Editorial

There are many pithy and fascinating interconnections between works of creative writing, place and history, some of them more obvious than others. In this bumper issue of Axon: Creative Explorations various contributors consider diverse aspects of these interrelationships, and, in many cases, they demonstrate that history is inscribed in the places that creative works address. Indeed, a sense of place and its historical records often constitute aspects of the same set of understandings, because history occurs in specific locations and any idea of a particular place is inflected by the narratives and mythologies attached to that place, and the assumptions that attend on reading about such matters.