Ronnie Scott

A/Prof Ronnie Scott is a novelist, comics scholar, studio leader in the Bachelor of Arts (Creative Writing), and co-director of the non/fictionLab, an interdisciplinary research group. 

His novels The Adversary (2020), Shirley (2023) and the forthcoming Letter to a Fortunate Ex are all published by Penguin. According to the Guardian, 'He writes frequently about intimacy and obligation and the ways that lives can turn on the briefest of encounters'.

In the BA (Creative Writing), Ronnie coordinates the capstone studio COMM2652 Creative Writing Project and is third-year Academic Advisor, focusing on helping students to develop challenging writing practices and sustainable careers.

In the non/fictionLab, Ronnie supports academics to collaborate with artists, industry and community. He also co-convenes Gutter Stars, an intervarsity comics collective, and co-directs the non/fictionLab Graphic Storyteller Fellowship.

As a comics scholar, Ronnie is a Chief Investigator on Folio, a project about graphic storytellers funded by the Australian Research Council Linkage Scheme. Within that project, Ronnie collects oral histories of Australian comics-makers, helps to build the comics holdings at the National Library of Australia, and is lead editor of the first book of essays about Australian comics, Folio: Essays on Australian Comics (Palgrave).

His current industry partners include Glom Press, Pink Ember Studio, Creative Australia, Copyright Agency Limited and the Emerging Writers' Festival.

He's a Montserrat Roig grantee and a two-time MacDowell Fellow, and his books have been shortlisted for an NSW Premier's Literary Award, a Queensland Literary Award, the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal and the Voss Prize.