Graduate Snapshots

News about a Selection of Alumni

Many students move through the program from Honours or the MA (including the Graduate Diploma) to the PhD. Further information about students can be found on the Austlit Website: The Resource for Australian Literature; full access is available from a library that subscribes, including the University of Adealide Library. See also the English site where a selection of current PhD candidates' research is detailed.

• PhD Alumni
• Honours, Grad, MA Alumni

A Selection of PhD Alumi

Patrick ALLINGTON's novel, Figurehead, will be published by Black Inc. in 2009. His critical writings appear regularly for The Advertiser and Australian Book Review and he was inaugural literary editor for Etchings.

Anne BARTLETT, author of the novel Knitting, is a Visiting Research Fellow with the Creative Writing Program. She has been awarded a new work grant by the Literature Board of the Australia Council.

Ian BONE has written across most age groups, from picture books to young adult novels. His novel, The Song of an Innocent Bystander, is being adapted into a major feature film. His children's book series, Philomena Wonderpen, has been bought by an International media company to be adapted for television.

Anthony BUGEJA has had work from a new novel in the second issue of Etchings and has reviewed in Wet Ink.

Kaye CLEAVE has donated the use of studio for writers through the SA Writers' Centre.

Fiona CARROLL was the first graduate in the Creative Writing PhD.

Moya COSTELLO is a novelist and writer, teacher and editor. She is a referee for Text. She read in the Lee Marvin and staples series of 2006. She has reviewed for Text, for journals in the Australian Public Intellectual Network, and Radio Adelaide. She had work extracted from her PhD in the first issue of Etchings.

Sabina HOPFER and Christopher Lappas launched a new publishing house, Ilura Press, a Fiction Quest and a new literary journal, Etchings.

Lisa JEDYNAK is an editor of Forked Tongues.

Cath KENNEALLY'S MA was Room Temperature. She is Arts Producer at Radio Adelaide and has reviewed for the Weekend Australian. She has read in the Lee Marvin series. She has work in staples. She read her work in Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand in an Arts SA supported tour with Ken Bolton.

Christopher LAPPAS and Sabina Hopfer launched a new publishing house, Ilura Press and a new literary journal, Etchings.

Amy  MATTHEWS is an editor of The Body. Her short fiction has appeared in Best Australian Stories. She has tutored for the English Discipline in the University. She has presented at the English Literature Conference in Singapore at Nanyang Technological University. She has read at Wordfire.

James ROBERTS published in Wet Ink and the Sleeper's Almanac. He was shortlisted for the Ilura Press Fiction Quest. He is working on antholology about 'The Drover's Wife'. He helped create the television series and associated book, Writers on Writing.

Rudrakumar SOMAN'S PhD novel has been accepted by Picador.

Ray TYNDALE'S verse novel (her PhD thesis) has been published as Farmwoman by Wakefield Press. Her chapbook, Sappho At Sixty, is published by Picaro Press.

Heather TAYLOR JOHNSON was an editor of Cracker. She is a poetry editor for Wet Ink for which she also reviews. She has read at staples and Wordfire, Animate Quarterly and Lee Marvin. She has work in the third issue of Etchings. Picaro Press has published her poetry collection Exit Wounds.

Malcolm WALKER'S PhD novel for young adults, The Stone Crown, was published in 2008 by Walker Books and will be published in the UK and the US. He teaches in the English Discipline and works at the SA Writers' Centre.

Wendy WRIGHT has had her poetry published in The Tokyo Journal, her translations published in Sakurajaku, is the author of the novel The Air of Tokyo and her work has been broadcast by SBS Japanese Radio and by the Australian Broadcasting Commission's Poetica.

A Selection of Honours, Grad Diploma and MA Alumni

Dorothy BARRIE has read at the Lee Marvin series.

Ian BONE is widely published across most age groups, from picture books to young adult novels.

Amanda CHAPMAN has read at the Lee Marvin series.

Professor Timothy DOYLE is Chair of Politics and International Relations in SPIRE at Keele University (UK), where he teaches Global Political Economy, Environmental Politics, Political Sociology, and The Global South. Also, he serves as Head of the Research Centre for International Studies, Politics and Philosophy (CISPP) at which is part of the Keele Research Institute for Law, Politics and Justice.

Rebecca EBERT  won a SA Youth Arts Board Scholarship, has gone on to do her PhD in European Studies where she also teaches, and she does admin work for Media.  She reviews for Wet Ink.

Lesley KINNOCH is an editor of Iron Lace.

Rachel HENNESSY'S novel The Quakers (from her MA) was published by Wakefield Press. She is a winner of the Adelaide Festival Award for an unpublished manuscript and a runner up for the Australian/Vogel Literary Award.

Kirsten HEYSEN is a film critic. She has had work in Altitude.

Scott HOPKINS is an editor of Painted Words

Caroline HORN has read at the Lee Marvin series.

Gabrielle HUDSON is an editor of Forked Tongues.

Glenn R JOHNS is an editor of Iron Lace.

Gabrielle HUDSON is an editor of Forked Tongues.

Julie LIM has tutored in the Discipline of English.

Kerrie HARRISON is an editor of Forked Tongues and the sub-editor for Wet Ink, for which she also writes reviews.

Cath KENNEALLY is a novelist, poet and critic. She is producer of Writers Radio and Arts Breakfast on Radio Adelaide.

Stefan LASZCZUK: The New Cage was Stef's Grad Dip work and The Goddamn Bus of Happiness was his MA thesis. It won the Unpublished Manuscript award in the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature and was publised as a novel by Wakefield Press. He then commenced a PhD in Creative Writing; his novel I Dream of Magda won the Australian/Vogel Literary Award.

Carol LeFEVRE'S MA thesis was published as Nights in the Asylum by Picador UK & Random House Australia. It won the 2008 Nita B. Kibble Literary Award 2008. She has since commenced a PhD in Creative Writing and has published If You Were Mine.

Gay LYNCH teaches at Flinders University where she has gone on to do a PhD.

K*M MANN is an editor of Painted Words. She participatged in Feast writers' events in 2006 and 2007.

Helen MANOS has had several children's books published.

Margaret MERRILEE was short-listed, 2004, Festival Awards for Literature, unpublished manuscript. She went on to do her PhD at Flinders University.

Kym PACKER  has work in staples.

Ioana PETRESCU teaches at the University of South Australia.

Samantha SCHULTZ is an editor of Forked Tongues.

Tim SINCLAIR was a Development Associate at Poets House in New York, and later Communications Officer for the Australian Society of Authors. His verse novel, Nine Hours North, was published by Penguin.

Alice SLADDIN regularly reads her poems and has poetry published. Alice won the 2005 University Bundey Poetry Prize. '[A]n essay in self-scrunity with nice touches of Irish humor' said J M Coetzee of Sladdin's ''The Last Cheese'  in On Edge reviewed in The Independent Weekly Jan 15-21, 2006. In 2006 she is on the Friendly Street Poets Committee. A reader at Wordfire. In 2006 she was second prize winner and received an honourable mention in the University's Writing Club's poetry competition.

Emmett STINSON won The Age short story competition in 2005. He is an editor of On Edge, and a fiction editor of Wet Ink. He has work in staples. He has gone on to do a PhD at Melbourne University.

Dominique WILSON is the Co-Managing Editor of Wet Ink: the magazine of new writing and the chair of Adelaide PEN. She has been published in Griffith Review and elsewhere.