Overview
- Breaks new ground at the nexus of sports society and creative writing
- Brings an innovative intersectional approach to creative writing scholarship as it relates to sports writing
- Offers a unique academic interrogation of a range of often marginalised sports market
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Sport and Society in Creative Writing: Tradition as Platform of Expectation
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Sport and Society in Creative Writing: Place in Sports Fiction
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Sport and Society in Creative Writing: Intersections with Practice
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Creative Writing Tools in the Exploration of Intersections of Sport and Society
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Lee McGowan is an award-winning researcher, teacher and writer. His primary research interests are in the intersections of sport and creative writing, digital narratives and community engagement. He recently co-authored the monographs, Women’s Football in Oceania (Routledge, 2024) with Kasey Symons and Yoko Kanemeasu and Beach Soccer Histories (Routledge 2024) with Elizabeth Ellison and Michele Lastella. He also published the monograph, Football in Fiction: a History (Routledge 2020), and co-authored the novel-length work of creative non-fiction, Never Say Die: The Hundred Year Overnight Success of Australian Women’s Football, (NewSouth, 2019). His digital narrative research project on the history of women’s football was launched in Queensland Parliament in February 2021. He has published traditional and non-traditional research outputs including journal articles, book chapters, an exhibition, fiction, creative non-fiction and locative literature.
Kasey Symons is a research fellow in the Sport Innovation Research Group at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne. She works across industry partnered research projects that focus on sport and social impact and sports development for governing bodies of sport. Another key research focus is on sport and creative writing, winning the 2018 Lyle Olsen graduate prize at the Sport Literature Association for her published work on gender bias in reading sport fiction written by women. Symons also currently serves as the President of the Sport Literature Association and as the social media editor of its accompanying journal, Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature. Symons is also an award nominated sportswriter having been nominated in the prestigious Quill awards for excellence in journalism as awarded by the Melbourne Press Club in 2020 for her coverage of women’s sport. Symons has been published in The Guardian, The Irish Times, ABC, The Footy Almanac, in the book BalancingActs: Women in Sport and was co-editor of the book The Women’s Footy Almanac 2018 and co-edited a Special Issue for Text: Journal of Creative Writing on Creative Writing and Sport with Dr Lee McGowan. Kasey is a co-founder and contributor to the women in sport media platform Siren Sport which drives women's sports coverage by diverse voices.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Intersections of Sport and Society in Creative Writing
Editors: Lee McGowan, Kasey Symons
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-5585-5
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-5584-8Published: 19 November 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-5587-9Due: 20 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-5585-5Published: 18 November 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 190
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Creative Writing, Sport Science , Journalism, Literature, general, Media and Communication