Contents

Editorial
Creative Writing magazines

Text Special Issue Number 38
Illumination through narrative: using writing to explore hidden life experience
Edited by Margaret McAllister, Donna Lee Brien and Leanne Dodd

Text Special Issue Number 39
The Essay
Edited by Rachel Robertson and Kylie Cardell

Text Special Issue Number 40
Making it New: Finding contemporary meanings for creativity
Edited by Monica Carroll and Jen Webb

Nick Earls
Platform games: The writer, the publishing industry and debates over non-print book formats in the twenty-first century

Evija Trofimova
Closet writing

Francesca Rendle-Short, Stayci Taylor, Michelle Aung Thin, Ronnie Scott
#STREATstories: Mapping a creative collaboration

Ruby Todd, Lucinda McKnight and Owen Bullock
Displaced metaphors: Poetic engagements with language in a digitised world

Louise Tondeur
Risk, constraint, play: A new paradigm for examining practice-research in the academy

Patrick West
‘Nhill’ and the Aboriginal Language Revival movement: Relational identity, short story titles and ‘contracts of homophony’

Wendy Glassby
The writerly art of celebrating difference: Reading ambiguity in Ross Gibson’s The Summer Exercises

Poetry and Prose

Marcelle Freiman, 2 poems
Edith Speers, 3 poems
Tara East, Haunted
Ronnie Scott, My brother’s map
Rhys Stalba-Smith, The humble tool
Peter Nash, You get what you dress for

Reviews

• Paul Williams & Shelley Davidow, Playing With Words: An Introduction to Creative Writing Craft
  review by Alyson Miller
• Stephanie Vanderslice (ed), Studying Creative Writing Successfully
  review by Sally Breen
• Anna Leahy (ed), What We Talk about When We Talk about Creative Writing
  review by Jeremy Fisher
• Roslyn Petelin, How Writing Works: A field guide to effective writing
  review by Rosemary Williamson
• Toby Litt, Mutants: Selected Essays
  review by Maria Tumarkin
  
• Jen Webb, Sentences from the Archive
  review by Ioana Petrescu
• Sarah Corbett, And She Was: A Verse-Novel
  review by Linda Weste
  
• Paddy Roe, Gularabulu: Stories from the West Kimberley
  review by Jeanine Leane
• Michelle Cahill, Letter to Pessoa & other short fictions
  review by Ruby Todd
  
• Maria Katsonis and Lee Kofman (eds), Rebellious Daughters: True Stories from Australia’s Finest Female Writers
  review by Jessica Gildersleeve
  
• David Carlin & Francesca Rendle-Short (eds), The Near and the Far: New Stories from the Asia-Pacific Region
  review by Nicholas Jose
  
• Jeremy Fisher, Faith, Hope and Stubborn Pride: Searching for heaven in Aotearoa and Australia
  review by Noeline Kyle
• Anthony Macris, Inexperience and other stories
  review by Helen Gildfind
• John Kinsella, Graphology Poems 1995-2015
  review by Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington
• Kevin Brophy, Misericordia: Poems inspired by the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy
  Michael Campbell, Kevin Brophy, Niké Arrighi Borghese & George Palmer, The Faces of Mercy: An Australian offering for the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy
  review by Charlotte Clutterbuck
• Owen Bullock, River’s Edge
  review by Jane Williams
• Eddie Paterson, redactor
  review by Rose Lucas
  
• Louise Nicholas, The List of Last Remaining
  review by Niloofar Fanaiyan
  
• Glenice Whitting, Something Missing
  review by Rachel Hennessy