Anneliese Abela is a writer and PhD candidate at the University of South Australia. Her creative pieces and news articles have been published both in print and online, and her research focuses on WWI history, Australian war literature, and the power of fiction in recapturing the past. She has recently finished her first historical novel:
Anneliese Abela is a writer and PhD candidate at the University of South Australia. Her creative pieces and news articles have been published both in print and online, and her research focuses on WWI history, Australian war literature, and the power of fiction in recapturing the past. She has recently finished her first historical novel: a tale of friendship, grief, and survival amidst the futility of war. Her writing can be followed on Instagram at @anneliese.abela.author
Aden Burg is an Adelaide-based creative writer who graduated from the University of South Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Creative Writing. His detective short story, ‘No Return’, was published in the 2018 edition of the University of South Australia’s creative writing anthology series Piping Shrike. Aden’s passion is rea
Aden Burg is an Adelaide-based creative writer who graduated from the University of South Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Creative Writing. His detective short story, ‘No Return’, was published in the 2018 edition of the University of South Australia’s creative writing anthology series Piping Shrike. Aden’s passion is reading and writing fast-paced stories with unusual characters, a proclivity that bleeds into his research specialty of creative writing and visual storytelling in manga.
Chloe Cannell writes short stories for teens and adults. Her characters are often queer and anxious like her. She is completing her creative writing PhD at the University of South Australia. Her thesis explores LGBTQIA+ representation in contemporary young adult fiction. Chloe is a fan of many things including musicals, cabaret, sitcoms,
Chloe Cannell writes short stories for teens and adults. Her characters are often queer and anxious like her. She is completing her creative writing PhD at the University of South Australia. Her thesis explores LGBTQIA+ representation in contemporary young adult fiction. Chloe is a fan of many things including musicals, cabaret, sitcoms, comedy podcasts, and the many forms of cooked potatoes. She lives on Kaurna country with her partner. Keep up with Chloe on her Instagram @chloejcannell where she rants about social justice and shares jokes from Tik Tok.
Dante is an Adelaide-based creative with a life-long passion for artistry. In recent times, her focus has been on honing her skills as a writer, having graduated from a Bachelor of Journalism and Professional Writing, a Bachelor of Arts (English and Creative Writing), and receiving a First Class Honours Degree. Currently, she is a PhD can
Dante is an Adelaide-based creative with a life-long passion for artistry. In recent times, her focus has been on honing her skills as a writer, having graduated from a Bachelor of Journalism and Professional Writing, a Bachelor of Arts (English and Creative Writing), and receiving a First Class Honours Degree. Currently, she is a PhD candidate at the University of South Australia with the goal of promoting social inclusivity and equality through work focussed on diversifying queer representation in research and creative outputs. Dante’s work can be followed on Instagram at @dante_debono.
Gabrielle Everall was born in Warrnambool, Victoria. She completed a BA Honours in Creative Writing at Curtin University in 1997. In 2004, she completed a Masters of Arts at the University of Western Sydney, where she wrote Dona Juanita and The Love of Boys. This was her first collection of poetry which has been made possible by the 'A Fe
Gabrielle Everall was born in Warrnambool, Victoria. She completed a BA Honours in Creative Writing at Curtin University in 1997. In 2004, she completed a Masters of Arts at the University of Western Sydney, where she wrote Dona Juanita and The Love of Boys. This was her first collection of poetry which has been made possible by the 'A Few New Words' poetry publishing initiative from the Department of Culture and The Arts. She was awarded a PhD from the University of Western Australia. She has performed her poetry at The Big Day Out, Putting On An Act, The National Young Writer's Festival, Overload, Melbourne Emerging Writer's Festival, The Bowery, The Edinburgh Fringe and La Mama.
Will Sergeant and Dr Gertrude Glossip are two sides of one coin. Will has been involved in gay activism since the 1970s. He participated the first Adelaide Pride March in 1973 and the first Sydney Mardi Gras in 1978. Gertrude, his alter-ego, was created in 1993. Both have been active participants in every Feast Festival in a variety of ro
Will Sergeant and Dr Gertrude Glossip are two sides of one coin. Will has been involved in gay activism since the 1970s. He participated the first Adelaide Pride March in 1973 and the first Sydney Mardi Gras in 1978. Gertrude, his alter-ego, was created in 1993. Both have been active participants in every Feast Festival in a variety of roles and performances. Gertrude's walks on history, art and zoo wild sex are now the 'stuff of legend'! Will has served on numerous Feast advisory committees and was named an ambassador for the 2018 Festival. In 2021, he was named South Australian Historian of the Year by the History Council of South Australia for his contribution to Adelaide Rainbow History. Dr Glossip's debut book, Queen of the Walk: Gertrude's Guide to Adelaide History, was released in 2021. Gertrude was made ambassador for the 2022 Feast Festival. In 2023, Will received an OAM on the first King's Birthday honours for his contribution to the LGBTIQA+ community.
