DR SHELLEY O'REILLY

PhD in English: "The Articulate Heart: Christina Rossetti, DG Rossetti, William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelite Poetry of Love", University of Tasmania.

Taught Creative Writing and English at university and TAFE prior to embarking on career as secondary teacher.

Writer of poetry, short stories and novels.

If I Had a Wooden Ruler and Other Poems

Dying for Beauty (short stories)

Current project: Overwintering (a novel about King Island).

Writer-in-residence, King Island.

Writer-in-residence, New Norfolk High School.

Curated The Poetry in Motion Project (poems on buses in Hobart).

Experienced English Literature and Creative Writing teacher.

• TRB: #24756
• Working with Vulnerable People: #009352852
• Driver’s Licence: #5708558

Experienced educator with creative drive.

Highly qualified. Eighteen years teaching in secondary schools, previously university and TAFE sector teacher of English/Creative Writing and Humanities subjects.

Extensive experience as external marker for TASC and VCAA (Victoria.) Marked English Literature Folios and Exams (2023). Marked English Literature Folios and Sociology examinations for TASC (2022).

Published range of study guides for both students and teachers of Years 11-12 English subjects. Coordinated teaching of ten Year 12 English classes in previous position in Victoria.

Hobbies

I wrangle cats, hens and bees, and enjoy caravanning, gardening, and Tasmanian history.

Referees

Mr Ryan Kinder

Principal

Bothwell District High School

M: 0400 522284

E: ryan.kinder@decyp.tas.gov.au

Ms Ruth Ferguson

Assistant Principal

Eastside Lutheran College

M: 0411 740588

E: ruth.ferguson@elc.tas.edu.au

Mrs Margaret Saltau

Educational Consultant and Teacher

Phone: 0411 066270

Email: marg.saltau@gmail.com

• Delivery of numerous seminars and workshops for teachers and students.
• External assessor tests such as the NAPLAN, the GAT and the English and Literature examinations.
• Publication of education study guides including dozens of Bookgroup guides for the Centre for Adult Education in Tasmania and Victoria.
• Study guide published by Cambridge University Press.
• Study guides published by National Education Advancement Program.
• Member of the Word Addicts poetry performance group.
• Member of RMIT’s Visible Ink.
• Panel member for the Darebin Writers’ Festival.
• Panel member of the Text Advisory Panel for Literature at the Victorian Curriculum Assessment Authority.

• King Island Artist in Residence awarded by King Island Council
• Arts Tasmania $10,000 Education Residency – New Norfolk High School
• The Poetry in Motion Project, City of Hobart Creative Hobart Medium Grant $10,000
• Australia Council for the Arts $15,000 grant for fiction
• ‘Writing-Up’ Postdoctoral Scholarship, $5000
• Australian Postgraduate Research Award (for PhD)