Biography

Dr Rosie Scott is an internationally published novelist, who has also worked in many other fields centring around human rights and social justice. Her latest novel Faith Singer was included in an international list of ‘50 Essential Reads by living Writers’ compiled by the Guardian, Orange Prize Committee and the Hay Literary Festival. Check out the full list. The other Australian writers were Tim Winton and  J. Coetzee.

Scott’s long and successful literary career also includes the publication in Australia and internationally of nine critically-acclaimed  books (novels, poetry, short stories and essays) all of which have been anthologised extensively  in Australia and internationally.

Glory Days, her first novel was published in the International Crimes Series in UK, Germany and USA, shortlisted for the New Zealand National Book Award, voted in  the Top Ten Kiwi Rock Books and nominated for the List of Books you must read before you Die - a must read list of New Zealand and Australian titles.

Awards

 Her novels have been finalists in most major book awards including, the NSW  Premiers Fiction Award, Banjo Patterson Writing Award, The National Book Award and The New Zealand National Book Awards.

Her stage play won the Bruce Mason National Playwrights' Award and was later made into a movie, Redheads which won five international awards in Japan and France.

Recipient of three literary fellowships and a UWS university scholarship for her doctorate.

Recipient of the Sydney PEN Award:

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Nomination for a Human Rights Medal nomination together with Tom Keneally for their work on detained writers and the anthology, which was also cited by the judges as instrumental in earning a Community Human Rights Award for Australia PEN.

 

Memberships

• Served  on the Committee of Management and on the Executive  of the Australian Society of Authors for ten years, during which time she was elected Chair.
• Appointed to the Permanent Council of the Australian Society of Authors. 
• Served on the Sydney PEN committee for eight years, established and chaired  Writers in Detention Committee with Tom Keneally,with whom she edited an anthology of refugee writing,Another Country  and was elected Vice President of Sydney PEN.
• Co–founded the national reconciliation organisation Women for Wik ten years ago and continues on the committee.   

Education

Doctorate in Creative Arts from UWS,

MA Honours in English from Victoria University, Wellington, 

Graduate Diploma in Counselling (with an outstanding student citation,) from Institute of Counselling, Sydney,

BA from Auckland University,

Graduate Diploma in Drama (A pass) from Auckland University,

Partially-completed Degree in Social Work from Massey University.

 

Teaching

University tutor in creative writing at UTS since 2004.

 

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