Vince Ruston
WRITER. EDITOR.
A PORTFOLIO OF CREATIVE AND PERSONAL WORK.
About
I've been writing and editing professionally for almost a decade. Like many formidable editors in Australia, I started out on the Voiceworks editorial committee. I have experience editing across a range of forms, from poetry and short fiction to full-length manuscripts, formal letters, reviews, anthologies, academic papers and reports, from the developmental stage to the final proofread. My rates are negotiable depending on your financial situation and the amount of work required—generally around $50 per hour.
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Whether you're a seasoned writer in need of a copyedit before sending off a draft, working on your thesis and the structure has got away from you, or you're an emerging writer finding your unique voice, I'm here to tailor my approach to your needs.
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I have a First Class Honours degree in Media and Communication from RMIT University, graduating in 2018 on the Vice-Chancellor's Award List, and am currently undertaking a Master of Writing, Editing and Publishing.
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Below you can read a selection of my own creative work.
Inventing Anna Review
Louise (extract)
The Wheeler Centre
'My Chemical Romance: on Queer Emo Friendship'
Archer Magazine
'Year of the Cat'
Emerging Writers' Festival: Playlist: Love
'Q&A With Vince Ruston'
The Suburban Review
'Joy and the Flesh of Fruit'
Emerging Writers' Festival Podcast
'Blood, Salt and Fish Guts'
The Suburban Review
'We Really Need You Tonight'
Kill Your Darlings
SEPTEMBERÂ 2017
Representations of sex work tend to focus on either titillation or exploitation. But for many escorts, inadequate regulation of the industry both reflects and enforces the ongoing stigma they face.
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On my time in the adult industry. Shortlisted for the 2018 Woolhara Digital Non-Fiction Prize.
JANUARYÂ 2021
'I love playing around with words in that way, trying to find exactly the right one, so getting the imagery of that act into words was more playful and joyful than difficult.'
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Associate editor Maya Pilbrow interviews me about my short story for issue #19 Echo, 'Blood, Salt and Fish Guts'.
DECEMBER 2021
They were the band that brought my friendship group together – a strange bunch of queer goth-slash-emo teens affectionally self-dubbed The Bra Tree Gang.
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For the tenth anniversary of My Chemical Romance's last studio album, I wrote about what the band meant for me, as a teenager coming to terms with sexuality, gender, and neurodivergence.
APRIL 2022
I was very fortunate to be awarded a Hot Desk Fellowship from The Wheeler Centre in 2020. This fellowship offers a stipend and workspace in The Wheeler Centre building with the aim of aiding emerging writers to develop a project over three months. You can read an extract from the experimental poetic-prose novel I worked on during my Hot Desk here.