Patrick Allington

Patrick Allington. Adelaide based writer, editor and critic

About Patrick Allington

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Patrick Allington's debut novel, Figurehead, was published by Black Inc. in 2009. Figurehead was longlisted for the 2010 Miles Franklin Award. His short fiction has appeared in Meanjin, Griffith Review, Southerly and elsewhere. At the 2010 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, he was awarded the Barbara Hanrahan Fellowship. In 2010, Patrick was invited to writers' festivals in Darwin, Sydney, Salisbury (Adelaide) and Ubud.

As a book critic, Patrick's interests include fiction, current affairs, culture, biography and history. His critical writings appear regularly in Australian Book Review and The Advertiser (Adelaide), and have appeared in The Monthly, The Weekend Australian and elsewhere. Patrick was inaugural fiction editor of the Melbourne-based literary magazine, Etchings.

He has a Masters in Politics and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide. Currently, he is both Research Assistant to the University of Adelaide's Creative Writing Program and Commissioning Editor at the University of Adelaide Press. He has previously taught in both Politics and English at the University of Adelaide, and has conducted writing and editing workshops. He worked for many years in the book retail industry, most recently at Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers.

Patrick lives in Adelaide, a place he both loves and loves complaining about.