Books
Other People’s Windows, eds Francesca Rendle-Short and David Carlin, Bowen Street Press, 2024
A-Z of Creative Writing Methods, eds Deborah Wardle, Julienne van Loon, Stayci Taylor, Francesca Rendle-Short, Peta Murray, David Carlin, Bloomsbury, 2022
The Near and The Far Vol II, eds Francesca Rendle-Short and David Carlin, Scribe Publications, 2019
PRESS; 100 Love Letters, Des Francesca Rendle-Short and Laurel Fantauzzo, University of Philippines Press, 2016
The Near and The Far, eds Francesca Rendle-Short and David Carlin, Scribe Publications, 2016
Bite Your Tongue, Spinifex Press, 2011
Molly und Mary: Die Geschichte einer Freundschaft, German translation, FISCHER Taschenbuch Verlag, 1999
Imago, Spinifex Press, 1996
Artists books
No notes (This is writing), with Martina Copley
A little book of breathing, artists book in String Books: an exhibition of handmade books hung out for view, The Left Hand Gallery, Braidwood, NSW, December 2010, collected by the State Library of Queensland
Refereed journal article / book chapter
‘With/nessing: cultural exchange via ‘verbatim theatre', with Melody Ellis, Roanna Gonsalves, AXON: Creative Explorations, 2025
‘We are making a boat, love: 30 years of experimental feminist writing in Australia’, with Quinn Eades, TEXT Special Issue 71: Creativecritical Writing Now, June, 2024
‘Prepositioning extinction’, editorial, TEXT, 28(2), 1-3, 1 October, 2024
‘“Connecting literary cultures: towards a methodology for ethical encounters’, with Michelle Aung Thin, David Carlin, Melody Ellis and Lilly Rose Tope, Journal of Public Pedagogies, 7, 1-15, 1 January, 2024
‘“Very communitas”: testing a hypothesis in creative writing, methodologically speaking’, with Michelle Aung Thin, David Carlin, Melody Ellis and Lilly Rose Tope, TEXT, 27(2), 1-24, 1 January, 2023
‘“Caterpillars of the Commonwealth” Dangerous books in Australia’, in The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature, ed Jessica Glidersleeve, Routledge, London 63-74, 2021
‘Preposition as method: creative writing research and prepositional thinking, methodologically speaking’, in New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, 1-13, 2021
‘Finding communitas: Encounter, unfolding and creative writing’, TEXT Journal, 25 (2), October, 2021
‘When your practice is the research: A symposia-led model for the creative writing PhD’, with Aung Thin, M.,Carlin, D.,Pang, A., Wilkinson, J., in Text: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses, 24, 1-22, 2020
‘“Tissue of making” in practice-led research: Practi-care, prepositional thinking and a grammar of creativity’, Text Journal, 24, 1-17, 2020
‘Preposition as method: creative writing research and prepositional thinking, methodologically speaking’, New Writing, Routledge, United Kingdom, March, 2020
‘Crossing it: Transgenre notes towards transit’, Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, University of California, vol 7, issue 4, 7-17, 2018
‘Writing the body (the self) as mer-mer’, in O’Brien and Eades (eds), Offshoot: Contemporary Lifewriting Methodologies and Practice in Australasia, University of Western Australia Press, 2018
‘As a matter of love: A short dialogue on love made material’, with Melody Ellis, in The materiality of love: Essays on affection and cultural practice, eds Anna Malinowska and Michael Gratzke, Routledge, New York, 2018
‘No one wakes up wanting to be homeless: A case study in applied Creative Writing’, Rendle-Short, F. Taylor, S. Aung Thin, M. and Scott, R., in Social Capital and Enterprise in the Modern State, eds Eidin Ni She, Lorelle J Burton and Patrick Alan Danaher, Palgrave Macmillan, Switzerland, 2018
‘Essay (queer). The. Essay. Queer. And. All. That.’, Text Special Issue Series, 39:1-1, 2017
