Ronnie Scott

Ronnie Scott is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at RMIT University. His first novel, The Adversary, was shortlisted for a Queensland Literary Award and the ALS Gold Medal, and his second novel, Shirley, was published 2023. ronnniescott.au Photo: Leah Jing McIntosh.

Works By Ronnie Scott

What Is It Like to Be a Book?
Modern experiments in fiction writing have long convinced us that consciousness flows like a stream, but is it true of animals or AI? Ronnie Scott explores the range of narrative techniques used by writers from Lucy Ellmann to Octavia Butler to ap...
30 Nov. 2023
Sex and the Single Subject Position
What do people think they’re doing when they’re writing novels? I’ve never found an answer that feels completely satisfying.
9 Oct. 2022
Cookbooks of the Damned
While ideas don’t change all at once, they don’t just change alone, and some wave of slow change has been moving through the world, stripping the vegan of their ascetic tone and dressing them in liveliness, industriousness and fun. Like the pilot,...
22 Nov. 2018

Ronnie Scott

Works By Ronnie Scott

What Is It Like to Be a Book?

Sex and the Single Subject Position

Cookbooks of the Damned

Works Featuring Ronnie Scott

Against Lifestyle

Just Friends