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Exhume
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A new critical literary space designed to explore themes relevant to a history of Australian literary criticism, supported by the Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing.

Coming Soon // Launching December 2

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Our first by @johannawiggers.bsky.social is live!
Read it on our Substack: exhume.substack.com/p/the-plot-t...
Text-based image with blue font on cream background, and green abstract border. The text, a pull quote from the first Exhume piece, reads: Velia Ercole’s fate is shared by many Australian women writers, whose works have fallen into obscurity, have never been reprinted, or have only ever been published in serial form.
December 6, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Keep an eye on your email inbox tomorrow — our first Exhume piece by @johannawiggers.bsky.social is going live!

Subscribe to our Substack, so you won’t miss the release of issue I: exhume.substack.com
Text-base image introducing the first contributor for Exhume issue 1: Johanna Wiggers. Text-based image, which reads: Johanna Wiggers (she/her) is a MPhil student at James Cook University, currently researching representations of modern femininity in the literary context of the Weimar Republic. Her research interests include modernism, the middlebrow, women’s writing, and interwar print culture. She is the co-editor of Exhume alongside Bianca Martin. Text based image introducing Johanna'as Exhume piece, entitled "The Plot thickens: Reading an interwar Serial." It also shows the covers of 16 issues of the Australian weekly, the Bulletin against a blue background.
December 5, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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WE’RE LIVE!!
You can now find our editorial introduction on our Substack: exhume.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
Many thanks to all who have subscribed so far, and to the @roderickcentrejcu for supporting us.
We hope you enjoy reading Exhume’s first issue.
ALT Text: Text based image with an abstract green background. The text is a pull quote from Exhume’s editorial introduction and reads: A core value in developing Exhume was to bridge the gap between academic and popular writing. The reasons were twofold: to provide a publishing experience for contributors to further their creative, writing, and literary careers; and to bring that knowledge and expertise to a wider non-academic audience
December 2, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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We can’t believe it is happening so soon— Exhume launches next Tuesday!

Here is a schedule overview of the wonderful pieces we will be publishing on our Substack between 2 Dec and 24 Jan.

Many thanks to all our contributors!
November 28, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Alright time to put some faces to the names, even if we are a bit reluctant to put ourselves front and centre! Exhume is edited by Bianca and Johanna, who met as postgraduate students at James Cook University. Fun fact: this photo is the first and only time we’ve met IRL!
November 25, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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Exhume wouldn’t exist without the generous support from The Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing! The Roderick Centre aims to foster the reading and writing of Australian literature in all its forms. www.jcu.edu.au/RCALC
November 22, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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2 weeks until we go live! Eek! Recognise any book covers? 👀📚
November 18, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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A lil sneak peak for what's coming up 👀
November 15, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Are you new to Substack? It's a user-friendly and generally easy-to-navigate platform that offers several different ways of interacting with content:
November 12, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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The theme from issue 1 is... exhume! We wanted to contextualise why we chose this particular name. It's so much more than morbid associations!
Text based image similar to a dictionary entry. The word exhume is spelled phonetically. Below the word exhume is the following dot points: to reveal; disclose; unearth; bring to light, to discover that which has been buried, to bring back from neglect or obscurity, to revive or restore after a period of forgetting, to recover something for further examination
November 8, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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✏️🗓️ Mark it in your calendars! Issue 1 of Exhume is officially launching on December 2.
November 4, 2025 at 2:09 AM