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Associate Professor Dr. Shady Cosgrove

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Dr Shady Cosgrove is a writer and academic, with research interests in prose fiction, prose poetry, microfiction, embodied creative practice, narratology and pedagogy. Her novel, What the Ground Can’t Hold (Picador Australia), explores themes of hope, survival and forgiveness within the context of Argentina’s Dirty War. Shady’s memoir She Played Elvis (Allen and Unwin) was shortlisted for the Australian Vogel Literary Prize. The work chronicles Shady’s pilgrimage across America to Graceland to honour the twenty-fifth anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death, and explores the themes of family, loss and belonging.

Her short fiction has appeared in Southerly, takahe, Cordite, Eunoia Review, Antipodes, Overland, Best Australian Short Stories as well as Spineless Wonders publications like Flashing the Square, Small Wonder and Out of Place. She regularly presents at the Australasian Association of Writing Programs annual conference and the International Conference of the Short Story in English. She has received the Varuna Eleanor Dark Flagship Fellowship, as well as residencies with the ANU’s HRC and Bundanon Trust, and is a member of academic honour society Phi Betta Kappa.

PhD Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 1998 – 2002

Bachelor of Arts Vassar College, 1996

Year Title
2024 JOURNAL ARTICLE

I wanted to write about you and instead remembered this
11 Dec 2024. Animal Studies Journal. 13(2). University of Wollongong Library. Cosgrove SE. 10.14453/asj.1518

Editorial
31 Oct 2024. TEXT. 28(2). Australasian Association of Writing Programs. Rendle-Short F, van Loon J, Watkins R, Cosgrove S, Pont A. 10.52086/001c.124342

Editorial
1 Jan 2024. Text (Australia). 28(1):1-4. van Loon J, Watkins R, Cosgrove S. 10.52086/001c.117071

Meditation(s) and the creative writing classroom: considering process
1 Jan 2024. New Writing. Cosgrove S. 10.1080/14790726.2024.2424596

CHAPTER

Drafting, revision and an author’s duty of care––my novel ‘Housework of Desire’ and the near-destruction of a thirty-year friendship
25 Jan 2024. The Scholarship of Creative Writing Practice. Bloomsbury Publishing. Cosgrove S

2023 JOURNAL ARTICLE

Editorial TEXT October 2023 Edition
31 Oct 2023. TEXT. 27(2). Australasian Association of Writing Programs. van Loon J, Watkins R, Cosgrove S. 10.52086/001c.89773

Creative companionship as we face the apocalypse – an essay in conversation
1 Jan 2023. Text (Australia). 27(Special Issue 70). Cosgrove S, Howe C. 10.52086/001c.88239

CHAPTER

Liminality and process: strategies for the creative writing classroom
7 Dec 2023. Stimulus, Intention and Process in Creative Writing. 73-81. Taylor & Francis. Cosgrove SE. 10.4324/9781032637204-6

2022 CHAPTER

Stakeholder Theory and Narrative: Writing to Better Business Decisions
1 Jan 2022. Issues in Business Ethics. 53:293-308. Cosgrove S. 10.1007/978-3-030-72204-3_22

Title: Exploring Country within Realist Fiction in Australian Literature – University of Wollongong
Duration: 1 Jan 2024 – 31 Dec 2024
Sponsors/ Grant: Advancement and Equity Grants Scheme for Research (AEGiS)

Title: Creative Writing Pedagogy and the Workshop Model (Focus on China) – University of Wollongong
Duration: 1 Jan 2014 – 31 Dec 2014
Sponsors/ Grant: LHA – Faculty Challenge Grant

Masters’ Research or PhD student supervision

Membership (Organisation)
Australasian Association of Writing Programs