Debra Adelaide - Creative Writing Practice: Reflections on Form and Process

is the author or editor of 17 books including several anthologies and 4 novels; these include the critically acclaimed The Household Guide to Dying (2008), which was sold in 12 countries including the UK and the USA, and The Womens Pages (2015). Her two collections of short fiction are Letter to George Clooney and Zebra; the latter was the winner of the Steele Rudd Award for Short Fiction in the 2019 Queensland Literary Awards. Her research interests include the culture of reading and the writing life, both reflected in her edited collection The Simple Act of Reading (2015) and in her most recent book The Innocent Reader (2019). She is also the fiction editor of Southerly, Australias oldest literary journal. She is an adjunct associate professor at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).

is Lecturer in Creative Writing in the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney, where she has taught creative writing, film studies and cultural studies in the undergraduate programmes. She is the author of the poetry collection Hope in Hell (2000) and co-editor of The Journal of Working-Class Studies. Her most recent book is the monograph, Class on Screen: The Global Working-Class in Contemporary Cinema, about the global working class in contemporary cinema, and was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2020. For more information, see: https://www.uts.edu.au/staff/sarah.attfield .

is an academic, broadcaster and writer. He is a mentor for the Australian Society of Authors and a past judge of the NSW Premiers Literary Awards. He has been published by every major Australian media outlet, including The Sydney Morning Herald, Good Weekend, The Australian, The Monthly, The New Daily, The Australian Literary Review, Australian Gourmet Traveller, Art and Australia, Southerly, Island, Westerly and Meanjin. He devised and presented the national ABC Local Radio show Sunday Takeaway and a number of acclaimed documentaries for Radio National, including the Priz Maruli-nominated Riddle. Mystery. Enigma. and Stones and Sticks and Suchlike, based on a story used as an HSC study text around Australia.

is an award-winning educator, researcher and supervisor in the areas of screenwriting, creative writing and screen production. He has worked on a variety of screen projects as a writer and script editor and is also an expert in creative practice research methodologies. He has published over 70 books, book chapters, journal articles and creative practice research works, as well as many industry articles, book reviews and interviews. He is Chair of the Australian Screen Production Education and Research Association (ASPERA) Research Sub-Committee and leads the research portfolio for the Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP). He is co-editor of the Journal of Screenwriting and is on the editorial boards of Media Practice and Education, the International Journal for Creative Media Research, and the Journal of Writing in Creative Practice. He has taught at RMIT and the University of Technology Sydney and is Dean of Research (Creative) at the University of South Australia.

is a writer of novels, short stories and creative non-fiction. Her first novel, When We Have Wings, was shortlisted for the 2012 Barbara Jefferis Award and shortlisted for the 2012 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction and published overseas. Watch over Me, her second novel, was published in 2017. She teaches Creative Writing at the University of Technology Sydney, is on the Board of Varuna, the national writers house, and is the fiction editor of