Dr Amy Matthews
Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing
College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Amy T. Matthews is an award winning novelist who also writes historical romance under the name Tess LeSue. She is the Chair of Writers SA and a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing. Her novel End of the Night Girl (Wakefield Press, 2011) won the Adelaide Festival Unpublished Manuscript Award, and was shortlisted for the Dobbie Literary Award and the Colin Roderick Award. Her book-length exegesis Navigating the Kingdom of Night (University of Adelaide Press, 2013) is a landmark text in Australian exegetical writing.Amy's scholarly work is on Holocaust representation and Feminism, Race and Romance. Tess LeSue's novel Bound for Eden (HarperCollins/MIRA, 2016) was shortlisted for the Romance Writers of Australia EmeraldPRO Award and her 'Frontiers of the Heart' series will be published internationally by Penguin Random House in 2018.
PhD, Creative Writing (2007), University of Adelaide
First Class Honours, Creative Writing (2002), University of Adelaide
BA, Communications and Film & Electronic Media (1998), University of South Australia
BA, History and English (1995), University of Adelaide
Literary Awards
2016 Two Steps on the Water, Special Mention, Adelaide Festival Wakefield Prize
2015 Bound for Eden (under the name Tess LeSue), Shortlisted, RWA's EmeraldPRO Award
2012 End of the Night Girl, Shortlisted, Nita B Kibble Dobbie Award
2012 End of the Night Girl, Shortlisted, Colin Roderick Literary Award
2011 End of the Night Girl, listed in Australian Book Review's Best Books of 2011
2011 End of the Night Girl, The Advertiser's Sensational Debut of 2011
2010 Winner, Adelaide Festival Unpublished Manuscript Award
2009 Lady Grace (under the name Tess LeSue),Anna Campbell Award
2009 Bound for Eden (under the name Tess LeSue),Runner-up, Romance Writers' of Australia STALI Award
2006 Longlisted, The Australian/Vogel Literary Award
2003 Shortlisted, EJ Brady Short Story Prize
Academic and Teaching Honours and Awards
2012-2015 Research Fellow, University of Adelaide
2012 Title of John Howard Clark Scholar, University of Adelaide
2009 Certificate of Recognition for Outstanding Student Feedback in Teaching & Learning,
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Adelaide
2002 John Howard Clark Prize (Honours English/Creative Writing), University of Adelaide
2003-2006 Australian Postgraduate Award
1996-1998 Dean's Merit List, University of South Australia
Memberships and Other Roles
Chair, Writers SA
Member, JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice
Member, Australasian Association of Writing Programs
Member, Romance Writers of Australia
Member, Romance Writers of America
Short story writing
Script writing
Australian Fiction
Genre Fiction
Romance
Historical Fiction
Contemporary Fiction
Literary Fiction
Film & Television
Writing about place
Raunch culture & Hypersexuality
Creative Writing
The Novel
Short Stories
Holocaust representation in fiction
Historical fiction
Contemporary Fiction
Literary Fiction
Australian Fiction
Genre Fiction
Romance
Writing about place
Literary theory/criticism
Feminism and representation
- Chair, Writers SA
- Co-convenor, 2016 Romance Writers of Australia / Flinders University Love and Romance conference
- Member, JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice
- Editorial Board, Writers In Conversation (Journal)
- Advisory Board, Flinders Institute for Research into the Humanities
- 2013, 2014, 2015 Panel Chair at several Adelaide Festival Writers' Week sessions
- Board, SA Writers Centre
- 2012-2013 Deputy Chair, SA Writers Centre
- 2009-2012 Board member, SA Writers Centre
- 2005-2009 Judge, Gawler Library National Short Story Competition
- Creative Writing
- Holocaust Representation
- Romance
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