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Patrick Flanery

Chair in Creative Writing, University of Adelaide

Chair in Creative Writing, University of Adelaide Patrick Flanery is Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide. Prior to joining Adelaide, he was Professor at the University of Reading, and subsequently Professor and Director of Creative Writing at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of the novels 'Night for Day' (2019), 'I Am No One' (2016), 'Fallen Land' (2013) and 'Absolution' (2012), which was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize, among others. In 2019 he published a volume of creative nonfiction, 'The Ginger Child: On Family, Loss and Adoption'. His creative and critical work has appeared in 'Granta', 'Zoetrope: All Story', 'The Hopkins Review', 'The Times Literary Supplement', 'The Washington Post', 'The Guardian', 'The Los Angeles Times', and 'The Spectator', among others. He has held fellowships at MacDowell, the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, the Santa Maddalena Foundation, and the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study.