Juliana Byers
Creative Writing Portfolio
Welcome to my creative writing portfolio. While my passion is for non-fiction, I have always enjoyed creative writing and am currently (albiet slowly) working on a historical fiction novel.
Here you can find any creative and/or fiction works I have produced, both as an undergraduate and independantly. I have won awards for my short stories and continue to put my work forward for competitions.
Independent Creative Writing
Riding with Fire
Premise: Horse dealer Brandy Aarden meets hot-headed charmer Breaker Morant at a fair in New South Wales, and a whirlwind romance ensures. This story contains adults themes and strong language.
Gunfire
Premise: When neo-facists gather to protest an event at the local library, someone responds with deadly violence. This story contains adult themes and strong language.
Somebody Knows
2023 Winner Melton City Libraries Short Story Competition, Adult Section
Premise: The narrator dumps a body by the creek and covers his tracks… but somebody knows. This story contains adults themes and strong language.
Undergraduate Writing Projects
Graduating Project
Finding Viktoria: A Creative Non-Fiction Weblog https://jbyersproject.weebly.com/
Third Year
- A Little Purple Cake (Short Story)
- Welcome and Not (Short Story)
Second Year
- Collapse (Creative Non-Fiction)
- I’ll Be Home Tonight (Screenplay)
- The Soldier (Short Story)
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The world of reality has limits. The world of imagination is boundless.
– Jean Jacques Rousseau
Read All About It
Skeptical History
Sourcing Skeptical History
How to find the sources I use in my posts and podcasts.
The Lost Notes
What happens when records don’t make it to an archive, and how does this affect historian’s ability to do our jobs?
I Don’t Wanna Hear it!
Sometimes (actually, most of the time) history can be uncomfortable. But if we use that excuse to shut down conversation, we’ll never learn from the past.
I Hereby Say I Said It!
I recently stumbled across a wonderful quote at an airport, but was it really said by one of the most controversial American industrialists?
