George

Haddad

Photo by Joy M Lai

Author

Artist

Academic

Dr George Haddad is an award-winning writer, artist and academic practising on Gadigal land. His novella, Populate and Perish, was the winner of the 2016 Viva La Novella competition and his short story Kátharsis was awarded the 2018 Neilma Sidney Prize. George’s novel, Losing Face, was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award, the Small Press Network’s Book of the Year, and The Readings Prize. In 2023 he was named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist. He is a lecturer at the Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney University. George’s text, sound, performance and installation based art has been exhibited at Firstdraft, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, ReadingRoom and Metro Arts.




Teaching

2020 ­­– present: Undergraduate and postgraduate creative writing lecturer/tutor/subject coordinator, School of Humanities and Communication Arts – WSU


2022: Course developer and facilitator of ‘Reading and Writing the Queer self’ – Varuna


2022: The Writing Zone mentor – Writing and Society Research Centre


2021: Course developer and facilitator of ‘The Writer's Process: Queer Backyards’ – Varuna


2021: The Writing Zone mentor – Writing and Society

Research Centre


Judging

2023 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards


2022 Queensland Literary Awards – Glendower Award


2022 Scribe Varuna Fellowship


2021 Queensland Literary Awards – Glendower Award


Research

Masculinities, shame, suburbia, contemporary Australian literature



Art