Copyright Agency Writer in Residence
The Sydney School of Education and Social Work Copyright Agency Writer in Residence 2018 is renowned Australian poet, Mark Tredinnick. The residency will be launched with a Sydney Ideas event – The Landscape of Poetry – on Tuesday, May 15, when Mark will be in conversation with Professor Robyn Ewing AM.
During his residency, Mark will be working on a piece of writing in the Sydney School of Education and Social Work, and undertaking a range of masterclasses, workshops and events for students, staff, alumni, friends, partners and community.
2018 Copyright Agency Writer in Residence Mark Tredinnick
Mark Tredinnick, winner of the Montreal Poetry Prize (2011) and the Cardiff Poetry Prize (2012), is the author of The Blue Plateau, Fire Diary, and nine other acclaimed works of poetry and prose. He lives in the highlands southwest of Sydney, Australia. His work is widely published in Australian and overseas newspapers and journals, including Australian Poetry, Blue Dog, Five Bells, Indigo, Island, Isotope, Kunapipi, Manoa, Mascara, Meanjin, Orion, PAN, Southerly, Snorkel, The Grove, The Sun-Herald, The Sydney Morning Herald, Wet Ink, World Literature Today. He writes regularly for newspapers including The Australian, The Sun-Herald, and The Sydney Morning Herald.
Mark talks and teaches widely on writing, landscape, justice and ecology. For more than a decade he has run writing programs at The University of Sydney – at both the Centre for Continuing Education and the Department of English – and at writers' centres in Australia and the US, and more recently, from his home in Burradoo. Mark mentors aspiring writers, edits manuscripts. He teaches grammar and composition, and he consults on writing matters with clients in business and government. For 10 years, before all that, Mark was a book editor and publisher.
Of “Walking Underwater”, which won the Montreal Prize in 2011, Andrew Motion wrote: “This is a bold, big-thinking poem, in which ancient themes (especially the theme of our human relationship with landscape) are recast and rekindled. It well deserves its eminence as a prize winner.”
Poetry
- Body Copy, Puncher & Wattmann, 2013
- The Lyrebird, Picaro, Newcastle, 2011
- Fire Diary, Puncher & Wattmann, 2010
Prose
- Reading Slowly at the End of Time, New South Books, 2013
- Australia’s Wild Weather, November 2011
- Blue Plateau: A Landscape Memoir, UQP, Brisbane, and Milkweed, Minneapolis, winner Queensland Premier’s Literary Award (2010); shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Prize (2010) and the ACT Book of the Year (2010)
- The Land’s Wild Music, Trinity, San Antonio, 2005
- A Place on Earth (ed), UNSW Press, 2003; University of Nebraska Press, 2004
Books about writing
- The Little Black Book of Business Writing, UNSW Press, 2010
- The Little Green Grammar Book, UNSW Press, 2008
- Writing Well: The Essential Guide, Cambridge, New York, 2008
Artists in residence
The Sydney School of Education and Social Work's Artist-in-Residence (AiR) program, which runs alongside the Writer-in-Residence program, engages the expertise of a renowned and practising artist with the school's staff, students and alumni and friends, as well as school partners and stakeholders, the University generally, and the wider community.
Each artist in residence is appointed from existing contacts and professional associates, including alumni and school honoraries. Each one excels in their chosen field, for example writing, painting, screenwriting, script writing, illustration or theatre production, and all are experienced communicators.
The Artist in Residence program attracts attention from media and creative industries, locally as well as nationally. In previous years, it has held events in partnership with the Sydney Writers’ Festival.
The program allows the school to foster a relationships with specialist artisans, providing a ‘space’ for creativity that engages the learning objectives of the school in an innovative way. It also showcases the work of the school's Arts and Creative Education Research Network and highlights the enormous potential in the work and partnerships of the research network.
2014 Semester Two Artists in Residence:
Simon French and Donna Rawlins
2014 Semester One Artist in Residence: Ali Cobby Eckermann
2013 Artist in Residence: Andrew Upton
2012 Artists in Residence: Nadia Wheatley and Ken Searle
2011 Artist in Residence: Libby Gleeson AM
