Julienne van Loon Author & Editor

Deborah Wardle has fiction, nonfiction and peer-reviewed articles in Australian and international journals. Deborah teaches at RMIT University and University of Melbourne. Her PhD thesis explores the ways climate fiction expresses the ‘voices’ of more-than-human entities, particularly groundwater. Her book with Routledge Subterranean Imaginings: Groundwater Narratives is due 2023. Julienne van Loon is Associate Professor in Creative Writing at RMIT University, Melbourne, and Honorary Fellow in Writing at the University of Iowa. Her research interests include feminist literary practice, contemporary narrative fiction and literary value. Publications include The Thinking Woman (2020), Harmless (2014), Beneath the Bloodwood Tree (2008), and Road Story (2005). She is managing editor at TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses, see https://textjournal.scholasticahq.com/ Stayci Taylor is Senior Lecturer at RMIT University in the School of Media and Communication. Her research interests include screenwriting, script development, nonfiction and creative practice. She has published in all of these areas, in both scholarly and creative outlets, and often through the lenses of gender and comedy. She is lead editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Script Development (2021). Francesca Rendle-Short is Professor of Creative Writing in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. She is interested in a research practice that seeks to subvert normative practices, one focused on ethical enquiry. She is co-founder of non/fictionLab and WrICE (Writers Immersion and Cultural Exchange). Her five books include The Near and the Far (Vol I and II; 2016, 2019) and Bite Your Tongue (2011). Peta Murray is Lecturer in Creative Writing at RMIT University, Melbourne. Her research focus is the role oflanguage and arts-based practices as modes of inquiry and forms of cultural activism. Publications include plays such as Salt (2001), fiction including Indigestion (2010), collaborative, queer and multi-modal works of live art such as vigil/wake (2019), and adventures in the essayesque, Glossalalalararium Pandemiconium (2020). David Carlin is Professor in Media and Communication at RMIT University. Co-founder of WrICE and non/fictionLab, his research interests include essaying and hybrid, collaborative and ecocritical forms and methods. Recent books include The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet (2019) and 100 Atmospheres: Studies in Scale and Wonder (2019).