We are thrilled to announce Piri Eddy as the recipient of the 2026 Scotch College Residency.
In partnership with Scotch College, Piri will receive a seven-week paid residency within the English Faculty. Aiming to help further develop students’ writing and communication skills responding to creative themes.
About the writer:
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Piri Eddy is an award-winning writer and producer living and working on Kaurna land.
As a screenwriter, Piri won Best Short Film at the 54th AWGIE awards for The Last Elephant on Earth, which had its international premiere at the prestigious Sitges Film Festival. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in such places as The Saturday Paper, Island Magazine, and Westerly Magazine and he has written arts criticism and reviews for Australian Book Review and CityMag.
Piri’s debut play Forgiveness won the 2020 Jill Blewett Playwright’s Award. His follow-up The Spoil was nominated for the same award in 2024 and was a finalist for the 2026 Australian Theatre Festival NYC New Play Award.
Piri has been a writer-in-residence at the Adelaide Festival Theatre, The Mill, and Writers SA, and was a 2025 SA Literary Fellow at the State Library South Australia. He has a PhD in Creative Writing from Flinders University.
Photo: Courtesy of the writer
Presented in partnership with Scotch College
