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Dr Stephanie Bishop

Dr Stephanie Bishop

Senior Lecturer

PhD (Cambridge 2009)

Arts,Design & Architecture
School of the Arts and Media

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My first novel, The Singing, was published in 2005 (Brandl & Schlesinger). As a result of this publication I was named one of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Australian Novelists (2006). The Singing was also shortlisted for the Kathleen Mitchell Award. Following this I completed a PhD at Cambridge in contemporary poetry and poetics.

My second novel, The Other Side of the World, was published in Australia by Hachette, in the UK by Tinder Press/HeadlineÌýand in the US byÌýAtria Press/Simon & Schuster.ÌýThe Other Side of the WorldÌýwon Literary Fiction Book of Year in the Ìý2015 Australian Book Industry Awards andÌýtheÌý2015 Readings Prize for New Australian FictionÌýwas shortlisted for the Australian/Vogel's Literary Award, the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, the NSW Premier's Literary Awards,Ìýthe Australian Independent Bookseller's Award and Longlisted for the Stella Prize. It was It won Literary Fiction Book of Year in the Australian Book Industry Awards. (2009). This book was supported by an Australia Council New Work grant (2009)Ìýand an Asialink Fellowship (2011).

My most recent novel is, Man Out of TimeÌý(Hachette Australia, 2018).This book was supported by an Australia Council New Work grant (2014).

My work has appeared inÌýThe Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, The Monthly,ÌýThe Australian, theÌýSydney Review of Books, theÌýSydney Morning Herald, amongst other places.ÌýÌýCurrentÌýresearch and writing interests include the legacy of the modernist novel and the phenomenological process of literary composition. I'm particularly interested in psychoanalysis, philosophical aesthetics, contemporary feminism and life writing.Ìý In 2016 I was a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Life Writing at the University of Oxford.

I am represented by Emma Paterson at Aitken Alexander,Ìýemma@aitkenalexander.co.uk, and my website can be found here:Ìýhttp://www.stephaniebishop.com.au

