Bibliography - Dr Gillian Polack
Fiction
Fifteen published short stories, including:
'Red Paper,' Conflux Programme Book, October 2009 (second place, Conflux short story competition)
'Passports,' In Bad Dreams Volume Two: Where Death Stalks, ed Lilley, Eneit Press, 2009
'Horrible Historians,' Subterranean Magazine #4, 2006 (Honorable mention, Years' Best SF 2007)
'Impractical Magic,' Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #17, 2005 (recommended reading Link/Grant/Datlow Year's Best 2005);
'Stu's Stew', short story, The CSFG Gastronomicon, 2005
'Happy Faces for Happy Families,' Encounters ed Macarthur and Hanson, CSfG Publishing, 2004 and reprint in The Deepening, December 2005 (recommended reading, Datlow's Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2004)
'A life - briefly', short story in Antipodean SF 74, July/August 2004
'Words,' short story in EMU Literary Magazine for Young Australians Spring/Summer 1985
'The Performance,' short story in The Journal (Short Story Supplement) 1982 (winner, Victorian Government Ministry for the Arts Award)
'Twilight' short story in Yggdrasil (Melbourne University Science Fiction Association), August 1982
Novels
Life through Cellophane, Eneit Press, 2009
Illuminations, a novel, Trivium Publishing (USA), 2002
Editing
Baggage, Eneit Press, 2010
Masques, (with Scott Hopkins), CSfG Publishing, 2009
Once and Future: Medieval and Modern Arthurian Literature The Arthurian Association of Australia, Occasional Papers volume 1, 2000
Non-Fiction includes
A fortnightly column at Bibliobuffet http://www.bibliobuffet.com/bookish-dreaming
A piece in Storied Dishes, ed Linda Berzok, Greenwood Press, 2010
"What Shape is a Wave," Steam Engine Time 11, February 2010
Food History (a blog - 2006-2009) http://www.foodpast.com
On food in fantasy novels http://voyagerblog.com.au/2008/05/05/food-is-just-fantasy-without-substance-historian-gillian-polack-guest-blogs/
'The shadows in history's eye,' http://vulpeslibris.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/richard-iii-week-the-shadows-in-historys-eye-by-dr-gillian-polack/
'Them's Fighting Words: Old French Insults,' http://www.triviumpublishing.com/articles/fightingwords.html
'Thoughts on Women's History: 2004 Online Women's History Month,' February 14, 2004 http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/13152/106560
'The Middle Ages' (Overview) from Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy v 1 ed Robin Reid, 2009
Guest of Honour speech from Conflux 5, Steam Engine Time 10, March 2009
'Geoff Ryman's Realities,' Steam Engine Time 9, December 2008
'Simon Brown: An Overview,' Steam Engine Time 8, May 2008
'The appeal of the short story,' Steam Engine Time 7, October 2007
'Conceptualising the Past: How Fiction Writers Talk about the Middle Ages.' In Historicising the Historical Novel, Working Papers on the Web, v 9 2006
'How not to hate research. Truly.' SF and Fantasy Workshop, Dec. 2005, v. 25, No. 290
'How Fiction Writers use the Middle Ages,' AntiTHESIS, May 2005
'An Exploration of Jewish Fairytales,' Fables and Reflections issue 7, April 2005
Elven Grammar II Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine Issue 17, Vol. 4 No. 1, February/March 2005
'Canberra's Fire,' Stories of Strength ed J Glatzer, 2005
'Maxine McArthur: Space Opera Plus' Conflux Programme Book Conflux 2005
Ten Things That Only Belong in a Speculative Fiction Novel when Placed There Carefully with Intent to Murder Medieval History. Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine Issue 16, Vol. 3 No. 4, December/January 2004
'Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder' Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #15, October/November 2004
'Feminism and the Past,' http://www.triviumpublishing.com/articles/feminismandthepast.html
'Fiddler on the Roof in Queanbeyan, NSW' (originally published in the Australian Jewish News) http://www.trivium.net/gillianpolack/playgp.htm
'Food is more than fantasy,' http://voyageronline.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/
'Ghosts and fairies in the Middle Ages,' http://www.triviumpublishing.com/articles/ghosts.html
'King Arthur in Our Mind's Eye (and on our bookshelves),' http://www.triviumpublishing.com/articles/arthuronyourbookshelf.html
'Languages in Medieval England,' http://www.triviumpublishing.com/articles/languages.html
'Elven Grammar,' Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine Issue 15, Vol. 3 No. 3, October/November 2004
'A Medieval French Rosh Hashanah,' Kosher Consumers' Association, 2003
'Tudor Food on the Web, September 20, 2003 http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/tudor/103472
'Researching your Family History,' The Canberra Writer, May 2002
'Living History Through Fiction' January 22, 2004 http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/tudor_england/106064
'Medieval French food for the Jewish New Year,' http://www.triviumpublishing.com/articles/medievaljewishnewyear.html
'Racism in Australia,' originally published in 'The Real Women's News' http://216.92.140.78/realnews/rn1aust.htm. 29 September 2001 http://www.trivium.net/gillianpolack/racismgp.htm
'A brief introduction to Medieval Jewish Arthurian literature,' for GrailQuest ’99 Conference Proceedings CTEA, Sydney 2000
'Modern Feminism and the Medieval Arthurian Romance - A Reflection' Once and Future: Medieval and Modern Arthurian Literature, Arthurian Association of Australia, Occasional Papers, v 1,2000
'Immersed in a sea of perplexed thoughts: some ideas on a Medieval text,' Once and Future: Medieval and Modern Arthurian Literature 2000 pp. 47-48
'Chanson de Geste,' Medieval Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs. Ed. C Lindahl et. al. ABC-CLIO, 2000
'International Folk Dance in Canberra, Australia,' New Directions in Folklore 4.1: March, 2000 http://www.temple.edu/isllc/newfolk/dance.html
'William of Orange Medieval,' Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs. Ed. C Lindahl et. al. ABC-CLIO, 2000
'A Jewish King Arthur? A brief Introduction to Medieval Jewish Arthurian Literature,' The Grail Quest Papers (Conference proceedings 1999)
'Breton Fairy Tales,' http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/1160/brittany.html
This list is far from complete. It's especially incomplete in the matter of book reviews and short non-fiction.