About Rachel O’Neill

Warm: I’m a writer and artist living in Wellington, New Zealand.

Warmer: Thanks for checking out some of my writing in progress, commentary and random bits and pieces of touch, sight, sound, smell, and taste.

I began this blog during my MA in Creative Writing at Victoria University in 2008. Delve into the archive, or check out my latest blog post.

Warmer again: If you would like to read the short prose story ‘A living spring’ it is here on the Blackmail Press site in their shiny new online Rebel Issue. I have a poem called ‘Embarking on her other names’ coming out in the Brief 38 journal so keep your eyes peeled if this appeals. In old news, head to the Turbine 08 page for a story called ‘Evolving’.

Also if you’re interested in art writing you can find my brand new prose review for the current exhibition Role dot Play featuring Vivian Lynn, Erica Sklenars, and Justine Walker, at Enjoy Public Art Gallery. Search the Enjoy archives for more writing, including the exhibition T & G Building and an interview with Eve Armstrong.

Warmest: I’m finishing up a collection of writing I began in 2008. Whether the writing is prose or poetry is not so important right now – I’m focused on creating sharply focused dramatic situations through character, narrative, and tight-rope adventures in language (that is, I am exploring territory that someone described to me as ‘language as texture and language as meaning’).

Thanks for joining this All Well Afloat caravan, pausing at watering holes, and wearing sunscreen.

Rachel.