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Phone
+61 2 9385 6684
E-mail
stephanie.bishop@unsw.edu.au
Location
204, Level 2 Robert Webster
  • Books | 2015
    Bishop SL, 2015, The Other Side of the World, 1st, Hachette Australia, Australia,
    Books | 2005
    Bishop SL, 2005, The Singing, Brandl & Schlesinger, Sydney,
  • Book Chapters | 2019
    Bishop S, 2019, 'Time Flowing Slowly Like Oil', in The Life and Times of Michael K, Text, Melbourne Australia, pp. i - xiv
  • Journal articles | 2014
    Bishop SL, 2014, 'Landfall', Island Magazine, vol. 138, pp. 78 - 83,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Bishop SL, 2014, 'Weatherman', Southerly: a review of Australian literature, vol. 74, pp. 167 - 181,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Bishop S, 2013, 'Silent Reading: the read voice', Text : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses, vol. 17,
    Journal articles | 2009
    Bishop S, 2009, 'Reading with Freud', Women: A Cultural Review, vol. 20, pp. 339 - 341,
    Journal articles | 2002
    Bishop SL, 2002, 'In the New Hours', The Cultural Studies Review, vol. 8
  • Creative Written Works | 2019
    Bishop S, 2019, On The Personification of Cumbersome Objects, London Review of Books,
    Creative Written Works | 2019
    Bishop S, 2019, On the Manifold of Logic of Female Invisibility, Houen A; Piette A, (ed.), Black Box Manifold,
    Creative Written Works | 2019
    Bishop S, 2019, On the Navigation of Marital Obfuscations, Houen A; Piette A, (ed.), Black Box Manifold,
    Creative Written Works | 2019
    Bishop S, 2019, On the Psychological Effect of Living With Houseplants, London Review of Books,
    Creative Written Works | 2019
    Bishop S, 2019, Unboxing My Father's Suitcase, Galix A, (ed.), http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/,
    Other | 2019
    Bishop S, 2019, ‘Kudos’ by Rachel Cusk A masterful Trilogy Concludes, Melbourne,
    Other | 2018
    Bishop S, 2018, Exercise in Freedom Post-war, postcolonial fiction, Times Newspapers Ltd., London,
    Other | 2018
    Bishop S, 2018, Secret darkness A writer with the ‘purity of a recording eye’, Times Newspapers Ltd., London,
    Other | 2018
    Bishop S, 2018, To have or not to have: Sheila Heti’s ‘Motherhood’ and Jacqueline Rose’s ‘Mothers’, Melbourne,
    Other | 2018
    Bishop S, 2018, ‘The End’ by Karl Ove Knausgaard, Melbourne,
    Creative Written Works | 2018
    Bishop SL, 2018, Man Out of Time, Man Out of Time, Hachette
    Creative Written Works | 2017
    Bishop S, 2017, Surveying the Scene, Surveying the Scene, The Monthly,
    Other | 2017
    Bishop S, 2017, The Idiot by Elif Batuman (review), Melbourne,
    Other | 2017
    Bishop S, 2017, Why I Am Not A Feminist (review), Melbourne,
    Other | 2017
    Bishop S, 2017, ‘Between Them’ by Richard Ford (review), Melbourne,
    Other | 2017
    Bishop S, 2017, ‘Forest Dark’ by Nicole Krauss (review), Melbourne,
    Other | 2017
    Bishop S, 2017, ‘Men Without Women’ by Haruki Murakami (review), Melbourne,
    Creative Written Works | 2017
    Bishop SL, 2017, A Brief History of the First Person, The Times Literary Supplement, The Times Literary Supplement,
    Creative Written Works | 2017
    Bishop SL, 2017, In the Wild the Male is Always the Most Beautiful, In the Wild the Male is Always the Most Beautiful, Westerly Magazine University of Western Australia,
    Creative Written Works | 2017
    Bishop SL, 2017, Vanta Black, Meanjin, Winter 2017, University of Melbourne
    Creative Written Works | 2016
    Bishop SL, 2016, My Grandmother’s £10 ‘exile’ returned to Haunt Me, My Grandmother’s £10 ‘exile’ returned to Haunt Me, The Guardian,
    Other | 2016
    Bishop SL, 2016, Frantumaglia by Elena Ferrante: A Life in Pieces, The Australian,
    Other | 2016
    Bishop SL, 2016, Review of Don Delillo’s Zero K, The Monthly, May 2016,
    Other | 2016
    Bishop SL, 2016, Review of Geoff Dyer’s, White Sands, in The Monthly, July 2016,
    Other | 2016
    Bishop SL, 2016, Review of Julian Barnes’, The Noise of Time,
    Other | 2016
    Bishop SL, 2016, Review of Milan Kundera’s the Festival of Insignificance, The Monthly, August 2015,
    Other | 2016
    Bishop SL, 2016, Review of ‘Edna O’Brien’s Little Red Chairs, Weekend Australian January 9, 2016,
    Creative Written Works | 2015
    Bishop S, 2015, The Other Side of the World, The Other Side of the World, Hachette Australia
    Other | 2015
    Bishop SL, 2015, Review of Jonathan Franzen’s, Purity, The Monthly October issue 2015,
    Other | 2015
    Bishop SL, 2015, Review of The Blue Guitar by John Banville, in The Weekend Australian August 22, 2015
    Other | 2015
    Bishop SL, 2015, Review of ‘Julian Barnes' Keeping an Eye Open, Weekend Australian, May 30, 2015,
    Other | 2015
    Bishop SL, 2015, ‘The Same But Different’, review of Ben Lerner’s 10:04, Sydney Review of Books
    Other | 2013
    Bishop SL, 2013, Down on the Farm, The Times Literary Supplement,
    Other | 2013
    Bishop SL, 2013, ‘Horses for Courses’, Sydney Review of Books, Sydney,
    Other | 2012
    Bishop SL, 2012, ‘Mysterious Ways’, TLS - Times Literary Supplement, London,
    Other | 2011
    Bishop SL, 2011, ‘Celebrity Watch in Byron’, The Australian, Sydney,
    Other | 2011
    Bishop SL, 2011, ‘Circles of Age’, TLS - Times Literary Supplement, London,
    Other | 2011
    Bishop SL, 2011, ‘English Ways’, TLS - Times Literary Supplement, London,
    Other | 2011
    Bishop SL, 2011, ‘Shouting in the Kitchen’, The Australian, Sydney,
    Other | 2011
    Bishop SL, 2011, ‘That Sunday Feeling’, TLS - Times Literary Supplement, London,
    Other | 2011
    Bishop SL, 2011, ‘The Nearness of Heartbreak’, The Australian, Sydney,
    Other | 2010
    Bishop SL, 2010, ‘Besotted With Pain’, TLS - Times Literary Supplement, London,
    Other | 2010
    Bishop SL, 2010, ‘Treachery in Mobile’, TLS - Times Literary Supplement, London,

2016 ÌýÌý Winner Literary Fiction Book of the Year, Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA), The ÌýÌýOther Side of the World

2016 ÌýÌý Shortlisted for the INDIE Book Awards, The Other Side of the World

2016ÌýÌýÌý Longlisted for the Colin Roderick Award, The Other Side of the World

2015 ÌýÌýÌýWinner of Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction, The Other Side of the World

2015 ÌýÌýÌýLonglisted for the Stella Prize, The Other Side of the World

2015 ÌýÌý The Other Side of the World chosen as a Book of the year for: The Independent, The Express, The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, Booktopia, Good Reading

2015 ÌýÌýÌýShortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, The Other Side of the World

2014 ÌýÌýÌýShortlisted for the Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award, The Other Side of the World

2014 ÌýÌý Recipient of an Emerging Writer’s Grant for New Work ($40000) from the

Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts.

2010ÌýÌýÌý Recipient of an Asialink Writing Residency (undertaken in 2011)

2009ÌýÌýÌý Recipient of a Developing Writer’s Grant for New Work ($25000) from the

Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts to support the development of my second novel, The Other Side of the World

Judge for the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize (Overland Magazine

Co-Coordinator of ÁñÁ«¹ÙÍø’s Intermedial Composition and Creative Practice Research Cell: Poetics, Process and Polyphony

Co-ordinator of the ÁñÁ«¹ÙÍø Postgraduate Writers’ GroupÌý

Co-ordination of ÁñÁ«¹ÙÍøriting (2012)
ÁñÁ«¹ÙÍø representative for the Sydney Writers’ Festival (2012)
Judge for the Lionel Bowen Young Writers Award (2012)

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My Teaching

Stephanie teaches widely in the area of contemporary literature and creative writing. She lectures on the short story form, the Anglo-American novel and the composition of the novel.

Courses Convened:
ARTS1010 The Life of Words
ARTS3051 Fiction Writing