Hedberg Writer-in-Residence Program

Prof Gail Jones is the author of two short-story collections and nine novels, which include Sixty Lights, Dreams of Speaking, Sorry, The Death of Noah Glass and most recently, Salonika Burning (2022). Shortlisted four times for the Miles Franklin Award, her prizes include the Prime Minister's Fiction Award, the Age Book of the Year Award, the Adelaide Festival Award for Fiction, the WA Premier's Prize, the ASAL Gold Medal and the Nita Kibble Award. She has also been shortlisted for international awards, including the Dublin IMPAC and the Prix Femina Étranger. Her fiction has been translated into nine languages. Originally from Western Australia, she now lives in Sydney.

Dr Robert Clarke is the co-ordinator of the Hedberg writer-in-residence program. He is a senior lecturer who teaches in the English program in the School of Humanities.

He is the author of Travel Writing from Black Australia (2016), and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing (2018), and Celebrity Colonialism (2009). His articles and reviews have been published in international peer-reviewed journals.

Robert's research foci include: travel writing, postcolonial studies, book groups, contemporary Australian fiction, representations of Aboriginality in writing.

He has also published on the scholarship of teaching and learning in English Studies, and digital storytelling.

Dr Lucy Christopher is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing. An award-winner writer for young people, Lucy's research interests centre on creative writing, with specific focus on writing for young people, empathy, psychology, place, and ecocriticism. Lucy has taught in many countries and for many organisations, including residential tutoring for Arvon Writing Centres, Ty Newydd Writing Centre and for Loutro Writers. She established Mexican Writing Retreats; luxury creative writing courses run in the central highlands of Mexico. She frequently visits schools to talk about her work for young people.

Lucy has been a professional writer and academic in Creative Writing for over fifteen years. As an award-winning and best-selling author, with wide international readership; Lucy's Young Adult books are published in over twenty countries. She has also written for children and adults, both in non-fiction and fiction, in short form and longer form, as well as for script and screen. Her books have won a Printz Honor Award, the Branford Boase Award, the Prix Farniente, the Gold Inky, the audience choice award for the Children's Book Council of Australia Book for Older Readers, and an International Reading Association Award. She has been shortlisted for the Australian Prime Minister's Awards, the Costa Book Awards, the Waterstones Prize, and longlisted for the Carnegie Medal.

Dr Emmett Stinson completed his PhD at the University of Melbourne. He has previously held positions as a Lecturer in Publishing at the University of Melbourne, a Senior Lecturer in English and Writing at University of Newcastle, and a Senior Lecturer in Writing and Literature at Deakin University. He is a literary scholar, a creative writer, and an expert on the global publishing industry. He was a member of Senator Kim Carr's federal Book Industry Strategy Group. He co-founded and was President of the Small Press Network--the Australian advocacy body for independent publishers, which is housed in the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing, and Ideas. He co-founded the Independent Publishing Conference and established a series on publishing at Monash University Publishing. He won the Melbourne Age Short Story Award, and his book of short stories, Known Unknowns, was shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award in the Queensland Literary Awards. He was a CI on the ARC Discovery Project, 'New Tastemakers and Australia's Post-Digital Literary Culture'. He is currently working on a monograph on the late novels of Gerald Murnane.