'#STREATstories: Mapping a creative collaboration', Rendle-Short, F. Taylor, S. Aung Thin, M. and Scott, R., in Text: Journal of Writing and Writing courses, Australasian Association of Writing Programs, Australia, vol. 21, pp. 1-18, 2017
‘Parsing an ethics of seeing’, New Writing, Routledge, United Kingdom, 1 April, 2016
‘Not/Knot Father: Alzheimer’s, Nonfiction and Writing the Father’, Life Writing, Routledge, 13 October, 2016
‘In the company of: composing a collaborative programme for writers’, with David Carlin, New Writing, Routledge, United Kingdom, 2016
‘Parsing the aside’, Brien & Krauth (eds), TEXT, Special Issue 30: Creative Writing as Research IV, 2015
'How the how: the question of form in writing creative scholarly works', New Writing, Taylor Francis, January, 2015
'Took to the sky: drawing as memory as nonfiction', in TEXT, AAWP, no. 27, pp. 1-15, 2014
'Poetic Cartography, Love, and Loss: On Piecing Together a Father’ and ‘A Matter of View: (From a Book of Annotations)', NANO: New American Notes, New York City College of Technology, no. 6, pp. 1-9, 2014
‘Nonfiction now: a (non) introduction', with David Carlin, in TEXT, 18, 1-15, 2013
‘Introduction', with David Carlin, in TEXT, 18, 1-15, 2013
‘Loose Thinking: Writing an Eisegesis’, TEXT, 14:1, 2010
‘Artists Talk: listen to the imagination’, TEXT, vol. 11, no. 2, October 2007, 1–12, 2007
‘To the smell of pineapples: writing a Queensland auto-bio-graphie’, TEXT online journal, vol 10, no 2, pp1-22, 2006
Refereed creative work
‘Peachpeachpineapple’, with Peta Murray, Stayci Taylor, Jack Madin and Ed Service, (in press) 2025
‘Preposition extinction’, editorial, TEXT Journal, vol 28, no 2, 2024
‘Love at the crack’, Rabbit: Journal of nonfiction poetry, issue no 40 Extinction, 2024
‘Collaborative effervescence through communitas’, with Taylor, Shaw, Murray, Munro, Magner, Hawkins, Ellis, Sydney Review of Books, June , 2023
‘Sending love love’, with Quinn Eades, Rabbit: Journal of nonfiction poetry, 2023
‘Prepositioning resistance, queerly’, Bending Genre: Essays on Creative Nonfiction 2.0, eds Nicole Walker and Margot Singer, Bloomsbury, 2022
‘Kin-as-ethics: experiments in un/authorised queer essay practice’, with Peta Murray, Sydney Review of Books, 7 October, 2021
‘We thought we knew what summer was’, co-authored with Ballard, S., Brasier, H., Buck, S., Carlin, D., Langley, S., Lobb, J., Magner, B., McKinnon, C., Michael, R., Murray, P., Strahan, L., and S. Taylor, AXON: Creative Explorations, 10 (2), 2020
‘Towards Poetic Address: Anne Carson Slag’, Overland, 25 July, 2019
‘Across speak and/or waywardness’, co-author Martina Copley, Axon: Creative Explorations, May, 2018
‘Nonfiction as queer aesthetic: a score for five speakers in two acts’, Fourth Genre, Michigan State University Press, Fall, 20.2, 2018
‘Sub Rosa’, The Lifted Brow: The Queer Subconscious Folio, ed. Ronnie Scott, September, #31, 2016
‘Essaying the fabpod’, David Carlin et al, Yoko Akama, Axon: Creative Explorations, issue 8, 2015
‘Field guide to writing a father’, Overland, #210, 15–19, Overland online, 2013
‘Who’s counting 1’, ‘Who’s counting 2’, ‘Who’s counting 3’ and ‘Counting is counting is counting’, Rabbit: Age, #6, November, 2012
‘Beastly and beautiful: My mother reads Lolita’, Hecate, St Lucia, Brisbane: Hecate Press, 36, 1&2, 2010
‘Angel bread: writing my mother’, AXON: Creative Explorations, vol 1, no 1, ISSN 1838-8973, September, 2010
Conference papers
‘Communitasia: oversharings, choralings, queerings, limiallings’, NonfictioNow Conference, Wellington, 2021
‘Essay Squared: exploring performance essaying’, NonfictioNow Conference, Wellington, 2021
‘The Peripatetic Panel: nonfiction as (queer) encounter ’, NonfictioNow Conference, Phoenix Arizona, 2018
‘Clay memory and HM Prison Pentridge: making, being, doing’, NonfictioNow Conference, Reykjavik Iceland, 2017
‘Nonfiction as queer aesthetic’, NonfictioNow Conference, Reykjavik Iceland, 2017
