Academic Status
College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
2024 ‘Hebe’s Lament,’ Creative Prose 1st Prize, AAALS (American Association Australasian Literary Studies)
2024 Longlisted FISH Flash Fiction: ‘Family Violence’
2024 Longlisted FISH Flash Fiction: ‘Thanks. No.’
2022 ‘An ‘Indecent Proposal’ & ‘Lydia & Clytie’, Honourable Mention and Runner-Up HM, ICSSE (International Short Story in English), Short Story Competition.
2022 Shortlisted, WAM, Write Around the Murray, Short Story Award
2019 Longlisted, FISH Short Memoir Prize, The Yellow Scarf.'
2017 Meanjin’s Best Fiction, ‘M.’
2016 Longlisted for Best Australian Stories 2016 (Black Inc)
2016 Shortlisted and second place for UK Residency, International Short Story Writer, Wonder Short Story Festival, Charleston
2016 Shortlisted, FISH Short Memoir Prize
2015 ‘The Abduction of Ganymede’, Australia’s Best Short Stories 2015
2013 Shortlisted Allen and Unwin, Varuna Fellowship
2009 Part-time Teaching Award, Humanities, Flinders University
2008 Selected Flinders University Internship Program
2007 Joint-Winner of Prize for Best Postgraduate Paper, AAWP (Australian Association of writing Programs) Annual Conference, University Canberra.
2007 Airfare Donated by CAL to present 'Performance Anxieties in the Preface: The Historical-Fiction-Writer as Cheerful Whore' at ASAL (Association for Study Australian Literature) Annual Conference, University of Queensland.
2007 Nominee, Davitt Award (Australian Women’s Crime Fiction)
2007 One of Six Finalists, People’s Choice Awards: SA Writers’ Festival [Cleanskin]
2005 Flinders University, URB Visiting Research Fellow Grant: Ireland ($3,000)
2005 Australian Postgraduate Award, Flinders University
2002 Short-Listed: Adelaide Festival of Arts Literature Award for New Manuscript ['Intent']
2000: Eva Sallis Master Class (1999-2000) [Cleanskin]
Adjunct Lecturer, Department English, Creative Writing & Australian Studies, Flinders University
Creative Writing, Historical Fiction, Prose Fiction, Australian Children's Fiction, English Canon
From 2004-2013, Gay Lynch taught across 20 English and creative writing topicsParticular interest in projects on: