Biography/ Background
Qualifications
Awards & Achievements
Teaching Interests
Publications
Professional Associations
Community Engagement

Dr Patrick Allington

Telephone	+61 8 8313 4371
Position	Commissioning Editor-Univ of Adelelaide Press
Email	patrick.allington@adelaide.edu.au
Fax	+61 8 8313 4369
Building	230 North Tce - Adelaide SA 5000
Floor/Room	1 13
Campus	North Terrace
Org Unit	Barr Smith Library Administration

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Biography/ Background

Patrick Allington is Commissioning Editor for the University of Adelaide Press as well as Visiting Research Fellow, School of History and Politics. He was Research Assistant to the Creative Writing Program, and has taught in both the Politics and English Disciplines. He is also a freelance writer, editor, book critic and researcher.

Qualifications

PhD in Creative Writing

MA (Research, Politics)

BA with First Class Honours in Politics

Awards & Achievements

Arts SA funding for new writing project, 2012

Recipient of the inaugural ABR (Australian Book Review) Patrons' Fellowship, 2010

Figurehead longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award 2010

Awarded the Barbara Hanrahan Fellowship, Adelaide Festival Awards, 2010

Australia Council for the Arts grant (Literature: emerging writers, new work), 2007

Teaching Interests

Patrick has taught and/or supervised at undergraduate, Honours and postgraduate in Politics/International Studies, English, Creative Writing and Gastronomy.

Publications

Recent Non-fiction

Patrick writes a regular column for The Melbourne Review.

'All bets are off', commentary on the Miles Franklin Literary Award, in Australian Book Review, June 2012.

'What is Australia, anyway? The glorious limitations of the Miles Franklin Literary Award', published in Australian Book Review, June 2011.

Recent Fiction

'At Rothko', short story in in Kill Your Darling, January 2013.

'A dry heat', short story in The Melbourne Review, January 2013.

'Skylights', short story in Griffith Review, Fiction Issue, October 2010

'Trumpet', short story in The Big Issue, July 2010

Figurehead (a novel), published by Black Inc, 2009

'Facades', short story in Meanjin 68, 4, 2009

'Snapshots', short story in Griffith Review 14: The Trouble With Paradise, Nov 2006, available to read online here

Critical Writings

Patrick Allington writes regular book criticism for Australian Book Review and The Advertiser (Adelaide), and has also written for The Monthly, The Weekend Australian and elsewhere.

Blog

Patrick Allington blogs at http://patrickallington.net.au/slapdash/

As Editor

Inaugural Fiction Editor of Etchings literary magazine (issues 1 to 6).

Professional Associations

Member of the Australian Society of Authors

Member of the Society of Editors (SA)

Member of PEN Adelaide

Associate Member of the Australian Writers' Guild

Member of the Friends of the Barr Smith Library

Community Engagement

SA Writers' Centre, Seniors Writer-in-Residence (in collaboration with Helping Hand Aged Care).

Member of the Literature Peer Assessment Panel, Arts SA, 2009-2010 (Chair 2010)

In 2010, participant in writers' festivals in Darwin, Sydney, Salisbury (Adelaide) and Ubud (including satellite events in Semarang and Jakarta), and n 2011, participant in Clunes (Vic) 'Back to Booktown'

Workshops for the SA Writers' Centre

Active member of Adelaide PEN

Entry last updated: Friday, 8 Feb 2013

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