Feather Basket
Sally Fitts is interested in creative non-fiction and poetry. Her creative life so far has been as a visual artist, and you can see some of her work at sallyfitts.com. This is Sally’s first published work.
On Writing
Queens
The following was published in the June – August 2021 edition of The Victorian Writer: Body Language. Ellen van Neerven is the author of ‘Throat’, published by UQP in 2020. This poem was originally published in that collection.
Facial Fat Deposits Maketh the Man
The following was published in the June – August 2021 edition of The Victorian Writer: Body Language. Sam Elkin is a writer living in Footscray (Naarm). His essays have been published in ‘Griffith Review’ and ‘Overland’.
A Body in Hiding
The following was published in the June – August 2021 edition of The Victorian Writer: Body Language. Fiona Murphy is a Deaf poet and essayist. Her memoir, ‘The Shape of Sound’, is out now through Text Publishing.
Body
The following was published in the June – August 2021 edition of The Victorian Writer: Body Language. Kat Phyn is a poet/singer-songwriter/writer from Aotearoa NZ, who loves words and rhythm and writes about body-positivity and self-worth.
january, Sydney
The following was published in the June – August 2021 edition of The Victorian Writer: Body Language. Ruby Hillsmith (@rubyhillsmith) was the 2020 Write-Ability Poetry Fellow at Writers Victoria and was selected as a 2020-21 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow for her non-fiction project ‘Little Islands, Dead Sea’.
Wounding Time
The following was published in the June – August 2021 edition of The Victorian Writer: Body Language.
Action!
The following was published in the June – August 2021 edition of The Victorian Writer: Body Language. Tim Ferguson is a comedian, director, screenwriter and author of comedy screenwriting manual ‘The Cheeky Monkey’.
Limiting Disability in Literature
The following was published in the June – August 2021 edition of The Victorian Writer: Body Language. Jessica White is the author of the novels ‘A Curious Intimacy’ and ‘Entitlement’, and a hybrid memoir about deafness, ‘Hearing Maud’.
The Body Keeps the Score
The following was published in the June – August 2021 edition of The Victorian Writer: Body Language. Scarlett Harris is a Melbourne culture critic. She is the author of the book ‘A Diva Was a Female Version of a Wrestler: An Abbreviated Herstory of World Wrestling Entertainment.’ (No mental health professionals who I reached out to …