Amanda Curtin

Name Amanda Curtin
Email Address acurtin@highway1.com.au
Profession Writer, book editor
Professional Services
  • Editing
  • Talks
  • Workshop presentation
Areas of Work
  • Biography
  • Children's
  • Fiction
  • History
  • Nonfiction
  • Picture books
Country Australia
State WA
Phone 9377 2091
Biography Amanda writes fiction, and is a freelance editorial consultant with 25 years' experience: structural editing and copyediting for fiction (adult and junior), general non-fiction, academic, picture books. She has a PhD in Writing, and has won the University of Canberra National Short Story Award (joint winner), the Patricia Hackett Prize for best contribution to Westerly, the Katharine Susannah Prichard Short Fiction Award, and the Lee Steere History Prize.
Publication History Novel: The Sinkings, UWA Press, 2008. Short fiction: in Indigo, Island, Southerly, Westerly. Essays: in Island, Early Days. Writing Your Place in History (information booklet for writingWA).