Patrick Allington

Patrick Allington is a writer, editor and researcher. His books are the novels Rise & Shine (Scribe) and Figurehead (Black Inc.) and the textbook Making the Grade (OUP). His essays, short fiction and criticism have appeared widely. He works at the University of South Australia and is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Creative and Performing Arts at Flinders University.

Works By Patrick Allington

The Lived Experience of Reading
The act of reading does not guarantee prompt action, or any action, or the right action. It does not guarantee a particular outcome – or even the first step towards one. It does not turn readers into good people, any more than writing a book means...
2 Mar. 2023
All Futures Are Possible
These two speculative works offer visions of the future in which the earth is devastated. Each involves humans living disrupted, transformed lives – defying or redefining extinction, carrying on, muddling through.
4 Dec. 2022
Other Ways of Living
Summertime makes plain what we ought not need to be told: we are already living in the dreaded future, and that this dreaded future already forms part of our past.
25 Sept. 2022
To Be or Not To Be A Tree
These days, I gravitate to strange writing – or writing, at least, that I perceive as strange. It has become the defining criteria by which I gauge my interest in a book and judge its qualities.
13 June. 2022
The Personal Landscape
Probert gives impossibly big and broad questions a usable, necessarily narrow focus by asking these questions through the perspective of one person as migrant gardener.
6 Feb. 2022
Freewheeling Futures
Sometimes she is a well-ordered educator: to tell you B, I must first tell you A. Sometimes she is like a friend telling tall tales at the pub, three pints in. Sometimes she is a preacher. Sometimes she is a contextualist, filling in history’s gap...
3 Nov. 2021
‘No Award’: The Miles Franklin in 1973
No award' was the determination of the judges of the 1973 Miles Franklin Award. This decision, writes Patrick Allington, 'offers a misleading snapshot of the state of Ozlit in 1973 – but it is an accurate reflection of a low point in the history o...
1 Aug. 2017

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Patrick Allington

Works By Patrick Allington

The Lived Experience of Reading

All Futures Are Possible

Other Ways of Living

To Be or Not To Be A Tree

The Personal Landscape

Freewheeling Futures

‘No Award’: The Miles Franklin in 1973