Staff at the Centre for New Writing
The Centre for New Writing is a Centre of the University of Technology, Sydney. It is accountable to the University's Deputy Vice Chancellor through the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.
The current Director of the Centre for New Writing is Associate Professor John Dale from the Writing and Cultural Studies Program Area of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Management Committee
The Centre has a Management Committee whose role is to monitor the Centre's activities and performance, approve the Centre's budget, approve annual and financial reports and assist the Dean in the exercise of his or her functions.
Advisory Board
The Advisory Board is made up of members drawn from within the university and external to it. The advisory board's primary role is to provide a dynamic interaction with business and industry, relevant professions, governmental agencies, overseas programs and the community.
Associate Professor John Dale, UTS
John Dale is the author of five books including the best-selling Huckstepp. His most recent work is Wild Life, an investigation into the fatal shooting of his grandfather in 1940s Tasmania. John joined the writing program at UTS in 2000 after completing his Doctorate of Creative Arts for which he was awarded the 1999 Chancellor's Award. His research areas include narrative fiction, creative non-fiction and crime narratives. He is currently researching a novel set in Turkey and his anthology Car Lovers will be published in 2008.
Dr Debra Adelaide, UTS
Dr Debra Adelaide joined the permanent Writing staff in 2003. Prior to this she worked as a freelance editor, researcher, casual lecturer and writer. She has written or produced over 10 books, ranging from reference books to collections of stories and fiction. She is the author of two novels, The Hotel Albatross (published 1995) and Serpent Dust (1998) and has just completed a third, The Household Guide to Dying. Her other teaching experiences have been at the Universities of Sydney and Western Sydney. She is also a regular book reviewer for The Australian, and for four years was the Sydney Morning Herald's 'In Short' columnist, reviewing 4-5 books each week. Her current position at UTS includes taking responsibility for the writing postgraduate coursework students, and research student supervisions.
Dr Catherine Robinson, UTS
Dr Catherine Robinson lectures in social theory and research methods in Social Inquiry at UTS. Her writing and research work draws together contemporary cultural theory and empirical data. She publishes in a range of disciplinary areas including cultural studies, sociology, cultural geography, and urban studies. Her current focus is on the lived experiences of homelessness and on theorising embodiment, displacement and home. She is working on a book for Syracuse University Press - Beside one's self: A corporegography of displacement - and continues research work on homelessness and mental disorders.
Sandy Symons, UTS
Sandra Symons is Senior Lecturer and Postgraduate Adviser in Social Communication & Journalism. She is also the Faculty's Academic Liaison Officer. She has a Masters in International Communications and a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education Teaching and Learning. An award-winning journalist, Sandra's areas of teaching and research interest include self-regulation of the media; moral, ethical and media guidelines for publishing graphic; truth versus privacy; the magazine industry; body image depiction in the print media; and journalism education. She is a PhD candidate at the University of NSW.
Margot Nash, UTS
Margot Nash lectures and coordinates the screenwriting and performance writing area at UTS. She began her career as an actress in Melbourne making her first short film 'We Aim To Please' in 1976. She worked as a cinematographer and an editor in the independent film sector, going on to produce, write and direct a number of award- winning short films and documentaries. In 1994 she wrote and directed 'Vacant Possession', a feature drama for which she was nominated for Best Directing and Best Original Screenplay in the AFI awards. In 1995 she received her MFA by research from UNSW College of Fine Arts. She has worked as a film and video lecturer and trainer, working extensively with Indigenous filmmakers in both Australia and in the Pacific. In 2005 she script edited and directed her second feature film 'Call Me Mum' for SBSI. Margot continues to develop feature projects both as a writer, a script editor and a director.
Martin Harrison, UTS
Martin Harrison currently directs the Writing and Cultural Studies area in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. A poet, essayist, Martin is also the author of seven books of poetry. His work includes radiophonic composition, literary review and critical essay. His recent works include Music: Prose and Poems (Vagabond Press 2005) and an essay collection Who wants to Create Australia (Halstead Press 2005). A Selected Poems appears in the UK and Australia in 2008. A translated Selected Poems appears in China in 2007.
