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Dr Rose Michael
Dr Rose Michael is Senior Lecturer in Writing & Publishing and Program Manager of the Bachelor of Arts (Creative Writing) in RMIT's School of Media and Communication.
Rose is a writer, editor and academic who has been published in Griffith Review, Best Australian Stories, Island, Cultural Studies Review, Review of Australian Fiction, Sydney Review of Books, Meanjin etc. Her first novel, The Asking Game (Transit Lounge), was a runner-up for the Vogel award and received an Aurealis honourable mention. An early extract from her second, The Art of Navigation (UWA Publishing), was shortlisted for a Conjure award.
She has received numerous grants: from the Copyright Agency Limited (2010 and 2017), Australia Council for the Arts (2012), Arts Victoria (2009), and the City of Melbourne (2007); for an Australian Research Council Linkage Project (2007–11); as well as a University of Melbourne Publication Subsidy (2006).
Rose brings extensive professional experience as a trade publisher to her work in the Bowen Street Press and loves the opportunity RMIT provides for her to teach across the writing and publishing programs.
Read Rose’s publications: on Academia.edu, Google Scholar or ResearchGate.
- Lecturer, Writing and Publishing
- Supervisor, Honours and Higher Degree Research students
- Member, non/fictionLab; founding member, novelLab
Public engagement
- Books+Publishing, Meanjin, Overland, The Conversation
- 3CR, 3RRR, Albury Writers Festival, Bendigo Writers Festival, Clunes Book Town, Eastern Regional Libraries, Emerging Writers Festival, InnerFM, Melbourne Writers Festival, Newcastle Writers Festival, New Voices Festival, NSW Speculative Fiction Festival, Perth Writers Festival, Salisbury Writers Festivals, Speculate Literary Festival, Sydney Writers Festival, The Book podcast, The Morningbell podcast, Wheeler Centre, Write around the Murray, Writers at the Convent.
- Bachelor of Arts (Hons), University of Melbourne
- Master of Arts, University of Technology, Sydney
- PhD, University of Western Australia
Awards
- 2023 Media & Communication Research Committee Commendation for Collaboration
- 2023 College Award for Research Engagement and Impact (ECR)
- 2022 College Reward & Recognition for Innovative Use of Digital Technologies
- 2022 Dean’s Award for Innovation, Adaption & Resilience
- 2021–22 Career Reignite Funding
- 2019 Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Strategic Contributions to Learning & Teaching
- 2016 Dean’s Award for Integrated Scholarship for the Bowen Street Press
Memberships
- Association for the Study of Literature, Environment & Culture (Australia & New Zealand)
- Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP)
- Australian Society of Authors (ASA)
- Institute of Professional Editors Limited (IPEd)
Writing residencies
- 2023 Bundanon, Artist in Residence
- 2023 Varuna, Residential Fellowship
- 2020 Sarah Sentilles, The Word Cave
- 2019 Vermont College of Fine Arts, Postgraduate Writers’ Conference
- 2018 The Writer’s Hotel, NYC
- Michael, R.,Donnar, G. (2023). Crosshatch Fantasy: Unsettling Portals, Crisis Heterotopias, and Comings-of-Age In: The Palgrave Handbook of Global Fantasy, Springer, Switzerland
- Ash, R.,Michael, R. (2023). A Third Space: Giving Voice to Works in Progress In: Sydney Review of Books Sydney, Australia
- Michael, R. (2022). I am & not – Elizabeth. In: Made by History United States
- Michael, R. (2022). Genetic Drift In: Antipodes Michigan, US
- Vigna, J.,Michael, R.,Russon, P. (2022). My COVID teacher – pedagogy and technology: Frontiers of online teaching in the creative writing classroom In: Text, 26, 1 - 15
- Michael, R. (2021). The Ninch In: Meanjin Autumn 2021 Melbourne, Australia
- Michael, R.,Rawson, J. (2021). Reading Crises, Writing Crisis In: Reading Like an Australian Writer Sydney
- Michael, R.,McKinnon, C. (2021). In Conversation, A Speculation In: Sydney Review of Books Sydney
- Michael, R. (2020). Peripheral Publishing: the Possibilities of Marginal Models In: c i n d e r, 3, 1 - 12
- Ballard, S.,Brasier, H.,Buck, S.,Carlin, D.,Langley, S.,Lobb, J.,Magner, B.,McKinnon, C.,Michael, R.,Murray, P.,Rendle-Short, F.,Strahan, L.,Taylor, S. (2020). We thought we knew what summer was In: Axon: Creative Explorations Canberra, Australia
4 PhD Completions5 PhD Current Supervisions and 1 Masters by Research Current Supervisions
- NovelLab. Funded by: Creative Victoria - Creators Fund Grant 2017 onwards from (2022 to 2023)
- Intensively Editing 'Else'. Funded by: City of Melbourne Arts Grant from (2022 to 2022)
- Great Writing: The International Creative Writing Conference in London. Funded by: Capstone Editing Carer's Travel Grant for Academic Women from (2020 to 2020)
- Vermont College of Fine Arts Postdoctoral Writers Conference. Funded by: TACU - Early Career Conference - Grant from (2019 to 2019)
- The Writer's Hotel. Funded by: Ignite Career Fund 2017, Round 2 from (2018 to 2018)