Dr Moya Catherine Costello

Teaching Associate, Faculty of Business, Law and Arts, Southern Cross University

Fabric and affect

Murray Bail

Fictocriticism

Microlit

Ecocriticism

Creative writing

Australian literature

Food and wine studies

Gothic studies

Experimental writing

Art writing

Creative writing pedagogy

Prose poetry

Fiction (novel, short story) Open access

The Literary Festival

by Moya Catherine Costello

Published 07/2025

Coastlines Journal

Short Story about a literary festival where the readers take over.

Essay Open access

Variegated, Fissiparous Animations: An Australian Writing Memoir

by Moya Catherine Costello

Published 12/2024

Sūdō Journal, 5, 10 - 18

A short memoir of my development as an Australian writer. Published in Sudo Journal online on 30/12/204 in the fifth volume

https://sudojournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/5.3-Variegated-Fissiparous-Animations-An-Australian-Writing-Memoir.pdf.
(From Moya - The journal is associated with James Cook University.)

SAM - From the JCU website - Tenille McDermott is a PhD student in creative writing exploring the intersection between time, narrative, and machine-generated text. She is the co-editor of JCU's postgraduate journal, Sūdō Journal, and her creative work has been published in Jacaranda Journal.

Other creative works Open access

Boat Love

by Moya Catherine Costello

Published 12/2024

I remade two pages pf Ania Walwicz's book Boat in a collective project (33+ writers) celebrating her and Australian experimental writing, headed by Quinn Eades and Francesca Rendl-Short. There is a flip book and scholarly paper in Text associated with the project.

Fiction (novel, short story)

Stained

by Moya Costello

Published Autumn 2024

Remnant an anthology of microlit, 106 - 107

'Stained' is in the Spinless Wonders anthology 2024 Remnant: an anthology of microlit edited by Cassandra Atherton. pp 106-107

Essay Open access

Little jokes that nobody but me will understand

by Moya Costello

Published 11/2023

The Saltbush Review , 4

An essay riffing on Murray Bail's statement that he hid jokes in his fiction.