Dr Nike Sulway
| Name | Nike Sulway |
|---|---|
| Position | Senior Lecturer (Creative Writing) |
| Section | School of Humanities and Communication |
| Office | Q211 |
| Location | Toowoomba Campus |
| Phone | +61 7 4631 1076 |
| Extension | 1076 |
| Qualifications | BA(Creative) Griffith , BA(Hons) Griffith , PhD Griffith |
Research interests
creative writing, queer writing, folk and fairy tales, nature writing, autobiography and memoir, biography
Professional memberships
Australian Fairy Tale Society (Vice President)
Australasian Association of Writing Programs (Executive Committee Member)
Australian Society of Authors
Queensland Writers Centre
Industry affiliations
Judge - Queensland Literary Awards
Judge - Bruce Dawe Poetry Prize
Judge - Sunshine Coast Literary Awards
Judge - Tiptree Fellowship (USA)
Currently teaching courses/programs
Semester One:
CWR1001 Writing Good Prose
CWR2001 Fairytales and Other Forms
CWR3001 Writing Speculative Fiction
HMT3001 Independent Study Project A
DCA9500 Research Methods in Creative Arts Practice
Semester Two:
CWR1002 Writing About People
CWR2002 Writing About Place
CWR3002 Poetry & Poetics
HMT3002 Independent Study Project B
DCA9500/9501 Creative Arts Practice & Exegesis
Teaching experience(Tertiary)
15 Years
Teaching experience(Other)
5 Years
Administrative responsibilities
Head of Creative and Critical Writing
Program Coordinator DCA (Doctor of Creative Arts)
Research most recent
Sulway, Nike. 'Death, dildoes and daffodils: a queer winter's tale' in TEXT. Special Issue No 36.
Sulway, Nike. 'Saltpan' in Meanjin. November 2015.
Sulway, Nike. 'Paper Boats' in TEXT. Special Issue No 30. December, 2015.
Sulway, Nike. 'Behind the green door: a story about suffering and hybrid identity in the 1950s and 1960s' in TEXT: Beyond Australia Queer Special Issue. November, 2015.
Sulway, Nike. 'The Karen Joy Fowler Book Club' in Lightspeed. October 2015.
Research most notable
Sulway, Nike. Dying in the First Person. 2016. Tartarus Press.
Sulway, Nike. Rupetta. Tartarus Press. 2013. Winner of the 2013 James Tiptree, Jr. Award; Winner of the 2014 Norma K. Hemming Award; Shortlisted for the 2014 Aurealis Awards; Runner-up (shortlisted) in the 2014 Crawford Memorial Award.
Sulway, Nike. What the Sky Knows. UQP, 2005. Shortlisted for two categories of the Children's Book Council of Australia Awards.
Bourke, N. A. The True Green of Hope. UQP, 2005.
Bourke, N. A. The Bone Flute. UQP, 2001. Winner QLD Premier's Literary Awards. Shortlisted Commonwealth Writer's Awards (Best First Book - Asia-Pacific Region).
Publications in ePrints
Sulway, Nike (2019) Pursuit, willfulness, and the strangeness of strangers. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 30 (1). pp. 42-51. ISSN 0897-0521
Gildersleeve, Jessica and Sulway, Nike (2019) The violent pacifist: ethics and disorder in Sarah Waters' The Paying Guests. English, 68 (260). pp. 67-88. ISSN 0013-8215
Sulway, Nike and Hawryluk, Lynda and Costello, Moya (2019) Writing and researching (in) the regions. TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses (Special issue 54). pp. 1-7.
Sulway, Nike (2018) David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. Going Down Swinging. ISSN 0157-3950
Sulway, Nike (2018) 'His unspoken natural centre': James Tiptree Jr as the 'Other I'. Writing From Below, 4 (1). pp. 1-9. ISSN 2202-2546