Reading Tim Winton

by Richard Rossiter (Editor/Introduction), Lyn Jacobs (Editor)

This study includes essays by academics which cover the major aspects of Tim Winton's writing - his interest in place, the spiritual, childhood, history and gender roles. The book also includes an insight into Winton's own beliefs, especially about the practice of writing. Tim Winton's first book was the Vogel-winning "Open Swimmer", followed by "Shallows" (Miles Franklin Award), "Scission", "That Eye the Sky", "Minimum of Two", "In the Winter Dark", "Jesse", "Lockie Leonard Human Torpedo", "Cloud Street" and "Bugalugs Bum Thief".

300 pages, Paperback

First published August 18, 1993

About the author

Richard Rossiter lives in Perth, Western Australia, and is an Associate Professor at Edith Cowan University. For several years he lived in a bush dwelling in the south-west of the state where he wrote full-time.

Richard has taught literature and supervised postgraduate creative writing students, as well as judged numerous literary and writing awards (including the WA Premier’s Book Awards).

Rossiter has published 3 books with UWAP; his most recent novel Refuge (2019) as well as Arryhthmia: Stories of Desire (UWA Publishing, 2009) and Thicker Than Water (2014). He judges the Margaret River Short Story Competition, and has edited the short story collections: The Trouble with Flying and other stories (2014); Knitting and other stories (2013); and Things That Are Found in Trees and other stories (2012). He is a consultant editor for Papers and has been the fiction editor for Indigo and Westerly.