DrClaire Corbett
Lecturer
Discipline of Creative Writing
BIO
Claire Corbett studied film and writing at UTS and crewed on films, including Jane Campion's Sweetie and The Piano, before becoming a policy advisor in the NSW Government.
Claire has had stories, essays, reviews and journalism broadcast on Radio National and published in journals including: Picador New Writing, SMH, The Monthly, Griffith Review, Overland, Southerly, Antipodes, Science Fiction Film and Television and Best Australian Stories 2014 and 2015. She reviews books, often on the military, for The Australian.
Her first novel, When We Have Wings (Allen and Unwin), was shortlisted for the 2012 Barbara Jefferis Award and shortlisted for the 2012 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction and published overseas.
Watch Over Me, her second novel, was published by A and U in 2017.
Claire teaches Creative Writing with research and creative interests in Australian writing, speculative fiction, film, the oceans, war and the military.
Claire has had stories, essays, reviews and journalism broadcast on Radio National and published in journals including: Picador New Writing, SMH, The Monthly, Griffith Review, Overland, Southerly, Antipodes, Science Fiction Film and Television and Best Australian Stories 2014 and 2015. She reviews books, often on the military, for The Australian.
Her first novel, When We Have Wings (Allen and Unwin), was shortlisted for the 2012 Barbara Jefferis Award and shortlisted for the 2012 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction and published overseas.
Watch Over Me, her second novel, was published by A and U in 2017.
Claire teaches Creative Writing with research and creative interests in Australian writing, speculative fiction, film, the oceans, war and the military.
DEGREES
- PhDUniversity of Western Sydney, Richmond, Australia
- MA WritingUniversity of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
- BA CommunicationsUniversity of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
PROFILE TYPE
- Academic