Francesca Rendle-Short is an award-winning novelist, memoirist and essayist, and creative research scholar.
Francesca Rendle Short. Image credit - Sholto Buck.
Francesca Rendle-Short has over 30 years of professional practice as an academic and in the creative industries. As a professor of creative writing at RMIT and Associate Dean Writing and Publishing (2017-2022) she helped to lead and advocate for the discipline from undergraduate degree to PhD. With David Carlin she co-founded the non/fictionLab research group in 2013 and is the co-founder and co-director of WrICE (Writers Immersion and Cultural Exchange).
Francesca’s writing and research focusses on getting in/under the skin, prepositionally speaking. It plays with form as well as content, is experimental, idiosyncratic and playful in nature, attentive to whimsy and transgression. Refusing the exegesis model, her Doctor of Creative Arts in 2009 took an eisegesis approach to creative research based on ‘loose thinking’ and faulty interpretation. Since then, she has developed her research and writing practice led by ideas of drawing-as-breathing, nonfiction-as-unconvention and/or queer-aesthetic, prepositional thinking, with/ness as cultural exchange, and communitas as method in creative writing. With Quinn Eades, Francesca is making a longitudinal ‘we-world’ (Jean Luc-Nancy), a collective, a communitas in a blackout collaborative poetry project of making and remaking called ‘We are making a boat, love’. She is Co-CI on the ARC Discovery: Connecting Asia-Pacific Literary Cultures: Grounds, Encounter and Exchange (2012–2024). Her seven books include co-editing A-Z of Creative Writing Methods (Bloomsbury) and the forthcoming Creative Writing as Cultural Exchange (Bloomsbury). Her work can be viewed in the following places
https://connectingliterarycultures.squarespace.com/
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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.