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Ms Gemma Parker
School of Humanities
College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities
Dr Gemma Parker is an Adjunct Fellow at Adelaide University. She recently published the creative-critical memoir The Mother is Restless and She Doesn't Know Why (Scribner, 2026). Gemma teaches Creative Writing, including poetry, personal essays, life-writing, and fiction. Gemma graduated with a PhD in Language and Literature in 2023, and has a Graduate Diploma of Teaching and Learning and a background in TESOL. She is one of the Managing Editors of the literary journal The Saltbush Review.
Varuna Residential Fellowship, NSW, 2025
Arts SA Grant for Individual Artist Project in Literature (2024)
SA Literary Emerging Writers Fellowship, SA, 2023
Arts SA Grant for The Saltbush Review (2023)
Adelaide City Council, Raining Poetry in Adelaide (2021)
Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship (2020-2023)
WRIT 1000: Creative Writing Essentials 1: Prose, Poetry, Performance (Tutor: Semester 1, 2026)
CRWR 2018: Experimental Writing: Games, Constraints, and AI (Course Coordinator, Lecturer, and Tutor, Semester 2, 2025)
CRWR 3008: Advanced Creative Practice: Form, Theory, Process (Course Coordinator, Workshop Convenor, Semester 2, 2025)
CRWR3009: Truth & Lies: Lyric Essay, Life Writing, Reportage (Course Coordinator, Lecturer, and Tutor, Semester 1, 2025)
CRWR 2018: Experimental Writing: Games, Constraints, and AI (Course Coordinator, Lecturer, and Tutor, Semester 2, 2024)
ENGL 1101: Introduction to English Literature (Tutor, Semester 1, 2024)
CRWR 3009: Truth & Lies: Lyric Essay, Life Writing, Reportage (Tutor, Semester 1, 2024)
CRWR2016: Narrative - Where the Story Starts (Tutor: Semester 1, 2023)
ENGL 1112: Writing and Composition (Tutor: Semester 2, 2022)
CRWR1001: Creative Writing: The Essentials (Tutor: Semester 2, 2021)
ENGL 2041: The Sixties: From the Beats to the Bongs (Tutor: Semester 1, 2021)
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