Each year KSPF is proud to promote the craft of writing by hosting a number of writers in our residency program which is funded by the Department of Culture and the Arts. The residency program includes positions for established and emerging writers as well as our young writers residency. As well as allowing each writer the time and space to work on their own writing projects, the writers participate in the events of the centre and run workshops thus sharing their knowledge and experience throughout our writing community.
The Writer in Residence Accommodation and three other Writers' Retreats are also available for rent by writers wishing to get away from the distractions of normal life to progress a piece of work, when it is not being used by KSP Writers in Residence. Accommodation
Lisa Lang is a Melbourne writer. For the last five years she has researched and written about the life of eccentric entrepreneur and humanitarian Edward Cole, of Cole’s Funny Picture Book fame. This has resulted in a novel, Utopian Man, which won the 2009 Vogel Literary award and will be published by Allen and Unwin in 2010, as well as the non-fiction E.W.Cole: Chasing the Rainbow, published by Arcade Books in 2007. Her short stories have won prizes at Eastern Regional, Boroondara and Shoalhaven literary awards. She is currently writing her second novel, an existential mystery exploring the nature of the creative mind, set largely in Darwin.
Suzanne is a writer and playwright based in Perth. She has written a number of full-length plays, including Fragmented and The Quiet Country (a dream play), and several shorter works including Hard Ware and the 2008 Maj Monologues’ finalist Blusher, performed Downstairs at His Majesty’s Theatre. In 2004, she began a year’s playwriting mentorship with deckchair theatre in Fremantle, and in the same year was the recipient of an Australia Council Literature Board grant to develop her playwriting. In 2006, she received an ArtsWA grant to produce her play Fragmented at the Blue Room Theatre in Perth. Fragmented, awarded an honorable mention for the 2005/06 Larry Corse Award, United States, was a critical success and went on to be nominated best new play in Western Australia’s 2007 Equity Guild Awards, as well as winning a 2007 Blue Room Award. In July 2009, Suzanne travelled to Sydney as one of two inaugural recipients of a state initiative to promote WA playwrights in the eastern states. She worked with acclaimed dramaturg Peter Matheson and director Iain Sinclair (The Seed, Beyond the Neck, Killer Joe) on her play Angel Dreaming, an absurdist black comedy inter-textually linked to Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles. Suzanne was the 2009 Vancouver Arts Centre/Stages playwright-in-residence in Albany during the Sprung Writers Festival. She is currently a PhD scholarship student of writing at Edith Cowan University.
David Reiter is an award-winning poet and writer of fiction, and Director of IP, an innovative print and digital publishing house. His fourth book, Hemingway in Spain and Selected Poems, was shortlisted for the 1998 Adelaide Festival Awards. His previous books include The Cave After Saltwater Tide (Penguin, 1994) for which he won the Queensland Premier’s Award and Kiss and Tell, Selected and New Poems 1987-2002. He’s completed a feature film Hemingway in Spain and a short film A Simple Tale based on a Stephen Oliver poem. Real Guns, a children’s picture book and a multimedia CD, Rainshadows, representing 30 authors, were released in 2007, and Global Cooling, a sequel to his children’s chapter book The Greenhouse Effect, was released in 2008 and is currently being developed into an animated feature film. His most recent work is the satiric novel Primary Instinct. A new short doco film entitled Mum: speaking Latin with a singlet tan, based on Dale Kentwell’s paintings and life will be released soon. In 2010, he plans to write Tiger Tames the Min Min, the second sequel to The Greenhouse Effect, and compose a film based on his extended poem Nullarbor Song Cycle with music composer Nitya Bernard Parker.
Andy Jackson's poetry explores the emotional, cultural and political dimensions of embodiment and identity. He has been published in a wide variety of print and on-line journals, and featured at events and festivals such as Australian Poetry Festival, Queensland Poetry Festival, Newcastle Young Writers Festival and La Mama Poetica. He received grants from the Australia Council in 2004 and 2008, and from Arts Victoria in 2008, and a mentorship from the Australian Society of Authors in 2007. He was awarded the 2008 Arts ACT Rosemary Dobson Prize for an unpublished poem. In collaboration with puppeteer Rachael Guy and cellist David Churchill, he was awarded the City of Yarra Award for Most Innovative Work at the 2009 Overload Poetry Festival. He is currently a Café Poet in Residence for the Australian Poetry Centre. His most recent collection of poems, Among the Regulars, is scheduled for release by papertiger media. He blogs (rarely) at amongtheregulars.wordpress.com.
Rosanna Beatrice Stevens lives in the Blue Mountains, and is in her final semester of a Writing and Cultural Studies undergraduate at the University of Technology, Sydney. She is an Editorial Committee member of Voiceworks, a magazine dedicated to celebrating the work of writers under the age of 25. Rosanna’s writing has appeared in The Big Issue, Beat, UTS student magazine Vertigo, Onya Magazine, Voiceworks, the UTS Writers’ Anthology 2010, and Affirm Press’ anthology Lines of Wisdom. She teaches cello, is interested in musical semiology, and is currently working on a children’s fiction manuscript.