Refereed Journal Articles & Book Chapters
2026
Prendergast, J. (2026). Realism—Shapeshifting as a map of matter, New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing. Q1 Article under peer review: expected publication date 2026.
Prendergast, J., Webb, J. (2026). Splinters of ice as modus operandi, TEXT Journal. Q1 Article under peer review: expected publication date October 2026.
Clark, S., Prendergast, J., Schleser, M. (2026). Post-Binary Futures. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, DOI: 10.25916/sut.33412258
Prendergast, J. (2026). The Shape of Thought: Fungible Shifts in the Genre|s of acceptable utterance, Western Humanities Review, Volume 76.2, Utah: westernhumanitiesreview.com.
Prendergast, J., Slade, B., Lyons, P. (2026). Curiosity in Creative Writing through the Lens of Neuroscience, commissioned by Professor Graeme Harper for a collection: Creative Writing Curiosity: Ten Essays on the Curious and the Writerly, Texas Review Press: Sam Houston University, USA.
Prendergast, J. (2026). Commentary: Reflecting upon current issues across the discipline of Creative Writing (Australasia). TEXT Journal, 30(1), April: DOI: 10.52086/001c.161451
2025
Prendergast, J., Slade, B., Lyons, P. (2025). Ideasthetic Imagining—Mapping the Brain’s Microstates using Magnetoencephalography (MEG), TEXT Journal, 29(2), October, 1–28. DOI: 10.52086/001c.146401
Prendergast, J. (2025). Realism, granite, rainbow – life, memory, art. New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing. DOI: 10.1080/14790726.2025.2561906
Prendergast, J., Hecq, D., Michael, R., Munoz, G., van Loon, J., Webb, J. (2025). Fringe dwelling in autobiographical memory – Writers’ perspectives, TEXT Journal Special Issue Number 74: Fringe Dwelling. DOI: 10.52086/001c.129332
Lemon, N., O’Brien, S., Later, N., Britton, S., & Prendergast, J. (2025). Pedagogy of belonging: Cultivating wellbeing literacy in higher education. Higher Education, 90, 199-213. DOI: 10.1007/s10734-024-01317-8
2024
Prendergast, J . & Webb, J. (2024), How’s the weather?, Creative Matters, Edition 7.
Prendergast, J. (2024). Writing the mire – ‘for we are loom’. New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing. DOI: 10.1080/14790726.2024.2377540
Prendergast, J. (2024). What are you doing it for? Realist writing – the riddled boundary that divides fiction and reality. New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing. DOI: 10.1080/14790726.2023.2216661.
2022
Prendergast, J. (2022). Stimulus in creative writing—Wrangling the experiential unresolved. New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, 19(1), 105–116. DOI: 10.1080/14790726.2021.1925304
Prendergast, J. (2022). Ideasthetic imagining—Writing as dream-membering. In A. Pont, E. Herbert-Goodall, & S. Jatschka (Eds.), TEXT Journal Special Issue Number 68: Writing Dreams (pp. 1–20). DOI: 10.52086/001c.57576
2021
Prendergast, J. (2021). Ideasthetic imagining: Patterns and deviations in affective immersion. New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, 18(1), 47–65. DOI: 10.1080/14790726.2019.1709508
Prendergast, J. (2021). TELEPHONE: Through the lens of ideasthetic imagining. In N. Langston (Ed.), TELEPHONE: Writings (pp. 180–184). Crosstown Press.
2020
Prendergast, J. (2020). Manifesto to the incompleteness of human experience. In J. Prendergast, S. Strange, & J. Webb (Eds.), TEXT Journal Special Issue Number 58: The In/Completeness of Human Experience (pp. 150–159). DOI: 10.52086/001c.23450
Prendergast, J. (2020). Imagination is the queen of truth—The realist text as a sensory narrative image. TEXT Journal, 24(2), 1–18. DOI: 10.52086/001c.18571
2019
Prendergast, J. (2019). Narrative and the unthought known: The immaterial intelligence of form. TEXT Journal, 23(1), 1–15. DOI: 10.52086/001c.23539
2018
Prendergast, J. (2018). Grinding the moor—Ideasthesia and narrative. New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, 15(4), 416–432. DOI: 10.1080/14790726.2018.1436567
Prendergast, J. (2018). Capturing the unsayable. In J. Prendergast (Ed.), ACE: Arresting, contemporary stories from emerging writers. Full-length edited collection. Recent Work Press, 86–97.