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MELISSA FAGAN
Melissa Fagan is the author of What Will Be Worn: A McWhirters story, freelance writer and editor, based in Brisbane, the Gold Coast, andbeyond.
WRITING | MELISSA FAGAN I’m writing it as a series of theme-based essays that (I hope will) interweave to form a narrative. It’s about a family business, specifically the business of selling women’s clothes and household goods in the first half of the twentieth century: a family rising to prominence, then falling from grace, as BLOG | MELISSA FAGAN Permalink. In early 2016 I went to Bali for a friend’s 40th birthday. I was to meet a group of friends from all over the world for a week of sun, sea, seafood and Bintang. I went over early, renting an . Read more →. Oct 18. Part elegy, part bildungsroman, PattiSmith’s Just
SHORT FICTION
Short fiction. My short story ‘The day the world stayed the same’ was joint runner-up in the 2012 Overland Victoria University Short Story prize, and featured in Overland 209. My story ‘Gift shop at the end of the Earth’ featured in annual prose anthology, 6, in 2012. You can order yourself aNONFICTION WRITING
Books. What Will Be Worn: A McWhirters story published by Transit Lounge in 2018.; Essays & Reviews ‘A spy in the family’ published in Within/Without These Walls, an anthology published in September 2018 in association with Brisbane Open House 2018.; The longest road out is the shortest road home: my pathway to publication, published by WQ (Writing Queensland) in June 2018. WHAT WILL BE WORN: A MCWHIRTERS STORY What Will Be Worn: a McWhirters story is about my mother’s family, the McWhirters, who once owned the Fortitude Valley department store of the same name. At the close of World War Two, thanks to multiple inheritances, my grandfather Stirling was McWhirters’ largest individual shareholder. In February 1946, my grandmother Joan wasnamed one
ON GETTING PUBLISHED Its origin is Irish, apparently, not Chinese, at least that’s what Google tells me. According to the Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, ‘The longest road out is the shortest road home’ means that the detour may turn out to be quicker than the straight route.It means time and effort will eventually be rewarded. INTERTIDAL | SURFING AND PLACE | AN IMMERSIVE CREATIVE My creative writing PhD project, working title Intertidal, is a book-length work of creative nonfiction comprised of a series of personal essays.My approach is autoethnographic and immersive; my aim is to create new understanding not only through travel and observation, but also by swimming and surfing in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and The Black and North Seas. READING ELENA FERRANTE Reading Ferrante: a masterclass in storytelling. In early 2016 I went to Bali for a friend’s 40th birthday. I was to meet a group of friends from all over the world for a week of sun, sea, seafood and Bintang. I went over early, renting an Airbnb villa on the outskirts of Ubud for a few days – some downtime before meeting up with thecrew.
GOODBYE TO ALL THAT: ON MAD MEN AND JOAN DIDION I want to talk about Mad Men and its Didionesque gaze. The gaze has always been there, most obviously in the series’ sidelong glances at California, where the warm golden light and desert haze renders everything hyperreal.MELISSA FAGAN
Melissa Fagan is the author of What Will Be Worn: A McWhirters story, freelance writer and editor, based in Brisbane, the Gold Coast, andbeyond.
WRITING | MELISSA FAGAN I’m writing it as a series of theme-based essays that (I hope will) interweave to form a narrative. It’s about a family business, specifically the business of selling women’s clothes and household goods in the first half of the twentieth century: a family rising to prominence, then falling from grace, as BLOG | MELISSA FAGAN Permalink. In early 2016 I went to Bali for a friend’s 40th birthday. I was to meet a group of friends from all over the world for a week of sun, sea, seafood and Bintang. I went over early, renting an . Read more →. Oct 18. Part elegy, part bildungsroman, PattiSmith’s Just
SHORT FICTION
Short fiction. My short story ‘The day the world stayed the same’ was joint runner-up in the 2012 Overland Victoria University Short Story prize, and featured in Overland 209. My story ‘Gift shop at the end of the Earth’ featured in annual prose anthology, 6, in 2012. You can order yourself aNONFICTION WRITING
Books. What Will Be Worn: A McWhirters story published by Transit Lounge in 2018.; Essays & Reviews ‘A spy in the family’ published in Within/Without These Walls, an anthology published in September 2018 in association with Brisbane Open House 2018.; The longest road out is the shortest road home: my pathway to publication, published by WQ (Writing Queensland) in June 2018. WHAT WILL BE WORN: A MCWHIRTERS STORY What Will Be Worn: a McWhirters story is about my mother’s family, the McWhirters, who once owned the Fortitude Valley department store of the same name. At the close of World War Two, thanks to multiple inheritances, my grandfather Stirling was McWhirters’ largest individual shareholder. In February 1946, my grandmother Joan wasnamed one
ON GETTING PUBLISHED Its origin is Irish, apparently, not Chinese, at least that’s what Google tells me. According to the Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, ‘The longest road out is the shortest road home’ means that the detour may turn out to be quicker than the straight route.It means time and effort will eventually be rewarded. INTERTIDAL | SURFING AND PLACE | AN IMMERSIVE CREATIVE My creative writing PhD project, working title Intertidal, is a book-length work of creative nonfiction comprised of a series of personal essays.My approach is autoethnographic and immersive; my aim is to create new understanding not only through travel and observation, but also by swimming and surfing in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and The Black and North Seas. READING ELENA FERRANTE Reading Ferrante: a masterclass in storytelling. In early 2016 I went to Bali for a friend’s 40th birthday. I was to meet a group of friends from all over the world for a week of sun, sea, seafood and Bintang. I went over early, renting an Airbnb villa on the outskirts of Ubud for a few days – some downtime before meeting up with thecrew.
