EDITORIAL ISSUE 2

Abstract

When entities are placed into adjacency, it’s often unsurprising that curious resonances are set up, begin to hum, and create new relationalities not foreseen or even curated in advance. For each issue of c i n d e r—a scholarly journal that seeks to provide a forum for emerging scholars in creative writing and related areas (that is: current Higher Degree students, Honours students, and early career researchers, up to two years beyond submission)—we delight in approaching a creative writer for a piece of work of their choice as a feature piece. In this issue, we have the gobsmacking, and (deceptively) modestly-titled ‘A Feather’, by Debra Dank. Lulling the reader with its almost crooning and quasi-nostalgic use of second person, this piece—as c i n d e r co-editor Sue Joseph remarked upon reading—‘is haunting and quite beautiful, and awful, all at the same time. I felt like I was holding my breath...’