‘Writing and editing the city’, NonfictioNow Conference, Flagstaff Arizona, 2015
‘Performing the essay: combinations and permutations’, NonfictioNow Conference, Flagstaff Arizona, 2015
‘Queensland and all that’, Out of Place, NonfictioNow Conference, Melbourne, November, 2012
‘Writing as curatus: archival practices, encounter and response’, Encounters: Refereed Conference Papers of the 17th Annual AAWP Conference, Deakin, Geelong, 2012
‘Father work: Just gladwrap’, Ethical Imaginations: Refereed Conference Papers of the 16th Annual AAWP Conference, Byron Bay, NSW, 2012
‘Queensland and all that’, Out of Place, NonfictioNow Conference, Melbourne, November, 2012
‘My mother’s “negative library”: moral guardians and their “death lists”, Literature and Censorship AAL Conference, 10-12 July, 2012
‘Speaking in tongues’, Framing Lives Conference, IABA Conference, 17-20 July, 2012
‘If you don’t have skin, you’re not there: new literatures, hash tag poetry and writing students’, TEXT online journal, April, published refereed paper from Strange Bedfellows or Perfect Partners: the role of literary studies in creative writing programs Conference, 15thAnnual AAWP Conference, RMIT University, 25–27 November, 2010
‘The drawing, breathing, writing body’, Drawing Out 2010, Conference Proceedings, ISBN 978-0-646-53254-7, 7–9 April, RMIT University, Melbourne, 2010
‘Writing wrongs: the art of crossing over to “unbite” the tongue’, and is paper: Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the Australian Association of Writing Programs Conference, … and is … 12th Annual Conference of AAWP Conference, Canberra, Australia, 21–23 November 2007, 1–13, 2007
Creative essays, short stories, poetry, theatre
‘Field sketching’, Other people’s windows, ed Francesca Rendle-Short and David Carlin, Bowen Street Press, 2024
‘Water syntax’ and ‘To write water’ with David Carlin, Languages of Water, ed Eugen Bacon MV Media, 2023
‘Communitas, in A-Z of Creative Writing Methods, eds Deborah Wardle, Julienne van Loon, Stayci Taylor, Francesca Rendle-Short, Peta Murray, David Carlin, Bloomsbury, 2022
‘Skin and sinew and breath and longing’: reimagining the lives of queer artists and activists, from Sappho to Virginia Woolf’, The Conversation, August, 2022
Writing Walking: non/fictionLab, BusProjects participatory collaboration April-May 2021, performance panel, Communitasia: oversharings, choralings, queerings, liminalings, at 8th NonfictioNOW Conference, hosted by Massey University, NZ, December 2021
‘Worlds we can believe in’ in The Near and the Far, volume II, eds David Carlin and Francesca Rendle-Short, Scribe, 2019
‘DISRUPT: Mapping the future of Melbourne through stories’, with Melody Ellis, Stayci Taylor, Ronnie Scott and Michelle Aung Thin, Melbourne Knowledge Week Melbourne Australia, 2019
‘Towards skin’, The Ocean State Review, vol 1, no 9, Fall, 2019
‘Body Notes’, in My Body, My Word: a collection of bodies, eds Loren Kleinman and Amye Archer, Big Table Publishing, New York, 2018
‘The Peripatetic Panel: nonfiction as (queer) encounter’, Arizona, published in DWF Digital Writers Festival, November, 2018
‘Nonfiction as queer aesthetic: a score for five speakers in two acts’, NonfictioNow Conference, Reykjavík, 2017
‘anatomy of love’ and ‘You taught me this’, two poems in 100 Love Letters, eds Francesca Rendle-Short and Laurel Fantauzzo, University of Philippines Press, 2017
‘there | is a feather’, poem performed in Frequent Flyers, South Durras, May, 2016
‘Clay Memory: Correctional Facility’, Quinn Eades, Jamie James, Robyne Latham and Francesca Rendle-Short, CHART COLLECTIVE, edition 4, 2016
‘A letter to my ticking clock’, Women of Letters, 31 July, 2016
‘1:25,000’, The Near and the Far, eds David Carlin and Francesca Rendle-Short, Scribe, 2016
