The UTS Alumni Writers’ Network (founded in 2004) is an inclusive group of writers, editors and publishers with membership ranging from emerging writers to bestselling, award-winning authors.
The UTS Alumni Writers’ Network is an inclusive group of writers, editors and publishers with membership ranging from emerging writers to bestselling, award-winning authors. Dr Sharon Rundle formed the UTS Alumni Writers’ Network in 2004 to encourage and support fellow graduates, to exchange information and ideas, and to foster professional relationships. Sharon was Chair of the Network until 2024. The current Chair is Nathan Creed (né McMahon).
We warmly welcome new members to our Writers' Network, and encourage members to post news of their latest published books, book launches, news, and events of interest to writers. Writers of all genres are welcome to join.
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Alumni Published Authors
Deborah Abela
Bachelor of Arts in Communication
Published books: Ghost Club (three-book series); Max Remy Superspy (10-book series); Jasper Zammit (Soccer Legend) (three-book series); The Remarkable Secret of Aurelie Bonhoffen; Grimsdon trilogy; The Stupendously Spectacular Spelling Bee; The Most Marvellous Spelling Bee Mystery; Teresa A New Australian; Wolfie An Unlikely Hero; Bear in Space; The Book of Wondrous Possibilities; The Kindness Project.
Richard James Allen
Doctor of Creative Arts
Published books: The Way Out At Last & Other Poems; To The Ocean & Scheherazade; Home for a Man Named Jimmie and Grand Illusion Joe; The Air Dolphin Brigade; What to Name Your Baby; Performing the Unnameable; Thursday's Fictions; The Kamikaze Mind; Cutting Rhythms: Shaping the Film Edit; Fixing the Broke Nightingale; Cutting Rhythms: Intuitive Film Editing; The short story of you and I; More Lies
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Dr Manisha Amin
Roz Bellamy
Bachelor of Arts in Communication
Published books: Mood.
Prashant Bhawalkar
Master of Arts in Journalism
Published books: Unruly Times; A Great Perplexity.
Sam Bloom
Dr Verity Borthwick
Master of Arts in Creative Writing
Published books: The Best Australian Stories 2017; Infinite Threads: UTS Writers' Anthology 2019
Samantha Brett
Bachelor of Arts in Communications-Journalism
Published books: The Game Changers
Melissa Bruce
Georgia Cassimatis
Master of Arts in Journalism
Published books: The Psychiatrist's Waiting Room; Red Carpet Burns.
Clint Caward
Bachelor of Arts in Communications (Writing and Cultural Studies) and Master of Arts by Research in Creative Writing
Published books: Love Machine.
Vidhisha Chaturvedi
Bachelor of Arts in Communications; Master of Arts in Communications Management
Published books: LoveGames: Decoding Modern Romance.
Christopher Cheng
Diploma in Teaching
Published books: One Tree; New Year Surprise; Australia’s Greatest Inventions and Innovations; Michelle’s Magical World; Classic Australian Poems; Locally Wild; 30 Amazing Australian Animals; Alpine Regions; Rainforests; Ginger Meggs & Friends Pet Care Book; Stuntumble Monday – Teachers’ Resource Book; Zoo You Later; The Melting Pot; Water; Sounds Spooky; Seams of Gold; One Child; Python; New Gold Mountain; This Is Home; Quoll; Powerful Like a Dragon; Moon Festival; Old Fellow; The Imagineer; Wombat; Pollination; Bear and Rat.
Julie Chevalier
Dr Bernard Cohen
Doctor of Creative Arts
Published books: The Blindman's Hat; The Antibiography of Robert F. Menzies; Hardly Beach Weather; Tourism; Snowdome; When I Saw the Animal; The Antibiography of Robert F Menzies; Paul Needs Specs; Speedfactory; Foreign Logics.
Nadine J Cohen
Master’s in Creative Writing
Published books: Everyone and Everything.
Beatriz Copello
Graduate Diploma in Communications
Published books: Witches, Women & Words; Flowering Roots; A Call to the Stars; Lesbian Love Lesbian Stories; Forbidden Steps Under The Wisteria; A Call To The Stars; No Salami Fairy Bread.
Katerina Cosgrove
John Dale
Master of Arts in Writing; Doctor of Creative Arts
Published books: Leaving Suzie Pye; Huckstepp – A Dangerous Life; Wild Life; The Dogs Are Barking; Dark Angel; Sydney Noir (Ed.); Detective Work; The Faculty; Plenty; The Blasphemy Laws.
