Verge 2020
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Publication Date: Aug 2020
RRP: $29.95
ISBN: 9781925835847
Format: Paperback
Size: 153mm x 234mm
Pages: 208
Category: Verge - Creative Writing

Verge 2020

Ritual

Edited by Rebecca Bryson, Benjamin Jay and Giulia Mastrantoni

Navigating obsessions, commemorating loved ones, cooking a meal, drinking with friends, picking at our bodies, reckoning with our choices, finding ways to connect, finding ways to exist in a world that doesn’t always accommodate us. Rituals give shape to our days and punctuate our years. It’s the large ones we remember the most, but it’s the small ones that carve out our lives for us.

This year’s theme resonated with so many creative writers in all different, wonderful ways. Our contributors picked through their lives, minds and imaginations to bring creative pieces spanning various genres and forms. Some will break your heart, while others will make you laugh. Most will do both.

Rebecca Bryson

Rebecca Bryson is a writer, researcher and editor who is currently completing a PhD in Creative Writing at Monash University. After having worked in the publishing industry for eight years, she threw caution to the wind and decided to delve into...
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Benjamin Jay

Benjamin Jay is a writer and editor for a number of interdisciplinary journals in the Literary and Cultural Studies Graduate Research Program at Monash University, where he is currently completing a PhD in Creative Writing. His research focus is on representations...
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Giulia Mastrantoni

Giulia Mastrantoni is currently completing a PhD at Monash University. Her research investigates how to better represent sexual violence in fiction, nonfiction, and creative nonfiction. She is co-editor-in-chief of Colloquy, a committee member for the Victorian Postgraduate Criminology Conference, and a...
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