Ronnie Scott

Ronnie lectures in the Bachelor of Arts (Creative Writing) on fiction, nonfiction, comics and graphic storytelling, research, creative methods, and the writing and publishing industry.

Dr Scott is the editor of two anthologies, the author of a Penguin Special and of two books of nonfiction for the National Gallery of Victoria. In 2022, he was a Montserrat Roig grantee, a Victorian Creator and the UNESCO City of Literature resident for Reykjavík, and he's a chief investigator on a new history of Australian comics funded by the Australian Research Council Linkage Projects scheme. His 2020 novel The Adversary was shortlisted for a Queensland Literary Award and the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, and in 2023 he's the author of a new novel, Shirley.

Dr Scott has most recently written fiction, essays, research and criticism for The Age/Sydney Morning Herald's Spectrum and Good Weekend supplements, PEN Melbourne, the City of Melbourne/Metro Tunnels Melbourne Writers' Festival commissions, TEXT and New Writing. As a researcher in writing, publishing and applied creative writing, his current partners are Melbourne Knowledge Week, the Australia Council for the Arts, the National Library of Australia, and Craig Walker Design. He's recently spoken on books, culture and writing at Melbourne Writers Festival, Sydney Writers Festival, Adelaide Writers Week, ABC Radio National and the Wheeler Centre. He is a two-time MacDowell Fellow.

His current research is into form and voice in prose writing, purpose and knowledge in the novel, the practice and economics of current Australian comics, and time and space in narrative.

Fiction, Nonfiction, Comics, Graphic Storytelling, Narratology, Creative Practice, Applied Creative Writing, Collaboration

• Contemporary fiction
• 20th Century literature
• Graphic narrative
• Australian comics 1980-present
• Queer storytelling
• Voice and form

• 8 current Ph.D. supervisions