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1 y separately published work icon White Noise Raelke Grimmer , Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2024 28347836 2024 single work novel young adult

'Fifteen-year-old Emma is woken up by her dad’s nightmares. Again.

'On Friday evenings they go running at East Point Reserve to escape. Escape the ripples of grief that still chase them three years after her mum’s death; escape Emma’s autism diagnosis; escape her dad’s work as an emergency room doctor.

'At school, Emma has won a spot on the beach volleyball Sports Institute program. The spot that her best friend Summer desperately wanted. And Summer’s family are moving to the other side of town. Their friendship has kept Emma going since her mum’s death but now things are changing between them – and change isn’t something Emma can outrun.

'Set in tropical Darwin, White Noise is an achingly true portrayal of girlhood, grief, and autism from the authentic and gripping voice of debut author Raelke Grimmer'  (Publication summary)
1 An Evening Walk From Parap to Mindil Beach Raelke Grimmer , 2024 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 111 2024;
1 The Linguistic Playground of Poetics : L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poetry and Systemic Functional Linguistics Raelke Grimmer , 2024 single work essay
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 111 2024;

'I wasn’t entirely prepared for the Canberran rain and cold. Late November, ostensibly summer, and my last trip to the capital at the same time of year almost a decade earlier had shocked me with a week of perfect blue-skied thirty-degree days. Naively, I’d expected the same this time around. I’d packed a raincoat but no umbrella; still, I preferred to turn my hood up against the showers as I trekked through the centre to the bus stop. I sheltered under the canopy and boarded a bus Google reassured would take me to my destination. My memory of this same journey years ago was sketchy, and this city looked different shrouded in grey. My recall sharpened as I alighted and walked through the University of Canberra’s campus, searching for the lecture theatre that would host the opening keynote of this year’s Australasian Association of Writing Programs conference.' (Introduction)
1 Breaking Borders : Launching a Regional Literary Journal in Times of Arts Funding Uncertainty Raelke Grimmer , Adelle Sefton-Rowston , Glenn Morrison , 2021 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , vol. 25 no. 2 2021; 'A new literary journal of the Northern Territory, Borderlands, launched an online pilot edition in 2019 and an online print edition in 2020. The publication comes twenty years after its predecessor, Northern Perspectives, ceased publishing due to losing its Australia Council funding and support from Northern Territory University (now Charles Darwin University). As the editors of the journal, in this article we analyse how we funded and published the journal’s pilot editions against the backdrop of precarious arts funding and a ravaged arts sector, due in part to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. We provide a cost breakdown of publishing the journal and analyse our approach and processes in order to offer some insight and transparency to stakeholders, patrons and others contemplating literary journal publishing. Despite the challenging landscape of arts funding in Australia, ultimately the benefits of pursuing literary publishing in the regions to foster regional writing as part of Australian literature are worth the obstacles encountered on the path to publication. Our research suggests there are four key pillars integral to a journal’s success and sustainability in an underfunded sector: a flexible approach, community support and engagement, early stakeholder consultation, and transparency surrounding the costs of literary journal publishing.' (Publication abstract)
1 From the Borderlands Editors Raelke Grimmer , Glenn Morrison , Adelle Sefton-Rowston , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 64 no. 2 2019; (p. 140-142) 'The Northern Territory has been without its own literary journal for twenty years. This absence of a distinctive space dedicated to capturing a uniquely Territorian voice has left us on the edges of a national discussion, at the mercy of others’ agendas, and beholden to outsider publishers obligated to markets elsewhere. A quick scan of Australian literary journals finds most located in major cities and largely on the east coast, a situation symptomatic of Australia’s longstanding marginalisation of its rural, regional and remote storytellers. Compounding the blurring effect that this distance from the mainstream can have, skewed and misleading representations of Territorians and their contexts have commonly held sway in the Australian imaginary, and are, more often than is desirable, penned by outsiders. The result has been that for twenty years readers and writers from the NT have suffered displacement from the centre of ‘national’ discourse, and from any empowered position where they might influence the way Australia and the world perceives them. In the process they have come to recognise and clearly understand the gap between a lived experience of a place and its literary representation.' (Introduction)
1 Borderlands : Scoping the Publishing Landscape for a Regional Australian Literary Journal Glenn Morrison , Raelke Grimmer , Adelle Sefton-Rowston , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , June no. 54 2019; 'This paper surveys Australian literature regarding the publication of literary journals and the qualitative costs and benefits of their production. The survey was undertaken as part of a research project to develop a literary journal for Australia’s Northern Territory, which has been without a substantial journal of its own since 2000. As part of the project, the researchers also surveyed public attitudes towards a literary journal, interviewed key industry stakeholders, and commenced business planning for a journal, all framed by the overview of literature. While only the literature review is reported on here, the attitude surveys, interviews, and business planning may form the subject of future papers. Called The Borderlands Project, the research was begun as part of a 2018 strategic arts project jointly funded by Arts NT and Charles Darwin University to develop a literary journal of the Northern Territory in three phases. This paper outlines the purpose of the project and describes preliminary results from the literature survey, including comments on funding, journal format, content, how to address the problem of prosumerism, and future directions for the research.' (Publication abstract)
1 The Edge of Silence Raelke Grimmer , 2018 single work essay autobiography
— Appears in: Meniscus , April vol. 6 no. 1 2018; (p. 36-41)
1 Südaustralien Raelke Grimmer , 2018 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Westerly , September no. 6 2018; (p. 24-31)
1 Sentenced to Discrimination Raelke Grimmer , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: Griffith Review , no. 61 2018; (p. 277-284)

'On Australia day in 2016, artist Elizabeth Close was at an Adelaide shopping centre speaking to her young daughter in Pitjantjatjara, when a woman approached and said to her: ‘It’s Australia Day. We speak English.’ Close was shocked, and replied, ‘Pardon?’ The woman slowed down her speech and repeated herself. Close retorted that as she was speaking a native Australian language, she ‘could not get more Australian’. The woman walked off without another word.' (Introduction)
1 Friedrich Gerstäcker, Australia: A German Traveller in the Age of Gold Edited by Peter Monteath (Wakefield Press, 2016) Raelke Grimmer , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , May vol. 9 no. 2 2017; 'Sometimes it is only possible to see something clearly by choosing to view it through a different perspective. Travel writing offers an insight into foreign places through the perspective of a foreigner. There are ethical considerations to keep in mind when providing a commentary on a place a person has only perused for a few hours or days, yet for travellers who take the time to immerse themselves long-term in a particular region, there can be much to learn from their insight.' (Introduction)
1 Review : Silver Lies, Golden Truths Raelke Grimmer , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , May vol. 8 no. 2 2016;
— Review of Silver Lies, Golden Truths : Broken Hill, a Gentle German and Two World Wars Christine Ellis , 2015 single work biography
1 Lip Lit : Griffith Review 43 – Pacific Highways Raelke Grimmer , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Lip Magazine 2014;
— Review of The Griffith Review no. 43 Autumn 2013 periodical issue
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