowyke Jay Kylie Ludowyke i(9024301 works by)
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1 y separately published work icon It Begins with Us Ross Watkins (editor), Jay Kylie Ludowyke (editor), Victoria : Revolutionaries , 2022 28899759 2022 anthology poetry short story

'It begins with us is a revolution of the heart. This bold collection of 35 works by emerging Australian writers tells stories of what it means to be human amid times of great transformation - within dystopian worlds that mirror our own, imagined lands of the fantastic, or across the spaces of our opinions and desires, each story explores what it takes to be the catalyst for positive change. Sometimes exhilarating, sometimes thought-provoking and always rebellious, It begins with us underscores how every revolution must arise within the self.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 y separately published work icon Madness in Bloom Ross Watkins (editor), Jay Kylie Ludowyke (editor), Victoria : Revolutionaries , 2021 28899245 2021 anthology poetry short story

'Succumb to madness.

'To the euphoria of love, the torment of loss, the yearning for truth, the whimsy of daydreams and the reckoning of nightmares.

'This eclectic collection of 62 works by emerging Australian writers features realism and surrealism, romance and murder, the paranormal and the poetic, the magical and the monstrous. Humour. Death. Sci-fi, fantasy, essay, epistle, fiction and nonfiction. The erotic. The historic. Even the religious and the political.

'There are no boundaries. Only possibilities. Existing in dreams, reality and reverie...

'A game of wits between a girl, a glass horse, a blurred woman and a black knight. Reflections of a sex worker tending a new client. Intimacy and conception-or neither and both. A pickleball champion in a deadly match. Emotions stolen from artistic masterpieces. Astronauts on a ship who are not alone. Thoughts behind the veil. Islands of dreams. Infidelity and revenge. First love. Secrets. The unspeakable. The unfathomable.

'It's rare for one collection to house such breadth of imagination and insanity. To prod at our hearts with emotional electrodes. And to remind us that we're all puppets in padded cells. 

'Enter the asylum. Experience Madness in Bloom.'

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1 Dead or Alive? : The Animism of Artefact in Literature Jay Kylie Ludowyke , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , October no. 35 2016; 'Writers commonly use animism to transform inanimate objects into assertive ‘things’, in possession of metaphysical qualities. In theorising the effects of applying literary animism to a real historical artefact, this study asserts that once enlivened, an artefact can die twice. It dies once with its real-world destruction and a second time when that destruction echoes through its literary thingness. The discussion is framed by examining the history of literary animism. This includes the eighteenth-century itnarrative with animal and object narrators, the transition to children’s literature, and the resistance to animism that accompanies modern fiction, in this case, particularly Joanne Harris’s Blackberry Wine. Further, it examines the alignment that has emerged between children’s literature and true story as a basis for applying animism to artefacts in nonfiction, facilitating their dual-death.' (Publication abstract)
1 Silk Slippers Jay Kylie Ludowyke , 2015 single work short story
— Appears in: Meniscus , August vol. 3 no. 2 2015; (p. 21-22)
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