TEXT Journal Vol. 28 Issue 1 is now live

In this latest issues of TEXT, Stef Markidis explores Deleuze, dance and the writing life; Jessica White looks at traversing genres, disciplines and institutions as a disabled writer and scholar; Sarai Mannolini-Winwood provides an auto-ethnographic review of Indigenous literature in Walyalup/Fremantle, Western Australia; Katerina Bryant and her co-authors looks at the language of women’s prisons; Julia Jarel discusses verbatim and site-specific playwriting; and Jenny Hedley experiments with ChatGPT as a code-writing assistant for digital poetry.

This issue also includes prose and poetry by Amelia Walker, Ian C Smith, Maureen Alsop, Tom Gurn, Tony Dignan, Emma Derainne, Tara Propper, David Thomas Henry Wright and Md Mujib Ullah.

And in our reviews section, Dominique Hecq reviews The Writing Mind: Creative Writing Responses to Images of the Living Brain (edited by Julia Prendergast, Eileen Herbert-Goodall & Jen Webb); Amelia Walker reviews Mathelinda Nabugodi’s Shelley with Benjamin: A critical mosaic; Aidan Coleman Reviews Ada Calhoun’s Also a Poet, and Verity Oswin reviews John Kinsella’s Legibility: An Antifascist Poetics and Adelle Sefton-Rowston’s Polities and Poetics – Race Relations and Reconciliation in Australian Literature.

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About Sarah Giles

Sarah Giles (she/her) is a PhD candidate at Swinburne University researching the possibilities of the contemporary short story cycle exploring women’s experiences of isolation, trauma and mental illness. Her writing has been published in The Writing Mind: Creative Writing Responses to Images of the Living Brain, ACE III and ACE IV (Arresting Contemporary stories by Emerging Writers), The Incompleteness Book, TEXT Journal among others. Sarah works at Writers Victoria as Marketing and Memberships Officer and is a sessional tutor across multiple universities.