Lyndal Hordacre Kobayashi loves experimenting with all things colourful and creative, whether it’s her PhD journey in the Research Centre for Languages and Cultures, her mud-brick house, gardening, playing the violin, knitting, or creative writing. She has lived and worked as a visual artist, with 15 years in Europe and Japan, and is now
Lyndal Hordacre Kobayashi loves experimenting with all things colourful and creative, whether it’s her PhD journey in the Research Centre for Languages and Cultures, her mud-brick house, gardening, playing the violin, knitting, or creative writing. She has lived and worked as a visual artist, with 15 years in Europe and Japan, and is now using her background in the arts to encourage monolingual research participants to explore their lived experiences with language(s). Lyndal hopes to demonstrate the potential and relevance of heralding new knowledge by stepping into a sphere of creative activity, mystery, and discovery.
Lyndal has been interested in language and visual, critical, and creative forms of connecting for all of her professional life. She was fortunate enough to be selected to enter the National Academies of Fine Art in both Oslo and Vienna and has performed, danced, and exhibited in Europe, Japan, and Australia. She now lives in the Adelaide Hills, writing her PhD, working as a transpersonal art therapist, and caring for her youngest daughter with Down Syndrome. She speaks English, Norwegian and Japanese.
Lyndal has presented her creative work at the Drawing International Symposium in Brisbane, Queensland in 2015 and the Australiasian Association of Writing Programs in 2020. She has also contributed to the 2021 article, ‘Reimagining the reading group: critically creative connectivity, care and resilience in academic cultures of challenge and change’ and has her Master of Philosophy research, 'Researching the mindsets of monolinguals: a “linguistic self” of twenty-first century monolingual art students in Australia’ (2017) published online.
Evan Jarrett is an Honours Candidate in Creative Writing at the University of South Australia. His work explores how fictional world-making can communicate the complex intersections between climate change, class, and the multiplicity of place.
Evan was born in Adelaide, South Australia, and has long been fascinated with how places impact h
Evan Jarrett is an Honours Candidate in Creative Writing at the University of South Australia. His work explores how fictional world-making can communicate the complex intersections between climate change, class, and the multiplicity of place.
Evan was born in Adelaide, South Australia, and has long been fascinated with how places impact him, physically, emotionally, and, on a deeper level, spiritually. Growing up in a working-class suburb, he often reflects on how people both shape and are shaped by the places they interact with. He frequently wonders, with the multitudes of ways in which climate change is impacting on places across the world, how people from different backgrounds and in different situations will be shaped by climate change themselves, and how they may respond to this.
Belinda Lees is a PhD candidate researching screenwriting under the supervision of Prof Craig Batty and Dr Amelia Walker through the University of South Australia. She previously completed an MA in screenwriting at Cornwall’s Falmouth University.
Since then, she has had short films and a feature titled The Clearing produced by John Finnega
Belinda Lees is a PhD candidate researching screenwriting under the supervision of Prof Craig Batty and Dr Amelia Walker through the University of South Australia. She previously completed an MA in screenwriting at Cornwall’s Falmouth University.
Since then, she has had short films and a feature titled The Clearing produced by John Finnegan’s screenwriting podcast The Script Department. Belinda has contributed around twenty comic children’s plays to Australia’s leading children’s literary magazine The School Magazine. She is a past winner of the Todhunter Literary Award, which she won for a one-act absurdist play.
She works as an educator in a secondary school, teaching media and literature to senior students, where she draws on her credentials in performing arts, literature, media, and screenwriting.
Heather Briony McGinn is a PhD candidate at the University of South Australia with a research focus on Beat Studies and feminist literary criticism. In the first year of her postgraduate research she developed l’écriture kinesthésique, a corporeal-based creative writing methodology.
