Nicola Redhouse Nicola Redhouse i(A129687 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 Nursery Nicola Redhouse , 2023 single work short story
— Appears in: Island Online - 2023 2023;
1 Quantify Nicola Redhouse , 2023 single work prose
— Appears in: The Writing Mind : Creative Writing Responses to Images of the Living Brain 2023;
1 Carol Burnett Nicola Redhouse , 2023 single work prose
— Appears in: The Writing Mind : Creative Writing Responses to Images of the Living Brain 2023;
1 Transmission Nicola Redhouse , 2023 single work prose
— Appears in: The Writing Mind : Creative Writing Responses to Images of the Living Brain 2023;
1 State Library Victoria : A Wellspring for Kick-starting Creativity Didem Caia , Lee Kofman , Nicola Redhouse , Emilie Collyer , Kate Mildenhall , 2023 single work prose
— Appears in: The La Trobe Journal , December no. 108 2023; (p. 108-115)
1 Future Tense Nicola Redhouse , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 79 no. 4 2020;

'In 2019, pre-COVID, while I still had the fortune of teaching undergraduate short-story writing in a real classroom, I had one of those puzzling moments of atmospheric shift whose source you can’t pinpoint but which leaves you a little disrupted. I want to call it discord, though there was no argument. And to call it atmospheric is misleading for it was in me, this troubling feeling—a sense of being on the edge of understanding; as though in our conversation we were skirting around a surface meaning, while something hostile bristled at the edges.' (Introduction)

1 When We Talk About Motherhood Nicola Redhouse , 2020 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 79 no. 1 2020;

'A long time before I thought about becoming a mother, I read about a boy named David Vetter. He lived until the age of 12 in a sterilised space in a hospital in Texas. He had an autoimmune disease that made contact with pathogens for him fatal. I took interest in his story out of curiosity and pathos, but with relatively easy remove. I shut it away with stories I had read of the tallest man in the world, of the moon landing.' (Introduction)

1 2 y separately published work icon Unlike the Heart : A Memoir of Brain and Mind Nicola Redhouse , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2019 15422432 2019 single work autobiography

'‘Unlike the heart … a brain cannot be understood as a static organ. It changes with its history and with every present moment.’

'After the birth of her first child, Nicola Redhouse experiences an unrelenting anxiety that quickly overwhelms her. Her immense love for her child can’t protect her from the dread that prevents her leaving the house, opening the mail, eating. Nor, it seems, can the psychoanalytic thinking she has absorbed through her family and her many years of therapy.

'In an attempt to understand the source of her panic, Nicola starts to thread together what she knows about herself and her family with explorations of the human mind in philosophy, science and literature. What role do genetics play in postnatal anxiety? Do the biological changes of motherhood offer a complete explanation? Is the Freudian idea of the mind outdated? Can more recent combined theories from neuroscientists and psychoanalysts provide the answers? How might we be able to know ourselves through our genes, our biology, our family stories and our own ever-unfolding narratives?

'In this compelling and insightful memoir, Nicola blends her personal experiences with the historical progression of psychoanalysis. In the end, much like in analysis, it is the careful act of narrative construction that yields the answers.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 What I’m Reading Nicola Redhouse , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2018;
1 Poison Roots Nicola Redhouse , 2017 single work short story
— Appears in: The Big Issue , August no. 544 2017; (p. 13-15)
1 Extraction i "On the news:", Nicola Redhouse , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , November vol. 83 no. 2017;
1 The Thing Itself Nicola Redhouse , 2016 single work short story
— Appears in: Review of Australian Fiction , vol. 18 no. 4 2016;
1 Vital Signs Nicola Redhouse , 2015 single work short story
— Appears in: The Best Australian Stories 2015 2015; (p. 183-193)
1 Editor’s Note : The End of Seeing Nicola Redhouse , 2015 single work essay
— Appears in: Seizure [Online] , August 2015;
1 This is Who You Are. You'll See Nicola Redhouse , 2014 single work short story
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 73 no. 2 2014; (p. 136-142) The Best Australian Stories 2014 2014; (p. 41-49)
1 The Girl and the Cat Nicola Redhouse , 2010 single work short story
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings , March no. 1 2010; (p. 115-120)
1 How it Looks from the Sky Nicola Redhouse , 2010- single work short story
— Appears in: Harvest , Winter no. 5 (p. 39-43)
1 Review : Arrythmia, The Paperbark Shoe Nicola Redhouse , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Indigo , Summer no. 5 2010; (p. 122-124)

— Review of Arrhythmia : Stories of Desire Richard Rossiter , 2009 selected work short story ; The Paperbark Shoe Goldie Goldbloom , 2009 single work novel
1 The Woman at the Window Nicola Redhouse , 2009 single work short story
— Appears in: Wet Ink , December no. 17 2009; (p. 37-40)
1 Julia Nicola Redhouse , 2009 single work short story
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 68 no. 4 2009; (p. 212-218)
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