Associate Professor Maria Takolander and Professor David McCooey recently signed a contract for the 2018 publication by Routledge of The Limits of Life Writing (recently published as a special issue of the journal Life Writing) as a book. This collection of essays and creative work began life as a Contemporary Histories Research Group symposium at the Deakin Waterfront campus in February 2016. As well as contributions from the editors, the book will contain work by Gillian Whitlock, Kate Douglas, Anne Brewster, Juliet Jacques, Adam Brown (Deakin), Jo Langdon (Deakin), and Oliver Driscoll (Deakin).