Dr Michael Noble really was born out of his time-he loved cross-stitching and restoring antique writing boxes, and his PhD focuses on the 17th century philosopher, Nicholas Culpepper. He brought balance into his life through a love of bushwalking and gardening, along with his 30-year meditation practice, which sustained him through his fi
Dr Michael Noble really was born out of his time-he loved cross-stitching and restoring antique writing boxes, and his PhD focuses on the 17th century philosopher, Nicholas Culpepper. He brought balance into his life through a love of bushwalking and gardening, along with his 30-year meditation practice, which sustained him through his final battle with cancer in 2018. Despite being frequently ill, flattened by fatigue and often depressed, he managed to complete an exemplary five degrees, culminating in his ground-breaking PhD in 2017. Dr Noble fought for years to bring the intersex community to the forefront of community awareness. He had strong views on popular misconceptions regarding intersex people, and he aimed to bring a stronger sense of lived realities and diversity, including the movement's core human rights issues of bodily autonomy and self-determination. In the early 2000s, he became a public speaker and he later joined Intersex Human Rights Australia. He remained part of the intersex human rights movement up until his death, contributing to policy debates in South Australia and nationally, and affirming the Darlington Statement in early 2018. Dr Noble was the Intersex Consultant and Communications Officer for the 2017 Gender, Sex and Sexualities Art(i)culations of Violence Committee, where he instigated crucial reforms in the way that the conference approaches notions of gender, sex and sexuality.
Hailing from the humid, windy, sometimes scorching suburbs of Malaysia, Doris Pushpam chose to pursue the ever-promising path of creative writing. When she isn't making questionable life decisions she can be found embroidering, baking, painting, losing chess games to her father, reading, journaling, playing video games, or picking up some
Hailing from the humid, windy, sometimes scorching suburbs of Malaysia, Doris Pushpam chose to pursue the ever-promising path of creative writing. When she isn't making questionable life decisions she can be found embroidering, baking, painting, losing chess games to her father, reading, journaling, playing video games, or picking up some new hobby. Sometimes she creates worlds where women are able to tell their story and other times she writes in rhyme and lives in the clouds. She enjoys creating chaos and happily-ever-afters and nothing makes her happier than that final full stop and a perfect rhyme. Doris Pushpam is currently undertaking a PhD in Creative Writing (in line with her tendency for making questionable life decisions) through which she hopes to continue advocating for women in oppressed cultures. In her previous research she explored the notion of becoming a woman in relation to the oral tradition, investigated the many nuances of change that affect women from oppressed cultures, and also discussed the need for women to form a space where all aspects of oneself that one chooses to be, can exist. She is inspired by the works of Simone de Beauvoir, Jane Austen, Gloria Anzaldúa, Maya Angelou, and Sylvia Plath.
Lily May Roberts (she/her) is a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours) student at UniSA focusing on auto-ethnographic poetic practice. She was born and raised in Adelaide and her work concentrates on recovery from trauma and addiction through an engagement with the sensory and the spiritual. Lily is especially interested in exploring how poe
Lily May Roberts (she/her) is a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours) student at UniSA focusing on auto-ethnographic poetic practice. She was born and raised in Adelaide and her work concentrates on recovery from trauma and addiction through an engagement with the sensory and the spiritual. Lily is especially interested in exploring how poetry crosses over with mindfulness, the phenomenology of the embodied poet, and the development of an ecological method of relating that encourages systems-thinking for situating the self. Further down the track, she is interested in cultivating her own poetry therapy approach for recovering addicts and sexual assault survivors.
Lily was awarded the Cecil Teesdale Smith Literary Award in 2021.
It was during his high school years when Eugene Tabios had been first lured in by the wonder of the minutiae, discovering and eventually submitting flash fiction to Sobrang Short Stories. In 2016, his 100-word story, ‘Christmas Eve’, won fourth place and his later, even shorter piece, ‘The Fateful Day’, written under his penname Placido P
It was during his high school years when Eugene Tabios had been first lured in by the wonder of the minutiae, discovering and eventually submitting flash fiction to Sobrang Short Stories. In 2016, his 100-word story, ‘Christmas Eve’, won fourth place and his later, even shorter piece, ‘The Fateful Day’, written under his penname Placido Penitorpe, received publication in The Best of Sobrang Short Stories.
When he moved from the Philippines to Australia, Eugene decided to pursue a career in humanities, a stark contrast to his initial plan to be an accountant. Since then, he has dedicated himself to discovering new things, studying their intricacies, embracing their fleetingness, and putting them in writing, guided by his self-coined mantra to ‘observe and preserve’.
Eugene is an emerging writer currently undertaking his Bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing and Linguistics at the University of South Australia.
Simon-Peter is a writer and poet from South Australia. He is a PhD candidate and teaches Creative Writing at the University of South Australia, where his research involves writing existential fiction for the Anthropocene.
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