As part of the Australian Women Writers Challenge’s (AWW) commitment to diversity, there was a focus on lesbian/queer women writers during October 2015. Francesca’s mini essay ‘Give breath a chance’ was the final piece in a series of four. ‘I look up the words permissive and rebel, wonder what one might look like… Permissive rebel….
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Bite Your Tongue reviews
Reviews of Bite Your Tongue: Bronwyn Lacken, King’s College London, Reviews in Australian Studies, Vol 9, No 1, 2015: “… the weather, the heat, the profuse tropical growth, the conservatism, the political corruption, the small mindedness, the strength of religiosity … an engaging, unsettling and at times darkly funny account of her childhood” Jessica Gildersleeve in Queensland Review,…
Doctoral thesis
Francesca’s doctoral thesis out of which Bite Your Tongue (Spinifex) was published in 2011 is online at the University of Wollongong in their research holdings: vol 1 Bite Your Tongue; vol 2 A Book of Pineapple. Publicly funded creative research is made publicly available. “Two years before she died, Susan Sontag spoke about the power of…
The Outstanding Field
Francesca presented at The Outstanding Field: Artistic Research Emerging from the Academy at the Victorian College of the Arts. The first of its kind to foreground practice-led research, the symposium showcases the most outstanding PhD projects to have emerged from the Creative Arts in Australia and New Zealand over the last decade. Her paper was…
Radio interviews
‘There’s nothing factual about memory’: Books and Arts Daily, ABC RN Francesca appeared on Radio National’s Books and Arts Daily with Michael Cathcart. The occasion was an interview with Kate Evans from Radio National’s Book+ program in a salon at Avid Reader in West End, Brisbane on Friday 10 May 2013. She was talking about her book…
International Writing Fellowship
Francesca was awarded an International Writer’s Fellowship at the University of Iowa, City of Iowa, United States. Francesca is a guest of the Nonfiction Writing Program (NWP) in the Department of English. She is doing a reading at the Prairie Lights Bookshop, a radio interview for The Lit Show with Gemma de Choisy, masterclasses with graduate…
Bookshop and library readings
Prairie Lights Bookstore, Iowa City Francesca read from her essay ‘My father’s body’ in The Best Australian Science Essays (published November 2013) and excerpts from Bite Your Tongue at the Prairie Lights Bookstore in Iowa City on 23rd October 2013. It was a great success, the audience so attentive. It was broadcast ‘Live from Prairie Lights’…
Bite Your Tongue shortlisting
Bite Your Tongue has been shortlisted for the 2012 Colin Roderick Award. The Colin Roderick award is presented annually by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook University and recognises ‘the best book in Australia which deals with any aspect of Australian The judges, Professor Donat Gallagher, Professor Peter Pierce, and Associate Professor Stephen…
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