Cosgrove, Shady

Overview

Dr Shady Cosgrove is a novelist and academic, with research interests in prose fiction and narratology. Her novel, What the Ground Can't Hold (Picador Australia), explores themes of hope, survival and forgiveness within the context of Argentina's Dirty War.

Shady's memoir She Played Elvis (Allen and Unwin) was shortlisted for the Australian Vogel Literary Prize. The work chronicles Shady's pilgrimage across America to Graceland to honour the twenty-fifth anniversary of Elvis Presley's death, and explores the themes of family, loss and belonging.

Her short fiction has appeared in Southerly, takahe, Cordite, Eunoia Review, Antipodes, Overland, Best Australian Short Stories as well as Spineless Wonders publications like Flashing the Square, Small Wonder and Out of Place. She regularly presents at the Australasian Association of Writing Programs annual conference, and the International Conference of the Short Story in English and has received the Varuna Eleanor Dark Flagship Fellowship, and is a member of academic honour society Phi Betta Kappa.

Top Publications

Year	Title
2013	What the Ground Can't Hold
2009	She Played Elvis
2021	Liminality and process: strategies for the creative writing classroom Published in New Writing
2020	Controlling the clock–how showing and telling impact time in short-short fiction Published in New Writing: the international journal for the practice and theory of creative writing
2018	Size matters: class numbers and the creative writing workshop Published in TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs
2008	Reading for peace? Literature as activism - an investigation into new literary ethics and the novel
2007	Literary Ethics and the Novel, or Can the Novel Save the World?
2020	Visiting

Research Areas

1904 - PERFORMING ARTS AND CREATIVE WRITING

Research Overview

Shady Cosgrove is finishing her novel FREEFALL about a group of squatters in New York City who try to live 'outside' of money. Her 2013 novel What the Ground Can't Hold (Picador Australia) chronicles the lives of nine people trapped in the Andes after an avalanche, and explores themes of hope, survival and forgiveness. In 2007, her creative non-fiction manuscript 'She Played Elvis' about a pilgrimage across America was shortlisted for the Australian Vogel Prize and subsequently published by Allen and Unwin. Her short fiction has appeared in Southerly, Antipodes, Overland, Best Australian Short Stories, and Spineless Wonders publications.

Shady has a background in journalism – she worked for John Fairfax Holdings at the Sydney Morning Herald and Illawarra Mercury, and covered the Sydney Olympic Games. She graduated from Vassar College, New York (1996) with departmental and general honours in Women Studies and English before completing her doctorate at the Australian National University in 2002. She is also a member of academic honour society Phi Betta Kappa.

Member Of

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2021	Liminality and process: strategies for the creative writing classroom Published In New Writing
2020	Controlling the clock–how showing and telling impact time in short-short fiction Published In New Writing: the international journal for the practice and theory of creative writing
2018	Size matters: class numbers and the creative writing workshop Published In TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs
2017	Both sides now: the fear-less exegesis Published In TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs
2015	Dumpster Diving: A Family Excursion Published In TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs
2015	Dumpster diving for dinner: do you have what it takes to eat ‘freegan’ food? Published In The Conversation
2014	Getting my hands dirty: research and writing Published In TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs
2009	WRIT101: ethics of representation for creative writers Published In Pedagogy

Chapter

Year	Title
2022	Stakeholder Theory and Narrative: Writing to Better Business Decisions Published In Humanizing Business Publisher Springer International Publishing
2018	Narrative Structure – Is It Making Us Liars? Truth and Autobiography in She Played Elvis Published In Offshoot Contemporary Life Writing Methodologies and Practice Publisher Crawley, Western Australia
2015	Masturbating with Prostitutes Published In Minding the Gap Writing across Thresholds and Fault Lines Publisher http://www.cambridgescholars.com/minding-the-gap
2015	Masturbating with Prostitutes: Research and the Realist Novel Published In Minding the Gap: Writing Across Thresholds and Fault Lines Publisher Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars
2015	Masturbating with Prostitutes: Research and the Realist Novel Published In Minding the Gap: Writing Across Thresholds and Fault Lines Publisher Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2018	Constructing Time: Reading and writing time in short-short fiction Published In The Radiance of the Short Story: Fiction from Around the Globe: Selected Conference Papers
2017	Too Short to Bother With? A Case for Microfiction Published In Influence and Confluence: East and West
2016	One page and counting – beginnings and narrative construction Published In 21st Annual Australasian Association of Writing Programs Conference (AAWP 2016)
2015	Writing the (Othered) Self: Cultural Exchange and Creative Writing Pedagogy Published In 20th Conference of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs: Writing the Ghost Train: rewriting, remaking and rediscovering
2013	Discoursing love: The classroom. A fictional response to Roland Barthes Published In The Creative Manoeuvres: Making, Saying, Being Papers – The Refereed Proceedings Of The 18th Conference Of The Australasian Association Of Writing Programs, 2013
2012	Can we inhabit (narrative) time? Published In The Encounters: Place, Situation, Context Papers. The Refereed Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs
2011	Radical Uncertainty: Judith Butler and a theory of character Published In The Ethical Imaginations: Writing Worlds Papers - The Refereed Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the Australasian Association of Writing program, 2011
2008	Reading for peace? Literature as activism - an investigation into new literary ethics and the novel Published In Activating Human Rights and Peace: Universal Responsibility Conference 2008
2008	Uncertainty and Praxis in the Creative Writing Classroom Published In Conference of the Australian Association of Writing Programs
2007	Literary Ethics and the Novel, or Can the Novel Save the World? Published In 'and is' papers: proceedings of the 12th conference of the Australian Association of Writing Programs

