'Tim Winton's Island Home' The Australian Newspaper, 31 October 2015. 'Digging a Hole in the Ocean-Philip Hoare's The Sea Inside'. James Ley (ed.) The Sydney Review of Books, October 2013. 'Animals in Their Graves-Barbara J. King's How Animals Grieve' Peter Rose (ed.). Australian Book Review. You can easily spend two days exploring all that Macquarie Island has to offer, including the 200,000-strong King Penguin population, and other penguins populations like gentoos, rockhoppers, and royals. If you can believe it, there are a stunning 72 species of seabirds that call this island home.
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Deep in the Great Southern Ocean, on the cold, misty desolation that is Macquarie Island, a large colony of penguins not only survives but thrives. Although this shot was taken in summer, the day was wild and bitterly cold. We had a lengthy wait for just a bit of sunlight to break through and illuminate this scene. The island is home to Royal Penguins, a species endemic to the island where an estimated 850,000 pairs reside- one of the greatest gatherings of seabirds in the world. King Penguins also call Macquarie Island home. Explore this magnificent place for two days.
Position: Lecturer in Creative Writing
Contact Details
Office:W6A 626
Phone: 61 2 9850 1820
Email:rebecca.giggs@mq.edu.au
Qualifications
BA Hons.(UWA); LLB (UWA); PhD (UWA)
Profile
Rebecca Giggs' creative and scholarly writing focuses on themes of ecology and environmental imagination, animals, landscape, the uncanny, politics and memory. Her particular interests lie in the genres of the essay, nonfiction writing and ficto-criticism. She is a former board member of the Fremantle Press, and has been a recipient of numerous grants and residencies-including a 2013/2014 AsiaLink residency hosted by the Association for the Study of Environmental Literature, Japan.
Selected publications
Scholarly Book Chapters
Giggs, Rebecca. '1957-Australian Nuclear Fiction: Between the Motion and the Act.' Tanya Dalziell, Paul Genoni (eds). Telling Stories: Australian Literary Cultures 1935-2010. Monash University Press, 2013.
Giggs, Rebecca. 'The Green Afterword: Cormac McCarthy's The Road and the Ecological Uncanny' Paul Crosthwaite (ed). Criticism, Crisis and Contemporary Narrative: Textual Horizons in an Age of Risk. London: Routledge, 2010.
Anthologized Nonfiction
Giggs, Rebecca. 'Open Ground: Trespassing on the Pilbara's Minerals and Energy Boom.' Geordie Williamson (ed). The Best Australian Essays 2015. Melbourne: Black Inc., 2015. Originally published in Julianne Schultz (ed.), GriffithREVIEW 'Looking West' Edition 47, March 2015.
Giggs, Rebecca. 'The Eye in the Sand' Ashley Hay (ed.) The Best Australian Science Writing 2014. New South Books, November 2014. Originally published in Zora Sanders (ed). Meanjin, December 2013.
Commissioned Nonfiction
Giggs, Rebecca. 'Whale Fall.' Sigrid Rausing (ed). Granta Magazine, Issue 133 'New Nature', November 2015.
Giggs, Rebecca. 'Australian Fruit Salad.' Sophie Allan (ed). Chart Collective, February 2015.
Giggs, Rebecca. 'The Boat.' Andre Dao (ed). Right Now: Human Rights in Australia, December 2014. Recorded/Performed also for 'All the Best' (FBI Radio, 3RRR), broadcast May 2015.
Giggs, Rebecca. 'Cherry Tree Weather: Western Environmentalisms and the Japanese Season of Sakura' Brigid Hains (ed). Aeon, May 2013.
Giggs, Rebecca. 'Imagining Women: On Gender and Genre.' Jeff Sparrow (ed). Overland 208, Winter 2012.
Giggs, Rebecca. 'Swimming Fixations: The Pool in Australian Environmental Imagination.' Geoff Lemon and Anna Friedmann (eds). Going Down Swinging, Issue 32, September 2011.
Giggs, Rebecca. 'High Watermark: Nature Writing After Climate Change.' Sam Twyford-Moore (ed). Newswrite, Issue 197, June/July 2011.
Anthologized Fiction
Giggs, Rebecca. 'The Office of Icebergs.' Sally Heath (ed). Meanjin Since 1940. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2012. Originally published in Sally Heath (ed). Meanjin, Vol. 70 Number 3, September 2011.
Giggs, Rebecca. 'Blow In.' Cate Kennedy (ed). The Best Australian Stories 2011. Melbourne: Black Inc., 2011. Originally published in Kalinda Ashton, Samuel Cooney (eds). Overland, 201, Summer 2010.
Giggs, Rebecca. 'Silver Swan.' Ronnie Scott (ed). The Best of the Lifted Brow: Volume One. Penguin Books, 2013. Originally published in Ronnie Scott (ed). The Lifted Brow, Issue 11, August 2011.
Other Fiction
Giggs, Rebecca. 'Tree Economy' and 'Passionfruit'. Nicholas Royle and Dulcie Few (eds)., Quick Fictions. Sussex: Myriad Editions, 2012.
Giggs, Rebecca. 'The Nocturnals.' Matthew Lamb (ed). The Review of Australian Fiction, Vol. 3, 2012.
Selected Reviews
Giggs, Rebecca. 'The Microscope Project: Ian Gibbon's How Things Work.' Kent MacCarter (ed). Cordite 'Obsolete' February, 2015.
Giggs Rebecca. 'Tim Winton's Island Home' The Australian Newspaper, 31 October 2015.
Macquarie Island Home Rentals
Giggs, Rebecca. 'Digging a Hole in the Ocean-Philip Hoare's The Sea Inside'. James Ley (ed.) The Sydney Review of Books, October 2013.
Macquarie Island Facts
Macquarie Island Homeowners Association
Giggs, Rebecca. 'Animals in Their Graves-Barbara J. King's How Animals Grieve' Peter Rose (ed.). Australian Book Review, September 2013.