DDCA Symposium, Melbourne 2015 (photo Ken Miller)
SHORT PROSE
The Digestion of History
GriffithREVIEW Edition 39 – ‘Tasmania: the Tipping Point?’ Autumn 2013 GriffithREVIEW
Sighting Rottnest
GriffithREVIEW Edition 34 – The Annual Fiction Edition, Summer 2011 GriffithREVIEW
The Bone Garden
GriffithREVIEW Edition 31 ‘Ways of Seeing’, Autumn 2011 download The Bone Garden
How to be Unaustralian
Wet Ink Issue 8, Spring 2007 download How to be Unaustralian
The Red Shoes
Island No 99, January 2005 download The Red Shoes Hear me read this on The Storycast
Deck the Hall with Poison Ivy
Cracker, Wakefield Press 2003
The Attraction of Mountains
Meanjin Volume 60 Number 4, 2001 download The Attraction of Mountains
Vi’s Story
Single Voice , SAWT/Australian Association for the Teaching of English 1997
ESSAYS
Tiptoeing Through the Spinifex: White representations of Aboriginal characters
dotlit http://www.dotlit.qut.edu.au/ Vol 6 Issue 1, August 2007 download Tiptoeing Through the Spinifex
Circling With Ghosts: the search for redemption
Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Spectres, Screens, Shadows, Mirrors: JASAL Special Issue 2007 download Circling with Ghosts
POETRY
Going Home
Cottesloe in Poetry, The Cottesloe Society 2000 download Going Home
Ageing Gracefully download
Esperance download
Flotsam download
Passion in Our Mouths Volume 2, ASP House Publishing 1999
The Whales
Tarantella, Tantrum Press 1993 download The Whales
REVIEWS
Who Are We?
Blue Dog Vol 5, No 9, June 2006 download Who We Are
Anna the Goanna
Australian Book Review No. 224, Sept 2000 download review For more about Jill McDougall: www.jillmcdougall.com.au
OCCASIONAL WRITING
Letter to The Monthly in response to Robert Manne June 2008
ONLINEMONTHLY
Board’s Eye View (South Australian Writers’ Centre):
The Arts of Waiting and Softball
PRIZES
The First Week
Winner 2012 Wakefield Unpublished Manuscript Award, Adelaide Writers’ Week
Shortlisted, 2007 Varuna Unpublished Manuscript Award
Shortlisted for the Barbara Jefferis Award 2014, Australian Society of Authors.
Shortlisted for the Glenda Adams New Writing category of the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2014.
Shortlisted for the Onkaparinga People’s Choice Award 2015
Longlisted for a Nita Dobbie Award 2014
The Laboratory
Shortlisted, 2004 SA Festival Awards (Award for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Writer)
Winner, 2002 Driftwood Manuscript Prize, University of Adelaide
Who Are We? (review of Drums and Bonnets by Miriel Lenore)
Reviewing Award shortlist, 2006 Blue Dog
Anna the Goanna (review of book by Jill McDougall)
Reviewing Award prize winner, 2000 Australian Book Review
Vi’s Story
Prize winner, 1995 South Australian Writers’ Theatre Inc Monologue Competition
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Smoke and Mirrors: getting personal in the academy.
The Outstanding Field, Artistic Research Emerging from the Academy, Directors and Deans of Creative Arts (DDCA), VCA March 2015
Unable to Sit Still: Journeying in Joan London’s Gilgamesh
Thinking Society, Thinking Culture, First Annual Symposium on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Western Australia, UWA Sept 2007
Circling With Ghosts: the search for redemption
Spectres, Screens, Shadows, Mirrors, Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Perth, July 2006
Apportioning Or Resisting Blame: Story-telling About Damage to the Land
Writing Across Cultures: fiction, history, memory, Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Adelaide, July 2005
Writing Or Not Writing About Aboriginal Presence Or Absence
The Practitioner’s Art: juggling roles, Australian Association of Writing Programmes, Adelaide, November 2004
THESES
Shame: Searching for Redemption in the Australian Story
PhD thesis 2008, available Flinders University Library http://www.flinders.edu.au/library
The Laboratory
MA thesis/novel 2002, available Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide http://www.adelaide.edu.au/library
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