Donna Lee Brien
Introduction: writing death and dying
Rachel Spencer
Dignifying the poisoned chalice: the ethical challenges of using archival material in a narrative about death and arsenic
Sue Bond
Speaking through the things of their lives: writing a memoir with my parents’ melancholy objects
Rachel Franks
Writing the death of Joseph Luker: true crime reportage in colonial Sydney
Elizabeth Ellison
Facing death on the Australian beach: examining fear and transcendence
Margaret McAllister and Donna Lee Brien
Death, nursing and writing ambiguous characters
Lauren O’Mahony
Death and the Australian rural romance novel
Kathryn Trees
Response and Response-ability to the death of others who are vulnerable
Gail Pittaway
Food for finality: feeding the bereaved and ‘feasting’ the dead
Matt Eliot
The white lady of mourning: glamour, power and a woman’s understanding
Martin Lodge
Illuminations: a proposed taxonomy for death-inspired works in Western art music
Bambi Ward
The role of narrative in easing pain: blurred roles of health professional and carer
Julia Prendergast
A Wake
Lynda Hawryluk
Blue berries
Gail Pittaway
Interislander
Leanne Dodd
Ebb and Flow