Duncan writing, editing, publishing
Duncan, writing, editing, publishing
With and without that comma, that’s what this is. It emerges from me writing, editing, and publishing. It’s also an agglomeration of my writings on subjects such as: me, writing, editing, publishing, but moreso also other things.
This blog initially emerged in 2009, as part of some postgrad uni coursework related to the burgeoning realm of digital writing, editing and publishing (thus the name). It since spluttered along into my own little eclectic, evolving, experimental online continuum of writings. I keep it around, fed and watered, because I still like the old thing, unwieldy name and all.
I’m Duncan Felton. Here’s me in photo form (with all credit to my wife for truly capturing me truly in my true form):
More about me:
I live in Canberra (Ngunnawal/Ngambri country). I’m an editor, writer, reader, and breather.
I’m the founding editor at Grapple Publishing, where we occasionally publish The Grapple Annual, a date-based anthology of prose, poetry, comics, art and other good stuff.
I also have another old blog, Suburban Flotsam and Jetsam, containing writings inspired by found ephemera (that I hope to revive some time to make creative use of said found ephemera I still occasionally feel compelled to collect).
For my day job I work at this Library in Curatorial & Collection Research, mostly working with interesting stuff like oral history, web archiving, commissioned photography and a bit of other stuff sometimes (but this blog is in no way tied to my employer, nor does it represent the views of my employer, etc etc).
Thanks for dropping by!
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You can email me: duncanfelton at gmail dot com
I’m also giving bluesky a try, so try with me there, because it seem like it could be better social media. But also using less social media is better, so who knows. I’m using other platforms minimally, if at all!
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ps[st]: you can also send me [good] things in the mail:
Duncan Felton
PO Box 251
Campbell LPO
ACT 2612
)
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Writings, editings, publishings, etc elsewhere as of January 2025:
2016ish-2024ish
uh [tbc lol]
(sometime around here SPP gradually wrapped up. I was one of the coordinators of Scissors Paper Pen, a Canberran creative collective for people under 35 that organised regular events containing storytelling, music, art, discussion, beverages, and other rad things. We also made soundcasts, wrote things on the SPP blog and sometimes made zines and other literary experiments. It was rad!)
2015
Co-producer of the Canberra’s first experimental writers festival, Noted, till 2017ish.
Ekphrastic fiction piece Bruno Kriegel: a retrospective published by rip publishing as part of their Light Years collaborative project with PhotoAccess (March 2015)
2014
Editor of The Grapple Annual No. 1 (2014)
Rambling non-fiction piece Grappling with the Annual published in the print edition of The N00bz: New adventures in literature, by if:book Australia (September 2014)
Proofreader for Nigel Featherstone’s novella The Beach Volcano, published by Blemish Books (March 2014)
Two poems, Lines (home) and Lines (work), published in Ripple Tank Zine Issue 1 – CUSP
Poem An Invitation published as a letter posted to various Canberran addresses as part of You Are Here 2014’s Letters to a Suburb project, and published online at this here You Are Here 2014 website for the Letters to a Suburb project (March 2014)
Fictional letter Just Between Suburbs published in the You There! broadsheet as part of You Are Here Festival 2014 (March 2014)
2013
Prose poem Siren published in the Villainess mini-anthology accompanying the Villainess fashion photography exhibition (November 2013)
Editor of Scissors Paper Pen‘s first antholozine/zinethology Paperclip 1 (May-August 2013) [get in touch if you want a copy!]
A Survey of Ways in Which Scissors Paper Pen is Like The Skywhale for The Writers Bloc blog (July 2013)
Poem Some Favourite Waves, From Most to Least published in Issue One of Prowlings (March 2013)
2012
Various writings, editings, Soundcloud seedings and more, for Scissors Paper Pen (2012 and ongoing onwards into the future till like 2017ish?)
Album review Andrew Bird – Hands of Glory published in BMA magazine (December 2012)
Album review Time and Weight – Time And Weight published in BMA magazine (December 2012)
Three interviews with the three poets in Triptych Poets 3, for Blemish Books (Aug-October 2012)
Exhibition launch review Hanging Gardens of Illegality published in BMA magazine (August 2012)
Book review ‘A Bump on the Road’ by Hugh Vaughan, published on the NSW Writers Centre blog (May 2012)
Poem ‘I’ published in Issue One of Burley Journal (May 2012)
Short story CLUE FIVE published on Verity La (May 2012)
Non-fiction story Sunshine Shopping Plaza Bookshop Story, published/performed/recorded as part of the Mall Stories self-guided audio walking tour, for You Are Here Festival (March 2012)
Arts feature Enlivening the Handwritten published in BMA magazine (January 2012)
2011
Review of poetry gig Urban Soul Food published in BMA magazine (September 2011)
Non-fiction piece Ghost Town published in Voiceworks Magazine #85: OTHER (July 2011)
Various writings for NYWM and the National Young Writers Month blog (May-June 2011)
Article A Call to Arms for National Young Writers Month, published in ACTWrite — the ACT Writers Centre Newsletter (May 2011)
Interview with Pete Akhurst A First Time For Everything, published in BMA magazine (May 2011)
2010
Editorial work on several pieces for several issues of The Lifted Brow (throughout 2010)
‘Ficto-criticism’ piece Infinity Tube Vox Pop published in Next Wave 2010’s Text Camp Reader (c. August 2010)
Editor of several pieces in Next Wave 2010’s Text Camp Reader (c. August 2010)
Exhibition review Magnificence of Embroidery published on Artshub (March 2010)
2009
Editorial committee member, proofreader and reader of various pieces for various issues of Voiceworks Magazine (2009-2011)
Various writings for Virgule, the Voiceworks Blog (2009-2010)
Fringe Festival show review of Bart Freebairn: A Breathtaking Magical Journey into the Ordinary published on the Buzzcuts website (September 2009)
Melbourne Fringe Festival show review of Meet Me At The End published on the Buzzcuts website (September 2009)
Melbourne Fringe Festival show review of A Little Piece published on the Buzzcuts website (September 2009)
Melbourne Fringe Festival show review of Gasworks Presents: Mikki Ross published on the Buzzcuts website and in Beat Magazine, (September 2009)
2008
Poem Ocean in the City published in Block Journal 7
Non-fiction piece Your Funeral published in Tattoo: FIRST 2008 [Winner of Editor’s Choice Award]
Poem Number of elected members representing each district in the ACT Legislative Assembly — a haiku published in Tattoo: FIRST 2008
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