GOODBYE TO ALL THAT: ON MAD MEN AND JOAN DIDION I want to talk about Mad Men and its Didionesque gaze. The gaze has always been there, most obviously in the series’ sidelong glances at California, where the warm golden light and desert haze renders everything hyperreal. CONTACT | MELISSA FAGAN To contact me, please send me an email at melissa (dot) jane (dot) fagan (at) gmail (dot) com. I’m also on Twitter, sort of. You canfind me here
BOOK REVIEW ARCHIVES Part elegy, part bildungsroman, Patti Smith’s Just Kids, winner of the National Book Award for Non-Fiction in 2010, recounts the formative years in the lives of Patti and Robert Mapplethorpe, lovers and friends, muses and makers. BRISBANE COPYWRITER, EDITOR, CONTENT PRODUCER As a copywriter my mantra is: good stories, well told. I write for clients in Brisbane and beyond, in sectors including travel, not-for-profit, and medical. WHAT WILL BE WORN ARCHIVES Throughout September, October and November, I will be out and about in Queensland and New South Wales doing some What Will Be Worn events. Join me in Sydney, the Sunshine Coast, Mount Tamborine, Ispwich orBrisbane!
BOOK REVIEW: JUST KIDS Part elegy, part bildungsroman, Patti Smith’s Just Kids, winner of the National Book Award for Non-Fiction in 2010, recounts the formative years in the lives of Patti and Robert Mapplethorpe, lovers and friends, muses and makers.. In 1966, while studying teaching at a State College in New Jersey, nineteen-year-old Patti Smith fell pregnant after sleeping with a boy “even more callow than I BOOK REVIEW: THE GHOST AT THE WEDDING The Ghost at the Wedding, Shirley Walker’s 2010 memoir of her mother-in-law Jessie, explores the devastating impact the First and Second World Wars had on the soldiers themselves, as well as the women left at home. She does so with deftness and subtlety, in a beautifully-rendered “imaginative reconstruction” of herfamily’s truth.
LOST AND FOUND IN AMERICA: INTO THE WILD AND WILD Lost and Found in America: Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild and Cheryl Strayed’s Wild. In May 1990, after graduating from Emory University, 22-year-old Chris McCandless told his parents he was taking a road trip. ‘I think I’m going to disappear for a while,’ he said. Over the next few months he abandoned his car in a riverbed, gave whatBOOK REVIEW
Children are always episodes in someone else’s narrative, not their own people, but brought forth into being for particular purposes. So wrote historian Carolyn Steedman in her 1986 memoir Landscape for a Good Woman: A Story of Two Lives,which contrasts two working class childhoods – her mother’s in 1920s Burnley, and her own in 1950s South London – in a work that is a mélange of GOODBYE TO ALL THAT: ON MAD MEN AND JOAN DIDION I want to talk about Mad Men and its Didionesque gaze. The gaze has always been there, most obviously in the series’ sidelong glances at California, where the warm golden light and desert haze renders everything hyperreal. 'EVERYONE THOUGHT I WAS CRAZY untrained Injuries are rife. In the year Costello competed in the event, 34 riders started the race but only 18 finished - Costelloamong them.
MELISSA FAGAN
Melissa Fagan is the author of What Will Be Worn: A McWhirters story, freelance writer and editor, based in Brisbane, the Gold Coast, andbeyond.
WRITING | MELISSA FAGAN I’m writing it as a series of theme-based essays that (I hope will) interweave to form a narrative. It’s about a family business, specifically the business of selling women’s clothes and household goods in the first half of the twentieth century: a family rising to prominence, then falling from grace, as BLOG | MELISSA FAGAN Permalink. In early 2016 I went to Bali for a friend’s 40th birthday. I was to meet a group of friends from all over the world for a week of sun, sea, seafood and Bintang. I went over early, renting an . Read more →. Oct 18. Part elegy, part bildungsroman, PattiSmith’s Just
SHORT FICTION
Short fiction. My short story ‘The day the world stayed the same’ was joint runner-up in the 2012 Overland Victoria University Short Story prize, and featured in Overland 209. My story ‘Gift shop at the end of the Earth’ featured in annual prose anthology, 6, in 2012. You can order yourself aNONFICTION WRITING
Books. What Will Be Worn: A McWhirters story published by Transit Lounge in 2018.; Essays & Reviews ‘A spy in the family’ published in Within/Without These Walls, an anthology published in September 2018 in association with Brisbane Open House 2018.; The longest road out is the shortest road home: my pathway to publication, published by WQ (Writing Queensland) in June 2018. CONTACT | MELISSA FAGAN To contact me, please send me an email at melissa (dot) jane (dot) fagan (at) gmail (dot) com. I’m also on Twitter, sort of. You canfind me here
ON GETTING PUBLISHED Its origin is Irish, apparently, not Chinese, at least that’s what Google tells me. According to the Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, ‘The longest road out is the shortest road home’ means that the detour may turn out to be quicker than the straight route.It means time and effort will eventually be rewarded. WHAT WILL BE WORN: A MCWHIRTERS STORY What Will Be Worn is about my mother's family, the McWhirters, who owned the Fortitude Valley department store. Out through Transit Lounge September 2018. BOOK REVIEW: JUST KIDS Part elegy, part bildungsroman, Patti Smith’s Just Kids, winner of the National Book Award for Non-Fiction in 2010, recounts the formative years in the lives of Patti and Robert Mapplethorpe, lovers and friends, muses and makers.. In 1966, while studying teaching at a State College in New Jersey, nineteen-year-old Patti Smith fell pregnant after sleeping with a boy “even more callow than I READING ELENA FERRANTE Reading Ferrante: a masterclass in storytelling. In early 2016 I went to Bali for a friend’s 40th birthday. I was to meet a group of friends from all over the world for a week of sun, sea, seafood and Bintang. I went over early, renting an Airbnb villa on the outskirts of Ubud for a few days – some downtime before meeting up with thecrew.
