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 ArtsWA. 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 Writer's Retreat is 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
Residency Program Application Information
Alice Pung is a Melbourne writer and lawyer whose work has appeared in Meanjin and Good Weekend. She has worked as a biographer, playwright and editor. She is currently a Writer in Residence at the University of Melbourne where she tutors in creative writing. Alice is the author of Unpolished Gem, a winner of the Newcomer of the Year 2007 in the Australian Book Industry Awards. It has also been short listed for a number of other awards including the 2007 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, the Age Book of the year 2007, the 2007 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, the Book-sellers' Choice Awards and the Westfield Waverly Library Award for Literature 2007.
Tracy is a Western Australian Writer who has been living in New Zealand since 1995. Her short fiction has been published in Australian and New Zealand anthologies, literary journals and popular magazines including 'Surface Tension' (Westerly, 2004), 'Quiddity' (Home, 2006), 'Yargnits' (Listener, 2005) and more. A number of her stories have been produced and broadcast on Radio New Zealand National, and been commended and short listed for awards in Australia and New Zealand. Tracy currently lives in Wellington and apart from writing fiction,she has worked in scientific research for over 20 years.
Antonia Logue was born in Co Derry, Ireland, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin and Cambridge University. Her first novel, 'Shadow Box', won The Irish Times Irish Literature Prize, was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Award and Hawthornden Prize, and translated into French, Italian, German, Spanish, Danish, Greek and Dutch. Former Assistant Director of Creative Writing at Oxford University, she has also taught creative writing at the University of Chicago, Columbia College, Chicago, and University College Cork. Her second novel is forthcoming, and she is working on a libretto with American composer Harold Meltzer. In 2008 she is a Visiting Fellow at Oriel College, Oxford.
Simon Cox has been making up stories since preschool, and writing them down since at least grade three. Throughout Primary School he attended young writers’ workshops at the Peter Cowan, Tom Collins and Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centres and entered work in young writing competitions- with much success. At 15 he began publishing fiction in Voiceworks magazine, and having attended the 2004 National Young Writers festival (NYWF) became the youngest and sole interstate member of the Voiceworks editorial committee based in Melbourne. He has since published editorials, columns and articles in Voiceworks helped organise a Perth launch for the magazine and regularly attends local readings and literary events. Following the 2007 NYWF Simon became involved in organising Perth’s wildly successful spoken work showcase Cottonmouth. Simon is currently completing the second year of his Bachelor of Arts at UWA and- no surprises- is majoring in English.
Simon will give one workshop Use Your Allusion: Creative Reading as a Prompt for Poetry revolving around the use of the work of other poets as a springboard for the participants’ own poetry. Exercises will include:
The workshop will aim to have participants consider the nature of intertextuality in poetry, the richness that reference and allusion can lend a poem as well as the risks of obscurity, opacity (and plagiarism) that allusion can generate. It will also provide attendees with a number of generative strategies for their writing. Participants would be encouraged to bring along their own favourite poems, poems they despise and poetry they themselves have written.
Deborah Pike is a West-Australian writer and teacher based in Paris where she is currently completing her novel Dramatis Personae. Deborah received her doctorate from the University of Sydney in 2005 and has taught English Literature, Drama, and Media Studies at the University of Sydney, Critical and Cultural Theory at the University of Technology, Sydney, and Literature at the University of Notre Dame, Sydney. Deborah has also taught poetry and linguistics at the Université de Paris VII and now lectures in Humanities at the Institutd'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po). Deborah has published plays, critical essays and journalism.