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Angela Kingston PhD

Angie is an enthusiastic, flexible, ‘can do’ writer and teacher who offers a range of high quality, personalised services to meet specific needs.

 

She has worked as a primary, secondary and tertiary teacher and tutor, a writing coach and mentor, an editor, a researcher, a peer-reviewer and a writer-in-residence, for arts and education institutions including Writers SA, Carclew SA, Parkinsons SA, Wilderness School, Adelaide High School, Ocean View College, University of Adelaide, University of Tasmania, TasWriters and The Story Island Project.

 

 

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Angie has published essays, articles and a book (Oscar Wilde as a Character in Victorian Fiction, Palgrave Macmillan, New York). Her writing has won prizes, awards and scholarships, including the Flinders University Staff Prize, Anne Flaxman Prize, Richard Conyers Prize, PETA Prize, Flinders University/UCLA Exchange Scholarship, Australian Postgraduate Award, George Fraser Scholarship, D R Stranks Travelling Fellowship, Research Abroad Scholarship, Varuna Writing Retreat Fellowship and the Penguin Varuna Scholarship. She lives and works in beautiful Nipaluna/Hobart, Tasmania, on the unceded lands of the Muwinina people.

Oscar Wilde as a Character in Victorian Fiction

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  • #Radelaide: Stories from Adelaide High School (Editor), Adelaide: SA Writers Centre Publications (2014)

  • ‘A new memorial for Isola Wilde, Intentions 85 (August, 2013)

  • ‘Octave’s Oscar’, The Wildean 34 (January 2009)

  • Oscar Wilde as a Character in Victorian Fiction (book), New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2007)

  •  ‘Blueprints for a Barbed-Wire Canoe by Wayne Macauley’, Insight Outcomes English Year 12 CD-ROM 2005 (Mentone: Insight Publications, 2005)

  • ‘The Plague by Albert Camus’, Insight Outcomes English Year 12 CD-ROM 2004 (Mentone: Insight Publications, 2004)

  • ‘The Law According to Oscar Wilde’, The Wildean 22 (January 2003)

  • ‘Isola’s Ghost: A Long Lost Sister in Oscar Wilde’s Fairy Tales’, In-Between: Essays and Studies in Literary Criticism 10.2 (September 2001)

  • ‘The Child in Wilde’s Fairy Tales’, The Wildean 19 (July 2001)

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Awards

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  • 2018 Shortlisted for Impress (novel) Prize (Impress Books, UK)

  • 2018 Research Training Program Scholarship (The University of Adelaide)

  • 2013 Independent Makers and Presenters Project Grant (Arts SA)

  • 2012 Creative Industries Career Fund Grant (Copyright Agency)

  • 2012 Penguin Varuna Scholarship Winner (Penguin Books Australia & Varuna)

  • 2011 Writing Retreat Fellowship (Varuna, the National Writers House) 

  • 2005 Primary English Teaching Association [PETA] University Prize

  • 2002 D R Stranks Travelling Fellowship (Adelaide University)

  • 2000 Research Abroad Scholarship (Adelaide University)

  • 2000 George Fraser Scholarship (Adelaide University)

  • 2000 Australian Postgraduate Award (Adelaide University)

  • 2000 Richard Conyers Prize (Flinders University)

  • 1999 Chancellor’s Commendation (Flinders University)

  • 1999 Ann Flaxman Prize in English (Flinders University)

  • 1998 Dean’s Honors List, Winter Quarter (UCLA)

  • 1997 Dean’s Honors List, Fall Quarter (UCLA)

  • 1997 Exchange Program Scholarship (Flinders University/UCLA)

  • 1996 Staff Prize in English (Flinders University)

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Selected publications

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  • ‘Esperança, a Covid Lockdown Sestina Challenge (Poem),’ The Saltbush Review, Issue 2 (June 2022)

  • ‘Longford’s Tragic Oscar Wilde Connection,’ The Irish Independent (24 April 2018)

  • Ocean Views: An Anthology of Short Stories Written by Year 6, 7 and 8 Students at Ocean View College (Editor), Adelaide: Ocean View College/Griffin Press (December 2017)

  • ‘Oscar Wilde and the sister’s death that haunted his life and work,’ The Irish Times (15 February 2017)

  • ‘The Mystery of the Poet’s Heart,’ The Wildean 50 (January 2017)

  • ‘Devon Cox: The Street of Wonderful Possibilities: Whistler, Wilde and Sargent in Tite Street (Book review), The Wildean 49 (July 2016)

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