Steve Evans

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.

 

Other Books:
Balancing Act: The Creative Writing Pathway to Understanding Accounting
Emerald Publishing, London, 2007
Taking Shape
Five Islands Press, Wolongong, 2004

Genres:

• essays/articles
• literary fiction
• nonfiction
• poetry

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Phone: +61 (8) 8272 3810 

Available for:

• mentoring
• readings
• school visits
• speaking engagements
• workshops