Faculty of Arts School of Culture & Communication

Mr Grant Caldwell

Lecturer, Creative Writing

Qualifications

B.Comm (Uni of Melb.), TSTC (Uni of Melb.), MA (Creative Writing - Uni. of Melb.)

Biography

Grant Caldwell has been teaching Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne since 1995. His creative work, poetry, stories and extended narratives, have been published widely in Australia since the early 1970s, as well as overseas in Canada, Colombia, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand and U.S.A; and been translated into Spanish, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese and Japanese. He has received two Australia Council for the Arts Established Writer Fellowships, and two Arts Victoria Grants. His books have been nominated for the Age Book of the Year Award, and a Human Rights Award. In mid 2007 he was appointed the Managing Editor of Blue Dog, the Poetry Journal (refereed) of the Australian Poetry Centre; he is an inaugural board member of the Australian Poetry Centre, and was a member of the Steering Committee for the Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature Bid, (2007) and the Steering Committee for the Centre for Books and Ideas (2007). He was born in Melbourne, and has lived and worked in London, Morocco, Ibiza and Sydney. He has had seven books of creative work published with a new collection of poetry due out mid 2010. In 1991 co-wrote/-directed/-performed Call It Poetry - Tonight a poem-play, for The Sydney Theatre Company (later an ABC documentary). He completed a Masters in Creative Writing in 2004 and is currently researching and writing a doctorate, which he began in 2005.

Current research

The psychology of composition, ancient Chinese philosophy and creativity, the teaching of creative writing, contemporary poetry and fiction (especially Australian).

Knowledge transfer

Community involvement

Public readings and workshops

Membership

Administration

University committees

Teaching

Full subject descriptions are available on the University of Melbourne Handbook.

Research student supervisions

PHD:
MA:  
2009 Minor Thesis Supervision:

Publications

Books

Book chapters and work anthologised

Journal articles

Conference papers

Creative works

Major (recent)

2003 Dreaming of Robert de Niro (Five Islands Press, Wollongong) poetry collection.

Minor (since 2004)

Numerous poems published in the following journals, newspapers and magazines: Blast, Space, Cordite, Heat, Blue Dog, Famous Reporter, Going Down Swinging, Unusual Work, Poetry Ireland Review, Meanjin, SaltLick, The Age, Cloudspeak (U.S.A), Haiku Harvest (U.S.A.), Ginyu (Japan), Waxwing (Ireland), Yapanchita (India), Moving Galleries (poetry on city trains).

International festivals attended

Academic record and recent awards

Other awards

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