Creative Writing

Summary

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Belinda Castles is the award-winning author of four novels, most recently Bluebottle, and the editor of an essay collection, Reading like an Australian Writer. She has studied and taught in the UK, where she was Creative Writing Lecturer and Director of the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Exeter, and Australia, where she has been a Lecturer in Creative Writing since 2018 and is currently Postgraduate Coursework Program Director for Creative Writing.

Supervisor

Dr Belinda Castles.

Research location

English and Writing, School of Art, Communication and English (SACE)

Synopsis

Research interests

• Place in fiction
• Walking and writing
• Family memory in fiction, including traumatic histories
• Reading as a writer
• Contemporary Australian fiction
• Craft aspects of writing

Supervision

• Fiction and narrative non-fiction projects, in particular those with an emphasis on place, walking, family and/ or memory

Additional information

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2. Write an initial research proposal.  (Refer to How to write a research proposal for guidance.)  In no more than 2000 words demonstrate how your research experience aligns with the supervisor’s and why you’re interested in this opportunity.

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Opportunity ID

The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is 3028