Older Reader Fiction | Chapter Book | Children’s Picture Books | Anthologies (Co-edited) | Recent Honours and Awards | Scholarly Publications 2002-2008
Creative
Poetry
The Mother Workshops. Wollongong: Five Islands Press, 2004. ABC Radio National PoeticA (complete program, June 2006).
House Arrest. Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 1993.
Monster Love. Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 1990. ABC Radio National Fictions, 1994, 1995 (complete program, Pamela Rabe reading).
Indian Movies. Melbourne: Hyland House, 1984.
Death as Mr. Right. Adelaide: Friendly Street Poets, 1982.
Fiction
The Electrolux Man and Other Stories. Melbourne: Hyland House, 1987.
Young Adult Fiction
Riding the Blues. Melbourne: Lothian Books, 2001.
Beyond Blue. Melbourne: Addison Wesley Longman, 1998.
Better Than Blue. Melbourne: Addison Wesley Longman, 1997.
Older Reader Fiction
Mickey’s Little Book of Letters. Melbourne: Lothian Books, 2004. Bolinda Audio Books, 2007 (4 CDs read by Miranda Nation).
Bruise. Melbourne: Addison Wesley Longman, 1998.
Goliath. Melbourne: Addison Wesley Longman, 1998.
Chapter Book
Fit for a Prince. Adelaide: Omnibus Books (Scholastic Australia), 2001. Illustrated by Don Hatcher. (Also on audiotape and CD.)
Children’s Picture Books
A Coat of Cats. Korean edition, 2004. Japanese edition, 2005.
A Coat of Cats. Paperback. Melbourne: Lothian Books; United Kingdom: Happy Cat Books, 2000.
A Coat of Cats. Hardback. Melbourne: Lothian Books, 1998.
Swamp Soup. (poems) Melbourne: Lothian Books, 1995.
What Goes With Toes? Boston: Houghton Mifflin USA, 1995-2005.
Beaches. Boston: Houghton Mifflin USA, 1995-05.
What Goes With Toes? and Beaches translated into Spanish as
Mis Pies and La Playa. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin USA, 1997.
Sunny Faces. Melbourne: Mammoth (Reed Books Australia), 1995.
You Be the Witch. Melbourne: Lothian Books, 1994.
Anthologies (Co-edited)
Tuesday Night Live: Fifteen Years of Friendly Street. Eds. Jeri Kroll, Barry Westburg. Adelaide: Friendly Street Poets, Wakefield Press, 1993. Includes preface and a history of Friendly Street (227-244).
Montage. Eds. Val Driesener, Jeri Kroll, Anne-Marie Mykyta. Adelaide: Country and City Women Writers, 1985.
No. 8 Friendly Street Poetry Reader. Eds. Robert Clark, Jeri Kroll. Adelaide: Friendly Street Poets, 1984.
Recent Honours and Awards
2009 Varuna Writer’s Residential Fellowship.
2006 Josephine Ulrick $10,000 Poetry Prize, Runner-up for poetry sequence (suite of poems up to 200 lines).
Scholarly Publications 2002-2008
Edited Books
Harper, Graeme and Jeri Kroll. Eds. Creative Writing Studies: Practice, Research and Pedagogy. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, UK, 2008. “Introduction.” xi-xiv and Chapter 1, “Creative Writing in the University,” 1-9. International collection (contributors from Australia, UK and USA).
Book Chapters
“Redrafting the Self: The Author as Work in Progress” in Creative Writing: Theory Beyond Practice. Nigel Krauth and Tess Brady, Eds. Flaxton: Post Pressed, Teneriffe, 2006, 197-209.
“Writing for Children and Young Adults” in Teaching Creative Writing, Ed. Graeme Harper. New York and London: Continuum, 2006, 47-62 (chapter 4).
“Creative Writing: The House of Words in the New Millennium” in Innovation in Australian Arts, Media, Design: Fresh Challenges for the Tertiary Sector. Eds. Rod Wissler, Brad Haseman, Sue-Anne Wallace, Michael Keane (selection/editorial material). Flaxton: Post Pressed, 2004, 41-54 (chapter 4). Australian Academy of the Humanities/Australian Research Council’s Learned Academies Special
Projects Scheme
“Popular as a Dirty Word: Investigating Literary and Cultural Biases Through a Study of Paul Jennings” in Crossing the Boundaries. Eds. Geoff Bull and Michèle Anstey. Frenchs Forest, NSW: Pearson Australia, 2002, 261-281.
