‘When you are a writer and a sore little piece of yourself breaks off and crystallises, you name it and you write a world for it and it becomes a story…’

Published by Grattan Street Press in 2018 as part of their Grattan Street Shorts series, this experimental mix of memoir and fictocriticism unravels the sinuous complexities of grief, loss, memory, and femininity.

The unpublished manuscript for Something To Be Tiptoed Around was shortlisted for the Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers (2015) and longlisted for The Lifted Brow & RMIT non/fictionLab Prize for Experimental Nonfiction (2016).

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Praise for Something To Be Tiptoed Around

“Ambitious and experimental, yet exact, nuanced and artful in its examination of its subjects: grief, death, femininity, sisterhood, and surprisingly (but not so surprisingly) life.” — Jennifer Nguyen for The Lifted Brow

“Trauma is the volatile centre of the book; around it Jones wraps nonlinear narrative threads … She demonstrates how grief ignores chronology, the past breaks its borders.” — Eloise Grills for Sydney Review of Books

“A 77-page book that hums and sparks and hisses with the friction of its braided theoretical and poetic threads … (Jones’s) writing is haunted, but it is also alive, young, electric, reinvigorating the legacies it invokes.” — Abigail Fisher for Farrago