Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Research Biography
Sean Williams is an award-winning, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of over sixty books and one hundred and forty 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 and travelled to Antarctica on an Arts Fellowship in 2017.
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
External positions
Judge, South Australian Literary Awards (Premier's Award)
2024
Grant Assessor, Arts SA (Major Projects funding)
2023 → …
Assessor (Arts Fellowship), Australian Antarctic Division
2023 → …
Judge (2023) & Convener (2024), Prime Ministers Award for Literature (Young Adult Category)
2023 → 2024
Judge, Young Writers Award (South Australian Association of English Teachers)
2023
Visiting Academic, University College Cork
2022
Visiting Academic (2020) and Visiting Research Fellow (Humanities Institute)(2022), University College Dublin
2020 → 2022
Peer Assessor (Literature), Arts South Australia
2019 → …
Peer Assessor (Literature Board), Australia Council
2017 → 2020
Affiliate, J. M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, University of Adelaide
2013 → …
Visiting Research Fellow, University of Adelaide
2013 → 2023
National Year of Reading South Australian Ambassador, Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA)
2012
Advisory Committee Member, Adelaide Writers Week
2010 → 2017
Overseas Regional Director, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association
2010 → 2013
Board of Management Executive, Australian Society of Authors
2009 → 2010
Member, TAFESA Professional Writing Industry Assessment Group
2009 → 2011
Advisory Committee Member (WORD Festival), Adelaide International Fringe Festival
2006
Member (Assistant Treasurer 2007-2010), The Big Book Club Inc.
2003 → 2013
Treasurer (1999), Deputy Chair (2000 & 2008-2009), Chair (2001-2003 & 2006-2008), Board Member (2009-2010), Writers SA
1999 → 2010
Supervision
- Registered
Research Areas
- Creative writing
Supervisory Interests
- Creative writing
- Science fiction
- Speculative Fiction
- Fantasy literature
- Horror fiction
- Music composition
- Antarctica
- Children’s literature
- Young adult literature
- Short fiction
- Crime fiction
- The Fantastic
- Historical fiction
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Making a Feature Film in 100 Days
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When Life Imitates Art: Watchlist and the Impossible Pandemic
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South Australian Frontier and its Legacies
Tiffany Knight (Participant), Christopher Hurrell (Participant), Dr Renato Musolino (Participant) & Sean Williams (Participant)
1 Apr 2024Activity: Other activity types › Other
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AATE/ALEA National Conference (Author Breakfast)
Sean Williams (Keynote speaker)
2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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How Does Research Inform Creative Response to Antarctica?
Sean Williams (Invited speaker)
2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Hyperaurea: Equinox (Adelaide Fringe)
Sean Williams (Participant)
2024Activity: Other activity types › Other
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Assemblage's Night of Creative Readings (Adelaide Fringe)
Sean Williams (Participant)
2024Activity: Other activity types › Other
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