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Rose Allan,
a New Zealander, lives at Coolum Beach on the Sunshine Coast
of Queensland. She is a prizewinning
author and editor, and a highly skilled and experienced
writing tutor.
For the past 15 years she has
run a Writers Consultancy
specializing in empowering other writers and helping them to
bring their works to fruition. She is passionate about
writing that is honest and has the courage to dig deeply.
Her workshops:
‘Writing
from the Heart’, ‘Your
Story Matters' (Life
Writing), 'The
Art of the Short Story’ (Short Fiction) and
'Writing as
Therapy' are eagerly sought after.
Her teaching is informed by the breadth of her experience in
both writing and publishing: as editor for
medical and engineering journals; for Scholastic
Publications in London and for Off Campus Studies at Deakin
University; as a newspaper feature writer for the New
Zealand Herald and as literary editor for Boardwalk
Magazine.
She has taught English in secondary schools, Literacy at a
Technical Institute and Creative Writing at the University
of the Sunshine Coast.
Her two published books of
imaginative non-fiction: ‘Out of
this Whirlwind’ (Heinemann) and
‘Spirit of Noosa, Noosa National
Park’ (Spectrum Publications) combine word and
photographic image.
Her short stories and poetry are published nationally and
internationally in literary journals and have won a number
of awards.
In 2020 Rose Allan’s short story
The Pinch was published in the ‘Chicago Quarterly
Review’ v.30.
The following year, 2021, saw
her short story, The Bear on the Beach win ‘The Peter
Carey Short Fiction Award’. And longlisted for the
Commonwealth Writer’s Prize. |
