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Personal profile
Research Biography
Sean Williams is an award-winning, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of over fifty books and one hundred and twenty short stories for adults, young adults and children. A composer as well as a writer, he is an affiliate of the J. M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice.
Research Interests
Sean's fiction explores diverse areas including music and hearing loss, futurology, and extreme landscapes. His PhD thesis (on the use of the matter transmitter in literature) received a Dean's Commendation for Thesis Excellence from the University of Adelaide. In 2017, he was the Australian Antarctica Arts Fellow and travelled to Casey research station in order to experience life in "the freezer" first-hand.
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, University of Adelaide
Award Date: 1 Jan 2013
Master, The Changeline, University of Adelaide
Award Date: 1 Jan 2005
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When Life Imitates Art: Watchlist and the Impossible Pandemic
Vickery-Howe, A., Campbell, L. H. & Williams, S., 30 Apr 2023, In: Text. 27, 1, 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Creative Writing (Organisational unit)
Amy Matthews (Chair), Abby Guy (Member), Alex Vickery-Howe (Member), Amelia Heffernan (Member), Elizabeth Duffield (Member), Georgia Nicholls (Member), Hannah Dunwell (Member), Harrison Stewart (Member), Justina Ashman (Member), Kathleen Stanley (Member), Sean Williams (Member), Shane Walter (Member) & Thomas Stark (Member)
2023 → …Activity: Membership types › Membership of network
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Guest Lecture: University College Dublin
Sean Williams (Speaker)
11 Feb 2020Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Presenter: Adelaide Writers' Week
Sean Williams (Speaker)
3 Mar 2019Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk