Verge 2019

Name: Verge 2019
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781925835373
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Verge 2019 is the fourteenth issue of Monash University's creative writing journal, bringing together established and emerging writers. This collection features poems, flash fiction, creative non-fiction, and short stories that explore themes of the uncanny—such as doppelgängers, ghosts, déjà vu, and the alien within the familiar.
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Ideal for readers interested in contemporary creative writing with an emphasis on eerie, mysterious, and uncanny themes.

The strangely familiar. The alien within the home. Therepressed impulse. Bloodsucking counts in castles. Dismembered limbs. Waxmodels of famous figures. Trying to find a lost car in a parking lot. Beinggiven seat E21 at the cinema when you live at 21 Rose Grove and your 21stbirthday was last week. Doppelgngers, ghosts, dej vu.

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The strangely familiar. The alien within the home. The repressed impulse. Bloodsucking counts in castles. Dismembered limbs. Wax models of famous figures. Trying to find a lost car in a parking lot. Being given seat E21 at the cinema when you live at 21 Rose Grove and your 21st birthday was last week. Doppelgängers, ghosts, déjà vu.

This is the fourteenth issue of Monash University's creative writing journal, Verge 2019.

Established and emerging writers have come together to fill this collection with poems, flash fiction, creative non-fiction and short stories that converge on the theme of the uncanny.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781925835373

Publisher: Monash University Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 June 2019

Country: Australia

Imprint: Monash University Publishing

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by Stephen Downes
Edited by Calvin Fung
Edited by Amaryllis Gacioppo

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 350g

Pages: 224

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction

About the Author

Stephen Downes was this year awarded a PhD in creative writing from Monash University. His thesis investigates the influence of the uncanny and nostalgia on the prose fictions of the German writer W. G. Sebald. He has published some dozen non-fiction books, and a few have won prizes and been translated. His short story ‘Anniversary’ was selected for the UNESCO Cities of Literature anthology A Tale of Four Cities. Also a short story, ‘The Sausage Caper’ was shortlisted for the 2018 British Bridport Short Story Prize. Calvin Fung likes to think his passion for Gothic literature is what strong-armed the other editors into agreeing with the theme of the uncanny for this year’s Verge. He is in his second year of his creative writing PhD on Hong Kong Gothic literature. He was the highest-placed Monash University entrant of the 2017 Monash Prize. He is co-editor-in-chief of Colloquy: Text, Theory, Critique. Amaryllis Gacioppo is an Australian writer. Recently she completed a joint PhD in creative writing with Monash University and the University of Bologna. In 2015 her story ‘Dreams’ won the Lord Mayor of Melbourne Award for Short Story. She has been shortlisted for various awards, including the Bristol Short Story Prize and the Scribe Nonfiction Prize. Her stories and essays have appeared in publications across Australia, the UK and the US.