Professional Memberships
- NAWE (National Association of Writers in Education) UK
- AAWP (Australasian Association of Writing Programs) AU
- AWP (Association of Writing Programs) USA
Awards/Fellowships
- Advance Award: Advancing the Student Experience, 2014, University of the Sunshine Coast
- Carnovski African Studies Scholarship, 1989, University of the Witwatersrand
- The Dean's Humanities Award, 1994, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
- Winner — Fiction Young Adult Novel section, 2001, Zimbabwe International Book Fair
- TRIO teaching Award 2003, Blue Mountain Community College, Oregon
- Book of the Year — 2008, The Witness (South Africa)
Professional Social Media
- https://www.paulwilliamsauthor.com/ (personal website)*
- LinkedIn *
- Facebook *
* This is an external website and USC is not responsible for the content.
Current Research Projects
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Country as home: Indigenous Poetry Creative Gathering |
An exploration of what Country as home means to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander poets and Elders and to all Indigenous and non-Indigenous participants through the vehicle of poetry. |
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‘Our stories – our voice’ - Australian International Student Narratives |
A showcase of the unique voices and stories and creative writing styles of USC students who speak English as an additional language. |
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Improving Literacy through Narrative and Creative Writing |
An exploration of the impact of creative writing pedagogical intervention in three year 9 classrooms. |
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Research Grants and Commissions
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Australian Edition of the Chicago Quarterly Review |
Dr Paul Williams |
Copyright Agency $15,000 |
2019 |
The Australian Edition of the Chicago Quarterly Review will include an inclusive variety of Australian writers (multicultural, young/ old, emerging and established, LGBTIQA+, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, Manus Island and other refugees) in order to showcase the best of Australian literary talent to an international platform. |
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Improving Literacy through Narrative and Creative Writing
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Dr Shelley Davidow, Dr Paul Williams, Dr Michael Carey |
Steiner Education Australia (SEA) $11,500 |
2019 |
An exploration of the impact of creative writing pedagogical intervention in three year 9 classrooms. |
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Potential Research Projects for HDR & Honours Students
- Postmodern fiction
- The novel / historiographic metafiction
- Creative non-fiction, particularly in relation to memoir/autobiography
- Post-colonial world literature
- Writing for children and young adults
- Fictocriticism
- Creative Writing studies
Supervision of Honours and Higher Degree by Research candidates
Completed Research projects in Historical fiction, science fiction, the philosophical novel, metafiction, memoir, existentialism
- Honours: Writing the Colonial Female Self as Other: The Journal of Kate Murphy - Sandra Smith (first class)
- Honours: Fate's Child: an exploration of determinism and free will - Emily Larkin (first class)
- Honours: The Epistolary Suicide Letter - Amanda Fletcher (first class)
- Masters: If the Sky should Fall - Belinda Hopper
- Masters: Coven of the Wildewood - Danielle Lloyd
- Doctoral: Darling Adopted Daughter - JoAnn Sparrow
- Doctoral: The Cocacolanisation of Australia - Michael Shapter
Research areas
- Creative Writing research methodologies
- Creative Writing performative pedagogies
- NTRO Postcolonial literary fiction
- NTRO Short Stories
- NTRO Crime fiction
- NTRO Memoir
- Creative Writing postcolonial children’s literature
- Creative Writing autobiography
Teaching areas
- Creative Writing — narrative, poetic and performative craft; children’s/ young adult literature
- Literary Studies
- The novel: experimental fiction
- Autobiography/memoir
Research Publications
- Williams, P & Shelley Davidow (2016) Playing with Words - An Introduction to Creative Writing Craft. London: Palgrave Macmillan
- Williams, P (2019) The Art of Losing. London: Bridgehouse Publishing
- Williams, P (2019) ‘A writer’s manifesto: articulating ways of learning to write well’. New Writing: International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, 28th January
Dr Paul Williams is a creative writer based in the USC School of Communications and Creative Industries. His research interests encompass areas such as post colonialism and postmodernism in fiction; African literature; autobiographic / historiographic metafiction and narrative constructions of the ‘self’ and ‘other’; children’s and young adult fiction; and creative writing as a transcultural activity.