Papers of Fiona Place
MSS 210
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Papers of Fiona PlaceCollection Identifier
MSS 210Inclusive date(s)
1989Extent and Medium
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Collection Description
Published writing and unpublished poems by Fiona Place
Administrative / Biographical history
Fiona Place was born in 1958 in Sydney and received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney, and a Graduate Diploma in Communication and a Master of Arts from the University of Technology, Sydney. She began publishing poetry in 1985, appearing in publications such as Overland, Meanjin, and Westerly. In 1989 Place won the National Book Council's Award for New Writers for her book Cardboard: the Strength Thereof and Other Related Matters, a depiction of a woman with an eating disorder.
Place has contributed to opinion pages and had her own column in the Australian (1997-2002) related to financial literacy. As an advocate for children with intellectual disabilities, Place has written essays on motherhood, genetics and disability, and in 2019 published a memoir and examination of the politics of disability in Portrait of the Artist's Mother: Dignity, Creativity and Disability
References:
Austlit : Fiona Place https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A7802 retrieved 17 August 2020
Disability and Culture: Fiona Place https://fionaeplace.wordpress.com/ retrieved 17 August 2020
Acquisition Details
Scope and Content
The papers of author Fiona Place comprise multiple draft copies of Cardboard: the Strength Thereof and Other Related Matters (later published as Cardboard: A Woman Left for Dead) along with unpublished poetry, short children's stories and an essay regarding anorexia nervosa
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Access: Open Access
This collection contains a variety of copyright material. Copyright is held by the creator of each item. Specific conditions for this collection are listed below. If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items. Digitised material from manuscript collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright. Refer also to the UNSW copyright, disclaimer and takedown policy.
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Related and Separated Materials
A videorecording of readings by writers including Fiona Place taken in 1991 is held in the Academy Library, UNSW Canberra collection at PR 9614.3.R42
Disclaimer
This collection contains a variety of copyright material. Copyright is held by the creator of each item. Specific conditions for this collection are listed above. If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items. Digitised material from manuscript collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright. Refer also to the UNSW copyright, disclaimer and takedown policy.