‘All the Beginnings: A Queer Autobiography of the Body’, review of Quinn Eades book, Life Writing, Routledge, United Kingdom, May, 2016
‘Give breath a chance’, Australian Women’s Writing Challenge, October focus on diversity and lesbian/queer women writers, 2015
‘On Drawing (Essaying) Nonfiction: As A Set Of Seven Instructions’, The Essay Review, issue 2, Fall, 2014
'Impossible without a body: a song, (breath), and dust', Killing the Buddha: Exegesis, January, 2014
‘Affettuoso: meditation on the body’, in Bumf, 2013
‘Glossus’, in Just between us: Australian women writers on the fraught, funny world of female friendships, Pan Macmillan, 2013
What do you want of me?, with Hephzibah Rendle-Short, in Non, First Site Gallery, Swanston Street Melbourne, 21-24 November, 2012
‘My father’s body’, essay/memoir in The Best Australian Science Writing, NewSouth Books, 2012
‘The secrets of Leonard and Elizabeth Jolley’, Australian Book Review, No. 341, May, 2012
‘Getting your blood up’, The Victorian Writer, March, 2012
‘My father’s body’, essay/memoir in The Invisible Thread, Halstead Press, 2012
‘My father’s body: On creation, evolution and Alzheimer’s disease’, photo essay in Overland, #197, Spring, 2012
Just Glad Wrap, in joint exhibition The Five Obstructions, curated by Martina Copley, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, 16 June – 11 July 2011
A little book of breathing, String Books: an exhibition of handmade books hung out for view, Left Hand Gallery, Braidwood, NSW, in the collection of the State Library of Queensland, 2010
‘The Pineapple Girl’, Queensland Historical Atlas, University of Queensland, 2010
‘Writing between the gap’, interview with Nigel Featherstone and Verity La, Verity La, 20 September, 2010
‘The Pig’s Head’, MixedNerve, 2010
‘My father’s body in nine drawings’, Verity La, 2010
‘My Father’s Body: on creation, evolution and Alzheimer’s’, Overland, #197, 2009
Write with the Body: skin, bone, blood, in Writing Naked, a joint exhibition, Field36, School of Media and Communication, RMIT, 17–23 August, 2009
‘Illicit Desire: On love, shame and family slides’, photo essay Overland, #188, Spring, 2009
‘Hanging by a thread’, Feathering the Nest, group exhibition, Garage Openings, ACT, April, 2009
‘‘Five Crossfire Pairings’, poetry for the exhibition and catalogue Crossfire: Prints and glass, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, 2 May – 27 July, 2008
‘Another Book of Breathing’, an exhibition of works, visual work as memoir, 12th Conference of the Australian Association of Writing Programs Conference, … and is … 12th Annual Conference of AAWP Conference, Canberra, Australia, 21–23 November, 2007
‘‘A Book of Breathing’, an exhibition of works, visual work as memoir, Schloss Haldenstein, Haldenstein, Switzerland, February, 2007
‘Us‘, a short play for the stage, with Felicity Packard, Six Pack, The Street Theatre Season, September – October, 2005
‘Italy by numbers’, short story, Poetry and Prose Feature, Muse, December/January #224, 2003
‘Last stop: first step’, 24/7 artsACT Canberra, 2003
‘But for air’, Microstories series, short story, Panorama, Canberra Times, 13 April, 2002
‘Something Andre Breton said’, short story, Blast, The Erotic Issue, Winter, 2001
‘For a mother’, poetry, ANU Poet’s Lunch, 2001, 1995
‘Sing your heart out’, short story in Red Cat Country, Ginninnderra Press, 1998
‘The bath’, short story in Pressing the flesh, Top Drawer Press, 1997
‘A dance of brown mush’, short story, Blast, 33, Autumn, 1997
‘Blue ring of certainty’, short story, Blast, 33, Autumn, 1997
‘Loop the loop’, short story/memoir in Wee Girls, Spinifex Press, 1996
‘Her words too’, poetry, Capital Women, 1996
‘Speaking in tongues: A plainsong for two voices’, Australian Women’s Book Review, December, 1996
‘Grapes are for eating’, short story in Four W, No. 6, Wagga Wagga Writers Writers, 1995
