Dr Phillip Edmonds

Biography/ Background

Phillip Edmonds is well known as a short story writer through publication in most Australian literary magazines. He has extensive editing experience, firstly through Contempa (1972-79) and currently with Wet ink (the magazine of new writing) which he co -founded in 2005. His most recent publication is the novella Leaving Home with Henry (Australian Scholarly Publishing). In 1997 he was awarded his PhD, a study of the contemporary short story in Australia in which he has a passionate interest through his own writing and in encouraging new writers. Prior to joining Adelaide University in 2004, Phillip taught at the Victorian College of the Arts, Deakin University and Griffith University and worked for a number of years as a journalist, oral historian and bookseller. He has been a judge of numerous literary awards such as, The Age Short Story Prize, and Writer-in-Residence in a number of organizations including a primary school, a trade union, a radio station and a hospital.

Apart from the short story as a literary and cultural form, Phillip's research interests extend to the socio-political contexts in which 'fiction' is written and received, something he explored in depth for his PhD. He is also interested in the possible intersections between creative writing programs and publishing. Phillip is currently writing a history of literary magazines in Australia between 1969 and 2010.

Phillip is the Creative Writing Honours Co-ordinator and teaches in the Master of Arts in CW by coursework program, plus undergraduate courses such as The Short Story. 

Qualifications

BA (Hons) PhD (Deakin) 'More than A Mere Story: Social and Political Markers in Australian Short Fiction of the 1980s'.  (1997)

Awards & Achievements

Deakin University Postgraduate Award, 1994-97. 

Research Assistant- ARC project- (Realist Writer/ Overland magazine)- Victoria University of Technology, 1997.

Writing fellowships- Literature Board/Australia Council 1974, 1983, 1985

Visiting Fellow in Australian Literature, University of Madras,Chennai, Australia/India Council, 2003.

Lecturer B, School of Arts, Griffith University, Qld, 2000-2004.

Lecturer B (part-time) Writing & Communications, Monash University, 1999.

Creative Writing co-ordinator, School of Creative Arts, Victorian College of the Arts, 1998.

Tutor, Literary Studies, Deakin University, School of Humanities, Vic, 1994-1996.

Lecturer (part-time) Professional Writing & Editing, Holmesglen College of TAFE, Vic, 1991-98.

Chairman, Board of Directors, 3CCC fm, Vic, 1986-1990.

Judge- The Age Short Story Award, 1981.

Executive Director, The National Book Council, 1974-6.

Sun News Pictorial Story Story Prize, 1975.

Editor- Contempa, 1972-79.

Editor- Tabloid Story, 1979-81.

Editor- Radio Waves, 1984-89.

Runner up- Caltex/Advertiser Literary Prize, 1994.

Keynote speaker- Judah Waten Short Story Prize, Box Hill Library, Vic, 1997.

Fiction advisor, Overland, 2000-2002.

Co- Managing editor, Wet ink (the magazine of new writing) 2005-

Co-founder, CAL/Wet ink Short Story Prize, 2010-

Guest-

Brisbane Writers Festival, 2004.

Byron Bay Writers Festival, 2008, 2010, 2011.

Melbourne Writers Festival, 2010.

Writers Week- Adelaide Festival of the Arts, 2010.

 

Postgraduate (PhD) completions as Principal Supervisor

Rudi Soman, Malcolm Walker, 2006. Ian Bone, 2008, Stefan Laszczuk, 2008, Sonja Dechian, 2009, Dominique Wilson, 2009, Larry Buttrose, 2011, Reg Taylor (MA) Research 2011. As co-Supervisor, Stephen Lawrence and Bel Schenk. 

Examined theses (PhD amd MA) for University of Wollongong, Flinders University, Griffith University, University of Melbourne, University of the Sunshine Coast and Central Queensland University.

