Contents

Editorial
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Text Special Issue Number 50
Life narrative in troubled times
Edited by Kate Douglas, Donna Lee Brien and Kylie Cardell

Text Special Issue Number 51
Climates of Change: Papers from the 2017 AAWP annual conference
Edited by Patrick Allington, Piri Eddy and Melanie Pryor

Text Special Issue Number 52
Anticipatory Imaginaries
Edited by Marcus Bussey, Lisa Chandler, Gary Crew and Rachel Robertson

Text Special Issue Number 53
Identity, politics and creative writing
Edited by Natalie Kon-yu and Enza Gandolfo

Paul Collis and Jen Crawford
Six groundings for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island stories in the Creative Writing classroom: Part 2

Michael Cawood Green
Reflection and reflexivity: The archive and the creative process

Maya Rasker
A writer’s oscillations: The beginning as mediating space between origin and destination

Ronnie Scott and Elizabeth MacFarlane
Peculiar integrations: Adaptations, experimentations and authorships in The Long Weekend in Alice Springs

Alayna Cole
Smashing the heteropatriarchy: Representations of queerness in reimagined fairy tales

Jessica Seymour
‘Abraca-F***-You!’: Gaming, podcasting and collaboration in The Adventure Zone

Rachel Hennessy
‘The ability to see and the talent to speak’: The emergent writer and questions of voice and authority

Poetry and Prose

Jane Downing, Seize the Liar and Let the Strings Resound
Luna Mrozik Gawler, Strata
Dugald Williamson, Poems
Amy T Matthews, Graduation
Natalie Harman, Saṃsāra
Jake Sandtner, July 24, 1974
Christi Terry, My Exczema-gesis

Reviews

• Donna Lee Brien and Quinn Eades (eds), Offshoot: Contemporary Life Writing Methodologies and Practice and Jessie Cole, Staying: A Memoir
  review by Moya Costello
• Meera Atkinson, Traumata and The Poetics of Transgenerational Trauma
  review by Michael Richardson
• Iain McGee, Understanding the Paragraph and Paragraphing
  review by Amber Gwynne
• Enza Gandolfo, The Bridge
  review by Julienne van Loon
• Ross Watkins, The Apology
  review by Rachael Mead
• Julia Prendergast, The Earth Does Not Get Fat
  review by Tim Tomlinson
  
• Lau Siew Mei, The Last Immigrant
  review by Donna Lee Brien
  
• Tim Tomlinson, This Is Not Happening to You
  review by Barrie Sherwood
• Bruce Pascoe and Lyn Harwood (eds), Australian Short Stories No 66
  review by Luke Johnson
  
• Owen Bullock, Work & Play
  review by Ian Gibbins
  
• Laura Elvery, Trick of the Light
  review by Kate Cantrell
  
• Jennifer Mills, Dyschronia
  review by HC Gildfind
  
• Rachael Mead, The Flaw in the Pattern
  review by Rose Lucas
  
• Phillip Hall, Fume
  review by Kit MacFarlane
  
• Reneé Pettitt-Schipp, The Sky Runs Right Through Us
  review by Jessica Abramovic
  
• Leni Shilton, Walking with Camels – The Story of Bertha Strehlow
  review by Sarah Pearce