‘A game: from Puzzles from childhood’, short story, Redoubt, 21, 1995
‘Swimming breaststroke again with pink plastic fish’, short story, ANUTech Reporter, 1995
‘The mountain’, poetry, Muse, September, 1995
‘A necessary knot’, poetry, Muse, September, 1995
‘Two of a kind in one body’, poetry, Muse, #135, October, 1994
‘Revolution by night: On visiting the surrealist exhibition’, short story, National Gallery of Australia, SoundingSohpia, no. 2, winter, 1993, reprinted Australian Women’s Book Review, vol. 5.4, December, 1993
‘Paper woman’, poetry, Muse, #121, July, 1993
‘To a pink rock’, poetry, Australian Women’s Book Review, vol. 5.2, June, 1993
‘The colour of a seed’, short story, in Womanspeak, March/April, 1989
‘Lu’s deaf’, short story, in Muse, 80, 1989
‘Big sister’, novella in Mirrors, Redress Novellas, Redress Press, 1989
Exhibition text
Australian Tax Office Galleria, wall text and narrative co-written with Jordan Williams, in association with Woodhead Adelaide Design and Ngambri elder and Indigenous leader Matilda House, 2007-08
Great Australian Stories from the National Museum of Australia, writer for the Eternity and First Australians galleries, for publication in March 2002 to coincide with the first anniversary of the museum opening, National Museum of Australia, 2002
Eternity Gallery, National Museum of Australia, writer of exhibitions (original text, selection of first person text for labels and multimedia presentation), 50 Australian stories based around 10 themes entitled Eternity: Timeless stories from the emotional heart of Australia, curated by Dr Marion Stell, 2000
National Museum of Australia: Consultant, Eternity program, commissioning work from 30 Australian contemporary literary writers for inclusion in the permanent Eternity gallery to be opened March 2001, July to September, 2000
National Museum of Australia: Consultant for Eternity program and gallery, Recommendation of 30 Contemporary Australian Authors to be included in the Eternity Gallery, May, 2000
Non-refereed journal/magazine article
‘The secrets of Leonard and Elizabeth Jolley’, Australian Book Review, No. 341, May, 2012
‘Getting your blood up’, The Victorian Writer, March, 2012
‘Face to face’, Higher Education Scholar, no. 1, CELTS, University of Canberra, 26 September, 2006
‘Choreographic Commissions: Bring dance to life’, Animated, online, Spring, 2005
‘Sky lounge’, with Clare Young, National Museum of Australia, RealTime #60, April/May, 2004
‘Tanja Liedtke’s twelfth floor’, The Australian Choreographic Centre and Risky Manoeuvres, Canberra Theatre Subscription Season, RealTime #60, April/May, 2004
‘Last stop: first step: Moments of dance in unlikely places’, 24:7 Catalogue, artsACT, June, 2003
‘Heidi Lefebvre’, RealTime #57, Oct/Nov, 2003
‘Paul Zivkovich’, RealTime #57, Oct/Nov, 2003
‘Choreographic commissions: Bringing dance to life for emerging choreographers’, Animated UK, Community Dance UK, Spring, March, 2003
‘Up close and personal’, ARTLOOK #229, June, 2003
‘In the company of hope: after the fires’, ARTLOOK #227, April, 2003
‘Australia is dancing’, Dance Australia project at the National Library, Muse #226, March, 2003, 2003
‘Moving out of bounds’, ARTLOOK, #230
‘No artistic life? That’s nonsense’, Canberra Times, 12 March, 2003
‘Alive to processes: Choreographer Jodie Farrugia’, Muse #229, June, 2002
‘Analogue technologies at Canberra Contemporary Art Space’, Eyeline, Spring 2002
‘The risk that paid: the development of The Australian Choreographic Centre’, reprinted, Australian Dance Forum, June, 2002
‘Half full/empty with happiness,’ Red Cabbage 8, The Street Theatre, RealTime #48, realtimearts, online April/May, 2002
‘The Dead Sea by Chapel of Change,’ National Multicultural Festival, The Street Theatre, March, Muse Magazine, #215, 2002
‘The risk that paid off, Muse #213, December/January, 2001–02