MELISSA FAGAN
Melissa Fagan is the author of What Will Be Worn: A McWhirters story, freelance writer and editor, based in Brisbane, the Gold Coast, andbeyond.
WRITING | MELISSA FAGAN I’m writing it as a series of theme-based essays that (I hope will) interweave to form a narrative. It’s about a family business, specifically the business of selling women’s clothes and household goods in the first half of the twentieth century: a family rising to prominence, then falling from grace, as BLOG | MELISSA FAGAN Permalink. In early 2016 I went to Bali for a friend’s 40th birthday. I was to meet a group of friends from all over the world for a week of sun, sea, seafood and Bintang. I went over early, renting an . Read more →. Oct 18. Part elegy, part bildungsroman, PattiSmith’s Just
SHORT FICTION
Short fiction. My short story ‘The day the world stayed the same’ was joint runner-up in the 2012 Overland Victoria University Short Story prize, and featured in Overland 209. My story ‘Gift shop at the end of the Earth’ featured in annual prose anthology, 6, in 2012. You can order yourself aNONFICTION WRITING
Books. What Will Be Worn: A McWhirters story published by Transit Lounge in 2018.; Essays & Reviews ‘A spy in the family’ published in Within/Without These Walls, an anthology published in September 2018 in association with Brisbane Open House 2018.; The longest road out is the shortest road home: my pathway to publication, published by WQ (Writing Queensland) in June 2018. CONTACT | MELISSA FAGAN To contact me, please send me an email at melissa (dot) jane (dot) fagan (at) gmail (dot) com. I’m also on Twitter, sort of. You canfind me here
ON GETTING PUBLISHED Its origin is Irish, apparently, not Chinese, at least that’s what Google tells me. According to the Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, ‘The longest road out is the shortest road home’ means that the detour may turn out to be quicker than the straight route.It means time and effort will eventually be rewarded. WHAT WILL BE WORN: A MCWHIRTERS STORY What Will Be Worn is about my mother's family, the McWhirters, who owned the Fortitude Valley department store. Out through Transit Lounge September 2018. BOOK REVIEW: JUST KIDS Part elegy, part bildungsroman, Patti Smith’s Just Kids, winner of the National Book Award for Non-Fiction in 2010, recounts the formative years in the lives of Patti and Robert Mapplethorpe, lovers and friends, muses and makers.. In 1966, while studying teaching at a State College in New Jersey, nineteen-year-old Patti Smith fell pregnant after sleeping with a boy “even more callow than I READING ELENA FERRANTE Reading Ferrante: a masterclass in storytelling. In early 2016 I went to Bali for a friend’s 40th birthday. I was to meet a group of friends from all over the world for a week of sun, sea, seafood and Bintang. I went over early, renting an Airbnb villa on the outskirts of Ubud for a few days – some downtime before meeting up with thecrew.
WRITING ARCHIVES
The Ghost at the Wedding, Shirley Walker’s 2010 memoir of her mother-in-law Jessie, explores the devastating impact the First and Second World Wars had on the soldiers themselves, as well as the womenleft at home.
CONTACT | MELISSA FAGAN To contact me, please send me an email at melissa (dot) jane (dot) fagan (at) gmail (dot) com. I’m also on Twitter, sort of. You canfind me here
BOOK REVIEW ARCHIVES Part elegy, part bildungsroman, Patti Smith’s Just Kids, winner of the National Book Award for Non-Fiction in 2010, recounts the formative years in the lives of Patti and Robert Mapplethorpe, lovers and friends, muses and makers. BRISBANE COPYWRITER, EDITOR, CONTENT PRODUCER As a copywriter my mantra is: good stories, well told. I write for clients in Brisbane and beyond, in sectors including travel, not-for-profit, and medical. WHAT WILL BE WORN ARCHIVES Throughout September, October and November, I will be out and about in Queensland and New South Wales doing some What Will Be Worn events. Join me in Sydney, the Sunshine Coast, Mount Tamborine, Ispwich orBrisbane!
LOST AND FOUND IN AMERICA: INTO THE WILD AND WILD Lost and Found in America: Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild and Cheryl Strayed’s Wild. In May 1990, after graduating from Emory University, 22-year-old Chris McCandless told his parents he was taking a road trip. ‘I think I’m going to disappear for a while,’ he said. Over the next few months he abandoned his car in a riverbed, gave whatGOLD COAST ARCHIVES
If you’re interested in hearing more about What Will Be Worn: A McWhirters Story come along to one of these author talks. So far in 2019, I’ve spoken about What Will be Worn at events in Brisbane, Maleny, Maryborough, andBOOK REVIEW
Children are always episodes in someone else’s narrative, not their own people, but brought forth into being for particular purposes. So wrote historian Carolyn Steedman in her 1986 memoir Landscape for a Good Woman: A Story of Two Lives,which contrasts two working class childhoods – her mother’s in 1920s Burnley, and her own in 1950s South London – in a work that is a mélange of GOODBYE TO ALL THAT: ON MAD MEN AND JOAN DIDION I want to talk about Mad Men and its Didionesque gaze. The gaze has always been there, most obviously in the series’ sidelong glances at California, where the warm golden light and desert haze renders everything hyperreal. 'EVERYONE THOUGHT I WAS CRAZY untrained Injuries are rife. In the year Costello competed in the event, 34 riders started the race but only 18 finished - Costelloamong them.
