Ashleigh Watson

I am the producer and editor of So Fi Zine (ISSN 2209-3028), a sociological fiction zine published by my indie press Frances St Press, which you can read online at sofizine.com. So Fi Zine publishes short stories, poetry, cartoons, photo essays and other creative works. Edition #3 launched in July 2018 and was inspired by Les Back and Nirmal Puwar’s work on live methods. Edition #2 launched in November 2017 and was inspired by Howard Becker’s work on telling about society. Edition #1 launched […]

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I’m Ashleigh, a writer and sociologist. I’m currently completing a PhD researching fiction and public sociology with Griffith University and the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research. I run Frances St Press and am the creator and editor of So Fi Zine.  I teach across sociology, criminology, writing, gender, and world history. I’m the current Postgraduate Portfolio Leader for The Australian Sociological Association (2017-2018) and I recently completed a 2017 Endeavour Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London. Tweet me at @awtsn or email ashleigh.watson@griffithuni.edu.au. Research My practice-based PhD project, which […]

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My latest creative piece is ‘Folded Up’, published in November 2017 in Pink Cover zine. In June I published ’10 Scenes in London’ in So Fi, a sociological fiction zine. Last September, the second Bareknuckle Poet Annual Anthology was launched at the 2016 Brisbane Writers Festival. It includes my story ‘Joan Didion’s Recipe Book’. The piece first appeared in Bareknuckle Poet Journal of Letters and you can read it in full here.

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On February 15 2018 I gave a paper titled Fiction as Method at ‘Modern Methodologies: Developments in Doing Sociological Research‘, an event I ran that was co-hosted by The Australian Sociological Association and Western Sydney University Institute for Culture and Society, School of Social Sciences and Psychology, and Graduate Research School. In this paper I outlined the methodological approach I use in my PhD, a mixed-methods project involving the creation of a sociological fiction novel. In this workshop setting I […]

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