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 Australia Council for the Arts 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
Books
Losing Face – UQP, 2022
Populate and Perish – Brio, 2016
Peer-reviewed articles
Queerness, form and time – TEXT, 2021
Chapters in anthologies
Deep Water Parfum – Stories Out West, 2023
Uprooted – Second City, Sydney Review of Books, 2021
Fiction
Kátharsis – Overland issue 235, 2019
Broken Zippers – Overland issue 227, 2017
Teratoma – The Lifted Brow issue 31, 2016
Labour of Laugh – Seizure Magazine, 2016
Non-fiction
The Borrowers – Good Weekend, 2022
Self-portrait – Openbook, 2022
What the Cleaner Saw – Sydney Review of Books, 2022
What I’m Reading – Meanjin, 2022
Why I stopped going to the barber shop – Sydney Morning Herald, 2022
The Way the Wheel of Fortune Spins – Sydney Review of Books, 2021
Just Friends – Sydney Review of Books, 2020
Uprooted – Sydney Review of Books, 2020
Of Cyber Rats and Men – Runway Magazine, 2018
Queer Vessels – Runway Magazine, 2018
Lysergia review – Un Magazine, 2018
Publication
Art
Contact
georgehaddad1987@gmail.com
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