MELISSA FAGAN
I am an author, freelance writer and editor, currently based in Coolangatta, in Yugambeh–Bundjalung country, on the border of Queensland and New South Wales. My memoir What Will Be Worn: A McWhirters story was published by Transit Lounge in September 2018. What Will Be Worn is about five generations of women in my mother’sfamily, centred
WRITING | MELISSA FAGAN I’m writing it as a series of theme-based essays that (I hope will) interweave to form a narrative. It’s about a family business, specifically the business of selling women’s clothes and household goods in the first half of the twentieth century: a family rising to prominence, then falling from grace, as BLOG | MELISSA FAGAN Permalink. In early 2016 I went to Bali for a friend’s 40th birthday. I was to meet a group of friends from all over the world for a week of sun, sea, seafood and Bintang. I went over early, renting an . Read more →. Oct 18. Part elegy, part bildungsroman, PattiSmith’s Just
SHORT FICTION
Short fiction. My short story ‘The day the world stayed the same’ was joint runner-up in the 2012 Overland Victoria University Short Story prize, and featured in Overland 209. My story ‘Gift shop at the end of the Earth’ featured in annual prose anthology, 6, in 2012. You can order yourself aNONFICTION WRITING
Books. What Will Be Worn: A McWhirters story published by Transit Lounge in 2018.; Essays & Reviews ‘A spy in the family’ published in Within/Without These Walls, an anthology published in September 2018 in association with Brisbane Open House 2018.; The longest road out is the shortest road home: my pathway to publication, published by WQ (Writing Queensland) in June 2018.WRITING ARCHIVES
The Ghost at the Wedding, Shirley Walker’s 2010 memoir of her mother-in-law Jessie, explores the devastating impact the First and Second World Wars had on the soldiers themselves, as well as the womenleft at home.
WHAT WILL BE WORN: A MCWHIRTERS STORY What Will Be Worn: a McWhirters story is about my mother’s family, the McWhirters, who once owned the Fortitude Valley department store of the same name. At the close of World War Two, thanks to multiple inheritances, my grandfather Stirling was McWhirters’ largest individual shareholder. In February 1946, my grandmother Joan wasnamed one
BRISBANE COPYWRITER, EDITOR, CONTENT PRODUCER As a copywriter my mantra is: good stories, well told. I write for clients in Brisbane and beyond, in sectors including travel, not-for-profit, and medical. ON GETTING PUBLISHED Its origin is Irish, apparently, not Chinese, at least that’s what Google tells me. According to the Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, ‘The longest road out is the shortest road home’ means that the detour may turn out to be quicker than the straight route.It means time and effort will eventually be rewarded. READING ELENA FERRANTE Reading Ferrante: a masterclass in storytelling. In early 2016 I went to Bali for a friend’s 40th birthday. I was to meet a group of friends from all over the world for a week of sun, sea, seafood and Bintang. I went over early, renting an Airbnb villa on the outskirts of Ubud for a few days – some downtime before meeting up with thecrew.
MELISSA FAGAN
I am an author, freelance writer and editor, currently based in Coolangatta, in Yugambeh–Bundjalung country, on the border of Queensland and New South Wales. My memoir What Will Be Worn: A McWhirters story was published by Transit Lounge in September 2018. What Will Be Worn is about five generations of women in my mother’sfamily, centred
WRITING | MELISSA FAGAN I’m writing it as a series of theme-based essays that (I hope will) interweave to form a narrative. It’s about a family business, specifically the business of selling women’s clothes and household goods in the first half of the twentieth century: a family rising to prominence, then falling from grace, as BLOG | MELISSA FAGAN Permalink. In early 2016 I went to Bali for a friend’s 40th birthday. I was to meet a group of friends from all over the world for a week of sun, sea, seafood and Bintang. I went over early, renting an . Read more →. Oct 18. Part elegy, part bildungsroman, PattiSmith’s Just
SHORT FICTION
Short fiction. My short story ‘The day the world stayed the same’ was joint runner-up in the 2012 Overland Victoria University Short Story prize, and featured in Overland 209. My story ‘Gift shop at the end of the Earth’ featured in annual prose anthology, 6, in 2012. You can order yourself aNONFICTION WRITING
Books. What Will Be Worn: A McWhirters story published by Transit Lounge in 2018.; Essays & Reviews ‘A spy in the family’ published in Within/Without These Walls, an anthology published in September 2018 in association with Brisbane Open House 2018.; The longest road out is the shortest road home: my pathway to publication, published by WQ (Writing Queensland) in June 2018.WRITING ARCHIVES
The Ghost at the Wedding, Shirley Walker’s 2010 memoir of her mother-in-law Jessie, explores the devastating impact the First and Second World Wars had on the soldiers themselves, as well as the womenleft at home.
