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Camilla Nelson is Associate Professor of Writing, University of Notre Dame Australia. She is also a novelist whose work includes Perverse Acts, for which she was named as one of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Australian Novelists of the Year, and Crooked, which was shortlisted in the 2009 Ned Kelly Awards.

Articles by Camilla

Six books that shock, delve deeply and destroy pieties

Young people – how they think and feel, and how families, schools, clinics and courts fail them – are a recurring theme in the six surprising and daring books shortlisted for the 2019 Stella Prize, writes Camilla Nelson.

A barbecue burger to relish

It’s not all scones and crochet at the Country Women’s Association any more. North Adelaide chapter president Shahnee Dack proves things have progressed with her public BBQ-friendly burger recipe.

William Faulkner’s typewriter in Mississippi. Photo: Visit Mississippi/Flickr

Scrounging for money: how famous writers made a living

As writers of both fact and fiction find it increasing tough to make a living, Camilla Nelson looks at the strange and sometimes dangerous jobs taken on by the world’s great authors to support their craft.