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.
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