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Publishing, Presentations, Prizes and Awards  

• Published Theses from Students in the Program
• Magazines and Zine
• Anthologies
• Reading Performance & Theatrical Collaboration
• Recent Work from our Creative Writing Staff
• Recent Prizes, Awards & Grants 
• Recent conferences, festival appearances & other events

Published Theses from Students in the Program

PhD theses now published as books include: 

Anne Bartlett: Knitting. Anne Bartlett's PhD thesis 'Knitting: A Novel: A Retrospective View' was published by Penguin in Australia and the UK, and by Houghton Mifflin in the US.

Ken Bolton: At the Flash & at the Baci. Ken Bolton's PhD thesis 'At the Flash and at the Baci' was published by Wakefield Press as a collection of poems.

Corrie Hosking: Eating Lolly. Corrie Hosking's PhD thesis was published by 4th Estate (HarperCollins) and launched at Adelaide Writers' Week 2008.

Stephen Kelen: Earthly Delights. Stephen Kelen's PhD thesis 'Writing the Goddess' was published by Pandanus Books as a collection of poems.

Stefan Laszczuk: I Dream of Magda. Stefan Laszczuk won the The Australian/Vogel Literary Award for 2007 for his novel, I Dream of Magda, his PhD thesis. Allen & Unwin published I Dream of Magda in 2008.

Ray Tyndale: Farmwoman. Ray Tyndale's Phd thesis, a verse novel, was published in 2008 by Wakefield Press.

Malcolm Walker's PhD thesis, a novel for young adults called The Stone Crown, was published in Australia 2008 by Walker Books. Publication in the UK and the US will follow in 2009. 

MA/Grad Dip Theses

Ian Bone: Love Cuts. Ian Bone's MA thesis was published as a novel by Penguin.

Rachel Hennessy: The Quakers. Rachel Hennessy's MA thesis won the unpublished manuscript award in the 2006 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature. It was published by Wakefield Press as The Quakers and launched at Adelaide Writers' Week 2008.

Cath Keneally's MA thesis was published by Wakefield Press as the novel Room Temperature.

Carol Lefevre's MA thesis has been published as Nights in the Asylum by Picador UK & Random House Australia.

Stefan Laszczuk: The New Cage was Stef's Grad Dip work, and The Goddamn Bus of Happiness was his MA thesis which won the Unpublished Manuscript award in the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature and was publised as a novel by Wakefield Press.

Tim Sinclair: Nine Hours North. Tim Sinclair's MA thesis was published as a verse novel by Penguin.

Magazines and Zine

Wet Ink, first published in 2005, is a magazine of new writing associated with Creative Writing at the University through its team of staff and students from the Program. Contributors from the University of Adelaide include Gillian Britton, Tony Bugeja, Shannon Burns, Susan Errington, Adam Finley, Sam Franzway, Petra Fromm, Kevin Gillam, Kerrie Harrison, Rachel Hennessy, Stephen Lawrence, Stefan Laszczuk, Carol Lefevre, Martina Newhook, Jim Roberts, Tom Shapcott, Tim Sinclair, Anna Solding, Emmett Stinson and Dominique Wilson. Wet Ink also published Emerge, an anthology of new Australian writing from writing students in Australian Creative Writing programs.  

Etchings, first published in 2006, was started by two PhD in Creative Writing graduates, Sabina Hopfer and Christopher Lappas, who also founded the independent Melbourne publisher Ilura Press. Etchings includes fiction, essays, poetry, art and photography: it is a triannual publication with an international focus, dedicated to showcasing new work by emerging and established writers and artists. Contributors from the University of Adelaide include Tony Bugeja, Rebekah Clarkson, Moya Costello, Steve Kelen, Bel Schenk, Emmett Stinson, Heather Taylor Johnson and Henry Ashley Brown.

 Staples was a zine produced in 2006 with associated live readings.

Anthologies 

The Creative Writing Program, in association with Wakefield Press, has produced six anthologies.

• On Edge: '[On the whole] it is an anthology of writings by semi-professionals, most of them with Adelaide connections, to be judged by the same standards one would apply to metropolitan-Australian or international writing ... some of the writing is good, some not so good, but none strikes one as mere academic apprentice work ...' J M Coetzee, The Independent Weekly, January 15-21 2006.
• The Body
• Cracker
• Forked Tongues
• Painted Words
• Iron Lace

Reading Performance & Theatrical Collaborations

• Wordfire: based around the European tradition of the literary salon, Wordfire is a series of literary events organised by postgraduate creative writing students at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. Wordfire has been going strong since 2006.

          Stephanie Hester at the inaugural Wordfire

• Theatre Guild Collaborations: since 2007, postgraduate students from the Creative Writing Program have collaborated with the University of Adelaide Theatre Guild to adapt pieces of writing into performance pieces.
• Lee Marvin readings (organised by Ken Bolton, poet and alumnus and manager of Dark Horsey Bookshop).
• staples, the zine, and accompanied by evenings of live readings, was founded and edited by postgraduate English and Creative Writing students. Contributors and readers included Ken Bolton, Shannon Burns, Tom Burton, Lyndall Clipstone, Moya Costello, Phillip Edmonds, Petra Fromm,  Rachel Hennessy, Cath Kenneally, Alice Sladdin, Anna Solding, Emmettt Stinson and Heather Taylor-Johnson.
• Animate Quarterly was a 'live' literary journal held at La Boheme, an Adelaide bar. Editors/producers included Creative Writing students Anna Solding and Bel Schenk.
• Writers' Radio on Radio Adelaide (book reviews and readings of new work): Moya Costello, Patrick Allington, Bell Schenk and Ray Tyndale. Writers' Radio is presented by PhD graduate Cath Kenneally.
• Friendly Street Poetry Readings (Adelaide): participants from the Creative Writing Program include Henry Ashley-Brown, Stephen Lawrence, Rachel Manning, Alice Sladdin and Ray Tyndale.

