McKenzie, V. (2017). Beer-n-bubs. In S. Corletto, A. T. Matthews, J. M. Miller and L. Washington (eds.). Crush: Stories about love. Rundle Mall, Australia: Midnight Sun. The work adopts the first-person voice of a young man to explore performances of gender in fiction, probing the …
McKenzie, V. (2016). Likes to measure. In M. Sala and G. Osborne (eds.). Newcastle Short Story Award Anthology 2016. Newcastle, NSW: Hunter Writers Centre. The work formally experiments with the possibilities of non-narrative prose, developing strategies that include the poetics of catalogue (listing structures). It …
McKenzie, V. (2014). Against the grain. Gargouille 1, 19-27. Autofiction that traces a physical and emotional journey, challenging genre divisions and prompting the reader to question pleasure and authenticity in narrative voice. Themes include the natural world and indigenous world views. It appears in the …
McKenzie, V. (2013). “Philogyny #3.” In L. J. Christensen (Ed.), Poetry d’Amour2014: Love poems (p. 134). Inglewood, Australia: WA Poets Inc. The work is in traditional Shakespearean sonnet form, which has a long association with love poems, but plays with persona and voice in unexpected …
McKenzie, V. (2013). I shine not burn. In R. Rossiter (Ed.), Knitting and other stories (pp. 92-102). Witchcliffe, Australia: Margaret River Press. Autofictional family history that creates an authentic narrative voice, performing careful work along the fine line between life writing and creative writing. Themes include …