WHAT WILL BE WORN: A MCWHIRTERS STORY What Will Be Worn: a McWhirters story is about my mother’s family, the McWhirters, who once owned the Fortitude Valley department store of the same name. At the close of World War Two, thanks to multiple inheritances, my grandfather Stirling was McWhirters’ largest individual shareholder. In February 1946, my grandmother Joan wasnamed one
BRISBANE COPYWRITER, EDITOR, CONTENT PRODUCER As a copywriter my mantra is: good stories, well told. I write for clients in Brisbane and beyond, in sectors including travel, not-for-profit, and medical. ON GETTING PUBLISHED Its origin is Irish, apparently, not Chinese, at least that’s what Google tells me. According to the Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, ‘The longest road out is the shortest road home’ means that the detour may turn out to be quicker than the straight route.It means time and effort will eventually be rewarded. READING ELENA FERRANTE Reading Ferrante: a masterclass in storytelling. In early 2016 I went to Bali for a friend’s 40th birthday. I was to meet a group of friends from all over the world for a week of sun, sea, seafood and Bintang. I went over early, renting an Airbnb villa on the outskirts of Ubud for a few days – some downtime before meeting up with thecrew.
BOOK REVIEW ARCHIVES Part elegy, part bildungsroman, Patti Smith’s Just Kids, winner of the National Book Award for Non-Fiction in 2010, recounts the formative years in the lives of Patti and Robert Mapplethorpe, lovers and friends, muses and makers. CONTACT | MELISSA FAGAN To contact me, please send me an email at melissa (dot) jane (dot) fagan (at) gmail (dot) com. I’m also on Twitter, sort of. You canfind me here
WHAT WILL BE WORN ARCHIVES Throughout September, October and November, I will be out and about in Queensland and New South Wales doing some What Will Be Worn events. Join me in Sydney, the Sunshine Coast, Mount Tamborine, Ispwich orBrisbane!
BOOK REVIEW: JUST KIDS Part elegy, part bildungsroman, Patti Smith’s Just Kids, winner of the National Book Award for Non-Fiction in 2010, recounts the formative years in the lives of Patti and Robert Mapplethorpe, lovers and friends, muses and makers.. In 1966, while studying teaching at a State College in New Jersey, nineteen-year-old Patti Smith fell pregnant after sleeping with a boy “even more callow than I LOST AND FOUND IN AMERICA: INTO THE WILD AND WILD Lost and Found in America: Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild and Cheryl Strayed’s Wild. In May 1990, after graduating from Emory University, 22-year-old Chris McCandless told his parents he was taking a road trip. ‘I think I’m going to disappear for a while,’ he said. Over the next few months he abandoned his car in a riverbed, gave what BOOK REVIEW: THE GHOST AT THE WEDDING The Ghost at the Wedding, Shirley Walker’s 2010 memoir of her mother-in-law Jessie, explores the devastating impact the First and Second World Wars had on the soldiers themselves, as well as the women left at home. She does so with deftness and subtlety, in a beautifully-rendered “imaginative reconstruction” of herfamily’s truth.
BOOK REVIEW
Children are always episodes in someone else’s narrative, not their own people, but brought forth into being for particular purposes. So wrote historian Carolyn Steedman in her 1986 memoir Landscape for a Good Woman: A Story of Two Lives,which contrasts two working class childhoods – her mother’s in 1920s Burnley, and her own in 1950s South London – in a work that is a mélange of 'EVERYONE THOUGHT I WAS CRAZY untrained Injuries are rife. In the year Costello competed in the event, 34 riders started the race but only 18 finished - Costelloamong them.
WHAT WILL BE WORN EVENTS If you’re interested in hearing more about What Will Be Worn: A McWhirters Story come along to one of these author talks.. So far in 2019, I’ve spoken about What Will be Worn at events in Brisbane, Maleny, Maryborough, and the Gold Coast. More events in Brisbane, Thirroul and Hervey Bay coming up. I’ll be talking about the McWhirter family saga, the rise and fall of department stores GOODBYE TO ALL THAT: ON MAD MEN AND JOAN DIDION I want to talk about Mad Men and its Didionesque gaze. The gaze has always been there, most obviously in the series’ sidelong glances at California, where the warm golden light and desert haze renders everything hyperreal.MELISSA FAGAN
My award-winning fiction and nonfiction has been published in Overland, Kill Your Darlings, Meanjin, QWeekend and others. I am writing my current book, working title Intertidal, via a practice-led creative writing PhD within the Aberdeen-Curtin Alliance program. In a series of creative nonfiction essays, I am exploring the ways in which people and places are connected, and disconnected, by our BLOG | MELISSA FAGAN Part elegy, part bildungsroman, Patti Smith’s Just Kids, winner of the National Book Award for Non-Fiction in 2010, recounts the formative years in the lives of Patti and Robert Mapplethorpe, lovers and friends, muses and makers. WRITING | MELISSA FAGAN I am writing all sorts of things, for various reasons, and for amultitude of ends.
SHORT FICTION
My short story ‘The day the world stayed the same’ was joint runner-up in the 2012 Overland Victoria University Short Story prize, and featured in Overland 209.. My story ‘Gift shop at the end of the Earth’ featured in annual prose anthology, 6, in 2012. You can order yourself a copy here. My short story ‘I hope I never’ was published in the RMIT Professional Writing andNONFICTION WRITING
Books. What Will Be Worn: A McWhirters story published by Transit Lounge in 2018.; Essays & Reviews ‘A spy in the family’ published in Within/Without These Walls, an anthology published in September 2018 in association with Brisbane Open House 2018.; The longest road out is the shortest road home: my pathway to publication, published by WQ (Writing Queensland) in June 2018.WRITING ARCHIVES
The Ghost at the Wedding, Shirley Walker’s 2010 memoir of her mother-in-law Jessie, explores the devastating impact the First and Second World Wars had on the soldiers themselves, as well as the womenleft at home.
