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1 Alexis Wright Becomes the First to Win the Stella Prize Twice, with Her ‘Hyper Real’ Novel of Aboriginal Sovereignty and Survival Julieanne Lamond , 2024 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 2 May 2024;

'Acclaimed Waanyi writer Alexis Wright has made Australian literary history by being the first author to win the Stella Prize twice. This time, it’s for Praiseworthy, her fourth novel – her first in more than a decade.'

1 Unruliness, Activism and Emotional Intensity: Your Guide to the 2024 Stella Prize Shortlist Julieanne Lamond , 2024 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 2 May 2024;

'For more than a decade now, the Stella Prize, an award celebrating Australian women’s writing, has been changing Australia’s literary landscape. It has taken a monkey wrench to the way literary esteem is bestowed in this country. Its annual whack has shifted the calibration of what kinds of books are valued.' (Introduction)

1 Pivoting 'Resilience' : Australian Women Playwrights, Community and the Covid-19 Crisis Rebecca Clode , Julieanne Lamond , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , 1 October no. 83 2023; (p. 67-101)
'This article discusses the findings of a qualitative study of the effects of eighteen months of the COVID pandemic on the careers, livelihoods and creative practice of ten Australian women playwrights. We find that the gendered impacts of the pandemic, and the calls for resilience it prompted, compounded a series of challenges that were already being faced by women playwrights in Australia. Between March and September 2021, we interviewed Australian women playwrights, asking them to speak about their experiences throughout the COVID crisis. These interviews were situated within a broader study of the effects of the pandemic upon Australian women writers.2 Expanding upon our previous work, we wanted to explore how those writing specifically for theatre – a fundamentally communal creative form – were impacted by the pandemic, and whether there was a gendered dimension to the pandemic’s effects in theatre as seen elsewhere.3 Our methodology, the interview, was chosen primarily to offer playwrights an opportunity to speak freely about the situations in which they found themselves. A key observation from our interviews was that playwrights had entered the pandemic against the background of an already depleted and under-resourced industry. Drawing on work by Suman Gupta and Ayan-Yue Gupta along with John Yves Pinder, and extending the provocations offered by Margaret Ames and Stephen Greer in their 2021 editorial ‘Renegotiating Resilience, Redefining Resourcefulness’, we explore the problematic notion of resilience and its deployment as a part of a neoliberal rhetoric.4 We connect the social and political contexts of the austerity crisis in which Australian theatre-makers encountered the pandemic, extending and expanding their observations on ‘resilience’ and the arts in the Global North.' 

(Introduction)

1 Stella Prize Shortlist 2023 : Your Guide to 6 Gripping, Courageous Books Julieanne Lamond , 2023 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 26 April 2023;
1 Sarah Holland-Batt Wins the 2023 Stella Prize with a Powerful Look at Death and Ageing Julieanne Lamond , 2023 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 27 April 2023;

'Acclaimed poet Sarah Holland-Batt has won the 2023 Stella Prize for her powerful and elegiac collection of poetry, The Jaguar.'

1 Big-picture Thinking : In The Bell of the World, Gregory Day Listens to the Music of Common Things Julieanne Lamond , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 30 March 2023;

— Review of The Bell of the World Gregory Day , 2023 single work novel

'Gregory Day’s The Bell of the World is an ambitious, strange and marvellous novel.'

1 Interview Julieanne Lamond (interviewer), 2022 single work interview
— Appears in: Lohrey 2022; (p. 138-162)
'Tasmania's Parliament House is a graceful Georgian sandstone building facing the Hobart waterfront. It is here, on the steps of the parliament, that Amanda Lohrey suggested we meet for the interview, so that I could see at firsthand the docks and backstreets of the waterfront that constituted the setting of her first novel, The Morality of Gentlemen. Lohrey has a frank, straightforward manner and a penetrating gaze. There is a steadiness about her, as though others can flap about all they like and she'll wait until they have finished. She has a remarkable voice, deep and sonorous, which holds a calm authority but is very ready to register a wry humour. The first interview was conducted outdoors in October 2018, as Lohrey showed me around the adjacent historic suburb of Battery Point where she spent her early childhood. The interview was recorded on my phone as we walked up and down hilly, narrow streets that are now thoroughly gentrified. The inter-view continued in a cafe in Salamanca Place and continued over email across the subsequent two years. We began, in the streets of Battery Point, by talking about money, real estate, and Lohrey's childhood.' (Introduction)
 
