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The non/fictionLab is an interdisciplinary research ecology bringing together creative experimentation, critical practice and social engagement: we aim to reimagine and transform contemporary realities through language, mediations, poetics and collaborations

The non/fictionLab is an interdisciplinary Research Group in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. Closely aligned with the discipline of Writing and Publishing, the Lab focuses on research into writing and allied creative arts and design practices.

non/fictionLab acknowledges the people of the Woi warrung and Boon warrung language groups of the eastern Kulin nations on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. Lab members respectfully acknowledge their Ancestors and Elders, past and present and the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we live, walk, shelter and conduct our business.

We foster collaborative research projects in partnership with fellow scholars and artists, and with industries and communities, local and international. We provide support for emerging researchers and a growing community of research students.

non/fictionLab helps create events, projects, programs and public presentations that feature a diverse range of local and international writers, artists and academics, to contribute to critical contemporary debates and dialogues.

Research themes

Creative Practice: Ethics and Power

This theme looks at how dynamics of power play out across bodies, time, narratives and institutions.

Non/fiction: Experimental Methods

This theme encourages engagement with interdisciplinary ways of knowing, including play scholarship from ludology, psychology, literary studies or biology.

Locating Stories: Sovereignties, Language and Belonging

This theme explores the possibilities of place, belonging, language and the transnational, including Indigenous language revitalisation and maintenance, through literary, screen and other creative works.

Ecologies of Engagement

This theme looks at how writing and publishing can engage with other disciplines and knowledges to create new imaginings of histories, ecologies and futures.

non/fictionLab PUBLIC: the 2022 Forum Series

Join us for this series of free, public, online forums for local and global audiences that bring together non/fictionLab researchers and other creative artists, industry leaders and academics, to discuss cutting edge questions and issues for our artforms, industries and communities.

Powerful and Moving

non/fictionLab has joined forces with the Sydney Review of Books to a produce a new commissioned essay series titled Rewriting Kinship. Click below to read the first essay, 'Kin-as-ethics: experiments in un/authorised queer essay practice' by Peta Murray and Francesca Rendle-Short.

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Philosophies of Difference 2022 Seminar Series

The Non/fiction Lab at RMIT is thrilled to announce that Philosophies of Difference is convening a new seminar series in November 2022.

non/fictionLab PUBLIC: the 2022 Forum Series

Powerful and Moving

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Philosophies of Difference 2022 Seminar Series

The Non/fiction Lab at RMIT is thrilled to announce that Philosophies of Difference is convening a new seminar series in November 2022.

Meet our researchers

Our members are expert researchers in their field.

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Projects

Some of non/fictionLab’s current research projects and activities, ranging from ARC funded research through to public engagement programs.

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Publications

Find out more about some of the recent publications written by our researchers.

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Higher Degree Research

The non/fictionLab is home to a lively group of more than 60 PhD, Masters and Honours candidates in creative writing, design, media, literary studies and allied fields.

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non/fictionLab news

Philosophies of Difference Seminar Series 2022

04 Oct 2022

The Non/fiction Lab at RMIT is thrilled to announce that Philosophies of Difference is convening a new seminar series in November 2022.

PUBLIC: the 2022 Forum Series

03 Mar 2022

A series of free, public, online forums for local and global audiences that bring together non/fictionLab researchers and other creative artists, industry leaders and academics, to discuss cutting edge questions and issues for our artforms, industries and communities.

Rees Quilford takes out Bass Coast Prize for Non-Fiction

06 Dec 2021

Rees Quilford, a PhD student from the Lab, has won the 2021 Bass Coast Prize for Non-Fiction.

Silver Linings and Incompleteness

02 Dec 2021

AAWP Online Conference and Incompleteness Book Launch 2021

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Our partners

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Recent and current partners of the non/fictionLab include:

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non/fictionLab

Co-Directors:

Associate Professor Brigid Magner
brigid.magner@rmit.edu.au

Associate Professor Jessica Wilkinson
jessica.wilkinson@rmit.edu.au

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Centres and collaborations

Our researchers connect, create and share expertise and resources in our Research Centres and collaborations.

Research

Together with our partners we develop and apply knowledge to shape a better world.

Partnerships

RMIT builds partnerships to have a positive impact in the world. We form multi-disciplinary teams with government, community, industry and researchers to deliver innovative solutions.

Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Luwaytini' by Mark Cleaver, Palawa.

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