Photo credit: Leah Jing McIntosh


My novels

Letter to a Fortunate Ex, Hamish Hamilton, May 2027

Shirley, Hamish Hamilton, 2023

The Adversary, Hamish Hamilton, 2020


Some recent essays

Changing your number, The New York Times Magazine

Life in the ‘Burbs: Collingwood, The Age

Suffer for Fashion, Griffith Review

Monkey Grip, 1982, dir. Ken Cameron, Melbourne on Film: Cinema That Defines Our City, syndicated in The Conversation


Current projects

Folio - I’m a chief researcher on this storytelling project about Australian comics.

I co-direct the non/fictionLab research group at RMIT, where I’m an Associate Professor. I teach in the BA (Creative Writing) and co-lead various comics programs, including a residential fellowship, an exhibition series and a research practice collective.


Contact me

Rights and representation - Rach Crawford rachel@wolflit.com

Book publicity - Bella Arnott-Hoare bahoare@penguinrandomhouse.com.au

My academic contact - ronnie.scott@rmit.edu.au

My spam filter and me - ronniescottdirect@fastmail.com