2011/08/30

Craig Cormick

Craig Cormick

Craig Cormick in an Australian science communicator and award-winning author. He was born a twin in Wollongong in 1961, and is known for his creative writing and social research into public attitudes towards new technologies.

He has lived mainly in Canberra, but has also lived overseas in Iceland (1980–81) and Finland (1984–85). He has published 15 books of fiction and non-fiction, as well as numerous articles in refereed journals.

Cormick's creative writing has appeared in most of Australia's literary journals including Southerly, Westerly, Island, , The Phoenix Review, Overland, Scarp, 4W, Redoubt, Block, as well as in overseas publications including Silverfish New Writing (Malaysia) and Foreign Literature No 6 (China). He has previously been an editor of the radical arts magazine Blast, and his writing awards include the ACT Book of the Year Award in 1999 and a Queensland Premier's Award in 2006. As a science communicator he has represented the Australian Government at many international science forums including APEC and OECD conferences, presenting on issues relating to public concerns about new technologies.

Literary career

Craig Cormick began writing very young while still at school and went on to study journalism and creative writing at the University of Canberra - both areas which he continues to work in - with stints at the Canberra School of Art, the University of Iceland and Helsinki University. He subsequently returned to the University of Canberra to study languages, public relations and sociology, undertake a Masters in Communications and then completed a PhD in Creative Communications at Deakin University in 2007.

He has been active in the Canberra writing community, teaching and editing, was Chair of the ACT Writers Centre for several years, from 2003 to 2008, and in 2006 was Writer in Residence at the University of Science in Penang, Malaysia.

Despite winning many writing awards and being widely published in literary journals, his first books were self-published or picked up by micro-presses until Unwritten Histories was published by Aboriginal Studies Press in 1998. The book subsequently won the ACT Book of the Year Award and received wide and praising reviews, encouraging him to continue merging historical fact and fiction in his writing. His work is distinguished by a strong sense of satire, across themes that include exploration, isolation, duality and Ned Kelly (who appears at least once in each of his eight short story collections).

He has written and published, on average, one book a year since 1998 (not counting several unpublished manuscripts), including collections of short fiction, novels and non-fiction.

At the same time he has published scholarly articles on public attitudes to new technologies in publications including: NanoEthics, the International Journal of Biotechnology, Agricultural Science, Historia Ciencias Saude (Brazil) and Choices (USA). He also authored the Australian Government reports, Cloning Goes to the Movies, and What you really need to know about what the public really thinks about GM foods.

In 2008 he fulfilled "a life's dream" and travelled to Antarctica as an Antarctic Arts Fellow, visiting the three Australian stations on the continent, Casey, Davis and Mawson, publishing his experiences in In Bed with Douglas Mawson: travels around Antarctica, in 2011, which merges his two interests of science and creative writing.

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