Publishing should be more about culture than book sales

This article argues that publishing should be studied as a social and cultural practice rather than merely a business

We need creative teaching to teach creativity

This article discusses whether or not creativity can be taught

Self-publishing matters – don’t let anyone tell you otherwise

This article argues that self-publishing is a significant cultural and economic phenomena that needs further scholarly attention

Play scripts as knowledge objects

This paper outlines the ways that play writing acts as a research method and plays can be understood as knowledge objects or research outcomes. It also argues that Playwriting Studies, an emerging research field, is best conceived as a sub-discipline situated within the Creative Writing discipline

Exquisite Cadaver: useful writing experiment or just a good game?

This article discusses whether and in what ways the useful cadaver online writing experiment revealed anything about writing practice, specifically collaborative writing practice

Dreaming Australia

This article uses a discussion of David Malouf's novel 'An Imaginary Life' to explore the way that Australian literary fiction and feature films imagine Australia, focussing on exile, belonging and non-belonging

The case for David Malouf’s An Imaginary Life

This article uses a discussion of David Malouf's novel ;An Imaginary Life' to explore notions of exile, belonging and non-belonging

Writing and reading queerly: Foucault’s aesthetics of existence and queer self-making

Michel Foucault advocated an ongoing assembly and disassembly of subjectivity that constituted a kind of self-bricolage; a making and re-making of subjectivity that he saw as an aesthetic struggle towards an artistic ideal. Foucault described this process as an ethics of the self. The purpose of this transformative self-bricolage is to make philosophy a ‘way of life’. One of the examples Foucault gave of a technique used in such an ethics of the self – implemented to produce a desired or altered/transformed subject – was reflective writing. This article explores the ways that writing informed by Queer Theory can be used as a technique in a Foucauldian ethics of the self, especially within the context of the teacher-student relationship in the discipline of creative writing. It further argues that creative writing is an appropriate site for ‘ethical interventions’ into subjectivity and for explorations into how philosophy, in this case Queer Theory, can be applied as a way of life in which new forms of subjectivity are explored and produced. Furthermore, the paper discusses the way that queer readings of literary texts can also be part of an ethics of the self or queer self-making

(Re)Scripting the self: creative writing, effeminacy and the art of subjectivity

This paper describes how a practice-led research methodology used to produce a creative writing artefact, a script, had a transformative impact on a number of levels: on the artefact, on the writing practice itself and on my own self-knowledge, my gender identity or subjectivity. The creative writing artefact in question is a television miniseries script entitled The Tree. The script and this paper explore the notion of effeminacy as a liminal masculinity of considerable discursive potency that simultaneously disrupts both masculinity and femininity. The paper also discusses how the practice-led research methodology itself facilitated the development of fresh understandings around the liminal masculinity of effeminacy and how these new understandings interacted with my own lived gender and embodied subjectivity