BRISBANE COPYWRITER, EDITOR, CONTENT PRODUCER As a copywriter my mantra is: good stories, well told. I write for clients in Brisbane and beyond, in sectors including travel, not-for-profit, and medical. WHAT WILL BE WORN: A MCWHIRTERS STORY What Will Be Worn is about my mother's family, the McWhirters, who owned the Fortitude Valley department store. Out through Transit Lounge September 2018. ON GETTING PUBLISHED Its origin is Irish, apparently, not Chinese, at least that’s what Google tells me. According to the Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, ‘The longest road out is the shortest road home’ means that the detour may turn out to be quicker than the straight route.It means time and effort will eventually be rewarded. READING ELENA FERRANTE Beginner writers are often told to "show don't tell". But if Elena Ferrante had taken this advice, the Neopolitan novels would be verydifferent books.
MELISSA FAGAN
My award-winning fiction and nonfiction has been published in Overland, Kill Your Darlings, Meanjin, QWeekend and others. I am writing my current book, working title Intertidal, via a practice-led creative writing PhD within the Aberdeen-Curtin Alliance program. In a series of creative nonfiction essays, I am exploring the ways in which people and places are connected, and disconnected, by our BLOG | MELISSA FAGAN Part elegy, part bildungsroman, Patti Smith’s Just Kids, winner of the National Book Award for Non-Fiction in 2010, recounts the formative years in the lives of Patti and Robert Mapplethorpe, lovers and friends, muses and makers. WRITING | MELISSA FAGAN I am writing all sorts of things, for various reasons, and for amultitude of ends.
SHORT FICTION
My short story ‘The day the world stayed the same’ was joint runner-up in the 2012 Overland Victoria University Short Story prize, and featured in Overland 209.. My story ‘Gift shop at the end of the Earth’ featured in annual prose anthology, 6, in 2012. You can order yourself a copy here. My short story ‘I hope I never’ was published in the RMIT Professional Writing andNONFICTION WRITING
Books. What Will Be Worn: A McWhirters story published by Transit Lounge in 2018.; Essays & Reviews ‘A spy in the family’ published in Within/Without These Walls, an anthology published in September 2018 in association with Brisbane Open House 2018.; The longest road out is the shortest road home: my pathway to publication, published by WQ (Writing Queensland) in June 2018.WRITING ARCHIVES
The Ghost at the Wedding, Shirley Walker’s 2010 memoir of her mother-in-law Jessie, explores the devastating impact the First and Second World Wars had on the soldiers themselves, as well as the womenleft at home.
BRISBANE COPYWRITER, EDITOR, CONTENT PRODUCER As a copywriter my mantra is: good stories, well told. I write for clients in Brisbane and beyond, in sectors including travel, not-for-profit, and medical. WHAT WILL BE WORN: A MCWHIRTERS STORY What Will Be Worn is about my mother's family, the McWhirters, who owned the Fortitude Valley department store. Out through Transit Lounge September 2018. ON GETTING PUBLISHED Its origin is Irish, apparently, not Chinese, at least that’s what Google tells me. According to the Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, ‘The longest road out is the shortest road home’ means that the detour may turn out to be quicker than the straight route.It means time and effort will eventually be rewarded. READING ELENA FERRANTE Beginner writers are often told to "show don't tell". But if Elena Ferrante had taken this advice, the Neopolitan novels would be verydifferent books.
BOOK REVIEW ARCHIVES Part elegy, part bildungsroman, Patti Smith’s Just Kids, winner of the National Book Award for Non-Fiction in 2010, recounts the formative years in the lives of Patti and Robert Mapplethorpe, lovers and friends, muses and makers. CONTACT | MELISSA FAGAN To contact me, please send me an email at melissa (dot) jane (dot) fagan (at) gmail (dot) com. I’m also on Twitter, sort of. You canfind me here
WHAT WILL BE WORN ARCHIVES Throughout September, October and November, I will be out and about in Queensland and New South Wales doing some What Will Be Worn events. Join me in Sydney, the Sunshine Coast, Mount Tamborine, Ispwich orBrisbane!
BOOK REVIEW: JUST KIDS Part elegy, part bildungsroman, Patti Smith’s Just Kids, winner of the National Book Award for Non-Fiction in 2010, recounts the formative years in the lives of Patti and Robert Mapplethorpe, lovers and friends, muses and makers.. In 1966, while studying teaching at a State College in New Jersey, nineteen-year-old Patti Smith fell pregnant after sleeping with a boy “even more callow than I BOOK REVIEW: THE GHOST AT THE WEDDING The Ghost at the Wedding, Shirley Walker’s 2010 memoir of her mother-in-law Jessie, explores the devastating impact the First and Second World Wars had on the soldiers themselves, as well as the women left at home. She does so with deftness and subtlety, in a beautifully-rendered “imaginative reconstruction” of herfamily’s truth.
BOOK REVIEW
Children are always episodes in someone else’s narrative, not their own people, but brought forth into being for particular purposes. So wrote historian Carolyn Steedman in her 1986 memoir Landscape for a Good Woman: A Story of Two Lives,which contrasts two working class childhoods – her mother’s in 1920s Burnley, and her own in 1950s South London – in a work that is a mélange of LOST AND FOUND IN AMERICA: INTO THE WILD AND WILD In May 1990, after graduating from Emory University, 22-year-old Chris McCandless told his parents he was taking a road trip. ‘I think I’m going to disappear for a while,’ he said. 'EVERYONE THOUGHT I WAS CRAZY untrained Injuries are rife. In the year Costello competed in the event, 34 riders started the race but only 18 finished - Costelloamong them.
