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Manuscript Name | Papers of Fiona Place |
Manuscript Number | MSS 210 |
Last Updated | June 2021 |
Extent | 2 boxes |
Location | Special Collections, UNSW Canberra |
Abstract | Published writing and unpublished poems by Fiona Place |
Literary
The papers of author Fiona Place comprise multiple draft copies of Cardboard: the Strength Thereof and Other Related Matters (later published as Cardboard: A Woman Left for Dead) along with unpublished poetry, short children’s stories and an essay regarding anorexia nervosa
1989
Fiona Place was born in 1958 in Sydney and received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney, and a Graduate Diploma in Communication and a Master of Arts from the University of Technology, Sydney. She began publishing poetry in 1985, appearing in publications such as Overland, Meanjin, and Westerly. In 1989 Place won the National Book Council’s Award for New Writers for her book Cardboard: the Strength Thereof and Other Related Matters, a depiction of a woman with an eating disorder.
Place has contributed to opinion pages and had her own column in the Australian (1997-2002) related to financial literacy. As an advocate for children with intellectual disabilities, Place has written essays on motherhood, genetics and disability, and in 2019 published a memoir and examination of the politics of disability in Portrait of the Artist’s Mother: Dignity, Creativity and Disability
References:
Austlit : Fiona Place https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A7802 retrieved 17 August 2020
Disability and Culture: Fiona Place https://fionaeplace.wordpress.com/ retrieved 17 August 2020
Access: Open Access
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Papers of Fiona Place, Special Collections, UNSW Canberra, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, MSS 210, Box [Number], Folder [Number]
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A videorecording of readings by writers including Fiona Place taken in 1991 is held in the Academy Library, UNSW Canberra collection at PR 9614.3.R42
Fiona Place, 1958- — Archives
Authors, Australia — 20th century
Australian poetry – 20th century
Eating disorders — Fiction
Anorexia nervosa
Fiona Place, 1958-
Authors
Poets
Folder 1
‘Scratched Sound’ - anthology of poetry
Poetry : ‘Blue Shrivelled Light’ and ‘Scratched Sound’
‘Nickel Glow’
Folder 2
‘Swashbuckled Love’
‘The Taxing of Max’
'The Cardboard : the Strength Thereof and Other Related Matters' - first draft
Folder 3
'The Cardboard : the Strength Thereof and Other Related Matters' - sixth draft (for Literary Board grant)
Folder 4
'The Cardboard : the Strength Thereof and Other Related Matters' - seventh draft
Folder 5
'The Cardboard : the Strength Thereof and Other Related Matters' - eighth draft
Folder 6
'The Cardboard : the Strength Thereof and Other Related Matters' - ninth draft
Folder 7
'The Cardboard : the Strength Thereof and Other Related Matters' - tenth draft (incomplete), Amanda Lohrey markings
Folder 8
Short child / fairy stories
Essay regarding ‘Anorexia Nervosa’
Stephen Muecke’s comments on Chapters One (1) and Six (6)