TY - JOUR
T1 - 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
AU - Neave, Lucy
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - This paper contributes to recent scholarship on writers' networks by assessing how two contemporary Australian writers, Michael Mohammed Ahmad and Luke Carman, used discussion and performance of drafts to develop their first books. Their revisions enabled them to shape not just their fiction, but to formulate a narrative about western Sydney which they could communicate to a national audience. In the following, I describe an interview I conducted with them about their revision practices and their suggestions for each other's manuscripts. In addition, I discuss the writing processes involved in the completion of The Tribe (2014) and An Elegant Young Man (2013), which emerged from a collaborative environment or 'community of practice', and won literary awards.
AB - This paper contributes to recent scholarship on writers' networks by assessing how two contemporary Australian writers, Michael Mohammed Ahmad and Luke Carman, used discussion and performance of drafts to develop their first books. Their revisions enabled them to shape not just their fiction, but to formulate a narrative about western Sydney which they could communicate to a national audience. In the following, I describe an interview I conducted with them about their revision practices and their suggestions for each other's manuscripts. In addition, I discuss the writing processes involved in the completion of The Tribe (2014) and An Elegant Young Man (2013), which emerged from a collaborative environment or 'community of practice', and won literary awards.
KW - fiction
KW - performance
KW - revision
UR - http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/uws:36312
U2 - 10.1080/14790726.2016.1159231
DO - 10.1080/14790726.2016.1159231
M3 - Article
SN - 1479-0726
VL - 13
SP - 297
EP - 307
JO - New Writing
JF - New Writing
IS - 2
ER -