Anh Do
Bachelor of Business
Published books: The Happiest Refugee; Game Time; Into the Wild; Art Time; The Little Refugee; Weirdo; The Traitor; An Unexpected Hero; Beach Time; Tasty Weird; Skydragon; The Last Gladiator; Vole Weirdo; Crash Course; Camping Time; Party Time.
Associate Professor Peter Doyle
Bachelor of Arts in Communication
Published books: Get Rich Quick; Amaze Your Friends; The Devil’s Jump; Echo and Reverb; City of Shadows; Crooks Like Us; The Big Whatever; Suburban Noir; The Blitz; Percy A Story; The Key to Earth History; Disputed Earth; Amaze Your Friends; Trench Talk; World War II in Numbers.
Kathryn Eisman
Bachelor of Arts in Communication
Published books: How To Tell a Man By His Shoes; How To Tell a Woman By Her Handbag
Judyth Emanuel
Master of Arts in Creative Writing
Published books: YEH.HELL.OW; Wing Me over the Sea; If Someone Told Me I Was Dying
I Would Drink To Death; Intrinsick; Walk Me To The You; The Fanzine; FLY! FLY!’; Verity Lane; Fish Have To Live Their Whole Lives Under Water; Gulley Of The Dolls; The Great Leap Forward.
Dr Suzanne Falkiner
Doctor of Creative Arts
Published books: The Imago: E.L. Grant Watson & Australia; Joan in India; Lizard Island: The Journey of Mary Watson; The Writer's Landscape: Wilderness; The Writer's Landscape: Settlement; Ethel: A Love Story; Eugenia, A Man; After the Great Novelist; Rain in the Distance; Room to Move; The Rose; Mrs Mort’s Madness; Mick.
Dr Jeremy Fisher
Doctor of Creative Arts
Published books: Perfect Timing; Music from Another Country; How to Tell Your Father to Drop Dead; The Dirty Little Dog
Dr Jeremy Fishman
Doctor of Creative Arts
Published books: Music from another Country; Diversions from Routine.Content
Dr Kate Forsyth
Doctor of Creative Arts
Published books: The Crimson Thread; The Blue Rose; Searching For Charlotte; The Rebirth of Rapunzel; The Witches of Eileanan; Dragonclaw; The Pool of Two Moons; The Cursed Towers; The Silver Well; Dancing on Knives; The Beast's Garden; Bitter Greens; Beauty in Thorns; The Wild Girl; Re-enchanting the World; Long-Lost Fairy-Tales; The Starthorn Tree; The Puzzle Ring; The Impossible Quest; Once; Dragon Gold; Two Selkie Stories from Scotland; I Am; Grumpy Grandpa; Alchemy.
Dr Pamela Freeman
Doctor of Creative Arts; Master of Arts in Writing; Bachelor of Arts in Communication
Published books: Ember and Ash; The Murderers' Apprentice; The Black Dress; The Willow Tree's Daughter; Windrider; The Centre of Magic; Hair of the Skeleton; Scum of the Earth; Trick of the Light; Shipborn; Victor's Quest; Victor’s Challenge; The Wonder Dog; Make Me the Flowergirl; Nanna; Cherryblossom and the Golden Bear; Princess Betony and the Unicorn; Princess Betony and the Hobgoblin; Princess Betony and the Rule of Wishing; Princess Betony and the Thunder Egg; Lollylegs; The Castings Trilogy (Blood Ties, Deep Water, Full Circle); Dry to Dry: The Seasons of Kakadu; Amazing Australian Women; The Fastest Ship in Space; Desert Lake: Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre; Mary’s Australia; From Fire to Life; The Network Mysteries; The Scum of the Earth; The Trick of Light; Chronicles of Quentaris: The Murderers’ Apprentice; Pole to Pole; Nanna.
https://www.pamelafreeman.com/
Pamela Freeman as Pamela Hart
Published books: Long Meg and the Wicket Baron; Eleven Pipers Piping; The Charleston Scandal; The Desert Nurse; A Letter from Italy; The Soldiers Wife; The War Bride; The Poppy McGowan Mysteries - Digging Up Dirt; An A-List For Death; Fatal Crossing.
Susanna Freymark
Master of Arts in Creative Writing
Published books: Losing February.
