Writing

In 2020, Molly Mckew completed her PhD in Australian History, titled ‘Remembering the Counterculture: Melbourne’s Inner-Urban Alternative Communities of the 1960s and 1970s’ (PhD in History, 2019). Molly has since published research from this project in Overland and the Conversation, and has co-written a bookchapter in the 2019 collection, Post-Punk and Urban Australia: Exploring Dogs in Space.  Molly also publishes non-fiction, memoir and drawings. 

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Read more about her PhD on the School of Historical and Philsophical Studies Website.

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Publications: 

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2024

• 'Lesbian music history: Searching for my mum’s long-lost record from 1993', Archer magazine, 1 October 2024. 

• 'Gregor's Satanic Lullabies: a review', Stew, May 2024 (print only)

• 'Alone, by Beverly Farmer' (review), Ramona Mag, May 2024. 

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2023

• 'An ode to the Cranberries', Veranda Literary Journal 38, 2023 (print only)

• 'Interview with Sarah Mary Chadwick', Stew, October 2023 (print only)

• 'The work of friendship: the new communities of Melbourne’s 60s and 70s counterculture', Overland literary magazine (online), October 14, 2023. 

• 'Where I slept, by Libby Angel', (review), Ramona Mag, July 2023. 

2022

• ‘A fling’ (drawing series), The Suburban Review no. 26 ‘Revel’. (print only)

2021

• 'Lesbian Feminist in 1990s Melbourne: An interview with my mum', Archer magazine, 8 April 2021. 

2020

• 'Community, sharehousing and the counterculture in 1970s Melbourne', Overland literary magazine, 26 November 2020 (online). 

•  Co-authored a book chapter in the collection, Urban Australia and Post-Punk: Exploring Dogs in Space, “‘Someone’s Been Fucking Using This for Meat Again’: 18 Berry Street and Melbourne Sharehousing in the 1970s and 1980s” published by Palgrave Macmillan.

2017  

•  'Share houses and women’s liberation: a forgotten history,' The Conversation, 18 October, 2017. This was republished in the Sydney Morning Herald and the Daily Life.​​