Commissioned and submitted for publication by Continuum, 2008: Ed. Graeme Harper. “Poetry: Invitation to the Voyage” in The Creative Writing Guidebook (working title)
Encyclopedia Entries
Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature (Mem Fox and Gillian Rubinstein entries). New York and London:OUP, 2006.
Refereed Artciles in Journals, Books, Conference Proceedings
“Creative Practice and/as/is/or Research: An Overview.” Proceedings from the 13th annual conference of the Australian Association of Writing Programs, 2008. [online]
“Targeting an International Audience: Can Creative Writing Texts Cross the World Without Jet Lag?” New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing. Vol. 4, No. 3 (2007), 174-185.
“Creativity, Craft and the Canon: Unpacking the cult(ure) of the workshop.” “Writing is . . . “ Proceedings from the 12th annual conference of the Australian Association of Writing Programs (ISBN: 978 174 088 2736) (November, 2007). Eds. Jen Webb and Jordan Williams. [online] Available from http://creative.canberra.edu.au/aawp/conference_proceedings.html
“Draining Creativity: The Teacher-Writer in the Vampire Academy.” TEXT, Vol. 10, No. 2 (October, 2006), 1-17. [online] Available from http://www.textjournal.com.au/oct06/kroll.htm
Kroll, Jeri and Steve Evans. “Metaphor Delivers: An Integrated Approach to Teaching and Writing Poetry.” English in Australia, Vol. 41, No. 2 (July/Aug 2006), 35-59. 50% JK.
Kroll, Jeri and Donna Lee Brien. “Studying for the Future: Training Creative Writing Postgraduates for Life After Degrees.” The Australian Online Journal of Arts Education, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2006), 1-13. [online] Available from http://education.deakin.edu.au/frg/arts_ed/subscribe.asp 50% JK.
*“Vzkriseny autor (Spisovatele ve vysokem skolstvi 21. stoleti.” Trans. Jana Kunová Rukopis (review of writing practice). Vo1. 1, No. 1 (May 2006), pp. 10-24. ISSN 1801-7630. “The Resurrected Author: Creative Writers in Twenty-first Century Higher Education,” in Czech. Journal of the Josef Skvorecky Literary Academy. Rpt. New Writing 2004.
“Classic and/or Popular? – Australian Children’s Books in a Global Market.” Access (journal of ASLA – Australian School Libraries Association), Vol. 19, Issue 4 (2005), 23-27.
Kroll, Jeri and Steve Evans. “How to Write a ‘How to Write’ Book: The Writer as Entrepreneur.” TEXT, Vol. 9, No. 1 (April, 2005), 1-26. [online] Available fromhttp://www.textjournal.com.au/april05/krollevans.htm 50% JK.
“The Resurrected Author: Creative Writers in Twenty-first Century Higher Education.” New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing. Vol. 1, No. 2 (2004), 89-102.
“The Role of the Examiner: Scholar, Reviewer, Critic, Judge, Mentor.” TEXT, Vol. 8, No. 2 (October, 2004), 1-13. [online] Available from http://www.textjournal.com.au/oct04/kroll.htm
“Subversive and Therapeutic: The Imaginative Power of Child’s Play in Morris Gleitzman’s Recent Fiction” (“Children’s Play as Subversive Activity”) in Seriously Playful: Genre, Performance & Text. Eds. Sharyn Pearce & Kerry Mallan. Flaxton:Post Pressed, 2004, 225-238 (chapter 23).
“The Exegesis and the Gentle Reader/Writer” (keynote speech) TEXT Special Issue Website Series, 3: Illuminating the Exegesis, University of Ballarat Eds. J. Fletcher and A. Mann. (April, 2004), 1-14. [online] Available from http://www.textjournal.com.au/speciss/issue3/kroll.htm
“Wicked!: A Marriage of Two Weird Minds?: Dual Perspectives in a Collaborative Novel” in Cinderella Transformed. Eds. John McKenzie, Doreen Darnell and Anna Smith. Christchurch, NZ: Centre for Children’s Literature in association with Australasian Children’s Literature Association for Research (refereed conference proceedings – ACLAR 2001 conference), 2003, 164-175.
“Creative Writing as Research and the Dilemma of Accreditation: How do we prove the value of what we do?” TEXT, Vol.6, No. 1 (April, 2002). [online] Available from http://www.textjournal.com.au/april02/kroll.htm