Dr Anna Funder
Doctor of Creative Arts
Published books: All That I Am; Stasiland; The Girl with the Dogs; Wifedom.
Nicola Garvey
Master of Arts in Professional Writing
Published books: Beating the Odds: Alan Tripp's Rise from Illegal SP Bookmaker to Gambling Kingpin.
Nikki Gemmell
Master of Arts in Writing (Thesis); Bachelor of Arts in Communication
Published books: Shiver; Lovesong; Cleave; The Bride Stripped Bare; With My Body; Alice Springs; Pleasure: An Almanac for the Heart; The Book of Rapture; Honestly; Why You are Australian.
Susanne Gervay OAM
Master of Arts in Writing (Thesis)
Published books: I am Jack; Super Jack; Always Jack; Ships in the Field; Gracie and Josh; Elephants Have Wings; The Boy in the Big Blue Glasses. Butterflies; Daisy Sunshine; The Cave; Terror Incognito; That's Why I Wrote this Song; Heroes of the Secret Underground; Shadows of Olive Trees; The Edge of Limits; Who’s The Gang on Our Street?
Tom Gilling
Doctor of Creative Arts
Published books: The Sooterkin; Miles McGinty; Dreamland; Seven Mile Beach; Sydney Noir; Project Rainfall; The Witness; Bastard Behind the Lines; The Lost Battalions; Grog: A Bottled History of Australia's First 30 Years; Co-author of Smack Express; Blood Money; Evil Life; Milat.
Dr Roanna Goncalves
Master of Arts in Professional Writing
Published books: The Permanent Resident; Sunita De Souza Goes to Sydney.
Georgia Grace
Bachelor of Arts in Communication
Published books: The Modern Guide to Sex
DC Green
Bachelor of Arts in Communication
Published books: the Erasmus James series; Stinky Squad; Three Little Surfer Pigs; Lash Clone Returns to Vortex.
Dr Kate Grenville
Doctor of Creative Arts
Published books: Bearded Ladies; Lillian's Story; Dreamhouse; Joan Makes History; Dark Places The Idea of Perfection; The Secret River; Finding the Secret River; The Lieutenant; Sarah Thornhill; One Life; The Case Against Fragrance; A Room Made of Leaves; Elizabeth Macarthur’s Letters; The Writing Book; Making Stories; Restless Dolly Maunder.
Dr Ashley Hay
Doctor of Creative Arts
Published books: The Railwayman's Wife; The Body in the Clouds; Museum: The Macleays, Their Collections and the Search for Order; Herbarium; Gum: The Story of Eucalypts and Their Champions; The Secret: The Strange Marriage of Annabelle Milbanke & Lord Byron; A Hundred Small Lessons; The Body in the Clouds; Museum; Herbarium.
Mark Isaacs
Bachelor of Arts in Communications (Writing and Cultural Studies) and Bachelor of Arts in International Studies
Published books: The Kabul Peace House; Nauru Burning; The Undesirables.
Jill Jones
Graduate Diploma in Communication; Master of Arts in Writing (Research)
Published books: Dark Bright Doors; Broken/Open; Struggle & Radiance; The Mask and the Jagged Star; Screens Jets Heaven: New & Selected Poems; The Book of Possibilities; Flagging Down Time.
Simone Amelia Jordan
Bachelor of Arts in Communication - Journalism
Published books: Tell Her She's Dreamin'
sydney khoo
Master of Arts in Creative Writing
Published books: The Spider and Her Demons.
Dr Andy Kissane
Doctor of Creative Arts
Published books: The Swarm; Under the Same Sun; The Tomb of the Unknown Artist; Radiance; Out to Lunch; Every Night They Dance; Facing the Moon.
Dominic Knight
Master of Arts in Professional Writing
Published books: Disco Boy; Comrades; Man vs Child; The 2020 Dictionary; The Strayan Dictionary; Trumpedia; Strayapedia.
Antoinette Latouff
Bachelor of Arts in Communications (Social Inquiry)
Published books: How to Lose Friends and Influence White People
Holly Friedlander Liddicoat
Bachelor of Arts in Communication - Writing and Cultural Studies & International Studies
Published books: Crave.
Dr Eleanor Limprecht
Master of Arts in Creative Writing; Doctor of Creative Arts
Published books: What Was Left; Long Bay; The Passengers; The Coast.
Monica Lizama
Graduate Certificate in Writing
Published books: Blotch the Dog; All Paws to Chile; Searching for Bobo; The Empty Dish.
