Kathleen Mary Fallon
Lecturer, Creative Writing
Qualifications
BA (Literature and Psychology, Queensland); MA (Literature and Communication, Murdoch)
Biography
Kathleen Mary Fallon has a BA from the University of Queensland and MA (Literature and Communication) from Murdoch University. She has performed her own work and has written for theatre, opera, radio and television. She has taught special education, worked in magazine production, and was senior editor at Allen and Unwin Publishing for a number of years.
Current research
Kathleen writes theatre and book reviews for numerous magazines and her novel, Paydirt, was published by University of Western Australia Press in July 2007. Her feature film, Call Me Mum, about motherhood, the family, and interracial adoption screened on SBS in 2006.
Knowledge transfer
- 2001 co-judge (with Malcolm Robertson, Aubrey Mellor, Melanie Beddie, Tom Healey and Louise Gough) for Playbox's inaugural Malcolm Robertson Prize
- 2000 co-judge (with Peter Steele) of the Wesley Michael Wright Poetry prize
- 2000 - 2005 - Member of the University of Melbourne Theatre Board
- 2002 - Member of the Artists Steering Committee for the Adelaide Festival
Teaching
Publications
Books
- 2007 Paydirt (novel), published by the University of Western Australia Press
- 2000 Working Hot (novel), republished by Random House under the Vintage imprint
- 1989 Working Hot (novel), published by Sybylla Co-operative Press, Melbourne
- 1980 The Sexuality of Illusion (experimental novel), self-published
- 1979 Explosion/ Implosion (extended poem), self-published
Other creative works
- 2006 - what happened was this : the story of Mamdouh Habin in Going Down Swinging, annual book and CD, published by Going Down Swinging Inc, Melbourne, 2006
- 2005 - updated with new introduction -how violence made a real mother-of-a-mother of me, published in Rouge 6:1-14, on-line film magazine, edited by Adrian Martin
- 2001 - how violence made a real mother-of-a-mother of me (7,000 word chapter on the experience of foster motherhood in an inter-racial context) in Meridian: The Fertile Imagination, Narratives of Reproduction, (a special book issue),pp.167 - 188, edited by Maggie Kirkman, Jane-Maree Maher and Kay Torney Souter, Melbourne, Australia: meridian, La Trobe University English Review
- 2001 - Excerpt from The Mourning of the Lac Women in Voiceworks #0044, edited by Aizure Hankin, published by Express Media Power Workshops Inc.
- 2001 Extract from Working Hot in Vintage Quarterly 6, Milson's Point NSW, Australia: Vintage (Random House)
- 2001 hard boiled, soft boiled, scrambled (short story) in Overland, 162, Autumn 2001, edited by Ian Syson, published by O L. Society Limited
- 2001 Endgame (five short poems), on attached Spoken Word CD, Enhancer in Meanjin: Fine Writing and Provocative Ideas, Vol 60, Number 2, edited by Stephanie Holt, published in association with The Australian Centre and the University of Melbourne,
- 2000 A Torturing Dream (monologue from playscript, 'Buyback:"thre boongs in the kitchen") in Playworks Magazine, Winter, 2000, edited by Anna Mazarides, published by Playworks,
- 1999 Killdozer - not a parody (script of radio play) in Salt, Vol 12, edited by John Kinsella (Dean of Poetry, Cambridge University, published by Fremantle Arts Centre Press
- 1999 Act 1 of Buyback:'three boongs in the kitchen' (plus 'Notes') in Salt , Vol. 11, edited by John Kinsella (Dean of Poetry, Cambridge University), published by Fremantle Arts Centre Press
- 1995 'Not unlike the peeling of many bells' in Love Cries - Cruel Passions, Strange Desires, edited by Victoria Dawson, Tim Herbert and Peter Blazey, Angus and Robertson, 1995
Essays and articles
- 2000 Another Register (an interview format article in collaboration with Maryanne Lynch on writing the libretto for Matricide - the Musical and the text for the concert piece Laquiem) in Meanjin, Vol 2, Music Issue, edited by Stephanie Holt, published in association with The Australian Centre and the University of Melbourne
- 1999 Salt, Vol 11, edited by John Kinsella (Dean of Poetry, Cambridge University), published by Fremantle Arts Centre Press, an essay 'What potential hazards of racism and ethnocentricity should a white Western writer be aware of when she is writing about Black non-Western characters? Is it possible to write 'interracial' texts given these problems? Consider these questions specifically in relation to the construction of my text for performance, Buyback:'three boongs in the kitchen'.
- 1995 Southerly, Spring 1995, Vol. 55 Number 3, extended response to Finola Moorhead's article on The Monkey's Mask by Dorothy Porter in Autumn 1995 Issue
Film, theatre and performance
- 2006 - feature film, Call Me Mum, short-listed for the NSW Premier's Literary Award for Scripts and for an AWGIE Award for script writing
- 2002 (June 1) - 5 minute film Laquiem, directed/composed by Andree Greenwell, libretto/text by Kathleen Mary Fallon, screened at the St Kilda Film Festival.
- 2000 (Feb. 19)- performed A Torturing Dream (25 minute monologue) for 'Dreaming Aloud in Rented Rooms' a Playworks/ Madi Gras joint production at the Sydney Seymour Centre
- 1999 (May 12 - 15) - Laquiem - Tales from the Mourning of the Lac Women, text by myself and composed by Andree Greenwell, performed by five musicians and three singers, at The Studio of the Opera House
- 1998 - Matricide -the Musical, a full-length opera / musical for six performers, produced by Chamber Made Opera, in collaboration with composer Elena Kats-Chernin. Directed by Angela Chaplin. Musical director Jane Hammond.
- 1998 - Laquiem: Mourning of the Lac Women, a libretto / text commissioned by composer Andree Greenwell for performance and CD. (Funded by the Australia Council)
- 1998 - Buy-back:'three boongs in the kitchen', accepted by May-Brit Akerholt, director of the Australian National Playwrights Centre. As part of its on-going dramaturgical assistance programme I worked with Peter Matheson, the dramaturg at Melbourne Theatre Company.
Reviews
- Third Text: critical perspectives on contemporary art and culture. 53, Winter 2000-01, edited by Rasheed Araeen and Ziauddin Sardar, published by Kala Press, A Closelook at Cloudstreet
- Australian Book Review, October 1999, A Closelook at Cloudstreet, Feature Essay, 4,000 word essay on the representation of the
- black presence in the play Cloudstreet.
- Overland, September 1999, Gangland (2nd edition) by Mark Davis - an extended review/ article
- Australian Book Review, June 1999, Number 211, The Jesus Man by Christos Tsiolkas
- Australian Book Review, September 1997, Number 194, Orlando's Sleep by Jennifer Spry, published by New Victoria
- Australian Book Review, May 1997, Number 190, The Ballard of Siddy Church by Lin van Hek, published by Spinifex Press
- Australian Book Review, December 1996, Number 187, Launch
- speech of How To Conceive of a Girl by Beth Spence, published by Vintage
- Meanjin, Number 1 1996, Vol. 55 Number 1, Australia Queer edited by Annamarie Jagose and Chris Berry, review of And That's Final by Dean Kiley, published by Black Wattle Press
- Australian Book Review November 1995, Number 176, Lesbian Utopics by Annamarie Jagose, published by Routledge
- Meanjin, Vol. 54 Number 3, Just a Prostitute by Marianne Wood, published by Queensland University Press
- Australian Book Review April 1995, Number 169, The Body of Man by David Herkt, published by Hazard Press
- Australian Book Review October 1993, Number 155, The Lesbian Heresy by Sheila Jeffreys, published by Spinifex