ACADEMIC WORK
Journal Articles & Book Chapters
Cosgrove, S, A Walker, P Magee, C Howe and K Rhodes. 2026. ‘(Eco)poetic inquiry as ecosophical rhythmanalysis: discussion and demonstration of new research methods and possibilities.’ Poetic Inquiry Atlas Vol. 2: Poetry as Environmental Geography. Delaware: Vernon Press.
Cosgrove, S. 2025. In press. ‘AI and Creative Writing’ AI and Creative Writing. New York: Palgrave, 1-12.
Cosgrove, S. 2025. In press. ‘Failure and Workshopping; or Killing Butterflies in the Classroom.’ Workshopping in the Twenty-first Century. London: Bloomsbury.Cosgrove, S. 2025. ‘Traversing the liminal: prose-poetry, metaphor and the immigrant.’ Axon: Creative Explorations. 15.1: 1-11.
Cosgrove, S. 2024. ‘Meditation(s) and the creative writing classroom: considering process.’ New Writing: the international journal for the practice and theory of creative writing: 1-6.
Cosgrove, S. 2024. ‘Drafting, revision and an author’s duty of care’ in Scholarship of Creative Practice. London: Bloomsbury, 1-12.
Cosgrove, S. 2024. ‘Liminality and process: strategies for the creative writing classroom’ Stimulus, Intention and Process. Routledge: New York, 1-12.
Cosgrove, S. and Howe, C. 2023. ‘Creative companionship as we face the apocalypse – an essay in conversation.’ TEXT Special Issue 70 Poetry and Extremity: 1-15.
Cosgrove, S. 2022. ‘Stakeholder Theory and Narrative: writing to better business decisions’ in What Humanities Can Say to Business, New York: Springer, 225-234.
Cosgrove, S. 2021. ‘Liminality and process: strategies for the creative writing classroom.’ New Writing: the international journal for the practice and theory of creative writing: 1-6.
Cosgrove, S. 2019, ‘Controlling the clock–how showing and telling impact time in short-short fiction.’ New Writing: the international journal for the practice and theory of creative writing: 1-6.
Cosgrove, S. 2018. 'Size matters: class numbers and the creative writing workshop.’ TEXT Special Issue 51: 1-10.
Cosgrove, S. 2018. ‘Narrative Structure – Is it Making us Liars?: Truth and Autobiography in She Played Elvis.’ Offshoot Contemporary Life Writing Methodologies and Practice. UWA Publishing: Western Australia: 31-41.
Cosgrove, S. and Scrivenor, H. 2017. ‘Both sides now: the fear-less exegesis.’ TEXT Special Issue 44: 1-10.
Cosgrove, S. 2015. ‘Dumpster Diving: a family excursion.’ TEXT Creative Writing as Research IV, 30: 1-8.
Cosgrove, S. 2015. ‘Masturbating with Prostitutes: research and the realist novel.’ Minding the gap: Writing across thresholds and fault lines, Cambridge Scholars.
Cosgrove, S. 2014. ‘Getting my hands dirty: research and writing’. TEXT Creative Writing as Research III. 27: 1-8.
Cosgrove, S. 2009. ‘WRIT101: ethics of representation for creative writers.’ Pedagogy – Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture. 9.1: 134-141.
Cosgrove, S. 2005. ‘Teaching and Learning as Improvisational Performance in the Creative Writing Classroom.’ Pedagogy – Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture. 5 .3: 471-482.
Conference Publications
Cosgrove, S. 2024. ‘Nothing to it: the paragraph break and its role in short-short fiction’ Diversity of Voices: A Global Storytelling History. Lee and Penn Publishing, 1-9.
‘Constructing Time: Reading and writing time in short-short fiction’ The Radiance of the Short Story. Lee and Penn Publishing, 2019: 92-102.
‘Too Short to Bother With? A Case for Microfiction.’ Influence and Confluence: East and West, 2017: 52 - 64.
‘One page and counting – beginnings and narrative construction.’ The refereed proceedings of the 21st conference of the Annual Australasian Association of Writing Programs, University of Canberra: 2016.
‘Writing the (Othered) Self: Cultural Exchange and Creative Writing Pedagogy.’ Co-written with Dr Joshua Lobb. The refereed proceedings of the 20th conference of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne: 2015.
‘Discoursing love: The classroom. A fictional response to Roland Barthes.’ Creative Manoeuvres: Making, Saying, Being Papers – the Refereed Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the Australasian Association Of Writing Programs. Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand: 2013.
‘Can we inhabit (narrative) time?’ The Encounters: Place, Situation, Context Papers – the Refereed Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs. Deakin: 2012. 1-8.
‘Radical Uncertainty: Judith Butler and a theory of character.’ The Ethical Imaginations: Writing Worlds Papers – the Refereed Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the Australasian Association of Writing programs. Ed. J. Conway-Herron, M. Costello & L. Hawryluk. Byron Bay: 2011.
‘Reading for peace? Literature as activism – an investigation into new literary ethics and the novel.’ Activating Human Rights and Peace: Universal Responsibility Conference. Ed. R. Garbutt. Lismore, NSW: Southern Cross University. Byron Bay: 2008. 233-239.
‘Uncertainty and Praxis in the Creative Writing Classroom.’ The Refereed Proceedings of the 13th conference of the Australian Association of Writing Programs. Ed. D. Brien & L. Neave. Sydney: 2008.
‘Literary Ethics and the Novel, or Can the Novel Save the World?.’ ‘and is’ papers: proceedings of the 12th conference of the Australian Association of Writing Programs. Ed. J. Webb & J. Williams. Canberra: 2007. 1-9.
‘Fictionalising True Histories: Ethics, Representation and Creative Writing.’ The 11th Annual Conference of the Australian Association of Writing Programs. Brisbane: 2006.
‘Structuring Narrative, Maintaining ‘Truth’.’ The 10th Annual Conference of the Australian Association of Writing Programs. November: 2005.
‘Performing the Writer/Teacher Duality.’ The 9th Annual Conference of the Australian Association of Writing Programs. November: 2004.