Francesca Rendle-Short
Francesca Rendle-Short is Professor of Creative Writing and Associate Dean of Writing and Publishing in the School
of Media and Communication at RMIT University. She is Co-Founder of the non/fictionLab Research Group, and Co-Founder and Co-Director of WrICE (Writers Immersion and Cultural Exchange).
Francesca is an award-winning novelist, memoirist and essayist, and poet. Her books include the novels/cum-memoir Imago, Bite Your Tongue, The Near and The Far (edited with David Carlin), No Notes (This is writing) (co-authored with Martina Copely), Press: 100 Love Letters (co-edited with Laurel Fantauzzo).
Her short fictions, photo-essays, exhibition works, reviews and poetry for the page and wall, have been published nationally and internationally in literary journals and magazines, online and in exhibitions, including Best Australian Science Writing, The Lifted Brow, Australian Book Review, Australian Women's Book Review, Bumf, Overland Literary Journal, Rabbit, Verity La, Mixed Nerve, Muse Magazine, Blast, Real Time, Artlook, Eyeline, AXON, Art Monthly Australia, Redoubt, Killing the Buddha (USA), Life Writing, New Writing, and The Essay Review (Iowa).
of Media and Communication at RMIT University. She is Co-Founder of the non/fictionLab Research Group, and Co-Founder and Co-Director of WrICE (Writers Immersion and Cultural Exchange).
Francesca is an award-winning novelist, memoirist and essayist, and poet. Her books include the novels/cum-memoir Imago, Bite Your Tongue, The Near and The Far (edited with David Carlin), No Notes (This is writing) (co-authored with Martina Copely), Press: 100 Love Letters (co-edited with Laurel Fantauzzo).
Her short fictions, photo-essays, exhibition works, reviews and poetry for the page and wall, have been published nationally and internationally in literary journals and magazines, online and in exhibitions, including Best Australian Science Writing, The Lifted Brow, Australian Book Review, Australian Women's Book Review, Bumf, Overland Literary Journal, Rabbit, Verity La, Mixed Nerve, Muse Magazine, Blast, Real Time, Artlook, Eyeline, AXON, Art Monthly Australia, Redoubt, Killing the Buddha (USA), Life Writing, New Writing, and The Essay Review (Iowa).
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Books by Francesca Rendle-Short
The Near and The Far is what results when award-wining writers from Australia, Singapore, Vietnam, the Philippines, Myanmar, Malaysia, and Hong Kong share places, spaces and ideas. Emerging from the Writers Immersion and Cultural Exchange (WrICE) program - a unique series of residencies, workshops, and dialogues between writers - this collection is a map of art and adventure, ideas and influences.
"These stories - by some of the region's brightest stars - burn so compellingly, you can almost feel heat from the pages" - Benjamin Law
"What a pleasure to read such a diverse group of strong writers ... setting down their truths, while learning others" - Sophie Cunningham
Papers by Francesca Rendle-Short
The Near and The Far is what results when award-wining writers from Australia, Singapore, Vietnam, the Philippines, Myanmar, Malaysia, and Hong Kong share places, spaces and ideas. Emerging from the Writers Immersion and Cultural Exchange (WrICE) program - a unique series of residencies, workshops, and dialogues between writers - this collection is a map of art and adventure, ideas and influences.
"These stories - by some of the region's brightest stars - burn so compellingly, you can almost feel heat from the pages" - Benjamin Law
"What a pleasure to read such a diverse group of strong writers ... setting down their truths, while learning others" - Sophie Cunningham
“I think she has done it. Bite Your Tongue is all softness and breath, achieved by careful management of voice; finding it, demanding it, censoring it and best of all, controlling it … the mother’s final weeks, is beautiful. The few inches separating Angel’s self-righteous, judgemental cheek from her daughter’s last kiss may as well be the abyss. It takes the entire book for Rendle-Short to close the distance that has grown between them.”
This vision underpins this submission for a Doctor of Creative Arts, which consists of two companion texts: a novel (Volume I) and its theoretical annotation/exegesis (Volume II).
The novel Bite Your Tongue is the story of a girl’s growing up and out of silence, and how her body operates and survives as the language of the process. The novel has two landscapes: the girl’s childhood in 1970s Brisbane and her relationship with her mother, a “morals crusader,” who wants to save the children of Queensland by banning books; and her reflections as an adult on her relationship with her dying mother. Complex and self-reflexive, this is a novel about books and the body, language and writing the self.
This creative work and its accompanying theoretical annotation seek to “enlarge our sympathy,” to make a different kind of world in which it is possible to learn love—to speak it, to write it."
It’s a sweltering night in Kuala Lumpur, and a journalist is protesting in a city on the edge of meltdown. It’s post-9/11 San Francisco, and a woman meets her foster child, who provokes painful reminders of her past. It’s contemporary Bangkok, and a writer’s encounter with ladyboy culture prompts him to explore gender boundaries. And high in Queensland’s Border Ranges, a boy prone to getting lost is having six tiny silver bells pinned to his chest …
The Near and The Far is what results when award-winning writers from Australia, Singapore, Vietnam, the Philippines, Myanmar, Malaysia, and Hong Kong share places, spaces, and ideas. Emerging from the Writers Immersion and Cultural Exchange program — a unique series of residencies, workshops, and dialogues between writers — this collection is a map of art and adventure, ideas and influences.
Featuring fiction and nonfiction from Cate Kennedy, Melissa Lucashenko, Maxine Beneba Clarke, Omar Musa, and many more, this collection bridges the distances between Asia, Australia, and the world.
'This meticulously curated mix of fiction, nonfiction, essays and poetry explore place, culture and identity in luminous and inventive ways ... The anthology attests to the important work that can result from writers immersing themselves in a place so unlike their home, where fresh collaborations are forged and new ways of thinking divulged.'
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