Other Publications

Year	Title
2021	7.30am
2021	Body, not-body: a brain scan response in three case studies
2021	Brain coral
2021	Costco: the (a)isle of the lotus-eaters
2021	Covid Dreaming
2021	Early stages: parenthood
2021	Immigrant Allegiance
2021	Mother(land)
2021	Punishment
2021	Resurrection: Motor City
2021	Self-Restraint
2021	The Affair
2021	The Shoes
2020	Aftermath
2020	Visiting
2019	Aftermath
2020	Last Day of Term
2020	Magic Show
2020	Risk
2018	Insect Wisdom
2018	Self-Medication
2018	The Coat
2017	Sanctuary
2016	The Guitar
2015	Dim Sum
2014	Call an ambulance
2014	Lightning Ridge
2014	My past is shopping At Woolworths
2013	What the Ground Can't Hold
2012	After School
2012	Visiting
2009	She Played Elvis

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Creative Arts	The Horse-Human Bond in Literature: Healing Metaphors and Victims of Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse.	Kroll, Jeri
Doctor of Philosophy	'The plants may use the meter of eternity. We do not know': An Enquiry into Environment in Australian Science and Speculative Fiction.	Barber, Tess
Doctor of Philosophy	Let the Dead Speak: An Exploration of the Depiction of the Victim in Detective Fiction	Barton, Naomi
Doctor of Philosophy	But wait theres more: counter-mapping place to disrupt local histories	Saunders, Jen

Full Name

Shady Cosgrove

Orcid Id

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4039-1662 (confirmed)

Top Publications

Year	Title
2013	What the Ground Can't Hold
2009	She Played Elvis
2021	Liminality and process: strategies for the creative writing classroom Published in New Writing
2020	Controlling the clock–how showing and telling impact time in short-short fiction Published in New Writing: the international journal for the practice and theory of creative writing
2018	Size matters: class numbers and the creative writing workshop Published in TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs
2008	Reading for peace? Literature as activism - an investigation into new literary ethics and the novel
2007	Literary Ethics and the Novel, or Can the Novel Save the World?
2020	Visiting

Research Areas

1904 - PERFORMING ARTS AND CREATIVE WRITING

Research Overview

Shady Cosgrove is finishing her novel FREEFALL about a group of squatters in New York City who try to live 'outside' of money. Her 2013 novel What the Ground Can't Hold (Picador Australia) chronicles the lives of nine people trapped in the Andes after an avalanche, and explores themes of hope, survival and forgiveness. In 2007, her creative non-fiction manuscript 'She Played Elvis' about a pilgrimage across America was shortlisted for the Australian Vogel Prize and subsequently published by Allen and Unwin. Her short fiction has appeared in Southerly, Antipodes, Overland, Best Australian Short Stories, and Spineless Wonders publications.

Shady has a background in journalism – she worked for John Fairfax Holdings at the Sydney Morning Herald and Illawarra Mercury, and covered the Sydney Olympic Games. She graduated from Vassar College, New York (1996) with departmental and general honours in Women Studies and English before completing her doctorate at the Australian National University in 2002. She is also a member of academic honour society Phi Betta Kappa.