1 Scenes of Reading Julieanne Lamond , 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: Lohrey 2022; (p. 119-137)
'Scenes of reading are everywhere in Lohrey's fiction, which throughout questions what reading does to and for us. Her work explores its frustrations, disappointments, limits, and trans-formative potential. In her novels books are set by well-meaning reading groups, picked up by chance in second-hand shops or coffee tables, inherited by unwilling daughters and sons. They are hidden under the bed, stolen by ASIO, burned as instructed. And they are read for reasons ranging from duty, political education, information, boredom, desperation,  meaning, and guidance. Lohrey's interest in reading is concrete:  not only are we told that her characters are reading, why and where. In this way her work is deeply intertextual. We read over the shoulders of Lohrey's characters, with excerpts of the books they are reading. Lohrey's readers are prompted to realise the process taking place while they are encountering her work: the act of reading, we are reminded, is a singular moment in which a work takes on specific meanings for each reader.  It is both intensely private and a site of connection with other readers, writers and potential selves.' (Publication summary)
 
1 Fire Julieanne Lamond , 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: Lohrey 2022; (p. 88-118)
Much of the Great Dividing Range that runs across Eastern Australia was burning while I wrote this book. In Canberra our days were punctuated with the anxious checking of air quality and emergency services apps. Amanda Lohrey is a writer who speaks to these times: her work is concerned with the relationship between people and the communities and environments they live with. More specifically, she writes about our apprehension of crisis and its proximity. Lohrey's novels use the motif of fire to engage with ethical and political questions about how individuals feel, and take, responsibility for others, especially in relation to environmental crisis. Fire acts both as symbol and plot device in Lohrey's novels and stories; it is a real crisis that is also a metaphor for catastrophe more generally. This is especially the case in The Reading Group (1988) and Vertigo: A Pastoral (2008). Two decades separate the publication of these novels, and formally they are extremely different, yet they show the continuation of a series of ideas about the relationship between personal and political conflagrations: how private life is impacted by political events, and how it can also be understood through the lens of large-scale crisis such as fire.' (Introduction)
 
1 Free Solo Julieanne Lamond , 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: Lohrey 2022; (p. 60-87)
'Early in the writing of this book I went to see a film called Free Solo. It is about a remarkable feat of human courage and strength: a man climbing the goo-metre high rock face, El Capitan, without ropes or harness. The film looks at the psychology of Alex Honnold, the man who could do some-thing that would seem, to most people, utterly terrifying. He is single minded to such an extent that he comes across as comic. He starts a relationship with a woman while they are filming: 'I don't mind having her in the van, he says of his new girlfriend. 'She's pretty; she doesn't take up too much space.' His climbing  friends discuss the risks of entering into a relationship when attempting such a difficult goal.  Would his concern for her impact his capacity to carry it out? I tried not to guffaw when he referred to himself as a warrior.  Facing down and ignoring danger. Here I thought is a kind of masculinity that 'gets the job done.' It prides itself on its lack of encumbrance. Solitude. There is no concern for the minutiae of life: he eats his dinner with the spatula he used to cook it. Such embodiment of masculinity enables a focus so intense that a man can balance his body on a tiny foothold  800 metres in the air while he switches his grip between one thumb and the other. And in doing so, he achieves an act of the the most extreme self-reliance and, arguably, pride: doing the most dangerous thing without dying.' 

 (Introduction)

 

 
1 The Politics of Renovation Julieanne Lamond , 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: Lohrey 2022; (p. 32-59)
In Lohrey's third novel Camille's Bread, Stephen is obsessed with Japanese forms of traditional medicine in the form of Zen shiatsu and macrobiotics. In The Project of the Self under Late Capitalism, an essay published in Overland in 2001, Lohrey argues that we would do better to see interests such as Stephen's as of an exercise in mindless narcissism and more about the individual's attempts to find a sphere of freedom and agency ... in response to experiences of powerlessness and worthlessness under regimes of economic rationalism:  Lohrey's novels reflect on what happens to people's utopian impulses in the face of increasing barriers to meaningful engagement in politics. They trace a shift from a 195os water-front in which communal identity is deeply entwined with politics to a disillusionment with public life and a commensurate turn of attention inwards, towards the self and the body, from the 198os onwards.' (Introduction)
 
1 Introduction Julieanne Lamond , 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: Lohrey 2022; (p. 1)
'Amanda Lohrey is a bold and idiosyncratic writer. Her novels chronicle the forces that shape intimate and social experience in the contemporary world, taking seriously the difficult decisions of daily life: what food to cat; how to relate to others; where to live; what structure family should take; how to make a living. She presents these matters in a style that is calm, restrained, lean, and at the same time open to mystery and the unknown. Lohrey's fiction makes coherent what might seem contradictory: a sharp political interest coupled with strong empathy for personal circumstance; an interest in the material world and also in the metaphysical realm; a sense of curiosity and poetic richness that never gives the impression of getting carried away. '  (Introduction)
 
1 Intellectual Fearlessness, Politics and the Spiritual Impulse: the Remarkable Career of Amanda Lohrey Julieanne Lamond , 2022 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 18 August 2022;

'I first encountered Amanda Lohrey’s work as a PhD student, attempting to write a survey of politicians in Australian fiction. This project was abandoned when I realised that I did not have the stamina to read and write about so many woeful novels (especially those written by politicians themselves).' (Introduction)

