This issue, TEXT Vol 30 No 2, rounds out our thirtieth year at TEXT! 

It includes scholarly contributions by Paul Gardner on speculative poetry and the future of libraries; Colin Mills and Rohan Wilson on expatriate memoir; Ray Grewel on GenAI in Creative Writing education; Jen Bowden on writing dialect fiction; Jane Frank on the poetry of Nathan Shepherdson; Oscar Davis on new understandings of collaboration; Indyana Horobin on memory and second-person point of view; Author Redacted on trauma, identity and disclosure; Pablo Muslera and Corinna Di Niro on creative stasis; and Kári Gíslasson on field work and revision within practice-led research.

We review books by Liam Ferney, Andrew C. Wenaus and German Sierra, Carol Lefevre, Jade Timms, Andrew Sant, Melissa Lucashenko, Julia Prendergast and Rebekah Clarkson (eds), Toby Fitch, Dominic Gordon, Christie Collins and Saul Lemerond (eds), Chloe Adams, Elizabeth Walton, and Rachael Boast (ed).

New creative writing on writing in this issue includes work by Ana Constantinou, Edward Caruso, Ann Shenfield, Edith Speers, Simmone Howell, Una Healy, A. G. Pettet, Patrick Holland, Besarion Giorgobiani, Ira McGuire, Jen Bowden, Briony Luttrell, Hannah Banks, Brodie Luttrell, Paul Collis, Owen Bullock, Shady Cosgrove, Jen Crawford, Irfan Master, Paul Magee, K. A. Nelson, Julia Prendergast, Natalie Schmutz, Andraya Stapp, Bethaney Turner, Amelia Walker, Jen Webb, and Jacinta Zander.

Our Summer Reading Period for scholarly articles is now open, and closes 31 January 2027. Find out more at our For Authors page.