Contents

Editorial
Money, money, money

Text Special Issue Number 28
Fictional histories and historical fictions: Writing history in the twenty-first century
Edited by Camilla Nelson and Christine de Matos

Text Special Issue Number 29
Scriptwriting as Creative Writing Research II
Edited by Dallas John Baker, Craig Batty, Debra Beattie and Susan Davis

Robin Freeman and Karen Le Rossignol
Writer-as-narrator: Engaging the debate around the (un)reliable narrator in memoir and the personal essay

June Alexander, Donna Lee Brien and Margaret McAllister
Diaries are ‘better than novels, more accurate than histories, and even at times more dramatic than plays’: Revisiting the diary for creative writers

Dominique Hecq
Parodic manoeuvres and differentials in Janet Frame’s The Carpathians

Ross Watkins
Remarkable analogue constructions of the author/illustrator: Re-imagining textual spaces of the book as object

Aashish Kaul
Narrate or describe?

Julia Prendergast
Giving solidity to pure wind: Temporising as transformation

Brigid Magner
‘Not all gumnuts and outback’: Exploring the attitudes of creative writing students towards Australian literature

James Bradley & Susan Bradley Smith
Royal ambitions: Creative writing and the Secret Rules of Courtship in the Medical Humanities

Prose

Timia Breederveld, Strings
Eileen Herbert-Goodall, Raven Medicine

Reviews

• Craig Batty (ed), Screenwriters and Screenwriting: Putting practice into context
  review by Felicity Packard
  
• Patrick West and Om Prakash Dwivedi (eds), The World to Come
  review by Nike Sulway
  
• Moya Costello, Harriet Chandler: A novella
  review by Julienne van Loon
  
• Keith St Clair Butler, The Secret Vindaloo
  review by Dominique Hecq
  
• Reina Whaitiri, Robert Sullivan (eds), Puna Wai Kōrero: An Anthology of Māori Poetry in English
  review by Jörg-Dieter Riemenschneider
  
• Geoff Goodfellow, Opening the Windows to Catch the Sea Breeze: Selected poems 1983-2011
  review by SK Kelen
  
• Dominique Hecq, Stretchmarks of Sun
  review by Vivienne Plumb
  
• Susan Bradley Smith, Beds for All Who Come
  review by Susie Utting
  
• Anne Elvey, Kin
  review by Jessica L. Wilkinson
  
• Bel Schenk, Every Time You Close Your Eyes
  review by Linda Weste
  
• Grant Caldwell, Love & Derangement
  review by Jeremy Fisher
  
• Lisa Jacobson, South in the World
  review by Amy Brown
  
• Michelle Leber, The Yellow Emperor: A Mythography in Verse
  review by Ruby Todd