Greg Long
Bachelor of Applied Science in Computing Science
Published books: Essential Management Techniques; Lead Work Teams.
Emma Lovell
Carol Ann Major
Master of Arts in Writing
Published books: The Asparagus Wars.
Rosalyn McFarland
Master of Arts in Creative Writing
Published books: See No Sea (No Sea Trilogy) (Book 1); Hear No Sea (No Sea Trilogy Book 2); ’Light the Way: Paradisi Chronicles (Loves Light Series Book 1); All the Lives We've Lived; Soldier Boy; The Privacy of Art; Foreign Attachments.
Dr Peter Minter
Master of Arts in Writing (Research); Doctor of Philosophy
Published books: Overland; Rhythm in a Dorsal Fin; Empty Texas; Blue Grass.
Pip Newling
Master of Arts in Professional Writing
Published books: Knockabout Girl.
PM Newton
Graduate Diploma in Information Management; Graduate Certificate in Writing; Master of Arts in Writing (Research)
Published books: The Old School; Beams Falling.
Yvette Poshoglian
Bachelor of Teaching in Secondary Education; Grad Dip in Journalism
Published books: My Australian Story: Escape from Cockatoo Island; Ella and Olivia (six-book series); Puppy Diary; Dear Greta.
Felicity Pullman
Bachelor of Arts in Communication
Published books: Shalott; Return To Shalott; Shalott, Into the Unknown; Shalott, Dangerous Magic; Shalott: End Play; A Ring Through Time; The Final Journey; The Janna Chronicles - #1: Blood Oath; #2 Stolen Child; #3 Unholy Alliance; #4 Pilgrim of Death; #5 Devil’s Brew and #6 Day of Judgment; The Janna Mysteries - Rosemary For Remembrance & Rue For Repentance; Lillies For Love; Willows For Weeping; Sage For Sanctuary; Thyme For Trust; The Once And Future Camelot; I, Morgana; Ghost Boy; Wally The Water Dragon; The Little Penguins Of Manly; Turning The Page; Surfing The Future.
Dr Sharon Rundle
Doctor Creative Arts; Bachelor of Education in Adult Education
Published books: Changes & Chances; Mountain and Valley Echo; Reflections on Bucketty; Round Table Writing. Co-editor Relatively True, stories of Truth, Deception and Post-Truth; Glass Walls, stories of Tolerance and Intolerance; Only Connect, stories about Technology and Us; Alien Shores, stories of Refugees and Asylum Seekers; Fear Factor Terror Incognito; Agathokakalogical Aussie Summer.
Aimee Said
Bachelor of Arts in Communication
Published books: Little Sister; Finding Freia Lockhart; Freia Lockhart’s Summer of Awful; Turtle’s Tall Tale.
Mandy Sayer
Doctor of Creative Arts
Published books: Mood Indigo; Blind Luck; The Cross; Dreamtime Alice; The Night has a Thousand Eyes; Velocity; Love in the Years of Lunacy; The Poet’s Wife; Australian Gypsies, Their Secret History; The Dashing McDonagh Sisters.
Dr Christine Shearer
Doctor of Philosophy; Master of Management; Bachelor of Business
Published books: Constructing the Craft of Public Administration, Perspectives from Australia; A Climate Change Story.
Janine Shepherd, AM
Bachelor of Arts in Human Movement Studies; Graduate Diploma in Physical Education
Published books: Never Tell Me Never; Dare to Fly; Reaching For Stars; On My Own Two Feet; The Gift of Acceptance; Defiant
Libby Sommer
Master of Arts in Professional Writing
Published books: Flat White, One Sugar; The Cellist, a Bellydancer & Other Distractions; Lost In Cooper Park; Stories From Bondi; The Usual Story; The Crystal Ballroom; My Year With Sammy.
Cameron Stewart
Master of Arts in Creative Writing
Published books: Why Do Horses Run?
Alicia Thompson
Master of Arts in Creative Writing
Published books: Something Else.
Hugh Tranter
Master of Arts in Creative Writing
Published books: Southern Signals.
Stephanie Trethewey
Bachelor of Arts in Communications (Journalism)
Published books: Motherland
Jill Valentine
Master of Arts in Communication Management
Books published: High Heels & Low Blows
Conrad Walters
Master of Arts in Creative Writing
Published books: Journeys on the Silk Road (with Joyce Morgan).