Jacqueline Rochow is a 21-year-old biotechnology student at Flinders University and her life is completely consumed by her two obsessions: science and fiction. She also has an interest in writing science fiction.
Having finished his Bachelor of Arts in English and Drama, Tom is undertaking Honours in Creative Writing this year. Other than writing, his passions include music and the creative arts in general. He hopes to travel Eastern Europe and make millions after writing a vampire novel. He thinks that the Hostel franchise would translate well into a televised mini-series.
Dennis Wild is one of our most recent creative writing students at Flinders and comes to us with a varied history of Spoken Word/Oral Tradition pursuits and accomplishments. His long time involvement in Anglo-Celtic folk music, particularly the singing of ancient ballads, led to the discovery and riches of Storytelling, his main interest being in world and wisdom stories. Over the last dozen or so years he has represented South Australia three times at National Storytelling conferences.
His growing interest in poetry led to the release of his experimental spoken word CD titled ‘Both Sides Yesterday’ in 2005. The inspired graphic design and artwork of this CD was the brainchild of our very own Katie Cavanagh. The poem from this CD titled ‘Pillow Talk Unexpurgated’ was published in UQP’s anthology ‘Best Australian Poems 2007’. Since then Dennis went on to complete his poetry chapbook titled ‘Just North of Bewilderment’ which was launched in early 2009 at the ‘Two Fires’ arts and activism festival in Braidwood, New South Wales.
Dennis has had varying successes and crashing failures in the noisy and irreverent Slam Poetry arena. As an A.C.T. state finalist he was flown to Sydney in December 2008 where he came fifth in the All Australia National Turbo-Slam Finals.
He continues to experiment with poetic and other creative writing forms, both on the page and in performance. He will be one of the contributing poets at next weekend’s National Poetry Conference in our very own S.A. township of Goolwa.
Amy Summerton is a creative writing honours student who is using her thesis subject as an excuse to buy books she can't afford but has always wanted to read. When she's not attempting and failing at writing her own biography she can be found arguing as to why it would suck to date a vampire, writing a novel that keeps getting longer and more complicated, or lost somewhere in the depths of the public transport system with no idea where she is or where she's headed.
Amanda Williams has been studying at Flinders University for nine years, completing a BA in English and a Creative Writing Honours Degree part-time. The successful completion of her Honours Degree and thesis in 2009, a multi-genred investigation into women’s relational autobiographical fiction, has earned her numerous Flinders University prizes including a University Medal, the Ann Flaxman Prize in English, the Richard Conyers Prize for an Honours Thesis and an Australian Postgraduate Award.
She has commenced a Masters Degree in Creative Writing this year, once again, concentrating on women’s autobiographical fiction, this time in the Bildungsroman tradition with research into the tension between autobiography and fiction, male and female Bildungsroman, memory and imagination, metaphor and metonymy, symbolism and semiology. She asks the question: ‘Is metaphor in memoir, in life, an alternate form of honesty or simply evasion?
After completing a BA majoring in History and English, Ronald Platt has undertaken an Honours Creative Writing course because he is trying to buy time until his dog finally learns Flamethrower, and he can embark on his very own pokemon adventure!
Phillip Kavanagh completed his Honours Degree in Creative Writing at Flinders in 2009. He has recently commenced his Masters Degree. His short play, Which Time, was awarded a certificate of commendation for the State Theatre Young Guns Playwriting Competition in 2009, and has since been produced as a radio play by the ABC. Another short play, The Man From The Bar, was performed at the Short and Sweet Festival in Sydney, and had its professional premiere as part of the 2010 Adelaide Fringe Festival. 
