Contents

Editorial
Leading questions

Text Special Issue Number 12
Leadership in writing and the creative arts
Edited by Donna Lee Brien

Anna Gibbs
Writers, writing and writing programs in the information age: Code, collaboration and interdisciplinary connection

Tim Jarvis
‘Pleasure balks, bliss appears’ or ‘The apparatus shines like a blade’: Towards a theory of a progressive reading praxis in Creative Writing pedagogy

Donna Lee Brien
Pathways into an ‘elaborate ecosystem’: Ways of categorising the food memoir

Sue Joseph
Supervising life-writing of trauma in a tertiary setting

Robin Freeman and Karen Le Rossignol
Clarifying creative nonfiction through the personal essay

Dominique Hecq
‘Oranges and Lemons’: Art, therapy, subjectivity

Elizabeth MacFarlane
Metaphor as contagion: Notes on the postscript of JM Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello

Mary-Ellen Stringer
Home-spun songs of the subaltern: Writing race in fiction

Marsha Berry
Poetic tweets

Prose
Michelle Cahill, Letter to Derrida
Luke Johnson, The supermarket play
Wendell Mayo, Sententiae for fiction workshop

Poetry
Stuart Barnes, Two poems
Dominique Hecq, Theory
Jeff Klooger, Two poems
BN Oakman, Secret heart

Reviews
Mark McGurl, The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing
review by Catherine Cole
Elizabeth Stephens, Queer Writing: Homoeroticism in Jean Genet’s Fiction
review by DJ Baker
Carolyne Lee, Our Very Own Adventure: Towards a Poetics of the Short Story
review by Linda Weste
Tom Grimes, Mentor: a memoir
review by Alice Robinson
Francesca Rendle-Short, Omega Goodwin and Marsha Berry (eds), Poetry 4 U
review by Eddie Paterson
Offset No10 Anniversary Edition
review by Tessa Chudy
Robert Drewe (ed), The Best Australian Essays 2010
review by Jay Daniel Thompson
Aviva Tuffield (ed), New Australian Stories 2
review by Anneli Knight
Elaine Walker, The Horses
review by Sandra Burr
Peter Steele, The Gossip and the Wine
review by L’aine Gillespie
Francesca Rendle-Short, Just Glad Wrap
review by Caroline van de Pol
Georgia Richter (ed), The Kid on the Karaoke Stage & Other Stories
review by Helen Gildfind
Southerly: India India, Volume 70, Number 3
review by Sue Bond