Student Achievements

Congratulations to all the talented Flinders University students who received Creative Writing and English awards recently!

Mark Trimboli (Miles Trench) - The Imprints Poetry Prize

Samuel Williams - The Staff Prize in English

Raelke Grimmer - The Imprints Fiction Prize Commendation and The Imprints Poetry Prize Commendation

David Olds - The Richard Conyers Prize

Helen Dinmore - The Caroline Macdonald Bachelor of Creative Arts/Creative
Writing Thesis Prize

Pamela Graham - The Ann Flaxman Prize in English

Ryan Manhire - The Imprints Fiction Prize Commendation

Michael Hannan - The Imprints Poetry Prize Commendation

Samantha Prior - The Imprints Poetry Prize Commendation

Alicia Carter - The Imprints Fiction Prize and The Imprints Fiction Prize Commendation


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Update: New Venue!

New venue for our next event. See poster : )

Poster: next campus event for Flinders Students

Thanks so much to Flinders student Lisa Train for this great poster : )

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Our readers at The Wheatsheaf Hotel April 19th 2011

MC: Peter Beaglehole

Miles Trench


Miles writes poetry and short stories. He has completed an Advanced Diploma of Professional Writing and is now into his third year of a Bed/BA at Flinders uni.

He has also written Holistic Gardening – The Five Principles of Success. His favourite authors are Faulkner and Steinbeck. He hopes one day to complete and publish his novella Runcifal (a horror fantasy).



Mario Pilla


Mario is a second year BCA student. He's of a Salingerian modesty, and has never sent off any work to be published - but he has performed his stories publicly on three separate occasions, and is about to so a fourth time.

Barbara Brown






































Alicia Carter
 
Alicia often complains that she never wins anything. However, since becoming involved in Speakeasy she's won two things. Most recently The Imprints Booksellers Fiction Prize for her short story 'Saturn Devouring His Son' and, previous to that, a can of asparagus soup. She hopes to win at least more soup in the future.





Mel Manson


Mel is a second year first year student and a first year second year student... she's either really clever or somewhat confused. In her shortish life, Mel has overcome alcohol, nicotine, and fundamentalism. Now she refuses to indulge stupidity for the sake of tradition. Surely, we can find a better reason than that. Mel would like to write stories that make people want to blow up parliament and run for prime minister all at the same time. However, she's not really a writer, so, she comes to Speakeasy in the hopes of meeting someone who'll do it for her.

Tami Milne

Hannah Kent

Samuel Williams


Samuel Williams is a second year BCA creative writer. His work has been published in Voiceworks magazine, and this year he was a judge for the third annual Indie book award in the Debut Fiction category.

Tom Drahos


Tom is a creative writing postgrad at Flinders University. He recommends that you watch the films Irreversible, Antichrist, and A Serbian Film. The cinematography in these films is breathtaking. Especially A Serbian Film. Such beauty.

David Sornig

Many thanks to Delana Carbone of Libertine Magazine for taking these great pictures.

All the best to our co-director Margot McGovern

On behalf of the Speakeasy committee, the captivated audiences, and our fabulous readers, I’d like to thank co-director Margot McGovern for all her enthusiasm and hard work over this last couple of years. Margot has left us for an exciting adventure in Dubai and will be missed.

Because of her enthusiasm, support and flair for event planning, we have been able to build an arts community infrastructure for Flinders University students. Margot’s initial enthusiasm helped to develop this project from an idea, and her consistent support with planning and her dedication to providing opportunities for Flinders students has assisted us in making Speakeasy the thriving entity that it is today.

We’d like to wish Margot all the best in the future as Speakeasy moves into a new chapter.

Best wishes
Threasa Meads

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