Australian journalist and best-selling author Trent Dalton will be conferred as an Honorary Fellow at the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) today (25 September) at its Toowoomba campus.
Dalton says the Fellowship prompted him to reflect on his journey and career since he first stepped onto the campus in the 1990s.
“The past five years of my life in particular have been extraordinary, and I need to honour the 18-year-old who was going to UniSQ,” he says. “He was so lost, but so hopeful and so optimistic. He’d come out the back end of some really brutal and kind of bizarre teenage years, but that guy would be so proud of 45-year-old me.”
Thuy On is the Reviews and Literary Editor of ArtsHub and an arts journalist, critic and poet who’s written for a range of publications including The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Sydney Review of Books, The Australian, The Age/SMH and Australian Book Review. She was the Books Editor of The Big Issue for 8 years and a former Melbourne theatre critic correspondent for The Australian.
Her debut, a collection of poetry called Turbulence, came out in 2020 and was released by University of Western Australia Publishing (UWAP). Her second collection, Decadence, was published in July 2022, also by UWAP. Her third book, Essence, will be published in 2025.
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