Seth Robinson is a writer, producer, and academic. He is the author of Welcome to Bellevue (2020) the first full-length novel in Grattan Street Press’s original fiction collection. His work has featured in Kill Your Darlings, The Saturday Paper, Everything All at Once (The Ultimo Prize Anthology), Resilience (The Mascara Literary Review 15th anniversary collection), Aurealis Magazine, Meniscus, [untitled], Intermissions (the GSP Flash Fiction Anthology), and the University of Sydney Anthology, among others.
Seth received a Master of Creative Writing, Publishing and Editing from the University of Melbourne in 2018. He completed a Bachelor of Arts at the Australian National University (ANU) in 2014.
About
Artist portrait courtesy of Breeana Dunbar, 2021
Now, he is in the final stages of his PhD (Creative Writing) at the University of Sydney, working on a project that considers questions of creativity, writing practice, and how authors might engage with the ‘grand challenges’. This project includes an exegesis, and his next novel, The Garden.
At any given time, Seth is likely to have half-a-dozen projects in the works—which has led to his exploration of creating within many mediums. This has included producing, co-creating and hosting podcasts, such as the Australian Podcast Award-winning Women are the Business, working as a producer at a commercial radio station, and freelancing as a music journalist. His byline has featured in publications such as Beat, the Brag, Vulture, BMA Magazine, and inthemix.
Seth is currently the creative producer for the Melbourne Public Humanities Initiative, and the Australian hub for the UK’s Being Human festival. He works as a Lecturer in the University of Melbourne’s Executive Master of Arts and creative writing programs, and sits on the board of Going Down Swinging, one of Australia’s oldest and most respected literary journals.
The rest of Seth’s time is dictated by the household alpha dog, his Cavoodle, Swayze.