Caro Llewellyn, Sydney Writers' Festival
Caro Llewellyn is the director of the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature in New York City. Prior to this she was artistic director and chief executive of Sydney Writers' Festival Director for four years. She is an occassional contributor to The Australian newspaper for whom she has written features on Norman Mailer, Andrew O'Hagan and Don DeLillo. She is the author of two books, Jobs for the Girls: Women talk about running a business of their own (co-written) and Fresh! Market people and their food and edited the anthology My One True Love: essays and stories on life, passion and obsession. She has also worked at the Historic Houses Trust of NSW, ABC Radio National and Random House publishers.
Neibi Hines
Neibi Hines works with the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Office and the Centre for New Writing to co-ordinate research activities, short courses, and events and to promote research initiatives across the Faculty.
Lecturers
Jean Bedford
Jean Bedford is a well-known Australian novelist and short-story writer. She has written literary fiction, detective novels and a thriller. She has also been a journalist and an in-house or freelance editor for many of Australia's mainstream publishers. She has taught creative writing for over 20 years in most of the universities and writers' centres on Australia's east coast and has been a judge for the Vogel/Australian Literary Awards, for the National Book Council, the Literature Board of the Australia Council grants for fiction and publishing and for several short story prizes and awards. She currently lectures in Creative Writing at UTS.
Barbara Brooks
Barbara Brooks has published a book of short essays and stories, Leaving Queensland, and a biography, Eleanor Dark: a Writer's Life. Eleanor Dark's house, Varuna, is now a writer's retreat center. Barbara's essays and stories have been published in anthologies in Australia, UK, US, France, and Malaysia. She is currently working on a novel in the form of memoir as part of a Doctorate in Creative Writing at UTS. She is an experienced teacher of writing and has taught at universities, in continuing education programs, at writers' centers, as well as running writing and oral history projects with community groups. Last year she was awarded an Asialink Fellowship and spent 2 months in India. She was also the 2006 Watermark Writing Fellow and will speak at the Watermark Literary Muster in October 2007.
Interviewed for ABC science program All in the Mind October 2005
Brenda Glover
Brenda Glover has been teaching in Writing and Cultural Studies at UTS since 2003, currently in three courses: Writing Seminar, Writing Project and Writing and Theory in the MA Writing program. She has published short fiction, book reviews and academic articles. She is currently working on her second novel, a work of historical fiction, and collecting the oral histories of senior medical women in NSW for a series of biographies. Her areas of research are Australian and Canadian literature, women's writing and marginalised writing.
John Newton
John Newton is a freelance writer, journalist and novelist. Some of his food books are Wogfood, An Oral History With Recipes; and Fresh From Italy; with Stefano Manfredi; and bel mondo beautiful world also with Stefano Manfredi; and The Foodies Guide to Sydney with Helen Greenwood. His books on Spanish food include A Little Taste of Spain and The Cooking of Spain. He was consultant editor on Food: the essential A-Z guide. His two novels are Whoring and The Man Who Painted Women. He writes for The Sydney Morning Herald, Life Etc, The Organic Gardener and Slow. He is also co- editor of the restaurant guide Sydney Eats. His latest book is Beppi, a life in three courses. He won the Gold Ladle for Best Food Journalist in the 2005 World Food media Awards.
Brett Osmond
Brett has worked in book publishing for nearly twenty years. Over this time he has been a marketing manger, sales manager and industry consultant.
In 2001 Brett setup his own company, Written Perspectives specialising in corporate publishing, corporate bookselling and project management.
In addition to specialist online bookstores Brett runs The Huggies Bookclub and is Project Director of Books Alive.
Zoë Sadokierski
Zoë Sadokierski has worked as a book designer and illustrator since completing a Bachelor of Design in Visual Communications at the University of Technology. She is a sessional lecturer and tutor in the School of Design at UTS, where she is currently working on a practice-led PhD investigating the integration of graphic elements in contemporary fiction.
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