Francesca Rendle-Short
Francesca Rendle-Short is an award-winning novelist, memoirist, and essayist. Her books include two anthologies of Asian-Pacific and Australian writing The Near and the Far (Vol I and II; Scribe Publications) and the acclaimed novel-cum-memoir Bite Your Tongue (Spinifex Press). Francesca is Professor of Creative Writing and Associate Dean Writing and Publishing in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. She is co-founder of the non/fictionLab research group and WrICE (Writers Immersion and Cultural Exchange).
All essays by Francesca Rendle-Short
Kin-as-Ethics: experiments in un/authorised queer essay practice
As I begin to write kin and ethics a dear writing friend corresponds with me in messages about writing and love and rallying and the idea of being ‘inside the between’ when we come close how there is a ‘turning there’ how it is ‘the both of us’ and how the work of language of prepositions and prepositional thinking opens derring-do to a means of queering and transing language that becomes possible.