The non/fictionLab is an interdisciplinary research ecology bringing together creative experimentation, critical practice and social engagement: we aim to reimagine and transform contemporary realities through language, mediations, poetics and collaborations
The non/fictionLab is an interdisciplinary Research Group in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. Closely aligned with the discipline of Writing and Publishing, the Lab focuses on research into writing and allied creative arts and design practices.
non/fictionLab acknowledges the people of the Woi warrung and Boon warrung language groups of the eastern Kulin nations on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. Lab members respectfully acknowledge their Ancestors and Elders, past and present and the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we live, walk, shelter and conduct our business.
We foster collaborative research projects in partnership with fellow scholars and artists, and with industries and communities, local and international. We provide support for emerging researchers and a growing community of research students.
non/fictionLab helps create events, projects, programs and public presentations that feature a diverse range of local and international writers, artists and academics, to contribute to critical contemporary debates and dialogues.
This theme looks at how dynamics of power play out across bodies, time, narratives and institutions.
This theme encourages engagement with interdisciplinary ways of knowing, including play scholarship from ludology, psychology, literary studies or biology.
This theme explores the possibilities of place, belonging, language and the transnational, including Indigenous language revitalisation and maintenance, through literary, screen and other creative works.
This theme looks at how writing and publishing can engage with other disciplines and knowledges to create new imaginings of histories, ecologies and futures.
Spirits of Resistance: Collective Practices of Freedom in Behrouz Boochani’s Prison Writings
Lab member Rebecca Hill was a speaker at the Philosophy Seminar, University of Queensland.
Reading Publics: Modern England, Critical Reception of Descartes Passions of the Soul
Maks Sipowicz was in conversation with Linda Daley, as part of the non/fictionLab's Reading Publics series at the Urban Writing House at RMIT University on 26 September 2024.
hyper-local is a creative practice research collaboration initiated by Eugenia Flynn and James Oliver. The collaboration is an expanded writing and publication/s practice, oriented within (and as) a global archipelago of storied practice and practices of story. It has ethical, methodological, and thematic priorities of: place-based research and emplaced practice; islandness and archipelagic thinking; cultural correspondences and translation; Indigenous Practice Research; ecological and decolonial ethics.
non/FictionLab's collaboration with Mekong Review, a leading Asia-Pacific publication.
We commissioned a series of paired works with pitches coming in from all across Asia. The first pairing of the series is out now - it's a piece of short fiction titled 'By The Canal' by Noelle De Jesus and Linda Collins.
Asia-Pacific Experiments in Creative Writing A warm, lively, inclusive space of dialogue and conversation, both creative and scholarly, addressing questions of ethical encounter and exchange in creative writing and the arts across the Asia-Pacific.
non/fictionLab X Landfall 'Making Space' collaboration
The non/fictionLab and the prestigious Aotearao-based journal Landfall have come together to produce a series of essays on the topic of 'making space'. The essays are trans-Tasman collaborations; each includes at least one writer with connections to Aotearoa and at least one with connections to Australia.
Spirits of Resistance: Collective Practices of Freedom in Behrouz Boochani’s Prison Writings
Lab member Rebecca Hill was a speaker at the Philosophy Seminar, University of Queensland.
Reading Publics: Modern England, Critical Reception of Descartes Passions of the Soul
Maks Sipowicz was in conversation with Linda Daley, as part of the non/fictionLab's Reading Publics series at the Urban Writing House at RMIT University on 26 September 2024.
hyper-local is a creative practice research collaboration initiated by Eugenia Flynn and James Oliver. The collaboration is an expanded writing and publication/s practice, oriented within (and as) a global archipelago of storied practice and practices of story. It has ethical, methodological, and thematic priorities of: place-based research and emplaced practice; islandness and archipelagic thinking; cultural correspondences and translation; Indigenous Practice Research; ecological and decolonial ethics.
non/FictionLab's collaboration with Mekong Review, a leading Asia-Pacific publication.
We commissioned a series of paired works with pitches coming in from all across Asia. The first pairing of the series is out now - it's a piece of short fiction titled 'By The Canal' by Noelle De Jesus and Linda Collins.
Asia-Pacific Experiments in Creative Writing A warm, lively, inclusive space of dialogue and conversation, both creative and scholarly, addressing questions of ethical encounter and exchange in creative writing and the arts across the Asia-Pacific.
non/fictionLab X Landfall 'Making Space' collaboration
The non/fictionLab and the prestigious Aotearao-based journal Landfall have come together to produce a series of essays on the topic of 'making space'. The essays are trans-Tasman collaborations; each includes at least one writer with connections to Aotearoa and at least one with connections to Australia.
Some of non/fictionLab’s current research projects and activities, ranging from ARC funded research through to public engagement programs.
Find out more about some of the recent publications written by our researchers.
The non/fictionLab is home to a lively group of more than 60 PhD, Masters and Honours candidates in creative writing, design, media, literary studies and allied fields.
Co-Directors:
Associate Professor Brigid Magner
brigid.magner@rmit.edu.au
Associate Professor Jessica Wilkinson
jessica.wilkinson@rmit.edu.au
Our researchers connect, create and share expertise and resources in our Research Centres and collaborations.
Together with our partners we develop and apply knowledge to shape a better world.
RMIT builds partnerships to have a positive impact in the world. We form multi-disciplinary teams with government, community, industry and researchers to deliver innovative solutions.
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.