Member Of

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2021	Liminality and process: strategies for the creative writing classroom Published In New Writing
2020	Controlling the clock–how showing and telling impact time in short-short fiction Published In New Writing: the international journal for the practice and theory of creative writing
2018	Size matters: class numbers and the creative writing workshop Published In TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs
2017	Both sides now: the fear-less exegesis Published In TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs
2015	Dumpster Diving: A Family Excursion Published In TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs
2015	Dumpster diving for dinner: do you have what it takes to eat ‘freegan’ food? Published In The Conversation
2014	Getting my hands dirty: research and writing Published In TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs
2009	WRIT101: ethics of representation for creative writers Published In Pedagogy

Chapter

Year	Title
2022	Stakeholder Theory and Narrative: Writing to Better Business Decisions Published In Humanizing Business Publisher Springer International Publishing
2018	Narrative Structure – Is It Making Us Liars? Truth and Autobiography in She Played Elvis Published In Offshoot Contemporary Life Writing Methodologies and Practice Publisher Crawley, Western Australia
2015	Masturbating with Prostitutes Published In Minding the Gap Writing across Thresholds and Fault Lines Publisher http://www.cambridgescholars.com/minding-the-gap
2015	Masturbating with Prostitutes: Research and the Realist Novel Published In Minding the Gap: Writing Across Thresholds and Fault Lines Publisher Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars
2015	Masturbating with Prostitutes: Research and the Realist Novel Published In Minding the Gap: Writing Across Thresholds and Fault Lines Publisher Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2018	Constructing Time: Reading and writing time in short-short fiction Published In The Radiance of the Short Story: Fiction from Around the Globe: Selected Conference Papers
2017	Too Short to Bother With? A Case for Microfiction Published In Influence and Confluence: East and West
2016	One page and counting – beginnings and narrative construction Published In 21st Annual Australasian Association of Writing Programs Conference (AAWP 2016)
2015	Writing the (Othered) Self: Cultural Exchange and Creative Writing Pedagogy Published In 20th Conference of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs: Writing the Ghost Train: rewriting, remaking and rediscovering
2013	Discoursing love: The classroom. A fictional response to Roland Barthes Published In The Creative Manoeuvres: Making, Saying, Being Papers – The Refereed Proceedings Of The 18th Conference Of The Australasian Association Of Writing Programs, 2013
2012	Can we inhabit (narrative) time? Published In The Encounters: Place, Situation, Context Papers. The Refereed Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs
2011	Radical Uncertainty: Judith Butler and a theory of character Published In The Ethical Imaginations: Writing Worlds Papers - The Refereed Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the Australasian Association of Writing program, 2011
2008	Reading for peace? Literature as activism - an investigation into new literary ethics and the novel Published In Activating Human Rights and Peace: Universal Responsibility Conference 2008
2008	Uncertainty and Praxis in the Creative Writing Classroom Published In Conference of the Australian Association of Writing Programs
2007	Literary Ethics and the Novel, or Can the Novel Save the World? Published In 'and is' papers: proceedings of the 12th conference of the Australian Association of Writing Programs

Other Publications

Year	Title
2021	7.30am
2021	Body, not-body: a brain scan response in three case studies
2021	Brain coral
2021	Costco: the (a)isle of the lotus-eaters
2021	Covid Dreaming
2021	Early stages: parenthood
2021	Immigrant Allegiance
2021	Mother(land)
2021	Punishment
2021	Resurrection: Motor City
2021	Self-Restraint
2021	The Affair
2021	The Shoes
2020	Aftermath
2020	Visiting
2019	Aftermath
2020	Last Day of Term
2020	Magic Show
2020	Risk
2018	Insect Wisdom
2018	Self-Medication
2018	The Coat
2017	Sanctuary
2016	The Guitar
2015	Dim Sum
2014	Call an ambulance
2014	Lightning Ridge
2014	My past is shopping At Woolworths
2013	What the Ground Can't Hold
2012	After School
2012	Visiting
2009	She Played Elvis

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Creative Arts	The Horse-Human Bond in Literature: Healing Metaphors and Victims of Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse.	Kroll, Jeri
Doctor of Philosophy	'The plants may use the meter of eternity. We do not know': An Enquiry into Environment in Australian Science and Speculative Fiction.	Barber, Tess
Doctor of Philosophy	Let the Dead Speak: An Exploration of the Depiction of the Victim in Detective Fiction	Barton, Naomi
Doctor of Philosophy	But wait theres more: counter-mapping place to disrupt local histories	Saunders, Jen

Full Name

Shady Cosgrove

Orcid Id

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4039-1662 (confirmed)

Overview

Overview

Top Publications

Research Areas

Research Overview

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Member Of

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Chapter

Conference Paper

Other Publications

Supervision

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Contact

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Orcid Id

Overview

Top Publications

Research Areas

Research Overview

Affiliation

Member Of

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Chapter

Conference Paper

Other Publications

Supervision

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Contact

Full Name

Identity

Orcid Id

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