WHAT WILL BE WORN EVENTS If you’re interested in hearing more about What Will Be Worn: A McWhirters Story come along to one of these author talks.. So far in 2019, I’ve spoken about What Will be Worn at events in Brisbane, Maleny, Maryborough, and the Gold Coast. More events in Brisbane, Thirroul and Hervey Bay coming up. I’ll be talking about the McWhirter family saga, the rise and fall of department stores GOODBYE TO ALL THAT: ON MAD MEN AND JOAN DIDION I want to talk about Mad Men and its Didionesque gaze. The gaze has always been there, most obviously in the series’ sidelong glances at California, where the warm golden light and desert haze renders everything hyperreal.MELISSA FAGAN
My award-winning fiction and nonfiction has been published in Overland, Kill Your Darlings, Meanjin, QWeekend and others. I am writing my current book, working title Intertidal, via a practice-led creative writing PhD within the Aberdeen-Curtin Alliance program. In a series of creative nonfiction essays, I am exploring the ways in which people and places are connected, and disconnected, by our BLOG | MELISSA FAGAN Part elegy, part bildungsroman, Patti Smith’s Just Kids, winner of the National Book Award for Non-Fiction in 2010, recounts the formative years in the lives of Patti and Robert Mapplethorpe, lovers and friends, muses and makers. WRITING | MELISSA FAGAN I am writing all sorts of things, for various reasons, and for amultitude of ends.
SHORT FICTION
My short story ‘The day the world stayed the same’ was joint runner-up in the 2012 Overland Victoria University Short Story prize, and featured in Overland 209.. My story ‘Gift shop at the end of the Earth’ featured in annual prose anthology, 6, in 2012. You can order yourself a copy here. My short story ‘I hope I never’ was published in the RMIT Professional Writing andNONFICTION WRITING
Books. What Will Be Worn: A McWhirters story published by Transit Lounge in 2018.; Essays & Reviews ‘A spy in the family’ published in Within/Without These Walls, an anthology published in September 2018 in association with Brisbane Open House 2018.; The longest road out is the shortest road home: my pathway to publication, published by WQ (Writing Queensland) in June 2018.WRITING ARCHIVES
The Ghost at the Wedding, Shirley Walker’s 2010 memoir of her mother-in-law Jessie, explores the devastating impact the First and Second World Wars had on the soldiers themselves, as well as the womenleft at home.
BRISBANE COPYWRITER, EDITOR, CONTENT PRODUCER As a copywriter my mantra is: good stories, well told. I write for clients in Brisbane and beyond, in sectors including travel, not-for-profit, and medical. WHAT WILL BE WORN: A MCWHIRTERS STORY What Will Be Worn is about my mother's family, the McWhirters, who owned the Fortitude Valley department store. Out through Transit Lounge September 2018. ON GETTING PUBLISHED Its origin is Irish, apparently, not Chinese, at least that’s what Google tells me. According to the Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, ‘The longest road out is the shortest road home’ means that the detour may turn out to be quicker than the straight route.It means time and effort will eventually be rewarded. READING ELENA FERRANTE Beginner writers are often told to "show don't tell". But if Elena Ferrante had taken this advice, the Neopolitan novels would be verydifferent books.
MELISSA FAGAN
My award-winning fiction and nonfiction has been published in Overland, Kill Your Darlings, Meanjin, QWeekend and others. I am writing my current book, working title Intertidal, via a practice-led creative writing PhD within the Aberdeen-Curtin Alliance program. In a series of creative nonfiction essays, I am exploring the ways in which people and places are connected, and disconnected, by our BLOG | MELISSA FAGAN Part elegy, part bildungsroman, Patti Smith’s Just Kids, winner of the National Book Award for Non-Fiction in 2010, recounts the formative years in the lives of Patti and Robert Mapplethorpe, lovers and friends, muses and makers. WRITING | MELISSA FAGAN I am writing all sorts of things, for various reasons, and for amultitude of ends.
SHORT FICTION
My short story ‘The day the world stayed the same’ was joint runner-up in the 2012 Overland Victoria University Short Story prize, and featured in Overland 209.. My story ‘Gift shop at the end of the Earth’ featured in annual prose anthology, 6, in 2012. You can order yourself a copy here. My short story ‘I hope I never’ was published in the RMIT Professional Writing andNONFICTION WRITING
Books. What Will Be Worn: A McWhirters story published by Transit Lounge in 2018.; Essays & Reviews ‘A spy in the family’ published in Within/Without These Walls, an anthology published in September 2018 in association with Brisbane Open House 2018.; The longest road out is the shortest road home: my pathway to publication, published by WQ (Writing Queensland) in June 2018.WRITING ARCHIVES
The Ghost at the Wedding, Shirley Walker’s 2010 memoir of her mother-in-law Jessie, explores the devastating impact the First and Second World Wars had on the soldiers themselves, as well as the womenleft at home.
