Resume

Peter Dickison is a writer and editor with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Creative Writing from Macquarie University, where he was a Merit Scholar, graduating with straight-High Distinctions and the Faculty of Arts Highest Achieving Student Commendation. He also completed the Writing major at the University of Newcastle, where he received a Faculty Commendation for Outstanding Academic Achievement and the Vice-Chancellor’s Honours Scholarship. Peter was shortlisted for the Monash Prize (2015), was a fiction editor of The Quarry journal, and his short fiction has appeared in literary journal Southerly. His particular academic interests are in the study of narrative, the novel, dramatic story structure, myth, commercial vs. literary fiction, Gothic fiction, genre fiction, and cognition of narrative space.

Peter has also been an officer in the Australian Army, professional photographer with The Network Agency, and staff writer at technology website bit-tech.net, with his photography and computer projects appearing in many publications including: Rolling Stone, Vogue, FHM, Max, Oyster, CPU, Atomic, Custom PC, Digital Hotrods, Forbes, The AFR, and on TV’s Mythbusters.