‘On the edge: the challenges of working as an independent freelance curator’, Art Monthly Australia, #126, 2001
‘The Australian Choreographic Centre celebrates its birthday’, Dec/Jan Muse #213, 2001
‘Winter as Frida Kahlo’, National Gallery of Australia, to coincide with the exhibition Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism, Muse Magazine, October #211, 2001
‘I choose to be me: Work experience at The Australian Choreographic Centre’, Muse Magazine,September #210, 2001
‘Happy birthday to us’, Muse, #206, May, 2001
‘How to speak of ourselves: A preview of Museums Australian National Conference’, National Museum of Australia, Muse, April #205, 2001
‘Love and menace to a heart beat: No (under) Standing Anytime: Kate Denborough at The Choreographic Centre’, RealTime, #37, 2000
‘Pushing work to the edge’, RealTime, #36, 2000
‘Pursuing perfection’, Canberra Arts Anthology, National Library of Australia, 1999
‘The story of Australian Girls Own Gallery and Helen Maxwell’, Art Monthly Australia, #116, 1999
‘A multiplicity of voices’, Canberra Tomes, Panorama,, 1999 5 June, 1999
‘Hair and skin and teeth’, Muse, #148, February
‘State of play by Doug Buckley, Albatross Books’, Zadok Perspectives, no. 34, June 1991
Books as editor
9 Slices, curator Francesca Rendle-Short, foreword Sam Twyford-Moore, Melbourne: RMIT University, 2015
Volta, ed Francesca Rendle-Short, foreword Alice Pung, Melbourne: RMIT University, 2013
Little spines, ed Francesca Rendle-Short, foreword Mandy Ord, Melbourne: RMIT University, 2012
Undertow, ed Francesca Rendle-Short, foreword Hannie Rayson, Melbourne: RMIT University, 2011
Poetry 4 U, eds Francesca Rendle-Short, Omega Goodwin, Marsha Berry, Melbourne: RMIT University, 2010
Tattoo, FIRST 2008, editorial by Rendle-Short, foreword by Garth Nix, University of Canberra
Surrender: FIRST 2007, University of Canberra
Vertebrae: FIRST 2006, foreword by Nigel Featherstone, University of Canberra
Feathers: FIRST 2005, University of Canberra
Tangled: FIRST 2004, preface by Rendle-Short, foreword by Paschal Daantos Berry, University of Canberra
The living quilt, collection of stories from Positive people in the ACT, foreword by Justice Michael Kirby, AIDS Action Council, 2003
This is writing: FIRST 2003, foreword by John Romeril, University of Canberra, 2003
Ellis Rowan, catalogue in conjunction with exhibition, National Library of Australia, Sep/Oct, 2002
This Errant Lady: Jane Franklin’s Overland Journey to Port Phillip and Sydney, 1893, introduction, annotations and selection by Penny Russell, National Library of Australia, 2002
Yes, I am: Stories by young queer people, foreword Christos Tsiolkas, AIDS Action Council ACT, 2001
Time to go: Robin White work from 1982 to 2000, curated by Helen Maxwell, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, 8 November to 16 December, 2001
Legends: The art of Walter Barnett, catalogue published in conjunction with Legends: The art of Walter H. Barnett exhibition, December – March, National Portrait Gallery, State Library of NSW curator Roger Neill, Saatchi & Saatchi, 2000
Omai & Cook: The Cult of the South Seas, catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, curator Michelle Hetherington, National Library exhibition in association with the Humanities Research Centre, ANU, 2000
Nora Heysen, catalogue published in conjunction with the Nora Heysen exhibition, October, curator Lou Klepac, National Library of Australia, 2000
Mirror with a memory: Photographic portraiture in Australia, catalogue curated by Helen Ennis, foreword by Andrew Sayers, National Portrait Gallery (catalogue written in combination with wall text and education kits), 2000
Extraordinary talent: Portraits of Canberra artists, Photographs by William Hall, Federal Capital Press and William Hall, 1998
Frost Bytes by Pene Greet & Gina Price, Double Bay, 1995