Gutter Stars

Lab members Dr Melody Ellis and Associate Professor Ronnie Scott convene a comics research and practice collective, currently 16 makers strong.

non/fictionLab Graphic Storyteller Fellowship 2026.

The key objective of this Project is to produce model/s, pathways and resources for continuing the reinvigoration of Aboriginal Ways of Knowing Being and Doing with a special focus on language revitalisation.

WrICE (Writers Immersion and Cultural Exchange) is a multi-year research program which uses a collaborative residency methodology to analyse and develop innovative creative practices to connect writers and evolve transnational literary cultures.

Non/fictionLab member, Associate Professor Jessica Wilkinson is co-leading a team of poets in a project that honours the life stories of Older Australians.

Philosophies of Difference runs public seminars featuring scholars working with continental philosophy and interested in problems that have been marginal to the dominant concerns of Western thought.

This project aims to document, preserve and investigate a new history of Australian comics and graphic novels created 1980 to 2020.

The Symphony of Awkward is a research-collective-at-large focusing on myriad expressions of #diarology through live and audio works.

Writing in the Expanded Field is a public-facing experimental writing program in partnership with the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.

Through innovative methodologies the project invites Mallee readers, both past and present, to contribute knowledge to the first significant account of Mallee literary history, and to industry recommendations for future activities that support community diversity.

NovelLab is a collective of creative practitioners working on long-form fiction.