BRISBANE COPYWRITER, EDITOR, CONTENT PRODUCER As a copywriter my mantra is: good stories, well told. I write for clients in Brisbane and beyond, in sectors including travel, not-for-profit, and medical. WHAT WILL BE WORN: A MCWHIRTERS STORY What Will Be Worn is about my mother's family, the McWhirters, who owned the Fortitude Valley department store. Out through Transit Lounge September 2018. ON GETTING PUBLISHED Its origin is Irish, apparently, not Chinese, at least that’s what Google tells me. According to the Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, ‘The longest road out is the shortest road home’ means that the detour may turn out to be quicker than the straight route.It means time and effort will eventually be rewarded. READING ELENA FERRANTE Beginner writers are often told to "show don't tell". But if Elena Ferrante had taken this advice, the Neopolitan novels would be verydifferent books.
BOOK REVIEW ARCHIVES Part elegy, part bildungsroman, Patti Smith’s Just Kids, winner of the National Book Award for Non-Fiction in 2010, recounts the formative years in the lives of Patti and Robert Mapplethorpe, lovers and friends, muses and makers. CONTACT | MELISSA FAGAN To contact me, please send me an email at melissa (dot) jane (dot) fagan (at) gmail (dot) com. I’m also on Twitter, sort of. You canfind me here
WHAT WILL BE WORN ARCHIVES Throughout September, October and November, I will be out and about in Queensland and New South Wales doing some What Will Be Worn events. Join me in Sydney, the Sunshine Coast, Mount Tamborine, Ispwich orBrisbane!
BOOK REVIEW: JUST KIDS Part elegy, part bildungsroman, Patti Smith’s Just Kids, winner of the National Book Award for Non-Fiction in 2010, recounts the formative years in the lives of Patti and Robert Mapplethorpe, lovers and friends, muses and makers.. In 1966, while studying teaching at a State College in New Jersey, nineteen-year-old Patti Smith fell pregnant after sleeping with a boy “even more callow than I BOOK REVIEW: THE GHOST AT THE WEDDING The Ghost at the Wedding, Shirley Walker’s 2010 memoir of her mother-in-law Jessie, explores the devastating impact the First and Second World Wars had on the soldiers themselves, as well as the women left at home. She does so with deftness and subtlety, in a beautifully-rendered “imaginative reconstruction” of herfamily’s truth.
BOOK REVIEW
Children are always episodes in someone else’s narrative, not their own people, but brought forth into being for particular purposes. So wrote historian Carolyn Steedman in her 1986 memoir Landscape for a Good Woman: A Story of Two Lives,which contrasts two working class childhoods – her mother’s in 1920s Burnley, and her own in 1950s South London – in a work that is a mélange of LOST AND FOUND IN AMERICA: INTO THE WILD AND WILD In May 1990, after graduating from Emory University, 22-year-old Chris McCandless told his parents he was taking a road trip. ‘I think I’m going to disappear for a while,’ he said. 'EVERYONE THOUGHT I WAS CRAZY untrained Injuries are rife. In the year Costello competed in the event, 34 riders started the race but only 18 finished - Costelloamong them.
WHAT WILL BE WORN EVENTS If you’re interested in hearing more about What Will Be Worn: A McWhirters Story come along to one of these author talks.. So far in 2019, I’ve spoken about What Will be Worn at events in Brisbane, Maleny, Maryborough, and the Gold Coast. More events in Brisbane, Thirroul and Hervey Bay coming up. I’ll be talking about the McWhirter family saga, the rise and fall of department stores GOODBYE TO ALL THAT: ON MAD MEN AND JOAN DIDION I want to talk about Mad Men and its Didionesque gaze. The gaze has always been there, most obviously in the series’ sidelong glances at California, where the warm golden light and desert haze renders everything hyperreal.Melissa Fagan
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I am an author, freelance writer and editor, currently based in Coolangatta, in Yugambeh–Bundjalung country, on the border of Queensland and New South Wales. My memoir _What Will Be Worn: A McWhirters story_was
published by Transit Lounge in September 2018._ What Will Be Worn_
is about five generations of women in my mother’s family, the McWhirters, who once owned the Fortitude Valley department store of the same name. My award-winning fiction and nonfiction has been published in _Overland__, Kill Your Darlings,_ _Meanjin, QWeekend _andmore.
In March 2018 I began a practice-led creative writing PhD in travel writing with Curtin University and the University of Aberdeen. In a book of creative nonfiction essays, working title _Intertidal_,
I’ll be exploring the ways in which people and places are connected, and disconnected, by our shared use of the world’s oceans and seas. My plan is to immerse myself—literally, through surfing and swimming—in intertidal zones around the world. Read more about ithere
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A sessional academic in the University of Queensland’s Writing program, I lecture and teach in courses including Creative Nonfiction & Memoir and Advanced Writing Project. I also tutor in writing courses at the Queensland University of Technology. I’ve been a professional writer and editor since the turn of the century. I work in-house and as a freelancer, specialising in content and copywriting for clients in the travel, medical and not-for-profit sectors. To find out more about the way that I work, and see samples of what I’ve done, check out my portfolioor get in touch
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At various times throughout my life (but mostly pre-21st century) I’ve worked as a receptionist, data entry clerk, call centre operator, market research telephonist, editorial assistant and nanny. I’ve taught swimming and horse-riding, and led tours through South East Asia. I’ve had a lot of shitty jobs, and some really great ones. I’ve travelled a lot, most recently to Kyrgyzstan & China. For a month in the (northern) summer of 1996 I was a temp at the Potato Marketing Board in Oxford, UK. In 1997, while travelling in India, I had the extraordinary – and extraordinarily random – privilege of ‘working’ as an extra in the film _Arunchalam_, starring the
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