Steve Evans
Author's name:
Steve Evans
Author description:
Steve Evans was born in Adelaide and raised both there and in a number of South Australian country towns. He teaches writing at Flinders University, conducts writing workshops in the community, and is a freelance editor. Steve is a widely published writer passionately involved with his craft, and particularly keen on working with developing writers in prose and poetry. He has written eleven books, including six of his own poetry. In 2008, he was the recipient of the Barbara Hanrahan Fellowship, awarded to complete his seventh collection of poems.
Latest book:
Best of Friends: The First Thirty Years of Friendly Street Poets
Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 2008
If you are going to start Australia's longest running series of community poetry readings, here’s a successful recipe: choose a disused fireworks factory as your venue; hold the initial reading on the day that the Governor General sacks the government; and call it Friendly Street. A night at Friendly Street can expose the audience to remarkable new work, the readings sometimes bristling with exchanges between poet and audience. Friendly Street still burns with a passion to keep its public readings and its publication of poetry going strong, and this book presents the history and the poetry of that organisation.
Sample bibliography:
Balancing Act: The Creative Writing Pathway to Understanding Accounting
Emerald Publishing, London, 2007
Taking Shape
Five Islands Press, Wolongong, 2004
Another Universe: Friendly Street Reader 28
Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 2004
Luminous Fruit
Bookend Books, Adelaide, 2003
Lift Off!: An Introductory Course in Creative Writing
Ginninderra Press, Adelaide, 2003
Genres:
Essays/articles, Literary fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry
Contact author:
Steve Evans
Email: Steve.Evans@flinders.edu.au
Phone: +61 (8) 8272 3810
Address: 6 Garwood Street, Hawthorn SA 5062
Available for:
school visits, workshops, mentoring, speaking engagements
The SA Writers' Centre is assisted by the South Australian Government through Arts SA, and the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory bodies.