Rachel Watts Rachel Watts i(A121686 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 Hope Is Not as Far from Despair as You Might Think : ‘No One’ by John Hughes Rachel Watts , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2022 2023;

— Review of No One John Hughes , 2019 single work novel
1 Review of ‘The History of Mischief’ by Rebecca Higgie Rachel Watts , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2022 2023;

— Review of The History of Mischief Rebecca Higgie , 2020 single work novel
1 Review of ‘The Little Boat on Trusting Lane’ by Mel Hall Rachel Watts , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2022 2023;

— Review of The Little Boat on Trusting Lane Mel Hall , 2021 single work novel
1 Review of ‘The Last Bookshop’ by Emma Young Rachel Watts , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2021 2021;

— Review of The Last Bookshop Emma Young , 2021 single work novel
1 Review of ‘Pushing Back’ by John Kinsella Rachel Watts , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2021 2021;

— Review of Pushing Back John Kinsella , 2021 single work novel
1 Review of ‘Refuge’ by Richard Rossiter Rachel Watts , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2020 2020;

— Review of Refuge Richard Rossiter , 2019 single work novel
1 Secrets Are the Things We Grow : ‘Darkfall’ by Indigo Perry Rachel Watts , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2020 2020;

— Review of Darkfall Indigo Perry , 2020 single work autobiography
1 Review of ‘The Year of the Fruit Cake’ by Gillian Polack Rachel Watts , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2020 2020;

— Review of The Year of the Fruit Cake Gillian Polack , 2019 single work novel
1 A Recipe for Craft Mid-pandemic Rachel Watts , 2020 single work prose
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 65 no. 2 2020; (p. 68-73)
1 The Island of Your Own Story : Peggy Frew’s ‘Islands’ Rachel Watts , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2019 2019;

— Review of Islands Peggy Frew , 2019 single work novel
1 Review of ‘Antidote to a Curse’ by James Cristina Rachel Watts , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2019 2019;

— Review of Antidote to a Curse James Cristina , 2018 single work novel
1 Every Woman Adores a Fascist’ : Feminist Literary Intervention in Elegiac Writing Rachel Watts , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , April vol. 23 no. 1 2019;

'This article is a fictocritical intervention in the patriarchal form of the elegy and a reflection on the expression of grief, anger and subjectivity by women writers. It uses Adrienne Rich’s writing on women’s self-destruction as a feminist methodological framework to explore two specific ideas. First, how we speak of the dead, which concerns the agency, subjectivity and anger with which we express our remembrance and our grief, and second, literary style and feminist interventions in the elegiac form. Taking a fictocritical approach, the article combines the objective style of the academic mode with a subjective treatment, resulting in a cut-up text that combines analysis and my own reflections. In this, the article is informed by work by Anna Gibbs (1998; 2005) and Ross Watkins (2014). This multivocal approach aims to answer the question: how does the approach to the elegy form employed by Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath enable a nuanced representation of grief, mourning and agency, and how can other women writers build on this approach to write to and through each other in the context of a patriarchal literary tradition?' (Publication abstract)

1 y separately published work icon Survival Rachel Watts , Victoria Park East : Rachel Watts , 2018 13180596 2018 single work novel young adult science fiction

'The world has suffered economic collapse and multiple environmental crises. In a flooded city, Ava Murasaki is searching for her activist sister Sophia. Meanwhile, Valerie Newlin lives in the secure complex of the Scylla Corporation, the world's only remaining multinational. There, she finds evidence of something horrifying in the Corporation medical research data. Set in a searingly real near-future, Survival is a story of what people will face for those they love.' (Publication summary)

1 Insha'Allah Rachel Watts , 2017 single work prose
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 62 no. 2 2017; (p. 296-303)
1 We Are All Stories Rachel Watts , 2016 single work short story
— Appears in: Island , no. 145 2016; (p. 89)
1 At the End of the World Rachel Watts , 2016 single work short story
— Appears in: SWAMP , 2 May no. 18 2016;
1 Too Big to Hold in Your Heart Rachel Watts , 2016 single work short story
— Appears in: Tincture Journal , Spring no. 15 2016; (p. 44-48)
1 Losing Iris Rachel Watts , 2009 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 68 no. 1 2009; (p. 85-89)
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