1 Dreams of Communing : The Challenge of Gail Jones’s Fiction Julieanne Lamond , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 445 2022; (p. 19-20)

— Review of Inner and Outer Worlds : Gail Jones' Fiction 2022 anthology criticism

'The novels of Gail Jones present a challenge to would-be critics. Jones being a formidable scholar in her own right, her eight novels to date pose sophisticated philosophical questions within their elegantly structured narratives. Her novels canvass aspects of human experience that are murky and complex: these are often forms of familial or romantic relationship shaped by loss, both personal and historical. The challenge for critics is that the novels are themselves thinking about the potential of fiction to do this kind of philosophical or ethical work. In this sense, Jones might seem to be one step ahead of the scholar who takes her work as their subject. Inner and Outer Worlds, a collection of essays edited by Anthony Uhlmann, steps up to this challenge.' (Introduction)

1 The Literary Life of Frank Moorhouse, a Giant of Australian Letters Julieanne Lamond , 2022 single work obituary (for Frank Moorhouse )
— Appears in: The Conversation , 27 June 2022;

'Frank Moorhouse, who died in Sydney on Sunday, made a significant and multi-faceted contribution to Australia’s literary life.'  (Introduction)

1 4 y separately published work icon Lohrey Julieanne Lamond , Collingwood : Melbourne University Press , 2022 24426524 2022 selected work essay

'A guide to the world of Amanda Lohrey's fiction, and a meditation on what her writing has to say about contemporary life and how we live it.

'Amanda Lohrey is a fearless and idiosyncratic writer whose award-winning career spans four decades. Her work is experimental, political, intimate and compelling. Lohrey provides an illuminating series of readings of key preoccupations across Lohrey's body of work. From the relationship of the personal to the political, masculinity and free will, human and non-human worlds and how reading shapes us, Lohrey traces a remarkable career across the contemporary literary landscape, and provides readers with an understanding of Lohrey's bold and singular style.'  (Publication summary)

1 Something Remarkable Has Happened to Australia’s Book Pages : Gender Equality Has Become the Norm Melinda Harvey , Julieanne Lamond , 2022 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 3 March 2022;

'For the first time in the nine-year history of the Stella Count, and perhaps in the entire history of Australian book reviewing, gender equality has become the norm in Australia’s books pages. Our new research for the Count reveals 55% of books reviewed in Australian publications in 2020 were by women.' (Introduction)

1 Strange Home : Rethinking Australian Literature Julieanne Lamond , 2021 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , November no. 69 2021;
'During my first semester of online teaching in 2020 I began keeping a form of teaching archive that was new to me.1 In addition to the usual lectures and slides, I began to accumulate a number of files with a .txt suffix. This is an archive of one of the unexpected affordances of teaching over Zoom: the chat window. I did not know what to do with the chat window, but my students did. They asked questions. They made jokes. They developed extended comedic and often critical conversations about the texts we were reading and how I was teaching them. These chat.txt files are an archive of students seeking and finding social connection in an online English classroom during a pandemic. They are also important to me as a record of a semester in which I tried to use that online classroom to begin to rethink what it means to do the work that has been the focus of my career: teaching and researching Australian literature.' (Introduction)
1 Obstetric Realism and Sacred Cows : Women Writers and Book Reviewing in Australia Melinda Harvey , Julieanne Lamond , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature 2020; (p. 134-146)

'This chapter surveys the long history of discussions around gender and book reviewing in Australia. It provides an overview of some common attitudes to books by women in Australian reviews since the nineteenth century as well as some key flashpoints in the history of Australian women’s writing in which the reviews played a part. We identify significant continuities in how women’s writing is described in the pages of book reviews, from the nineteenth century until recently: women are presumed to be writing from ‘life,’ not art; they are infantilised and/or sexualised and conflated with their protagonists; and the praise they receive is circumscribed by gendered assumptions about genre and genius. We also discuss several controversies about gender and book reviewing – in the mid-1980s and the 2010s – to think about the impact that gendered reviewing practices continue to have on the careers and aspirations of women writers.' 

Source: Abstract.

1 A Mad Resistance Julieanne Lamond , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , September 2020;

— Review of The Labyrinth Amanda Lohrey , 2020 single work novel

'Across her seven novels, Amanda Lohrey has been interested in the role that reading plays in our lives. In her work, reading is always situated: we know where her characters read, how it shapes and is shaped by their circumstances. We follow 1950s Hobart communists from their reading groups to the docks to the courtroom. In a near-future Australia, characters read to find some guidance about how to act meaningfully in the face of political crisis. A woman’s reading of Jane Eyre in a dark Leichhardt terrace scaffolds her life and decisions. Another character reads Madame Bovary on a canal boat, freezing, miserable and surrounded by rowdy teenagers, and finds herself oddly reflected. A city man moves to the bush and reads travel writing about another land stolen, fought over and decimated.' (Introduction)

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