Dr Lucy Neave
Areas of expertise
- Creative Arts, Media And Communication Curriculum And Pedagogy 130201
- Creative Writing (Incl. Playwriting) 190402
- Performing Arts And Creative Writing 1904
Biography
Lucy Neave is the author of Believe in Me (UQP, 2021), which was highly commended for the Christina Stead Prize in 2022. Her first novel, Who We Were, was published by Text (Melbourne, 2013), and shortlisted for the ACT Book of the Year Award in 2014. She has published in Best Australian Stories 2009 & 2014, and in Australian and American literary journals, including in Overland and Southerly. Her scholarly essays are on fiction writing process, writers' practices and pedagogy. She is the recipient of an Australia Council for the Arts grant, a Varuna Second Book Fellowship, a 2018 Griffith Review novella prize and is a former Fulbright scholar.
Researcher's projects
Scholarship on the idea of crisis in contemporary fiction.
Research into how contemporary literary writers, especially emerging writers, support each other through reading each other's work and online networks.
Past student projects
As principal supervisor:
PhD Students
'Cold Vision: A Novel' and 'Inspired by the Snow Queen: Subversion, Status Quo and Structure: An Exegesis' (Sara Lyons, 2012) (supervised with Associate Professor Rosanne Kennedy)
'Watching Television with David Foster Wallace': A Novel and Dissertation (Kevin McMorrow, 2012)
'The Machiavellian Political Influence in Epic Fantasy': A Dissertation and Novel (Elizabeth Beaton, 2015)
'The Future of Boredom: A Novel and Dissertation' (Nick Smith, 2015)
Publications
- Neave, L 2022, 'Alexis Wright's The Swan Book (2013) as 'crisis fiction'', Textual Practice, vol. 36, no. 9, pp. 1559-1577.
- Neave, L. Believe in Me. St Lucia, QLD: UQP, 2021
- Neave, L 2020, 'What constitutes discovery? An analysis of published interviews with fiction writers and biomedical scientists', New Writing, vol. -, no. -, pp. 1-13.
- Neave, L 2018, 'Fantasias for flute'. Griffith Review 62: 71-94
- Neave, L 2017, 'The "unimaginable border" and bare life in Eva Hornung's Dog Boy', Journal of Commonwealth Literature, pp. 1-14. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0021989417692389
- Neave, L 2017, 'Entering writers' rooms: reading interviews with novelists', New Writing: International Journal for Creative Writing Practice and Theory, pp. 1-10pp.
- Neave, L 2016, 'Creatureliness and Justice in Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses', in Louise Jillett (ed.), Cormac McCarthy's Borders and Landscapes, Bloomsbury Academic, United States, pp. 19-28.
- Neave, L 2016, 'Revision, community and performance: the role of a literary network in the development of Michael Mohammed Ahmad's The Tribe and Luke Carman's An Elegant Young Man', New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing. DOI:10.1080/14790726.2016.1159231 online, pp. 1-12.
- Neave, L 2016, '"The Distance between Them": Sheep, Women, and Violence in Evie Wyld's All the Birds, Singing and Barbara Baynton's Bush Studies', Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 125-136.
- Bobis, M, Crawford, J, Neave, L et al 2015, 'Imagine Water: An Archipelago of Mini-Essays on Water as Geography, Resource and Metaphor', Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 109-125.
- Neave, L 2015, 'Myth-busting women and literature', Feminartsy, vol. online, p. 5.http://feminartsy.com/myth-busting-women-and-literature-lucy-neave/
- Neave, L 2014, 'Being read: How writers of fiction manuscripts experience and respond to criticism', Text: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses, vol. 18, no. 1, p. 14.
- Neave, L 2014, The Horse Hospital in Dubai. Best Australian Stories 2014. Ed. Amanda Lohrey. Melbourne: Black Inc.
- Neave, L 2013, The Claires. Antipodes 27.1: 6-10
- Neave, L 2013, Who We Were. Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2013 http://textpublishing.com.au/books-and-authors/book/who-we-were/
- Neave, L 2012, 'Teaching writing process', Text: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 1-17.
- Neave, L 2012, 'Love Animals.' Westerly 57.2: 132-138
- Neave, Lucy. "Natural." Best Australian Stories 2009. Ed. Delia Falconer. Melbourne: Black Inc, 2009.
- Neave, L 2009, 'Notes towards a methodology for studying fiction writing praxis', Annual Australian Association of Writing Programs Conference on Margins and Mainstreams (AAWP 2009), ed. Conference Program Committee, Australian Association of Writing Programs, AAWP website, pp. 1-8.
- Neave, L 2008, Luck with Horses, short story, Lost Magazine, online.
- Neave, L 2008, 'What contemporary writers can tell us about writing process: Hartnett's 'Trees and Clouds' and Garner's 'I'', Conference of the Australian Association of Writing Programs 2008, ed. John Dale, Australian Association of Writing Programs, Sydney Australia, pp. 1-12.
- Neave, L 2007, 'Conclusion', in Lucy Neave, James Connor & Amanda Crawford (ed.), Arts of Publication: Scholarly Publishing in Australia and Beyond, Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd, Australia, pp. 191-193.
- Neave, L 2007, 'A Recent History of Australian Scholarly Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences', in Lucy Neave, James Connor & Amanda Crawford (ed.), Arts of Publication: Scholarly Publishing in Australia and Beyond, Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd, Australia, pp. 20-33.
- Neave, L, Connor, J & Crawford, A, eds, 2007, Arts Of Publication: Scholarly Publishing in Australia and Beyond, Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd, Australia.
- Neave, L 2007, 'Current Perspectives on Scholarly Publishing', in Lucy Neave, James Connor & Amanda Crawford (ed.), Arts of Publication: Scholarly Publishing in Australia and Beyond, Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd, Australia, pp. 34-51.
- Tatman, L & Neave, L 2007, 'Publishing Overseas', in Lucy Neave, James Connor & Amanda Crawford (ed.), Arts of Publication: Scholarly Publishing in Australia and Beyond, Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd, Australia, pp. 162-177.
- Neave, L 2006, 'Unrealised Possibilities: Graduate Creative Writing Programmes in the USA', New Writing: International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 56-64.
- Neave, L 2006, The Wasp and the Orchid, Southerly, 66.2 (2006), Long Paddock, Sydney Australia, pp. 134-137.
- Neave, L 2006, Three Monkeys, Overland 183 (2006): 48-53 (4100 words), OL Society Ltd, Australia, Australia, pp. 48-53.
