David Sornig

David Sornig writes fiction, memoir, essays and criticism. His novel, Spiel, was published by UWAP in 2009. He reviews books for The Adelaide Review, was a fiction editor for Wet Ink and has taught creative writing and literary studies at Deakin University, Victoria University, Flinders University and the University of Melbourne. In 2008–09, he was the Charles Pick Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia and in 2011 and 2012 was awarded grants by the Australia Council, Arts SA and Arts Victoria. In 2015, he received a State Library of Victoria Creative Fellowship and was a finalist in the Melbourne Prize for Literature Writers Prize for the essay ‘Jubilee: A hymn for Elsie Williams on Dudley Flats’.

 

Articles

Flinch

FictionSociety is concerned to tame the Photograph, to temper the madness which keeps threatening to explode in the face of whoever looks at it. – Roland BarthesI am writing blindly. – Dmitry Kolesnikov in a note to his wife from the...

Five acts of friendship

MemoirTo fall in love is to create a religion with a fallible god. – BorgesAct I – THE Polish Girl (1986): The Polish girl is dead, so she is not at the centre of this story. But, like Stephen Jay Gould's...

Sunday Sunday

Fiction‘Politics is the art of shifting trouble from the living to the unborn.’– George Monbiot‘...let no man talk to me of these and the like expedients, ’till he hath at least some glympse of hope, that there will ever be some hearty...

Gift to Sebastiano

FictionTHE TAILOR WAS always awed by the sight of a stranger returning from the lawless world of sleep so, having only just set eyes on him for the first time, he had many questions for the prone figure of...

The lords of time

GR OnlineTHOMAS MORE'S UTOPIA 1516 was recently claimed as the most influential fiction in history, that it had worked its way out of simply being the map of an imagined political order and into the actual territory of the present....

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