 

 

Publications

Most recent publications

Leaving Home with Henry, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Vic, 2010. (novella)

'The Soapbox', Griffith Review, (Re-imagining Australia edition) ed Julianne Schultz, No 19, Autumn 2008. (fiction)

Foxes, Vignette Press, (Mini Shots), Vic, 2008. (fiction)

'Interrogating creative writing outcomes: Wet ink as a new model'. Text, Vol 11, No 1, April 2007. (article)

'Nigel Krauth (1949-)' Australian Writers, 1975-2000 -Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol 3, No 325, ed Selina Samuels, Thomson Gale, US, 2006.  (book chapter)

'The Trip', Confessions & Memoirs, eds Wilding and Myers, Central Queensland University Press, 2006. (fiction)

Editor with Dominique Wilson, Emerge: New Australian Writing, Wet ink/Australian Association of Writing Programs, 2006.

'The Romantic Ego in the CW workshop', Text, Vol 9, No 2, October, 2005. (article)

'Respectable or Risque: Creative writing programs in the marketplace', Text, Vol 8, No 1, April 2004. (article)

'Missing out on Indy', Best Stories under the Sun, ed Wilding and Myers, Central Queensland University Press, 2004. (fiction)

'Going feral' (review of 'Academia Nuts' by Michael Wilding), Text, Vol 7, No 1, April 2003.

Editor- Short Story Issue, Writing Queensland, QWC, 2001.

Editor- Special Australian Writing Issue, Foreign Literature, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, China, 2000.

'Unfashionable in Literary Terms- Class in Australian short fiction of the 1980s', Overland, No 153, Summer 1998. (article)

'Pathetic, Paranoid, Passionate', Overland, 153, Summer 1998, (review/article)

'By the Grace of God', Mattoid, Deakin University, No 50,  (The Body Issue), 1996. (fiction)

'Tales of Postmodernism', Arena, 97, Summer 1991, (Politics of Writing issue). (review/ article)

'Displaced Persons and The Harbour Breathes', Arena, 94, Autumn 1991. (review) 

Editor- Over the Fence :new writing from Caulfield, Caulfield Library Service, Caulfield Sth, Vic, 1989.

Forthcoming- 'The Ghost in the Machine: CW and its malcontents', The Creativity Market: Trends in CW in the 21st century, ed Dominique Hecq, Multilingual Matters, Bristol, UK, 2010. (book chapter)

Interviews

'Overland is twenty-one' (Stephen Murray-Smith) Australasian Small Press Review, No 4, Sydney, 1976.

'Recipe for a writer', (Mudrooroo Narogin) The Bulletin Literary Supplement, June 26, 1984.

Matthew Condon, Wet ink (the magazine of new writing) No 14, Adelaide, 2009.

Thomas Shapcott, Wet ink (the magazine of new writing) No 18, Adelaide, 2010.

Conference Papers- 

'The Demidenko Affair', English Postgraduate Symposium, Deakin University, 1995.

'Barry Dickens as postmodern romantic', English Postrgraduate Studies Conference, Latrobe University, 1995.

'The Postmodern literary paradigm',  Left Writes Conference, Melbourne, 1998.

'Community Writing', Boorondara Literary Festival, Hawthorn, Vic, 1999.

'Respectable or Risque: CW programs in the marketplace', Australian Association of Writing Programs, University of New South Wales, 2003.

'The Romantic Ego in the creative writing workshop', Australian Association of Writing Programs, Flinders University, 2004.

'Interrogating CW outcomes, Wet ink as a new model', Australian Association of Writing Programs, Queensland University of Technology, 2006.

'The Ghost in the Machine: CW and its Malcontents', Association for the Study of Australian Literature, (Common Readers and Cultural Critics Conference), Australian National University, 2009.

'Australian Literature in Libraries: a thing of the past?', VALA 2012/ RMIT Publishing, Melbourne, 2012.

 

Books-

Leaving Home with Henry, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Vic, 2010. (novella)

Don't let me fall, Red Hill Press, Vic, 1991. (short stories)

A Station on Track, 3CCCFM (the first ten years), Goldfields Community Radio, Vic, 1992. ( media/ local history)

A Sense of Place, (shaping oral histories), editor with Anitra Nelson and Karen Wilson, Holmesglen TAFE, Vic, 1990. (oral history) 

Everybody used to know one another, Mt Alexander Hospital/Australia Council, Vic, 1988, (oral history)

Locals, Lion Press, 1987, Castlemaine, Vic, 1987, (journalism)

Big Boys, Second Back Row Press, NSW, 1978. (short stories)

 

 

 

 

Entry last updated: Friday, 10 Feb 2012