Writing Survival

I have had a lifetime of opposition to my writing, and never more than in universities in Australia which no longer employ me, but that is what I am doing, telling my stories as a 'white Australian female' and stories of my family- a secret history. I have written books, which I am making now myself. Publishing.

The first is the Antipode Room, first novel in the series Australian Fugue adapting the musical and psychogenic meanings of fugue (forgetting-flight from self a temporary state of amnesia). The main character Ruby-Roxanne is in state of fugue, the novel traces her flight from fugue to knowledge as she gradually finds out about her family, past history and who she is. So this first novel – set in London, and the Central desert, Coober Peedy, rainforest, and Sydney and jail- is an extreme introduction to this mad state, which she moves beyond in further novels.

I have put my project on pozible as a way of starting to make it real.

Ruth Skilbeck 24.11.13