Recent Work by our Creative Writing Staff

Professor Brian Castro, a multiple award-winning writer, is the author of nine novels (including Double-Wolf, Shanghai Dancing and The Garden Book) and a volume of essays on writing and culture. Brian Castro's recent research has focussed on the fugue, in both its psychological and musical forms. His forthcoming novel is entitled The Bath Fugues (Giramondo). He is currently engaged in research on melancholy and its relationship to creativity.

Dr Phillip Edmonds is co-Managing Editor of the acclaimed Wet Ink: the magazine of new writing. He is the author of two collections of short stories - Big Boys and Don't Let me Fall. After taking a break from fiction for a number of years he is publishing again. His story ‘The Soapbook' was published in Griffith Review no. 19 and his story 'Foxes' was published as a Mini Shot by Vignette Press. He has recently completed a novella entitled Leaving home with Henry which is loosely the story of Henry Lawson returning to contemporary Australia.

Dr Jan Harrow has worked as a professional editor and freelance magazine writer and has published fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Recently her short story 'Oasis' appeared in Etchings 3.  

Dr Susan Hosking has published widely on Australian writing and culture and has edited anthologies and several collections of essays.

Jill Jones's poetry has been widely published in Australia, internationally and online. Her latest books are her fifth full length work, Broken/Open (Salt, 2005), which was short-listed for The Age Book of the Year 2005 and the 2006 Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize, Fold Unfold (Vagabond, 2005) poems written in response to paintings and a handwritten book, Speak Which (Meritage Press, 2007).   

A number of distinguished writers, educators and editors are currently associated with the Creative Writing Program (Discipline of English) as Honorary Visiting Research Fellows. For more details see the affiliates page.

Recent Prizes, Awards & Grants

Miguel Syjuco won the Man Asia Literary Prize in 2008 for his unpublished manuscript Ilustrado.

Stefan Laszczuk won the Australian/Vogel Award in 2007 for his unpublished manuscript, I Dream of Magda (subsequently published by Allen & Unwin), while Rachel Hennessy (MA Graduate, PhD candidate) was runner-up in 2008 and Amy Matthews (PhD graduate) was long-listed in 2006. Honorary Visiting Research Fellow Eva Sallis won the Vogel in 1997 for her novel, Hiam.   

Carol LeFevre won the 2008 Nita B. Kibble Literary Award for her novel, Nights in the Asylum (Random House).

Sean Williams won the 2007 best novel category in the Ditmar Awards for Saturn Returns. (The Australian Science Fiction Awards, commonly referred to as the Ditmar Awards or Ditmars, recognise excellence by Australians in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror.) Saturn Returns was also nominated for the prestigious Philip K. Dick award.

Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, $10,000 Award for an Unpublished Manuscript by a SA Emerging Writer to be Published by Wakefield Press: won by Corrie Hosking (2002 for Ash Rain), Stefan Laszczuk (2004 for The Goddamn Bus of Happiness) and Rachel Hennessy (2006 for The Quakers). In addition, Tony Bugeja and Ray Tyndale were shorlisted in 2004 as was Lesley Beasley in 2006. 

Emmett Stinson won the Age short story award 2004 for 'All Fathers the Father'.

Australia Council for the Arts (Literature Board): new work grants awarded to Anne Bartlett and Patrick Allington.

Arts SA: new work grant awarded to Malcolm Walker and travel grant awarded to Anna Solding.

Recent conferences, festival appearances & other events 

The 2008 University of Adelaide English and Creative Writing Postgraduate Conference was held on July 22-23. Postgraduate candidates and staff presented research papers on a wide range of issues and ideas.

A symposium for (and organised by) creative writing postgraduates in South Australia, Unconventional, was held on 20 September 2007 at the SA Writers' Centre.

Jill Jones presented a paper at the Creativity & Uncertainty conference, UTS, Sydney, November 2008.

The 2008 Feast Festival (Literature Program): Bell Schenk, Ray Tyndale and Jill Jones.

Professor Brian Castro presented a talk on 'Arrested Motion and Future Mourning' at a Friends of the University of Adelaide Library event, October 2008.

Salisbury Writers' Festival 2008: Patrick Allington and Honorary Visiting Research Fellow and 2008 writer in residence Eva Sallis. Participants in previous years include Anne Bartlett and Sean Williams.

Sydney Writers' Festival 2008: Rachel Hennessy.

Byron Bay Writers Festival 2008: Phillip Edmonds, Stefan Laszczuk and Julia Leigh.

Adelaide Writers' Week: Professor Nicholas Jose (former Chair in Creative Writing), Anne Bartlett, Corrie Hosking, Stefan Laszczuk and Jared Thomas.

The Big Book Club: Professor Nicholas Jose (former Chair in Creative Writing), Stefan Laszczuk and Sean Williams.

The Adelaide Fringe Festival Word events 2007: Patrick Allington, Rachel Hennessy, Professor Nicholas Jose (former Chair in Creative Writing), Eva Sallis, Bel Schenk, Sean Williams and Dominique Wilson.